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Facebook Develops Censorship Tool In Bid To Enter Chinese Market

From fake news to censored posts: facebook is facing a backlash over it’s China suppression tool.

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Facebook's Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children

Facebook is under fire after it was revealed that the social media giant has quietly developed a censorship tool that could persuade China to allow Facebook to re-enter the country. It comes shortly after multiple allegations that Facebook is not doing enough to suppress fake news in regions of the world where it is already free to

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US, Saudi Ammunition Bound For Syrian ‘Moderate’ Rebels Ends Up In ISIS Hands

Ammunition supplied by the United States and Saudi Arabia to moderate Syrian opposition groups has been found in the possession of ISIS, representatives of a UK-based organization monitoring weapons movement said.

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Free Syrian Army fighters clean their weapons and check ammunition at their base on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. (Khalil Hamra/AP)

The Conflict Armament Research (CAR) investigators work in the areas recently liberated from Daesh and its research shows that ammunition boxes left by the jihadists can be traced back to factories in Eastern Europe, the BBC reported Monday, citing CAR team leader James Bevan. Inquiries by Bevan's team indicated that the factory orders could be

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Moscovici: Anti-Establishment Populism Pushing EU Into Unknown

The current revolt against the political establishment and globalization in Europe could send the EU into a US-style leap into the unknown and potentially rip apart the European Union, EU Commissioner Pierre Moscovici has warned. Moscovici, the EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs, acknowledged the growing sense of disillusionment with Europe’s political elite, which he believed was tied to a […]

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French police officers detain a man during a demonstration of extreme-right activists and supporters of PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West), in front of the train station in Calais, northern France, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016. Hundreds of extreme-right activists demonstrated Saturday to "save" Calais from homeless migrants inundating the French port city in hopes of crossing the English Channel to Britain. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

The current revolt against the political establishment and globalization in Europe could send the EU into a US-style leap into the unknown and potentially rip apart the European Union, EU Commissioner Pierre Moscovici has warned. Moscovici, the EU Commissioner for Economic Affairs, acknowledged the growing sense of disillusionment

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Samples Taken In Syria’s Aleppo Prove Militants Used Chlorine Gas

Sunday’s attack is the third chemical attack by militants in Aleppo in the past two weeks.

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Smoke rises over Saif Al Dawla district in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012 .(AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)

The Russian Defense Ministry said Monday that samples taken in Syria's city of Aleppo prove that militants used chlorine gas in their attacks. "Samples taken by Russian officers of the Scientific Center of Radiational, Chemical and Biological Security at the site proved that militants [in Aleppo] used chlorine as a poisonous gas," ministry's

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Spanish Government Poised To Wage War Against Memes

If adopted, this proposal may effectively outlaw popular memes, forcing web users to either stop creating and publishing such content or be prosecuted as criminals.

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A protestor wears a mask with a gag as she marches against the Public Security Law in Madrid

Spain's ruling People's Party seeks to amend the country's privacy laws in order to adapt them to the new technologies and social media. The proposed amendments are aimed at satirical pictures that use images of people without their consent. If adopted, this proposal may effectively outlaw popular memes, forcing web users to either stop creating

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UN Investigating Human Rights Abuses At Dakota Oil Pipeline Protest

The UN’s advisory forum has been collecting testimonies from Dakota Access pipeline protesters and plans to issue a report and possible recommendations once the inquiry is complete.

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Dakota Access pipeline protesters face off with police who are trying to force them from a camp on land in the path of pipeline construction on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, near Cannon Ball, N.D.

MOSCOW – The United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) is investigating allegations of human rights abuses committed by North Dakota law enforcement officers against Native Americans protesting the Dakota Access pipeline construction, media reported Tuesday. The UN’s advisory forum has been collecting testimonies from Dakota

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US Warplane Attacked School Near Iraqi Mosul, Casualties Reported

“The number of civilian casualties will only increase.”

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A group of young Turks stage an anti-US protest outside the Parliament before a visit by US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in Ankara, Turkey, Frday, Oct. 21, 2016. Carter met with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other top leaders and defense officials in Ankara amid escalating tensions between Turkey and Iraq over Turkish military operations in northern Iraq as allied forces move to retake Mosul from ISIS.

A US Air Force jet attacked a school near the Iraqi city of Mosul, the Russian General Staff said. "There are new cases of [US-led] coalition's airstrikes on civilian targets. On October 24, US Air Force's tactical aircraft launched missile and bomb strikes on a school building in the village of Tall Kayf located 14 kilometers north of Mosul

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