Facebook and Google pressured EU experts to soften fake news regulations, say insiders
On the eve of European elections, the tech giants stand accused of sabotaging the European Union’s fight against disinformation.
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Published in: TransformationThe faux revolution of mindfulnessMcMindfulness is the new capitalist spirituality.
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Published in: 50.50Hundreds of Europeans ‘criminalised’ for helping migrants – as far right aims to win big in European electionsElderly women, priests and firefighters among those arrested, charged or ‘harassed’ by police for supporting migrants, with numbers soaring in the past 18 months.
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Published in: HomeFresh evidence of Hungary vote-rigging raises concerns of fraud in European electionsControversial prime minister Viktor Orbán narrowly won a supermajority last year. Now counting officers allege electoral fraud – and show how it could happen again next week.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why has the populist radical right outperformed the populist radical left in Europe?Why is it more difficult for the left to garner support?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow to lobby Washington to death – in YemenA business model from hell and the war in Yemen.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBlack Lives Matter: a battle cry against Brazil's extermination policyDeath rates caused by the police in Rio de Janeiro are terrifying, and point towards an extermination policy of the black population. We musn’t forget that the president elect recently said the only error of the dictatorship was “to torture rather than to kill”. Español
