[Link] Shitposting Shiba Inu Accounts Chased a Russian Diplomat Offline

Read: 12/7/2022 www.vice.com

An unofficial army of cartoon Shiba Inu dogs is making life hard for people who post Russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine online.

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[Link] First Popularized in the US, Russia Adopts 'Crisis Actor' Conspiracy Theory

Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com

The official Twitter account for the UK’s Russian embassy is accusing a pregnant Ukrainian woman, seen in photos of a maternity hospital blast in Mariupol on Wednesday, of being an actor placed in the scene by propagandists in support of Ukraine.

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[Link] JPMorgan CEO Joked About Outlasting China’s Communist Party. The Fun Didn’t Last Long.

Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com

America’s most powerful banker has had his fair share of controversial opinions, but rarely has he walked back something as quickly as he did after he joked about the world’s second-most powerful country.

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[Link] Afghan embassies don’t recognise the Taliban

Read: 19/10/2021 www.economist.com

THE TALIBAN prevent girls from going to secondary school in Afghanistan. Yet the country’s ambassador to America is a woman. That is not because the group has decided that women’s rights are a good thing after all. It is just that they cannot replace her.

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[Link] 'Hire a hit man': Two charged in US over plot to kill Myanmar's UN ambassador

Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

US prosecutors have charged two Myanmar citizens over an alleged plot to attack the Asian country's UN ambassador, Kyaw Moe Tun.

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