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[Link] VPNs: Russia Forces Google to Delete Masses of Links Amid Ukraine Invasion
Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com
Russia's determination to control the minds of its citizens is proceeding full force. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russian telecoms regulator Roscomnadzor has forced Google to delist tens of thousands of new URLs that link to VPN resources providing access to 'banned' content.
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[Link] Morrison government asks Facebook, Twitter and Google to block Russian state media ‘disinformation’
Read: 3/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has asked Facebook, Twitter, Google and other digital platforms to block content generated by Russian state media to curb “disinformation in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine”.
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[Link] Roberts-Smith pressured me to lie about his affair, estranged wife tells court
Read: 14/2/2022 www.smh.com.au
The estranged wife of war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith has told the Federal Court she discovered her husband was having an affair when his girlfriend turned up at the couple’s Sunshine Coast home with a black eye and told her she had been pregnant with his child.
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[Link] Sky News claims Alan Jones’s misleading commentary balanced by covering daily Covid press conferences
Read: 19/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Sky News sought to justify misleading Covid commentary then-host Alan Jones put to air, saying it was balanced by coverage of the daily Covid press conferences, according to a letter sent to the broadcasting regulator.
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[Link] How to Read Less News But Be More Informed, According to a Futurist
Read: 6/12/2021 getpocket.com
Be a little picky but stay open to new sources, and know when to shut down.
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[Link] Now Married, Japan’s Ex-Princess Mako to Move from Palace to a One-Bedroom in New York
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Four years after publicly announcing their engagement, former Princess Mako of Japan has officially tied the knot with her college sweetheart, Kei Komuro.
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[Link] ABC journalist agrees to pay MP $79,000 in defamation settlement over tweets
Read: 11/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
ABC journalist Louise Milligan has agreed to pay federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming $79,000 in a defamation case over a series of tweets she sent. Dr Laming launched the case in May, alleging Milligan defamed him in four tweets sent on March 28, 2021.
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[Link] Reddit user’s rage after ‘crunchy parents’ throw away her newborn daughter’s baby supplies
Read: 8/8/2021 7news.com.au
A mum has spoken of her anger after discovering her brother and sister-in-law had thrown away her nappies, wipes and baby formula for an unbelievable reason.
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[Link] Sky News Australia to face Senate inquiry after week-long YouTube suspension
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Sky News Australia will face a Senate inquiry next week after the broadcaster was suspended for seven days for posting numerous videos which violated YouTube’s Covid medical misinformation policies.
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[Link] CNN fires three employees who went into the office unvaccinated.
Read: 6/8/2021 www.nytimes.com
CNN said this year that employees would need to be vaccinated against the virus to return to its American offices.Credit...
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[Link] BBC Online Uses Serverless to Scale Extremely Fast
Read: 31/7/2021 www.infoq.com
In a series of blog posts published recently, Johnathan Ishmael, lead technical architect at BBC, explains why BBC Online uses serverless and how they optimize for it. According to the author, BBC Online uses AWS Lambda for most of its core implementation due to its ability to scale extremely fast.
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[Link] Reuters puts its website behind a paywall.
Read: 16/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
The Thomson Reuters offices in Times Square. The company’s media organization will begin charging for access to its website.Credit...Andrew Kelly/ReutersReuters will begin charging for access to its website as it tries to capture a slice of the digital subscription business.
[Link] Teen Vogue Staff Rail Against New Editor-in-Chief’s Past Tweets Mocking Asians
Read: 19/3/2021 www.thedailybeast.com
Staffers at Teen Vogue on Monday publicly blasted their newly hired editor in chief Alexi McCammond, particularly taking aim at parent company Condé Nast’s hiring process along with some of the new editor’s past tweets that deployed harmful Asian stereotypes.
[Link] ‘4 Corners’ Is Being Slammed For Interviewing A Far-Right Extremist Again
Read: 3/2/2021 junkee.com
Viewers of last night’s 4 Corners, which saw journalist Sarah Ferguson fly to Washington DC to report on January’s Capitol riots, have taken to social media to question the decision to air an interview with the chairman of white supremacist and fascist group the Proud Boys.
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[Link] Google threatens to leave Australia – but its poker face is slipping
Read: 25/1/2021 www.theguardian.com
The biggest companies in technology love an ultimatum but rarely do they spell out their threats.
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