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[Link] LAPD Emails Reveal Fallout of Citizen’s Botched Manhunt

Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com

After Citizen's CEO Andrew Frame offered a $30,000 bounty on the wrong person, LAPD officers said they would no longer work with Citizen.

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[Link] Defence allowed to vet evidence presented to inquiry into bushfire accidentally sparked by its own helicopter

Read: 30/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

The Department of Defence will be allowed to vet evidence presented to a coronial inquiry into the ACT's Orroral Valley bushfire, ahead of formal court hearings in July next year.

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[Link] Ex-Fox host claims Facebook defamed him by fact-checking climate change videos

Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com

Former Fox Business host John Stossel is suing Facebook, alleging that the social media company and one of its contracted fact-checking organizations defamed him when it flagged two of his videos, alerting viewers to “missing context” and “partly false” claims.

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[Link] Angry Mob Lynched a Man Accused of Starting a Wildfire in Algeria

Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Djamel Ben Ismail, 38, allegedly started a fire in the Tizi Ouzou district town of Larbaa Nath Irathen.

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[Link] Biden's Infrastructure Bill Will Try and Rebuild America's Forests

Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com

Wildfires have destroyed an average of 7 -million acres of American forest every year since 2000. This fragments ecosystems, kills off wildlife, and shrinks our best natural weapon against greenhouse gas emissions: trees. The latest version of the $1.

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[Link] Australians are 3 times more worried about climate change than COVID. A mental health crisis is looming

Read: 7/8/2021 theconversation.com

As we write this article, the Delta strain of COVID-19 is reminding the world the pandemic is far from over, with millions of Australians in lockdown and infection rates outpacing a global vaccination effort.

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[Link] Wildfires reach outskirts of Athens during scorching heatwave

Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Thousands of people have fled their homes north of Athens after a wildfire broke out of the forest and reached residential areas. The hurried evacuations took place just as Greece grappled with its worst heatwave in decades.

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