Dating apps, video games and TikTok: The digital activists boosting Black Lives Matter By Sophia Smith Galer BBC World Service Media playback is unsupported on your device If you didn’t think you could use a dating app or a video game to protest against racial injustice, think again. With many cities still under lockdown measures, […]
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A week after its initial tweet and the subsequent backlash, Tinder announced it would un-ban those members and allow users to fundraise for Black Lives Matter. “From time to time, our members use Tinder to engage with topics they care about,” a spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. “And while our community guidelines state that we may
As if you didn’t already have enough to worry about, researchers this week showed off how they can eavesdrop on a room that’s hundreds of feet away using only the vibrations of a light bulb. OK, you specifically probably don’t have to worry about it. But it’s a nice reminder of just how sci-fi spying
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Humanitarian China says the call was attended by hundreds of people, including those in China Video conferencing giant Zoom suspended the account of a group of US-based Chinese activists after they held a meeting on the platform to commemorate the Tiananmen Square crackdown. The Humanitarian China group said its
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Mobile phones of two prominent human rights activists were repeatedly targeted with Pegasus, the highly advanced spyware made by Israel-based NSO, researchers from Amnesty International reported this week. The Moroccan human rights defenders received SMS text messages containing links to malicious sites. If clicked, the sites would attempt to install Pegasus, which as reported here
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People queue to try out the new iPhone 11 Pro smartphone at an Apple store in Hong Kong on September 20, 2019. (AFP) Apple has removed from its online store a smartphone app that allows Hong Kong activists to report police movements after an official Chinese newspaper accused the company of facilitating illegal behaviour. The
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It was an increasingly sunny day, and with over 10,000 other strikers surrounding us, the heat was becoming uncomfortable. But when the speakers at the Boston Climate Strike on Sept. 20 passionately spoke of the consequences of climate change on loved ones and called out politicians who were making no moves to appropriately address the
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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: “Monsanto Years” by Neil Young and Promise of the Real. This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman. An explosive new report shows documents — in an explosive new report, documents reviewed by The Guardian reveal that the U.S. agribusiness giant
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Explosive new documents reveal the U.S. agribusiness giant Monsanto ran a “fusion center” to surveil and discredit journalists and activists who criticized or wrote damning reports about Monsanto, as well as legendary singer-songwriter Neil Young, who released an album in 2015 called “The Monsanto Years.” Monsanto monitored Young’s Twitter activity and even analyzed the lyrics
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Monsanto operated a “fusion center” to monitor and discredit journalists and activists, and targeted a reporter who wrote a critical book on the company, documents reveal. The agrochemical corporation also investigated the singer Neil Young and wrote an internal memo on his social media activity and music. The records reviewed by the Guardian show Monsanto
