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Excerpt from Facebook's announcement: It's clear that whoever set up these accounts went to much greater lengths to obscure their true identities than the Russian-based Internet Research Agency has in the past. We believe this could be partly due to changes we've made over the last year to make this kind of abuse much harder.
Facebook on Tuesday told lawmakers on Capitol Hill that it had detected a "coordinated influence campaign" on its platform ahead of November's midterm elections, according to The New York Times . Three individuals with knowledge of the matter told the Times dozens of inauthentic accounts and pages are believed to be involved.
As the FBI drills down in its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the Pentagon vows to build new capabilities to take on Russian weapons, Russia is, in plain sight, also working on a global power grab with its energy gambit. Nord Stream 2 , the deal that prompted President Donald Trump to blow a gasket at the NATO summit earlier this month, has Germany doubling the amount of natural gas it is buying from Russia.
The military's immense resources and cultural clout certainly enables it to attract indigenous youth to become soldiers. But First Nations have more reason than most to be wary of the Canadian Forces .
The anniversary of the August 12, 2017 Charlottesville protest is coming up. It was on this day, so the story goes, that the left confronted the right over the right's support for a statue of civil war general Robert E. Lee and a woman was killed by a white nationalist driving his car into a crowd of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other protestors.
Saturday marked one year since Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain's now famous thumbs-down vote that upended the last GOP attempt to fully repeal the Affordable Care Act. In the leadup to that vote, Republicans faced intense political pressure from a grassroots campaign that focused on the often emotional stories of the tens of millions of Americans who would lose coverage if the ACA went away.
President Trump's lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani declined on Monday to explain the president's allegation that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has a conflict of interest because of a past business relationship with Trump. In a series of tweets about the Russia investigation on Sunday, Trump claimed that Mueller has multiple conflicts of interests, including "the fact that we had a very nasty & contentious business relationship."
Adoption loss is the only trauma in the world where the victims are expected by the whole of society to be grateful. Every adoption is built on a foundation of tragedy and loss.
The story of how white suffrage activists went full racist in the late 19th century in their demands for the right to vote is well-known among American historians. But as we reach the centennial of the 19th Amendment in 2020, to what extent will this racism be recognized in the celebration of suffrage? Brent Staples has a good piece here and he does what journalists should do-rely on historians, who tell straightforward stories about the past that are increasingly written to be accessible to the general public, as opposed to many other disciplines for whom communication seems to be an outright enemy, to inform his analysis.
The Soviet Union and now Russia under Vladimir Putin have waged a political power struggle against the West for nearly a century. Spreading false and distorted information - called " dezinformatsiya " after the Russian word for "disinformation" - is an age-old strategy for coordinated and sustained influence campaigns that have interrupted the possibility of level-headed political discourse.
There are two sides to every story, and in this case, two builds for one chassis. In essence, the Datsun 521 pickup was the micro machine Japanese alternative to the heavy-handed Ford F-series and the strongly lined Chevy C-series.
An Israeli Arab lawmaker resigned on Saturday and branded the parliament "racist" after it passed a controversial new law which declares Israel the nation state of the Jewish people. The new legislation speaks of Israel as the historic homeland of the Jews and says they have a "unique" right to self-determination there.
The Soviet Union and now Russia under Vladimir Putin have waged a political power struggle against the West for nearly a century. Spreading false and distorted information - called " dezinformatsiya " after the Russian word for "disinformation" - is an age-old strategy for coordinated and sustained influence campaigns that have interrupted the possibility of level-headed political discourse.
The Syrian Democratic Forces alliance, which controls a swathe of the north and northeast, said it had agreed with the government to form joint committees to discuss the major issues after a first round of talks on Thursday and Friday. The SDF's political arm, the Syrian Democratic Council, said the aim was to "clear the way for a broader and more comprehensive dialogue" and forge a "roadmap leading to a democratic and decentralised Syria".
Editor's note: The past is prologue. The stories we tell about ourselves and our forebears inform the sort of country we think we are and help determine public policy.
Seven o'clock in the evening is a global sweet spot for wanting to order take-away food, says an international study of internet traffic. Academics have examined patterns of looking for food online, such as pizza or Chinese meals, across the UK, US, Canada, Australia and India.
The Brady Campaign :Until a few weeks ago, the United States government held the longstanding and reasonable policy that enabling terrorists, domestic abusers, and international crime rings to make their own undetectable guns with 3D printers posed a danger to national security and international peace. On Friday, July 27th, using Orwellian, "Lies are Truth" logic, the Trump Administration announced that enabling international terrorists to download plans for, and then make, AR-15s and other guns "is in the interest of the security and foreign policy of the United States."
American diplomats held face-to-face talks with Taliban representatives in Qatar a week ago without Afghan government officials present, in a reversal of a longstanding United States policy, two senior Taliban officials said on Saturday. The United States State Department has not denied that its diplomats had taken part in such talks - a significant shift in American strategy toward the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Between them the Damascus government and the Syrian Democratic Forces control some 90 percent of the country, after a series of Russian-backed victories over rebel groups in recent months saw the government reassert its authority over much of the south. The delegation from the SDF's political wing is discussing the future of the autonomous administrations it has set up in areas of northern and northeastern Syria under its control, the alliance official said.