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Teenager tricks Twitter into verifying fake 2020 candidate with blue checkmark

Hanna Lustig
Insider
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:51 UTC

Comment: Meanwhile real, intelligent long-time commentators languish in Twitter no-man's land...


fake twitter blue check president candidate teenager
© Twitter/Screenshot; Manipulation/Ben Goggin
An archived screenshot of the fake Andrew Walz account that Twitter verified.
Never underestimate the power of tech-savvy teenagers with some time on their hands. A 17-year-old high school student from upstate New York tricked Twitter into verifying a fake 2020 candidate, and now, his experiment is forcing the company to re-examine its much-talked-about election integrity measures.

"I want Twitter to succeed," the student said. "I love Twitter. I think it's a great platform and I've learned so much from it," the teen said in an interview with CNN Business, who agreed not to name the teen.

Here's how he brought Andrew Walz, a Republican businessman from Rhode Island, to life.
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Conservatives 'censoring themselves in the age of censorship'? CPAC kicks out InfoWars reporter, triggering conference row


RT
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:33 UTC
alex jones cpac 2020
© Reuters/Joshua Roberts
InfoWars founder Alex Jones at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon, Maryland
InfoWars was shown the door at this year's CPAC and journalist Owen Shroyer decided to hold court as he was being removed, demanding answers and calling the group hypocrites for censoring his outlet's voice.

Online censorship of conservative voices has been a major topic on panels at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Donald Trump Jr. told a crowd on Friday morning at the convention that censorship and bias against conservative voices is "probably a top three issue" with his father's "base" of voters.

Ironically, that very afternoon CPAC took part in some censorship themselves by kicking journalist Owen Shroyer of InfoWars out of the event.
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5 ways the radical Left steals childhood

Georgi Boorman
The Federalist
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:42 UTC
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The message our children are getting as the culture lurches leftward is clear: there's no truth, no God, no hope, and no forgiveness.

The sweet little face of seven-year-old James Younger headlined countless articles recently as his father fought in court to keep the boy's mother from starting the dangerous medical process of "gender transition."

James has been happy as himself, as a boy, as the father and friends of the family confirm. A long-time friend of the Younger family, Sarah Scott, attested, "James is blissfully happy as a boy. He loves to march around outside and yell, 'we are the only boy scout troop' or 'I'm the Leader of the wolf pack!'... He loves dressing as a super hero and sword fighting."

Those are the childhood memories he deserves. But James' case is not unique; legal battles are being waged all over the country as children are subjected to psychological abuse by parents who want to raise them as if they were the opposite sex.
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Illegal Israeli squatters uproot hundreds of olive trees near Bethlehem

The Palestinian Project
Medium
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:37 UTC
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© WAFA Images
Olive trees chopped by Israeli settlers in the south of the West Bank.
Israeli settlers today uprooted hundreds of olive and vine trees in the town of al-Khader, to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to Emad Dadoo, a local activist.

He told WAFA that settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement of Eliazar uprooted about 200 olive trees and 80 vine trees in lands belonging to Palestinian residents located close to the settlement.

He noted that settlers have recently been targeting village lands, especially those close to settlements, by razing lands, uprooting trees and preventing farmers access to their lands.

Comment: Palestine Information Center reports in the same week:
israel poison crops
© Tubas
Palestinian wheat fields poisoned in Jordan Valley
Israeli settlers on Monday morning destroyed Palestinian wheat fields with poisonous chemicals near al-Sakout village in the northern Jordan Valley.

Human rights activist Aref Daraghmeh said that Israeli settlers sprayed about 12 dunums of wheat fields with poisonous pesticides destroying and burning crops.

Daraghmeh said that settler attacks on Palestinian farmlands in the Jordan Valley fall in line with a large-scale scheme by the Israeli authorities aimed at forcing the Palestinians out of the area.

Al-Sakout is a Palestinian village on the border with Jordan. It was destroyed by the Israeli occupation army in 1967 along with 32 villages in the northern Jordan Valley.


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Mother furious after finding out school policy forbids her daughter from saying 'no' when asked to dance

Rachel Paula Abrahamson
TODAY
Thu, 27 Feb 2020 23:16 UTC
Rich Middle School

Rich Middle School
Alicia Hobson's 11-year-old daughter, Azlyn, was counting down the days until the Valentine's Day dance at her Utah middle school.

"She was so excited she could barely sleep," Hobson told TODAY Parents, noting that the sixth grader picked out her outfit a week ahead of time.

"It was supposed to be the best day ever," Hobson, 37, said.

But it wasn't.
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The left's insistence on pushing drag culture on children will only create resentment towards queers

Sophia Narwitz
RT
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 23:12 UTC
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© Tik Tok / ameliamarino89
Another day, and another piece of media is circulating the web that depicts a child in an uncomfortable situation. This time a drag queen dances suggestively for a small girl.

The video, uploaded on Tiktok, opens with a scantily clad male with his rear cheeks hanging out, crawling on hands and knees towards the child sitting in a chair. Taking on the air of a scene from a strip club, patrons of the restaurant clap and cheer. He then stands up with his short shorts, leaving little to the imagination, dances a bit, and then kneels next to the girl, as he says something to her while jiggling his booty.

This most recent event is yet another incident in a long list of them that have occurred throughout the past couple years. Girls at Pride events have engaged with men partaking in pup-play. A child drag queen named "Lactatia" of all things, stood for a photo op next to a naked man. Another drag kid named Desmond danced on stage in female attire as men threw money his way. A sexual predator was caught reading to children during drag queen story time. And another drag queen reading during a library event flashed his crotch towards the entire room.
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'Kid looks traumatized': Viral TikTok video showing drag queen dancing for little girl enrages Twitter


RT
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 23:06 UTC
tik tok drag queen child
An unsettling TikTok video, showing a drag queen dancing provocatively for a young child while adults cheer and laugh, has sparked outrage online, with many wondering how exactly the odd situation materialized.

The video shows the dancer, who is wearing a tight top with hot pants and high-heels, on the floor crawling toward the girl, who appears to be about five or six years old. She then walks away and returns to the girl, shaking her hips before bending down, embracing the child and kissing her cheek.

The 28-second long clip went viral on Friday, although it's unclear when or where it was recorded. A caption on the video explains that the "sweet little girl asked her mom to get a better view" of the drag queen.

Comment: Welcome to the world that postmodern intersectional feminists wanted to create.

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USA

Nearly 2 in 5 Americans won't buy Corona BEER over virus concerns — survey


RT
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 23:01 UTC
corona
© Reuters / Victor Ruiz Garcia / Antara Foto
Can YOU tell the difference?
Americans are ditching Corona beer in droves over concerns about the coronavirus epidemic, according to a pair of surveys, with as many as 38 percent of beer-drinkers supposedly forgoing the beverage in misguided germaphobia.

Eyes rolled and jaws hit the floor across America on Friday as social media users chanced upon an irresistible CNN headline "revealing" over a third of Americans "would not buy Corona under any circumstances now." Had nearly two in five US residents really sworn off the popular beer brand out of fear of succumbing to the much-hyped epidemic?!

The press release heralding the survey results merited a closer look, though the 38 percent number was — technically — true. 5W Public Relations found only 4 percent of habitual Corona drinkers were willing to put down their favorite beverage because of the virus, while an eyebrow-raising 14 percent would cease ordering it in public, perhaps concerned the next guy at the bar would think they were one of the infected. Some 16 percent of those surveyed were "confused about whether Corona beer is related to the coronavirus."


Comment: The 4% figure is a better indicator of how many beer-drinkers are dumb enough to associate Corona with coronavirus, along with the 14% who are confused. The 38% figure includes beer-drinkers who don't and won't drink Corona for any reason, e.g., they simply don't like it.

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NY Post reporter mocks veteran Indian journalist at Trump media briefing, Twitteratti furious


RT
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:47 UTC
Ebony Bowden
© Twitter / @WhiteHouse
A journalist for the New York Post has invoked the ire of Twitter after video footage went viral, in which she appears to mock an Indian reporter addressing US President Donald Trump at a formal event.

Journalist Ebony Bowden pulled faces, furrowed her brow in disbelief and rolled her eyes, before asking a colleague "Who is this guy?" during a press briefing at the White House earlier this week.

"This guy" was none other than Raghubir Goyal, editor of the India Globe and a White House reporter since the Carter administration. Goyal had asked Trump about India-US relations following his first visit to the country, but Bowden's playacting in the background of the feed is what grabbed many people's attention, leading some to claim she had "not a drop of self awareness."
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Health

WHO bumps coronavirus threat assessment to 'very high' global risk - and other recent developments


RT
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:09 UTC
who briefing coronavirus
© Reuters / Denis Balibouse
World Health Organization holds daily news briefing on coronavirus, in Geneva on February 28.
World Health Organization (WHO) is now worsening its risk assessment of the coronavirus to a "very high" on the global level. The virus has already spread to at least 48 countries besides its hotbed, China.

"We have now increased our assessment of the risk of spread and the risk of impact of COVID-19 to very high at global level," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told media at the agency's headquarters in Geneva.


As of Friday, 4,351 cases, including 67 deaths, have been registered across 48 countries outside of China. While several nations are experiencing "linked epidemics of COVID-19," the majority of the coronavirus cases "can still be traced to known contacts or clusters of cases."

"Since yesterday, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Netherlands and Nigeria have all reported their first cases. All these cases have links to Italy," Ghebreyesus said.

Comment: The infected Iranian officials include: "A vice president, a deputy health minister, a former envoy to the Vatican, the head of a medical university, and at least four parliament members". The Mongolian president and his delegation were all put into quarantine after a state visit to China. Eight of the 16 states bordering Russia have reported cases, which has extended its visa ban to South Korea and Iran. US stocks saw their worst week since 2008. And Britain saw its first virus-related death: a tourist on board the Diamond Princess.

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