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Facebook hiring 'news credibility specialists', continues pushing thought control agenda

Chris Black
Investment Watch Blog
Fri, 08 Jun 2018 03:25 UTC
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As Facebook continues its descent into irrelevancy, at least among the younger generation, Zuckerberg's latest move is to make editorial decisions about what news content the public should be able to "consume" via his social media platform via hiring "news credibility specialists". "News credibility specialists" sounds like Goebbels and Stalin's wet dream if you ask me, but let that go.

Here's a quote from Facebook's ad for the job via Business Insider and Fortune:
"We're seeking individuals with a passion for journalism, who believe in Facebook's mission of making the world more connected," one of the two listings reads. It continues: "As a member of the team, you'll be tasked with developing a deep expertise in Facebook's News Credibility Program. You'll be conducting investigations against predefined policies." Facebook would ask the specialists to help create a list of credible news organizations. That list could be used for various features on the site, from the newsfeed to its advertising system."

"The job announcement on Facebook's official job site is now down, but similar job postings also showed up on LinkedIn. Similarly worded job postings also appear on LinkedIn, posted by a staffing company on behalf of an unnamed Menlo Park company. (The LinkedIn URLs include the phrase "world's largest social network," which is kind of a tipoff it's Facebook.) Those posts mention that "you'll be tasked with developing a deep expertise in News Credibility Program and evaluating news publishers for policy compliance"
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Is world opinion finally shifting in Julian Assange's favor?

Elizabeth Vos
Disobedient Media
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:54 UTC
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Although the phrase Zeitgeist refers to the spirit of an age, it seems appropriate to use it to describe the shift in consciousness that can take place in a moment.

As the sixth anniversary of Julian Assange's asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy approaches, public awareness is rapidly shifting in Assange's favor. The ongoing isolation of Julian Assange by the Ecuadorian government appears to have bolstered sympathy for the Wikileaks Editor-In-Chief worldwide, instead of relegating him to the detritus of a fast-moving news cycle.
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Paris 10th district on lockdown amid reports of armed man holding several people hostage


RT
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 15:02 UTC
Police
An area in Paris 10th district has been on lockdown after an armed man reportedly took several people, including a pregnant woman, hostage in one of the buildings, local media report.
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Colombian presidential election run-off: Swarm of angry bees attacks right-wing candidate's rally

Joe Parkin Daniels
The Guardian
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:23 UTC
Videos circulate in local media showed rally attendees hurrying to escape swarm at event for Iván Duque
Ivan Duque Colombia
© Fernando Vergara/AP
Ivan Duque holds a campaign rally in Armenia, Colombia Sunday.
Campaign managers for Colombia's rightwing presidential candidate Iván Duque were probably hoping to create a bit of a buzz with a campaign rally ahead of next week's election, but the event turned into fiasco after it was attacked by a swarm of angry killer bees.

Scores of people were caught up in the bizarre incident on Saturday, including former president Álvaro Uribe, who was stumping on behalf of his protege Duque.

Uribe had been scheduled to address supporters in La Loma, a small town in the northern Cesar province, but was forced to run for cover before he could give his speech. Fifteen people were taken to hospital, but were later discharged.

Videos circulated in local media showed rally attendees hurrying to escape the swarm, some covering their faces with T-shirts.

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Brexit campaigner Arron Banks hit with accusations of links to Moscow but responds with trolling and shrugs


RT
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 03:16 UTC
Arron Banks
© Rob Pinney / Global Look Press
Andy Wigmore (L) and Arron Banks (R) are seen leaving BBC office on April 23, 2017
The UK media has come up with yet another 'sensational revelation' that allegedly sheds light on ties between the Kremlin and major Brexit campaigners. The story only seemed to raise laughter from those mentioned in it, though.

There is no rest for the wicked, it seems, as the British media apparently goes to great lengths to continue the narrative of Russia's interference in the UK's vote to leave the EU alive. This time, the Sunday Times dug up a story that was immediately turned into a new 'reason' for anti-Russian hysteria and even prompted the Minister for the Cabinet Office in Theresa May's government, David Lidington, to call for an investigation.

The respected "quality paper" reported that Arron Banks, the millionaire co-founder and major funder of the Brexit campaign known as Leave.EU, made repeated contacts with Russian officials and even took such an incautious and reasonably suspicious step to make a trip to Moscow at the time when the UK was at the height of the Brexit campaign. And by saying "repeated contacts," the Sunday Times actually means as many as three meetings between Banks and Andy Wigmore, the director of communications for Leave.EU, and Russian Ambassador to the UK Alexander Yakovenko over a period of more than a year.
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Sentenced to death for illegally crossing the EU border, Penka the cow shall live


RT
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 08:03 UTC
Cow eating hay
© GERARD JULIEN / AFP
Penka the cow, whose life was left hanging by a thread after illegally crossing the EU border without the necessary paperwork, is to be spared.
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Europe weighs in on Austrian plans for crackdown on "political Islam"

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:28 UTC
Sebastian Kurz

Chancellor Sebastian Kurz
Austria announced on Friday that it will likely expel up to 60 Turkish-funded Imams and their families, and may shutter seven mosques as part of a crackdown on what they have termed "political Islam," reports AFP.

Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said that Austrian officials will shut a Turkish nationalist mosque in Vienna, while dissolving a group called the Arab Religious Community that runs six mosques.

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7 injured as Paris suburban train overturns due to heavy rain causing landslide


RT
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 08:59 UTC
Train
© Martin BUREAU / AFP
Seven people were slightly injured after a Paris suburban RER train overturned as a result of a landslide caused by heavy rain, AFP reports.

The landslide caused "three carriages to overturn. Fortunately, there are only seven slightly injured, who are being treated," France's Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne told Franceinfo radio, as cited by AFP.
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Why is Washington pressuring Jordan by stirring up unrest?

Thierry Meyssan - translated by Pete Kimberley
Voltaire Net
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:14 UTC
Jordan protests
© Khalil Mazraawi / Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Protesters raise their hands and wave flags near members of the gendarmerie and security forces during a demonstration outside the prime minister's office in Amman, Jordan's capital, late on June 3, 2018.
Are the Jordanian demonstrations a sign of a new episode of the Arab Spring, or, on the contrary, are they a means of pressuring King Abdallah II to accept the US plan for Palestine ?

At the beginning of June, Jordan was shaken by a week of peaceful demonstrations against a project for a fiscal law which planned for a rise in taxes of between 5 % and 25 % for all persons with an annual salary of more than 8,000 dinars ($11,245). The demonstrators, whose quality of life had suffered greatly from the consequences of the Western war against Syria, demanded, and obtained, the resignation of the Prime Minister and the withdrawal of the project for law.

In reality, the Kingdom hardly had a choice - the plan was in conformity with the engagements taken in 2016 during the subscription for a loan from the International Monetary Fund. It had been rejected several times because of the war, and had only been presented when Parliament was closing. Its modification would have supposed a complete change of economic policy, which is not on the agenda. The only solution would be to obtain financial support from Saudi Arabia in order to reimburse the debt.
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Young man's before and after photos of Benghazi highlight devastation in Libya caused by NATO forces


RT
Mon, 11 Jun 2018 10:44 UTC
Benghazi Libya
© Esam Omran Al-Fetori / Reuters
A historic building, that was ruined during a three-year conflict, is seen in Benghazi, Libya February 28, 2018.
Before and after images are good for promoting healthy eating, but they have a dramatically different effect when it comes to war-torn countries, as proven by a Libyan man who took photos of himself in Benghazi in 2000 and 2018.

His photos posted on Twitter show the same locations in Benghazi after 18 years. Where there were once tall buildings and clean, wide streets, there are now bullet-ridden ruins following the 2011 uprising, which was backed by a bombing campaign by the US-led NATO bloc and led to the deposing and murder of long-time Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.


Benghazi gained infamy a year later after the US diplomatic facilities in the city were attacked by terrorists, who killed several American citizens, including US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

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