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Ebola cases top 1,700 in DRC as 4 health workers infected

Getting out of hand!!!

DR Congo Ebola health workers with patient
Stephanie Soucheray | News Reporter | CIDRAP News
May 13, 2019

Fifty-six new cases bring the outbreak total to 1,705, including more than 100 infected health workers.

Google has given $150,000 in free ads to deceptive anti-abortion group

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Exclusive: Obria Group’s ads suggest it provides abortion services, when in fact it tries to persuade women not to terminate pregnancies

Google has given tens of thousands of dollars in free advertising to an anti-abortion group that runs ads suggesting it provides abortion services at its medical clinics, but actually seeks to deter “abortion-minded women” from terminating their pregnancies.

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Russia’s most toxic lies about a fictitious ‘Odesa Massacre’ and the responsibility Ukraine bears

via aleksey godin It is five years since riots and a tragic fire in Odesa that Russia has used for a toxic propaganda narrative about a fictitious ‘massacre’. It is a narrative that Russia has spent a lot of money fostering, but one that the Ukrainian authorities have failed to properly counter