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‘Real risk’ of Islamic State fighters on migrant boats, Italy warns

Fools seem to gather together when it comes to trying to appear not racist when being racist!

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Mediterranean migrant boats headed for Europe could be carrying fugitive Islamic State fighters, Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano has asserted. He’s been hosting African, EU and UN officials at a Rome conference.

Fake news sharing in US is a rightwing thing, says study

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University of Oxford project finds Trump supporters consume largest volume of ‘junk news’ on Facebook and Twitter

Low-quality, extremist, sensationalist and conspiratorial news published in the US was overwhelmingly consumed and shared by rightwing social network users, according to a new study from the University of Oxford.

The study, from the university’s “computational propaganda project”, looked at the most significant sources of “junk news” shared in the three months leading up to Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address this January, and tried to find out who was sharing them and why.

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Holocaust denier to become Republican nominee for Illinois congressional seat

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  • Art Jones the sole GOP candidate for third congressional district
  • Anti-Defamation League calls Jones ‘a long-time neo-Nazi’

A neo-Nazi Holocaust denier is set to become the Republican nominee for a congressional seat in Illinois, the Chicago Sun-Times reported on Sunday.

Related: Armed neo-Nazis prepare for potential clash in small Kentucky town

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Ryanair chief: we won’t bow to laughable demands from pilots

Huh? The boss is calling his employees laughable – he is the laughable one!

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Michael O‘Leary warns that strikes are likely over Easter as talks with unions break down

Ryanair’s chief executive, Michael O‘Leary, has warned that the airline will not bow to “laughable” demands from pilots and would rather see strikes or disruptions than undermine its productivity.

O’Leary said Ryanair was not as optimistic as some of its rivals that it would be able to push through fare rises this summer. Last year, the average fare was €41 (£36), down 13% from the year before. This year, fares will be cut by about 3%, Ryanair said.

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Senator warns YouTube algorithm may be open to manipulation by ‘bad actors’

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Senator Mark Warner of Virginia warns of ‘optimising for outrageous, salacious, and often fraudulent content’ amid 2016 election concerns

The top-ranking Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee has warned that YouTube’s powerful recommendation algorithm may be “optimising for outrageous, salacious, and often fraudulent content” or susceptible to “manipulation by bad actors, including foreign intelligence entities”.

Senator Mark Warner, of Virginia, made the stark warning after an investigation by the Guardian found that the Google-owned video platform was systematically promoting divisive and conspiratorial videos that were damaging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign in the months leading up to the 2016 election.

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