Revealed: anti-vaccine TikTok videos being viewed by children as young as nine | TikTok | The Guardian

Lies and conspiracy theories about Covid-19, which have amassed millions of views and are accessible to young children, have remained on the social media platform TikTok for weeks after it was alerted to them, the Guardian has learned.

TikTok accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers that discourage vaccination and peddle myths about Covid survival rates were uncovered by NewsGuard, an organisation that monitors online misinformation.

Newsguard said it published its findings in June and sent them to the UK Government and WHO. They raised concerns about some of the content directly with TikTok last month, but it remained on the platform.

The revelation comes amid renewed concern about the impact that social media is having on young people, after it was reported that Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, had internal research showing its app was harming teenagers.

Source: Revealed: anti-vaccine TikTok videos being viewed by children as young as nine | TikTok | The Guardian

Indian Arms Exporter Ships Air-Defense Weapons to Myanmar’s Junta (Me: Shame on India – support people not the illegal Junta!)

Indian arms manufacturer Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) exported a remote-controlled, air-defense station to Myanmar in July, said Justice for Myanmar (JFM), an activist group that monitors the military’s businesses.

The shipment was made through Mega Hill General Trading Co based in Myanmar, said JFM, citing Panjiva, a global trade data company based in New York.

According to Panjiva, the shipment included a gun mount and an optical device.

The BEL has made multiple shipments to Myanmar’s military for a coastal surveillance system since the Feb. 1 coup.

Source: Indian Arms Exporter Ships Air-Defense Weapons to Myanmar’s Junta

APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | Coronavirus: United States Provides Additional $4 Million for Urgent COVID-19 Assistance in Botswana

The United States Government—through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) —announces an additional $4 million in urgent COVID-19 assistance funding for Botswana. This additional assistance from the historic American Rescue Plan Act builds on more than $8.4 million in COVID-19 assistance to Botswana since the pandemic first emerged. This assistance supports the Government of Botswana to strengthen infection prevention and control in communities and at health facilities, establish vaccination sites, strengthen surveillance at border crossings, provide support for isolation facilities for COVID-19 patients, and support the Government of Botswana’s planning efforts.

 

“We will continue to do all we can – whether it be through our vaccine donations or through U.S. global health funding – to build a world that is safer and more secure against the threat of infectious disease,” said U.S. Ambassador Cloud.

Source: APO Group – Africa Newsroom / Press release | Coronavirus: United States Provides Additional $4 Million for Urgent COVID-19 Assistance in Botswana

Google to give security keys to ‘high risk’ users targeted by government hackers | TechCrunch

Google has said it will provide 10,000 “high-risk” users with free hardware security keys, days after the company warned thousands of Gmail users that they were targeted by state-sponsored hackers.

The warning, sent by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), alerted more than 14,000 Gmail users that they had been targeted in a state-sponsored phishing campaign from APT28, also known as Fancy Bear, said to be made up of operatives of Russia’s GRU intelligence agency. Fancy Bear has been active for more than a decade but it’s widely known for hacking into the Democratic National Committee and its disinformation and election influencing campaign in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

“These warnings indicate targeting not compromise. If we are warning you there’s a very high chance we blocked,” Google’s TAG director Shane Huntley wrote in a Twitter thread on Thursday. “The increased numbers this month come from a small number of widely targeted campaigns which were blocked.”

Source: Google to give security keys to ‘high risk’ users targeted by government hackers | TechCrunch

In Cuba Even Salt Is a Problem – Havana Times

A product as basic and elemental as salt is has become yet another of problem for the island’s authorities. Not a day has gone by when they have not been called to account, even by the official press, for the lack of some consumer product, be it tobacco, electricity, coffee or masks.

On Tuesday salt became the latest item to be added to the list. It is sold in a form so damp that even the addition of rice to Cuban salt shakers is not enough to separate the grains. On Tuesday Jorge Luis Bell Alvarez, director of Ensal, has had to face the press to provide some justification for the problem. He claimed the only Cuban salt producer with technology capable of producing dry salt is in Guantánamo province. In addition to distributing the product locally, the plant also supplies Havana’s rationed markets. In total, it is responsible for 46% of Cuban saline production.

Source: In Cuba Even Salt Is a Problem – Havana Times

Yanomami e Árvores – Minas de Ouro e Ouro de luxo / COVID-19 propagado por garimpeiros… « Não – Pas de Cartier! » – A exibição: se estende para o próximo ano até 4 de dezembro de 2022  

Barbara Crane Navarro

Desempenho «Escultura de fogo», La Miroiterie, Paris, França – 2006: Barbara Crane Navarro

«Os xamãs Yanomami que lutam contra a epidemia de xawara veem a imagem da doença aparecer forma de tiras de tecido escarlate. A epidemia de xawara está se aproximando e sua fumaça está vermelha brilhante! Ele transforma o céu em um fantasma e devora todos os seres humanos em seu caminho! Ele deve ser expulso!»

– Davi Kopenawa, porta-voz dos Yanomami e xamã, Roraima, Brasil, de seu livro «A Queda do Céu»

«Xamãs Yanomami lutam contra xawara – a fumaça das epidemias»
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Xamãs da região do alto Orinoco na Amazônia, Venezuela, descreveram para mim – oru a wakëxi – a fumaça dourada nesses termos décadas antes de eu ler as palavras de Davi. Enquanto sonhava em minha rede na casa coletiva Yanomami, o shabono, vi a escultura totêmica que…

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