Why is Facebook enabling fascists in Russia and Italy? And racist killings in Sri Lanka?
Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio eclipsed rivals in online election battle, data shows
The domination of Facebook by Italy’s two populist political leaders, Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio, is revealed in previously unseen data that shows how they exploited video and live broadcasts to bypass the mainstream media and foment discord during the country’s general election.
The data, reviewed by the Guardian, reveals how the leaders massively expanded their reach with inflammatory and visually arresting posts earlier this year, eclipsing their main rival, the centre-left former prime minister Matteo Renzi, on Facebook.
Makeshift explosive device smashed windows on six floors and brought down ceilings
A powerful bomb blast has wrecked the offices at Greece’s SKAI TV in Athens in what officials called an attack on democracy. No one was injured.
SKAI is one of Greece’s biggest TV stations and part of a media group that includes a radio station and is affiliated with the leading daily newspaper, Kathimerini.
Briton Tom Butler believes he may have broken the world record for surfing the biggest ever wave after successfully riding a huge swell at Nazaré in Portugal on 14 December.
The 29-year-old says the wave was estimated to be more than 100ft tall. The current official record is 80ft, which was set last year by Brazilian Rodrigo Koxa also at Nazaré.
Butler said surfing the wave was like ‘running away from a raging bull’. It is likely he will have to wait for the WSL Big Wave Awards in April 2019 for official confirmation on whether he broke the world record.
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Around 5,500 people rallied through the Belgian capital’s European quarter against the UN’s new migration pact. Prime Minister Charles Michel’s decision to support the accord has left the government in disarray.
Demonstrators blew whistles and horns in a nod to protests against former autocrat leader Slobodan Milosevic. President Vucic has rejected calls for fairer elections and free media.
Their faces were grim, but with their voices united in a common cause, Vietnamese Americans rallied in Little Saigon on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s push to deport thousands of war refugees.
“We stay together,” and “Pho-get Trump,” they shouted, carrying signs and sharing photos…
Some of the nation’s largest businesses asked Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith to return campaign donations after she said she would attend a “public hanging.” She is not complying.
This week, Poway said goodbye to its most famous citizen, Ray Chavez, who until his death at age 106 last month, was the nation’s oldest surviving Pearl Harbor veteran.
After a 90-minute Mass at St. Michael’s Catholic Church on Thursday, the funeral cortege, led by dozens of motorcycles, rolled…
State lawmakers have agreed to lift the parliamentary immunity of regional leader of the far-right AfD, Björn Höcke. The politician is accused of using photos of a victim of a murder for his own political ends.
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