Before anyone outside her hometown knew her name, Disha Ravi spent four years raising awareness among young people in Bangalore about the effects of climate change. Now the 21-year-old activist is jailed in New Delhi. The allegation: She distributed a “tool kit” in the form of a Google Doc containing talking points and contact information for influential groups to drum up…
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Parler Booted Off Amazon’s AWS Hosting Service, Suspended by Apple
“Apple has suspended Parler until the makers of the app solve its content moderation challenges,” reports Forbes, citing a statement from Apple saying “there is no place on our platform for threats of violence and illegal activity. Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats…” Meanwhile, BuzzFeed News reports: Amazon notified Parler that it would be…
XRP Cryptocurrency Crashes Following Announcement of SEC Suit Against Ripple
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The value of one of the world’s most valuable cryptocurrencies is crashing and a recently filed SEC complaint is at the root of the free fall. According to CoinMarketCap, the XRP token’s value has declined more than 42% in the past 24 hours and is down more than 63% from its 30-day high…
Conspiracy Theorists Who’d First Popularized QAnon Now Accused of Financial Motives
QAnon “was first championed by a handful of people who worked together to stir discussion of the ‘Q’ posts, eventually pushing the theory on to bigger platforms and gaining followers — a strategy that proved to be the key to Qanon’s spread and the originators’ financial gain…” reports NBC News, in an article shared by long-time Slashdot reader AmiMoJo . “NBC…
Just how many people could be infected as part of the Trump COVID-19 outbreak?
Trump attended around 15 events in various states, from the 2020 presidential debate to fundraisers and rallies over the past several days. Source: https://www.livescience.com/president-trump-contact-tracing.html
Telegram Messaging App Proves Crucial To Belarus Protests
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Associated Press: Every day, like clockwork, to-do lists for those protesting against Belarus’ authoritarian leader appear in the popular Telegram messaging app. They lay out goals, give times and locations of rallies with business-like precision, and offer spirited encouragement. The app has become an indispensable tool in coordinating the unprecedented mass protests that…
Police Surveilled Protests With Help From Twitter-Affiliated Startup Dataminr
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Intercept: Leveraging close ties to Twitter, controversial artificial intelligence startup Dataminr helped law enforcement digitally monitor the protests that swept the country following the killing of George Floyd, tipping off police to social media posts with the latest whereabouts and actions of demonstrators, according to documents reviewed by The Intercept and a source…
IBM Rallies COBOL Engineers To Save Overloaded Unemployment Systems
As millions file for unemployment benefits in the United States every week, states’ aging computer systems simply cannot keep up. States like New Jersey and Connecticut have said they are desperate for programmers who are still familiar with COBOL, a programming language that debuted in 1960 and is still used in critical computer systems like unemployment databases and banks. But there…
University of California Students Strike To Protest Graduate Student Pay
There’s more than 280,000 students in the prestigious University of California system, spread throughout 10 campuses across the state. But now “a growing number” of students and faculty members are walking out of classes and holding rallies, reports the Los Angeles Times, “as a systemwide movement takes hold in support of graduate students demanding cost-of-living adjustments [COLA] to their salaries.” During…
40% of Anti-Vaccine Group’s Funding Came From Wealthy ‘Alternative Health’ Vendor
An anonymous reader quotes the Washington Post: The nation’s oldest anti-vaccine advocacy group often emphasizes that it is supported primarily by small donations and concerned parents, describing its founder as the leader of a “national, grass roots movement.” But over the past decade a single donor has contributed more than $2.9 million to the National Vaccine Information Center, accounting for about…