Month: April 2019

Years after the company first dismissed fears it was empowering extremists, Facebook has permanently banned a number of far-right organisations and individuals including the British “Facebook bans far-right groups including BNP, EDL and Britain First”

It’s just as you suspected; the information age has changed the general attention span. A recently published study from researchers at the Technical University of “Got a minute? Global attention span is narrowing, study reveals”

Donald Trump escalated his attack on congresswoman Ilhan Omar on Monday, saying she was “out of control” and criticizing Democrats for coming to her defense. “Trump continues attack on Ilhan Omar with ‘hate statements’ accusation”

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election interference will be released on Thursday morning, promising the climactic moment in a two-year saga that has “Mueller’s Trump-Russia report to be released on Thursday”

Winning a seat in India’s parliament can take months of gruelling campaigning across vast electorates, often in stifling heat. Unless you are George Baker. The “The two MPs of British descent who do not have to stand in Indian election”

Click:美丽中华网 In the early 2000s, Chicago photographer Carlos Javier Ortiz had a dream of becoming a photojournalist. But after working at a local newspaper, he “‘It’s all about community’: the photographer who captures unseen Chicago”

Kit Harington has launched a vociferous attack on all critics of Game of Thrones, saying they know nothing. Harington, who plays Jon Snow in the “Kit Harington attacks Game of Thrones critics, saying they know nothing”

While Game of Thrones fans worldwide were watching the premiere of the latest season on Monday, Chinese fans were disappointed by a censored version that “Game of Thrones: Chinese fans angry as censorship results in ‘castrated’ debut”

Nashville has a way of bringing people together – usually through music. This time it’s through a shared antipathy for the $100m-plus in subsidies this “Amazon faces new headache as Nashville deal enrages locals left and right”

The symbolism of Vox’s election campaign launch in Madrid on Thursday was not particularly hard to fathom. In the central square named after Christopher Columbus, “Far-right Vox party set for breakthrough in Spanish elections”