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What is happening anywhere on the planet through social media. Social media appearing in our lives we realize that thats a shell media enables us to gather in the streets and make revolutions we saw how twitter a key role in touch with anya and communicating to the world what was happening during the elections and the Police Brutality that we saw. Marseilles a big city of europe we are a very Brutal Society with a democrat the book. I have a lot of visitors every year so we are an open minded society and for the 1st time in many years on october the 1st of 2017. Government asked the people to bolton our friend just to say if the citizens want to be going defend them from spain or not it was like yes or not this confronted with the party of spain. That called out that referendum was illegal. The courts gave the order to the spanish believes on this it will work to avoid barbara for and they have to they gulf and the old boxes on the people as the court say that they have to avoid the re
A ceasefire. And in spite of a joke of it helps serbia secure a semi final place in the a. T. P. Camp jock which got in his team to victory over canada to set up a last minute i was the. Aviation officials in teheran have rejected accusations an Iranian Missile mistakenly shot down a ukrainian plane killing a 176. 00 people on board the heads of Irans Civil Aviation Organization says the plane caught fire and was having technical difficulties but matheson has the latest. This video posted by the New York Times newspaper appears to show an explosion as Ukraine Airlines flight 75 to is struck the plane flies on for several minutes before turning back towards to one airport where security cameras capture the moment it hits the ground among the dead was 63. 00 canadians we have intelligence from multiple sources including our ally. And our own intelligence. The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by entering in surface to air missiles at the time of the crash iran had fired mis
Funding from Tech Companies, foundations, and private individuals. Reportt put out a new called the crisis of social media. What is the main take away in this report . The main take away is that the internet is becoming less free around the world. There are many trends we have seen around how Free Expression and privacy are under threat. The main thing we look at this year is how governments around the world are using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their own citizens. To help us dig into this issues as our guest, sarah. I want to dive into that dynamic. You say some governments of weaponizing social media to target their own populations. What does that mean . There are three distinct tactics that we saw in a 65 countries that we covered. That translates to 87 of all Internet Users around the world. The most common tactic we saw particularly around elections was the use of disinformation campaigns. That is something that has been in the news around foreign meddling and