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  • Bad Day at Bayrock

    Trump’s Bayrock Group business partner Tevfik Arif demands takedown of news reports that he was arrested and charged with human trafficking According to the Lumen Database, which collects and analyses takedown requests of online content, Arif recently sent Turkish court orders to Google and Automattic (WordPress’ parent company) demanding the removal of a number of…

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  • The Art of the Steal

    Did Trump plagiarise content from CNN, The New York Times, and other big news outlets on defunct Trump University blog? Since taking office, the Trump administration has repeatedly accused the news media, particularly U.S. network CNN, of reporting so-called “fake news.” However, it appears that between 2006 and 2010 Trump plagiarised content from around a…

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  • Gay Panic, Poe’s Law, and the Strange Cult of Julian Assange

    How my corrections story about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ended up on a bunch of fringe conspiracy websites I recently blogged about The Sun, a popular British tabloid newspaper owned by Aussie media mogul Rupert Murdoch. In March, the paper falsely reported that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was accused of raping two men during a…

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  • When Authors Attack (Redux)

    Guardian deletes article about “batty” romance/sci-fi author Candace Sams after claims someone hacked her e-mails According to Google’s Transparency Report, the Texan author recently filed a copyright complaint for the search engine to delist a critical 2009 article published in the Guardian newspaper, “When Authors Attack” by multimedia books journalist Alison Flood. source Flood’s article said that the “wonderfully batty” Sams, using the pseudonym…

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  • Paramilitaries in Parliament

    DUP councillor and former Deputy Lord Mayor of Belfast Frank McCoubrey was a key political advisor to one of Northern Ireland’s worst paramilitary organisations From 2002 to 2012, McCoubrey headed the Ulster Political Research Group (UPRG), an advisory body established to provide political analysis to the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). The UDA is a notorious Northern Irish…

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  • Doomsday Coalition

    Leading DUP politician Sammy Wilson once endorsed a proposal by terrorist paramilitaries to ethnically cleanse Northern Irish Catholics Speaking for the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in 1994, the East Antrim MP said a formal proposal by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) to murder and expel Catholics from Northern Ireland was a “very valuable return to reality,” and that it showed…

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  • Democracy Burning

    Labour voters reportedly binning and burning copies of pro-Tory newspapers in lead-up to UK general election Via Twitter: source source source source To see more click here and here.

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  • Prevent This

    Why did British counter-extremism authorities tell a London primary school that “it would be best to ignore” my freedom of information request? I’ve asked local council Earlier this year I blogged about Bevington Primary School, whose head teacher sent a letter that appeared to threaten to report a Muslim father to counter-extremism authorities because he asked that his…

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  • PR Battle of Brittain

    PR rep for Arizona ridesharing company Dryvyng flips out when asked if revenge pornster CEO Craig R. Brittain sent “profanity-laced” messages to Facebook users I recently blogged about Craig R. Brittain, founder and CEO of Scottsdale, AZ ridesharing company Dryvyng. Craig R. Brittain (source) Brittain previously ran the revenge porn site, IsAnybodyDown.com. The controversial site encouraged…

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  • Techdirt Skewers Turkey

    Techdirt publishes article based on my blog post re: Erdoğan’s takedown demand of “humiliating” news reports comparing him to Hitler source Via “Turkish President Demands Google Delist a Bunch of Websites Comparing Him to Hitler” by Tim Cushing, Techdirt, May 24, 2017: from the ‘Hitler-was-an-amateur-authoritarian,’-the-president-complained dept The world’s most thin-skinned “leader” is at it again. Perpetually-insulted…

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