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Judge orders Facebook to hand over Myanmar officials’ hate posts for genocide case

The Verge

A District of Columbia judge ordered Facebook to let the Gambia government access deleted posts where Myanmar officials promoted hate against the Rohingya people. The order comes more than a year after Facebook rejected a request for the data — which Gambia seeks to use in a genocide case before the International Court of Justice.

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How foreign workers helped spur Spain’s rapid economic growth

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Snchez toured Mauritania, Senegal, and Gambia last year to promote a temporary work scheme whereby African workers could get legal and safe passage to Spain. The government also aims to bring unauthorized migrants already in Spain into the system. Countless die in the attempt. Results have yet to be seen.

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Facebook’s big QAnon crackdown might have come too late

The Verge

The group has been linked to more than a dozen violent incidents over the last year, including a train hijacking ; last month, a QAnon supporter rammed a car into a government residence in Canada. The Gambia doesn’t have either kind of agreement with the US, and the SCA doesn’t include exceptions for international justice efforts.

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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

The Verge

Governing. ? Brent Kendall at The Wall Street Journal has the story: Dozens of government antitrust lawyers are on teams investigating whether the search giant has used its dominance to stifle competition. user data to the Chinese government, nor would it do so if asked.” Mark Mazzetti and Nicholas Fandos / The New York Times ).

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