A retired Chicago firefighter has said online accusations that he killed a policeman on Capitol Hill last week has “f***ed my life up”.
Parler, a social media platform which some conservatives see as an alternative to Twitter, has urged the U.S. Western District Court to order Amazon to restore its service online. Parler also accused Amazon of being “motivated by political animus” and of acting “to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter”. Amazon Web […]
Archaeologists have found the world’s oldest recorded animal cave painting yet discovered, depicting a wild pig, believed to have been drawn over 45,500 years ago in Indonesia. Painted with dark red ochre in the Leang Tedongnge cave in a remote valley on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the image is of an almost life-sized representation […]
With the noose of tech censorship rapidly tightening across the world, everyone remotely critical of wokeness is being banned, and, if the President of the United States himself being digitally taken down is anything to go by, it appears that nobody is truly safe. Here’s a quick guide to some of the more secure, free […]
The impeachment vote passed by 232 votes to 197.
Customers without masks will not only be refused service by HSBC, but could also have their bank accounts terminated by the biggest bank in the UK.
Clinical trials in Brazil have shown China’s Sinovac vaccine, called CoronaVac, to be only 50.4% effective against Covid-19, and not 78.4% effective, as had initially been claimed. Brazil had agreed to buy 100 million doses of CoronaVac, despite Brazilian President Bolsonaro’s initial criticism of the vaccine. Brazil has had 8.2 million cases of Covid-19 amongst […]
Whatsapp, Facebook and Twitter have all been affected by the shut down.
Both Twitter and Facebook have seen sharp falls in their share price as the controversy over Big Tech muzzling Donald Trump continues. Twitter plunged almost 9% since it banned the U.S. president on Friday, and embarked on what conservatives described as a “purge” of users, with many others leaving the platform in protest. Facebook slumped more than […]
Not especially newsworthy in and of itself, but certainly newsworthy in terms of what it might mean for Ireland: Chancellor Angela Merkel has told lawmakers in her conservative party that she expects a lockdown in Germany to curb the spread of the coronavirus to last until the start of April, top-selling Bild daily cited participants […]
A spokesman for German leader Angela Merkel said the Chancellor found it “problematic” that Twitter had permanently suspended US president Donald Trump.
Der Spiegel, the German newspaper, has reported that tensions are growing within the EU over the EU vaccine programme over the percentage of vaccines that are set to be given to Germany. The programme saw the European Commission source vaccines for all member states, and these vaccines are meant to be distributed to each EU […]