Social media companies will be hit with sanctions next month if they fail to remove ‘problematic content’ during riots under the European Union (EU)’s new content law, according to the French EU Internal Markets Commissioner Thierry Breton.
A total of 19 online platforms, including TikTok, Twitter, and Snapchat, must comply with government regulations aiming that claim to reduce illegal or harmful content spreading online. If they fail to do so, they risk being fined up to six percent of their annual income.
“When there is hateful content, content that calls – for example – for revolt, that also calls for killing and burning of cars, they will be required to delete [the content] immediately,” Breton argued during an interview on Monday.
“If they fail to do so, they will be immediately sanctioned. We have teams who can intervene immediately… “If they don’t act immediately, then yes, at that point we’ll be able not only to impose a fine but also to ban the operation [of the platforms] on our territory,” he added.
These measures follow a week of mass rioting and destruction – “unparalleled” since the French Revolution in 1789 – across France following the death of Nahel M. As a result, French President Emmanuel Macron announced last week that he considered removing French people’s access to social media platforms to pacify the riots.
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Social media companies will be hit with sanctions next month if they fail to remove 'problematic content' during riots under the European Union (EU)'s new content law, according to the French EU Internal Markets Commissioner Thierry Breton.
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A former international correspondent for CNN is suing the broadcaster for racial discrimination and unfair dismissal after her foot was run-over by her own cameraman while reporting in Israel.
Saima Mohsin argues the company refused to accommodate her injuries after she requested alternative duties, as well as support for rehabilitation. She also claims there was a “gender pay gap” at CNN. Mohsin is also suing for racial discrimination, arguing she was told, “you don’t have the look we are looking for,” after asking for a presenting role at CNN. She also asserts she was denied “high profile on-air opportunities,” with producers preferring to use “white American correspondents.”
“I was repeatedly let down and denied the ability to achieve my potential while I was at CNN. I am bringing my claim to take a stand and call for change to ensure women journalists, and women journalists of colour, are better protected,” Mohsin said to The Guardian.
CNN, however, is opposing the claim on territorial grounds. The broadcaster argues that Mohsin does not have the right to bring the case in London as specified in her employment contract.
Another former CNN employee – who maintained a close relationship with former host Chris Cuomo – was sentenced to 19 years in prison for sexually abusing a nine-year-old girl last month.
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A former international correspondent for CNN is suing the broadcaster for racial discrimination and unfair dismissal after her foot was run-over by her own cameraman while reporting in Israel.
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A well-known, though hitherto unnamed, male presenter on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been suspended following allegations he paid upwards of £35,000 ($45,000) to a 17-year-old girl for ‘sexual pictures’.
The now suspended presenter – said to be known to millions of Britons – allegedly solicited “performances” from the teenage girl to which the girl would “get [her] bits out” on video calls or via text message. Allegations were also made that the presenter stripped down to his underwear and asked for pictures while at work. On one occasion the man is said to have transferred a whopping £5,000 ($6,500) to the girl’s bank account.
The girl’s family made a formal complaint to the BBC earlier this year regarding the matter, asking bosses to demand an end to the behavior. Yet, the individual remained on the air until the story surfaced late last week.
“I blame the BBC man for destroying my child’s life… [t]aking my child’s innocence and handing over the money for crack cocaine that could kill my child,” the girl’s mother told the British daily newspaper The Sun, which broke the story.
On Monday evening, a lawyer representing the alleged victim told the BBC her mother’s story was “rubbish” and that “nothing inappropriate” took place.
“For the avoidance of doubt, nothing inappropriate or unlawful has taken place between our client and the BBC personality and the allegations reported in the Sun newspaper are rubbish,” the lawyer claimed in a statement.
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A well-known, though hitherto unnamed, male presenter on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been suspended following allegations he paid upwards of £35,000 ($45,000) to a 17-year-old girl for 'sexual pictures'.
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Self-declared January 6th “orchestrator” Ray Epps is planning to sue Fox News for defamation, demanding an on-air apology and a retraction of former primetime host Tucker Carlson‘s claims that Epps may have been working for federal law enforcement at the time of the 2021 “mostly peaceful protest” at the U.S. Capitol.
“We informed Fox in March that if they did not issue a formal on-air apology that we would pursue all available avenues to protect the Eppses’ rights… [t]hat remains our intent,” told Michael Teter, Epps’s legal counsel, to The New York Times.
Teter himself has come under scrutiny, with Revolver News reporting his links to ‘Facts First USA’, “a nakedly partisan organization targeting the agenda of the so-called ‘MAGA Majority’ in Congress. The President of Facts First USA is none other than the disgraced Democrat/Clinton machine hatchet man David Brock. For those unfamiliar, Brock’s resume includes founding the Soros funded Media Matters, a so-called ‘watchdog’ group that watches conservative media 24/7 and excerpts ‘gotcha’ clips for political purposes. Brock’s current Superpac ran an 80 million dollar opposition research campaign for Biden, and the New York Times described Brock’s former group Correct the Record as ‘Hillary Clinton’s own personal media watch dog.'”
Carlson ran a number of segments on Tucker Carlson Tonight, which sought to highlight many of the inconsistencies around Ray Epps, such as the fact he was not arrested after video footage showed him shouting “we need to go into the Capitol” as well as boasting via text that he “orchestrated” the US Capitol riots.
Carlson recently claimed that he interviewed Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, who told him the Jan 6th crowed was “filled” with federal agents. Fox News chose not to air the interview, and fired Carlson before he could show the footage to the world.
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Self-declared January 6th "orchestrator" Ray Epps is planning to sue Fox News for defamation, demanding an on-air apology and a retraction of former primetime host Tucker Carlson's claims that Epps may have been working for federal law enforcement at the time of the 2021 "mostly peaceful protest" at the U.S. Capitol.
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Turkey’s Islamist leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has suggested he will not approve Sweden joining NATO until the European Union (EU) advances Turkey from official candidate country to full member-state.
“I am calling from here on these countries that are making Turkey wait at the door of the European Union for more than 50 years,” he said ahead of his departure for the NATO summit in Lithuania. “First, come and open the way for Turkey at the European Union and then we will open the way for Sweden,” he added.
Erdoğan previously used the migrant crisis of 2015-16 to extort billions of euros from the EU in exchange for limiting the flow of people across its territory into Greece. He engineered another violent border crisis in 2020, but it was cut short by the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
Turkey has raised several issues with Sweden’s application to join NATO, not least its reluctance to prevent protests near the Turkish embassy in which copies of the Quran have been burned – protests which caused Sweden’s Muslim population to riot. Erdoğan has also been pressuring Sweden, with some success, to extradite Kurds accused of resisting his government or mocking him online to face punishment.
Viktor Orbán-led Hungary has also been reluctant to support Sweden’s accession to NATO, in part because the Scandinavian country often lobbies for Hungary to be punished by the EU for its pro-borders, anti-transgenderism policies.
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Turkey’s Islamist leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has suggested he will not approve Sweden joining NATO until the European Union (EU) advances Turkey from official candidate country to full member-state.
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A front group being linked to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign is being charged with a “desperate” dirty tricks attempt to portray former president Donald Trump as a “transgender trailblazer,” with leaflets “thanking” him for having “allowed a biological male to compete in the Miss Universe competition in Canada” over a decade ago appearing in Iowa mailboxes.
“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” wrote Iowa blogger Laura Belin, who first reported the delivery of the gay leaflets on Saturday. It is unclear how many homes the leaflets have been delivered to, but the imprint reads ‘Paid for by Advancing Our Values’ – a front group registered on June 27th, 2023.
The DeSantis camp recently released a gay attack ad against former President Trump, but used an anonymous Twitter account to release it. DeSantis himself then had to run to the Fox Corp-owned Outkick website to explain the now-deleted meme.
The “dirty tricks” campaign is straight out of the playbook of DeSantis campaign chief Jeff Roe – whose firm is under investigation for campaign fraud in Nevada. Roe championed Senator Ted Cruz’s own dirty tricks campaign in Iowa in 2016, which won him the state primary but ended up hurting him in the long run.
“From the false alert the campaign sent out that Ben Carson was suspending his campaign as the Iowa caucuses began to the voter-violation mailer that the Iowa secretary of state condemned to a Photoshop-altered image of Marco Rubio and Barack Obama, they have pointed to Roe’s hidden hand in supposedly guiding Cruz into the gutter.”
The DeSantis War Room previously attempted to tie Trump to the LGBT lobby by sharing a now-deleted video of him saying he would “do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens” and claiming it as evidence he supports Pride Month. The context of Trump’s comments, issued in response to the murder of 49 people at an Orlando gay club by a Muslim terrorist, was not mentioned.
‘The Campaign Trail’.
Raheem Kassam, editor-in-chief of The National Pulse, analyzed the tactics – which DeSantis himself endorsed as “fair game” – on episode two of The Campaign Trail podcast released this weekend.
“[DeSantis is] taking an incident from, what, 12, 13 years ago, something to do with the Miss America pageant… and saying, ‘OK, well we need to hold Donald Trump accountable to that 2011 or 2012 standard… “On the other hand, the DeSantis team will tell you ‘Yes, DeSantis did listen to Fauci… and he did try to ban interstate travel into Florida, and he did mask up, and he did kill that old veteran that he put on television to have the vaccine… but then he course-corrected, so it’s fine, so we don’t need to deal with that’ – and that was only a couple of years ago.”
“The way [the DeSantis team] campaign, it’s not coherent, it doesn’t flow, and that’s what really works about the Trump stuff, the authenticity just flows – and this stuff, where they’re attacking one thing on one basis, but then saying that they’re allowed to do it when it’s some other topic, I’ve got to tell you, not only does it not work, it screams desperation,” Kassam explained.
.@RaheemKassam on the DeSantis campaign: "Their story doesn't even stack up. The way they campaign is not coherent it. It doesn't flow. And that's what sort of really works about the Trump stuff. The authenticity just flows." pic.twitter.com/UDWCNVyXZi
A front group being linked to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign is being charged with a "desperate" dirty tricks attempt to portray former president Donald Trump as a "transgender trailblazer," with leaflets "thanking" him for having "allowed a biological male to compete in the Miss Universe competition in Canada" over a decade ago appearing in Iowa mailboxes.
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The U.S. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro has revealed that just one of 13 Chinese shipyards has more shipbuilding capacity alone than all U.S. shipyards combined.
Del Toro sounded the alarm at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. earlier this year, admitting the U.S. Navy is struggling to keep up with the Chinese Communist Party‘s determination to expand its military. As a result, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy now has 340 ships compared to 280 possessed by the U.S..
The Navy chief has also stated that China continues to expand its number of ships to 440 by 2030, surpassing the U.S. by some way. The Pentagon’s current goal is to have 350 ships and submarines by 2045.
“It is no secret that the People’s Republic of China seeks to upend our dominance on the oceans across the globe,” Del Toro explained to the audience at the Press Club, adding, “[t]hey got a larger fleet now so they’re deploying that fleet globally.”
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The US Secretary of the Navy recently admitted that one Chinese shipyard has more shipbuilding capacity than the entire US Navy combined. pic.twitter.com/wh8if6mC2u
The U.S. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro has revealed that just one of 13 Chinese shipyards has more shipbuilding capacity alone than all U.S. shipyards combined.
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The recent riots throughout France following the death of Nahel M have not been paralleled in terms of scale and destruction since the French Revolution of 1789, argues Pierre Brochand, former director of the French Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE).
Brochand – who seldom appears in the media – highlighted the more than 200 towns and cities that witnessed rioting and looting en masse in June, resulting in hundreds of injured police officers, thousands of arrests, and more than one billion euros in property damage, in a recent interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro. He asserted:
“In terms of amplitude, official statistics suggest… that nothing comparable has happened in French cities since the Revolution of 1789 or, at the very least, the weeks following the Revolution.”
The riots “boiled down to the permanent indictment of the French people,” who are regularly accused of causing “all the misfortunes of the earth: world wars, colonization, Jewish genocide, global warming, indifference to drowning, etc,” Brochand added.
Moreover, what made the riots unique was their ubiquity. Despite such unrest being previously restricted to cities, the riots reached “very small provincial towns, which until then had been quiet,” he explained, calling it a “worrying reflection of the spread of immigration throughout the country, sometimes at the instigation of the public authorities.”
Brochand’s concern about immigration is one shared by the majority of the French public, 59 percent of which believe that the riots were “the consequence of the failure of [France’s] immigration policy.” Another 89 percent admitted they are “worried” about the future of the country.
The rapid spread of immigration throughout France was initially highlighted by former President Donald J. Trump, who stated in 2016 that “France is no longer France.”
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The recent riots throughout France following the death of Nahel M have not been paralleled in terms of scale and destruction since the French Revolution of 1789, argues Pierre Brochand, former director of the French Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE).
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The French Revolution may be a ideal comparison for the scale of the damage inflicted, but be under no misconceptions, these riots are anything but French
The French Revolution may be a ideal comparison for the scale of the damage inflicted, but be under no misconceptions, these riots are anything but French show more
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s decision to restrict the West’s access to the crucial metals gallium and germanium demonstrates the party’s willingness to use its dominant control over mineral resources to disrupt Western supply chains, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The CCP fired “the warning shot” just days before the U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen headed to China to discuss economic and trade relations. The measure “will have an immediate ripple effect on the semiconductor industry, especially with regards to high-performance chips,” argues Alastair Neill, board member of the Critical Mineral Institute.
China, furthermore, refines most of the world’s lithium, aluminum, cobalt, manganese, graphite, and nickel – all of which are crucial in the manufacturing of electric vehicle (EV) batteries. If China were to restrict access to them, the entire production of EVs across the world would be thrown into “disarray” and could even disrupt American defense industries.
“We would be foolish to limit our thinking that that kind of thing is impossible,” states Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy.
The Biden government has made some effort to reduce the United States’ reliance on Chinese minerals, despite the country having “little processing capacity” itself. Several American companies are seeking permits to open nickel mines in Minnesota and EV factories in North Dakota. However, mines and EV factories take years to develop.
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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s decision to restrict the West's access to the crucial metals gallium and germanium demonstrates the party's willingness to use its dominant control over mineral resources to disrupt Western supply chains, reports The Wall Street Journal.
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