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Facebook political manipulation

mardi 26 avril 2016 à 02:00

Facebook employees asked if Facebook should "stop Trump" by skewing what messages the useds of Facebook actually see.

It appears Facebook did not try to do this, but nothing prevents it. Which is another reason it is bad to be used by Facebook.

When people talk of "stopping Trump", they usually mean boosting some other candidate who is more or less right-wing, such as Cruz or Clinton. That makes no sense anyway.

Urgent: Drop lawsuit against Colombia

mardi 26 avril 2016 à 02:00

Everyone: tell Tobie Mining and Energy to drop its lawsuit against Colombia.

Colombia blocked a gold mine that could have poisoned part of the Amazon rain forest, and the mining company, based on the US, is now using the US-Colombia business supremacy treaty to sue.

It makes sense to pressure the company to drop the suit, but that's not enough. Colombia and the US should cancel this unjust treaty.

Repeated demolition of Bedouin houses

mardi 26 avril 2016 à 02:00

Israel has repeatedly demolished the houses of Araqib, an old Bedouin village that Israel refuses to recognize. They keep rebuilding, so Israel proposes to fine the remaining inhabitants for each day that they have spent in their village.

Palestinian poet on trial for poem

mardi 26 avril 2016 à 02:00

Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour is on trial in Israel for a poem; the court is judging her based on a translation made by a thug who isn't even qualified as a translator.

Urgent: Americans' home mortgages

mardi 26 avril 2016 à 02:00

US citizens: call on HUD not to sell Americans' home mortgages to Wall Street.