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'The bill is not, as its name suggests, a bargaining code: it removes the potential for genuine bargaining by forcing Facebook to make payments that are detached from true calculations of commercial value and by incentivising news publishers to make unreasonable ambit claims and bargain in non-commercial ways,' the company said. … [Read more...] about Big tech is accused of ‘blackmail’ after Google threatens to remove search function and Facebook warns it will pull news from Australia if law forcing them to pay media companies for content is passed

She explained: 'I have had people call him "she", I don't take offence. We dress him in a variety of traditional  clot"boy! clothes and mixed, neutral outfits, it's just because his hair is so thick and long and I have started to tie it up to keep it out his eyes.' … [Read more...] about Hair he is! Boy, 15 months, born with a full head of thick hair needs a daily blow dry to tame his luscious locks

'We are, of course, dealing with a result of an outbreak from a month ago, but I think everybody would agree that closing a border of such significance is a really big deal and I stress that we waited until Victoria had in excess of - I think it was 180 cases they had the day after we announced the border closure.' … [Read more...] about ‘Last person in the world I’d be taking advice off’: Novak Djokovic is roasted after urging easing of hard quarantine for 72 Australian Open players – as Dan Andrews BRUTALLY shuts the World No.1 down

In the United States, many of these messages specifically target the Black community, drawing on examples such as the Tuskegee experiment to support the narrative that vaccines and other medical treatments come with a racist agenda. The infamous study, which ran from the 1930s into the 1970s, saw Black men in Alabama left untreated for syphilis so researchers could learn about the disease. In the UK, these messages have targeted Muslim and other ethnic and religious minorities. … [Read more...] about Coronavirus: Fighting the United Kingdom’s disinformation pandemic

"We came here looking for money," said Kadiatou Diallo, 30, whose albino skin is wrinkled and covered with blistering moles, giving her the appearance of someone twice her age. Diallo stands on a thin wedge of pavement in front of Conakry's main Faisal mosque with her sister, Mariama Kesso Diallo, 28, and Mariama's eight-month old daughter, Assatou Baïlo Diallo – they sleep, eat, wash and beg here, hemmed in between large pools of stagnant rainwater as the rainy season pummels the town, incessant traffic and their makeshift tent – a single side of plastic sheeting that provides neither shelter nor privacy. … [Read more...] about The tycoon, the dictator’s wife and the $2.5bn Guinea mining deal