What_Religion_R_They [none/use name]

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Cake day: August 5th, 2020
  • What_Religion_R_They [none/use name]tonews•Bulletins and News Discussion from June 17th to June 23rd, 2024 - Macron's Gambit - COTW: France
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    18 days ago
    CW Transphobia

    Famous influencer Mika Raun [@mikaraun] was physically attacked by unknown individuals in Turkey while with her boyfriend and family, following a days-long transphobic smear campaign against her on social media.

    Rest of the article

    Raun has been known for her social media presence, particularly on Instagram with more than a million followers. As a trans woman, she recently shared some videos with her boyfriend and began to be the target of transphobic attacks on social media.

    On the night of 18 June, Raun shared her bleeding face in an Instagram story and said, "We were attacked for minutes, I am being taken to the hospital."

    She previously shared her holiday with her boyfriend and family before the attack.

    The government’s anti-LGBTI+ stance has accelerated particularly in recent years particularly with hate speech delivered by high-level state representatives including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and many ministers.

    Istanbul’s LGBTI+ community celebrates Trans Pride Week from June 17-23 and LGBTI+ Pride Week from June 24-30 against the heightening hate environment in the country.

  • What_Religion_R_They [none/use name]tothe_dunk_tank•Putin has secretly turned every black American online into Russian disinformation agents and that's why Biden might lose the election
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    20 days ago

    Similarly for Twitter:

    The emails inadvertently suggest how marginal and ineffective the accounts that were genuine Russian disinformation efforts actually were. Describing Russian accounts they’d purged in advance of voting in 2020, one internal email reports some decidedly underwhelming figures: 345 had been inactive, and the ten that were active “had little reach and low follower counts.”

    [...] In fact, much of the supposedly suspicious activity had nothing to do with adversarial governments at all. The FBI repeatedly passed on suspicions and forwarded news articles alleging sinister foreign hands behind the George Floyd protests, the existence of pro-Trump African Americans, and various suspect accounts, only to be told they were all of domestic origin. One analyst “found no links to Russia,” they wrote, and neither did another worker who carried out a thorough double-check. “I can brainstorm with [redacted] and see if we can dig even deeper and try to find a stronger connection,” the analyst helpfully offers.

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