Facebook bans all Myanmar military-linked accounts and ads

Social media giant Facebook has announced it is banning all accounts linked to Myanmar’s military as well as ads from military-controlled companies in the wake of the army’s seizure of power on Feb. 1

Facebook already has banned several military-linked accounts since the coup, including army-controlled Myawaddy TV and state television broadcaster MRTV.

The bans are also being applied on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.

Facebook and other social media platforms came under enormous criticism in 2017 when right groups said they failed to act enough to stop hate speech against Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority.

The army launched a brutal counterinsurgency operation that year that drove more than 700,000 Rohingya to to seek safety in neighboring Bangladesh, where they remain in refugee camps. Myanmar security forces burned down villages, killed civilians and engaged in mass rape in their campaign, which the World Court is investigating as a crime of genocide.

Facebook in 2018 banned the accounts of several top Myanmar military leaders, including Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, who led this month’s coup that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy party. The general heads the junta that now acts as the government,

The junta has tried to block Facebook and other social media platforms, but its efforts have proven ineffective. For more than a week it has also turned off access to the internet nightly from 1 a.m.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/facebook-bans-myanmar-military-linked-accounts-ads-76102419

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) —A Tucson man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for possessing illegal weapons.

Prosecutors say 20-year-old Raymundo Lopez Casillas unlawfully possessed three machine guns, six pipe bombs and a firearm silencer.

Casillas previously pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of unregistered firearms.

In June 2019, Casillas discharged a firearm in his bedroom, prosecutors said.

The bullet traveled through the wall and struck his 17-year-old nephew in the head, killing the teenager.

While investigating the incident, authorities searched Casillas’ bedroom and reported finding found six pipe bombs, one fully automatic machine gun, two machine gun conversion devices and a firearm silencer.

All of those items are unlawful to possess without the proper registration, authorities said.

Additional items reportedly found in Casillas’ bedroom were 13 other firearms, a large amount of ammunition and high capacity magazines for guns.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/tucson-man-gets-5-year-federal-prison-term-in-weapons-case/ar-BB1dZITA

NASA’s Perseverance rover is the gift that keeps on giving.

In the wake of the rover’s awe-inspiring touchdown on Mars on Feb 18, an event that brought over 20 million people together to watch NASA’s livestream of the successful landing, there was even more to the incredible spectacle than met the eye. An intrepid computer science student and his father cracked a coded secret message hidden within the pattern of the rover’s parachute it used to descend onto the Marian surface.

Allen Chen, the engineer in charge of the landing system, hinted during a Monday news conference that video footage of Perseverance’s parachute deploying contained a hidden missive. So the 23-year-old student, Maxence Abela, and his Google software engineer father, Jerome Abela, set to work solving the puzzle.

By breaking down the parachute’s pattern into 10-digit sequences of binary code, the Abelas deduced that the numerical sequences within the parachute’s inner three rings, when assigned to English alphabet letters, read “DARE MIGHTY THINGS.” Maxence posted the father-son team answer, along with an explanation, on Twitter around two hours after Chen made his original statement.

https://time.com/5942177/perseverance-rover-parachute-message/

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's Sister Dies from COVID Complications

Bowser said that her sister "joins the legion of angels who have gone home too soon due to the pandemic"

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's sister, Mercia, has died from complications related to COVID-19 at age 64.

The mayor announced the death of her oldest sibling and only sister in a statement on Wednesday.

"My family and I are mourning the loss of my sister, Mercia Bowser, who passed away this morning due to complications related to COVID-19," she said in the statement. "Mercia was loved immensely and will be missed greatly, as she joins the legion of angels who have gone home too soon due to the pandemic."

She continued, "Mercia was a loving daughter, sister, aunt, and friend. She worked tirelessly for children, the elderly, and those with behavioral disorders until her retirement and beyond."

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Mayor Bowser said that her sister had contracted pneumonia as a result of COVID-19 and she was being treated at MedStar Washington Hospital Center.

"We thank you for your kindness and will share how our family will honor Mercia, my only sister and oldest sibling, and her beautiful spirit in the coming days," she concluded.

As of Wednesday, the nation's capital has recorded just over 1,000 deaths related to COVID-19. There have been 39,943 positive cases of COVID-19 reported in Washington, D.C, according to the city's data.

In March 2020, Mayor Bowser lost a member of her staff to COVID-19 — George Valentine, the deputy director of the Mayor's Office of Legal Counsel, CNN reports.

"A member of my team who worked in the office of legal counsel recently tested positive for COVID-19 and he passed away this morning," Bowser said at a news conference, per CNN. "My prayers right now are with his family, his entire team and of course we will be supporting them during this very difficult time."

https://people.com/politics/washington-d-c-mayor-muriel-bowsers-sister-mercia-dies-from-covid-complications/

>>13043253

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>>13043329

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>>13043327

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>>13043371

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