Facebook on the spot in Kenya as exploitation of minors rife on its platform

Internet-based sexual exploitation of minors in Kenya was found to be more rampant on Facebook than on any other site, according to the newly released Disrupting Harm report – making the tech giant’s platform exceedingly unsafe for children.

The report by Interpol, UNICEF’s Office of Research – Innocenti and End Violence against Children, found that Facebook accounted for over 90% of all the instances of online sexual exploitation and abuse of minors in the East African country last year. The report was informed by data from the U.S. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), interviews with minors, their parents, policing agencies and legal representatives.

Alongside Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Youtube made up other platforms where child sex abuse imagery and videos were commonly “possessed, manufactured and distributed”. This report comes in the wake of data from NCMEC showing that globally, Facebook reported more than 20 million child-sex abuse images last year, 37 times more than those reported by Google, which ranked second. It also succeeds investigations showing that Instagram seriously affects the mental health of teenage girls – even as Meta, Instagram’s parent company, mulled plans to launch the currently paused Instagram Kids for minors under 13 years.

Efforts to get a comment from Meta on how it is working to rid its platform of the exploitation of minors were unsuccessful by the time of publishing this story.

Overall, incidents of online child sexual abuse in Kenya also increased by six percentage points to 14,434 occurrences according to CyberTipline reports from the NCMEC. The CyberTipline is a centralized system for reporting incidents of sexual exploitation of minors. Kenya is the only country in East Africa that is connected directly to NCMEC’s reporting system through its Directorate of Criminal Investigation’s (DCI) Anti-Human Trafficking & Child Protection Unit (AHTCPU) and Interpol’s International Child Sexual Exploitation Database.

“WhatsApp and Facebook or Facebook Messenger were the social media and instant messaging apps via which children were most commonly targeted. This is probably because Facebook and WhatsApp – the two most popular social media platforms in Kenya – are where children spend much of their time online,” the report said.

Mueni Mutisya, the AHTCPU in-charge, told TechCrunch that the authority receives about 22 cybertip reports daily. She said the country has experienced a spike in cases recorded since the start of the Covid pandemic, a situation that has also been fueled by the use of social sites.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/08/facebook-on-the-spot-in-kenya-as-exploitation-of-minors-rife-on-its-platform/

Al Gore's Latest 'Solution' To Climate Change Is Mass Surveillance

Speaking from the private jet and super yacht owners gathering, otherwise known as the COP 26 summit, Al Gore touted his latest solution to curb carbon emissions, mass surveillance via satellites, sensors and artificial intelligence.

In the interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Gore declared that technology created by the so called Climate TRACE coalition will monitor greenhouse gas emissions and root out the culprits.

“We get data consistently from 300 existing satellites, more than 11,000 ground-based, air-based, sea-based sensors, multiple internet data streams and using artificial intelligence,” Gore explained, adding

“All that information is combined, visible light, infrared, all of the other information that is brought in, and we can now accurately determine where the greenhouse gas emissions are coming from.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/watch-al-gores-latest-solution-climate-change-mass-surveillance

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Sham January 6 Committee Subpoenas Six Trump Campaign Associates, Including Gen. Flynn

The House Select Committee on the January 6 protest has issued subpoenas to six top Trump campaign associates — including General Michael Flynn.

The political witch hunt is now specifically seeking testimony from people involved with Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign.

The subpoenas were sent to Trump 2020 campaign manager William Stepien, former senior adviser to the campaign Jason Miller, attorney John Eastman, Gen. Flynn, national executive assistant to former President Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign Angela McCullum and former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik.

“In the days before the January 6th attack, the former President’s closest allies and advisors drove a campaign of misinformation about the election and planned ways to stop the count of Electoral College votes,” Select Committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson said in a statement. “The Select Committee needs to know every detail about their efforts to overturn the election, including who they were talking to in the White House and in Congress, what connections they had with rallies that escalated into a riot, and who paid for it all.”

Thompson added that “the Select Committee expects all witnesses to cooperate with our investigation as we work to get answers for the American people, recommend changes to our laws that will strengthen our democracy, and help ensure nothing like January 6th ever happens again.”

CNN reports that “the committee writes in their subpoena letter to Stepien that his role as Trump’s former campaign manager makes him a key player to understanding the Trump campaign’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and promote the ‘Stop the Steal’ narrative that rioters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6 echoed.”

The subpoena cites some anonymous person who claimed to have knowledge that Stepien was “deeply involved” in the Stop the Steal efforts.

The individuals were asked to give the committee the requested documents on November 23 and conduct depositions from the end of November through mid December.

Those named have not yet publicly commented about the subpoenas.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/11/sham-january-6-committee-subpoenas-six-trump-campaign-associates-including-gen-flynn/

Massive Turnout At ‘March for Freedom’ Rally In Los Angeles To Protest Vaccine Mandates

https://breaking911.com/massive-turnout-at-march-for-freedom-rally-in-los-angeles-to-protest-vaccine-mandates/

Kanye West’s Yeezy To Pay $1M To Settle Feud With L.A. District Attorney Over ‘Unlawful Business Practices’

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced today that Yeezy Apparel LLC and Yeezy LLC will pay $950,000 to settle a civil lawsuit alleging the online sneaker and clothing company engaged in unlawful business practices and false advertising by failing to ship items in a timely manner.

“Online consumers are entitled to protection against unwarranted fees and unreasonably long waits for purchases to arrive on their doorsteps,” District Attorney Gascón said. “We will enforce state and federal laws governing online shopping in Los Angeles County.”

The La Palma-headquartered company founded by entertainer Ye, formerly Kanye West, was ordered to pay a total of $950,000:

$200,000 in civil penalties to each of the four district attorney offices involved

$50,000 in restitution to the Consumer Protection Prosecution Trust Fund

$25,000 in investigative costs to each of the four district attorneys’ offices

Under the settlement, Yeezy is ‘prohibited from making untrue or misleading representations regarding a shipping timeframe or refund; adhere to laws relating to the issuance of delay notices; and is required to refund money to consumers who, in the future, purchase products that are not shipped in a timely fashion.’

California and federal statutes require that orders placed over the internet be shipped within 30 days, and if not, the company must send the consumer equivalent or superior replacement goods, or give the buyer a written notice explaining the delay and offer a refund upon request.

The company also allegedly made untrue or misleading statements regarding its ability to ship products within a certain timeframe, particularly where customers paid an additional charge for expedited shipping.

The District Attorney’s Consumer Protection Division led the investigation and prosecution efforts, which included Alameda, Sonoma, and Napa county district attorney’s offices.

The companies cooperated in the investigation and did not admit wrongdoing.

https://breaking911.com/kanye-wests-yeezy-to-pay-1m-to-settle-feud-with-l-a-district-attorney-over-unlawful-business-practices/

Activists leak 600 hours of mostly Dallas police helicopter footage after city’s 22 terabyte loss of criminal case data

The leaked video shows the surveillance of people in their front yards, standing by their cars and sunbathing with no indication that they are being watched

Data transparency activists released a massive 600-hour leak of mostly Dallas Police Department helicopter footage, raising more questions about the city’s data security protocols three months after DPD admitted to a 22-terabyte deletion of case data that resulted in the release of criminal defendants awaiting trial.

Distributed Denial of Secrets — a WikiLeaks-like group known as DDoSecrets — posted over 1.8 terabytes of police helicopter footage on the group’s website late Friday. The majority of the footage appears to be from DPD and the rest from the Georgia State Patrol. Large sections of the video shows random surveillance of Dallas neighborhoods, with highly detailed and zoomed-in images of people in their front yards, standing by their cars and sunbathing. The subjects appear to have no indication they are under surveillance.

Another section of video shows what appears to be large crowds at the State Fair of Texas, with the helicopter camera switching in and out of infrared imaging as it pans the crowd.

Video footage from Atlanta show highly detailed thermal imaging of the exterior of Mercedes Benz Stadium during a football game before the camera zooms in on individuals walking outside the stadium.

Federal courts have traditionally held that journalists cannot be criminally prosecuted for publishing stolen or hacked material as long as the journalist is not involved in the theft. However, the stealing of computer data through hacking remains a federal crime.

Emma Best, a journalist and co-founder of DDoSecrets, said the group is unaware of the identity of the leak source and that the video was stored by the two agencies on unsecured cloud infrastructure.

“In some of the videos, they use infrared tech to look at people inside buildings with thinner walls,” she tweeted. “The video provides no justifying context.”

DPD declined to comment on the leak Sunday afternoon, punting on questions regarding the department’s data security and helicopter video retention policies until business hours on Monday.

The leak comes three months after Dallas County prosecutors admitted that DPD lost 22 terabytes of case data during a data migration in the spring, with only 14 terabytes being recoverable. City officials have faced intense criticism of the protocols in place that allowed a data loss of this size, as well as the delay in disclosure of the deletion to the public.

It remains unknown how many pending criminal cases are impacted by the data loss. Defendant Jonathan Pitts was released from Dallas County Jail Aug. 13 as he awaits trial for murder due to prosecutors not being ready for his trial that week due to the data loss. Nonetheless, Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot has pledged that “justice will be served” in these cases in spite of the data lost.

https://www.courthousenews.com/activists-leak-600-hours-of-mostly-dallas-police-helicopter-footage-after-citys-22-terabyte-loss-of-criminal-case-data/

Furious mother who exposed 'pedophilia,' pornography in high school library books now banned from high school library: Report

The Virginia mother who made headlines for exposing what she said is pedophilia and pornography in her son's high school library books is reportedly banned from entering the school's library.

The mother, Stacy Langton, castigated the Fairfax County Public Schools in September for permitting what she said amounted to explicit pornographic and pedophilic materials in the school's library, including graphic imagery and dialogue depicting sex between adult men and teenagers.

Board members, however, cut off Langton during her speech before her time expired, and she was unable to finish her remarks demanding answers and accountability for the presence of such materials. In remarks, board members ironically shamed Langton for reading passages of the books in the presence of children.

What are the details?

The Washington Examiner reported Monday that Fairfax High School acting principal Maureen Keck told Stacy Langton that she was not permitted to enter the public school's library after having checked out a book with her son earlier in the week.

Langton told the outlet that Keck phoned her to inform her that she would not be permitted to enter the library due to a "school policy."

When Langton pressed Keck about the policy, the acting principal said that the ban applied to all parents.

"[Keck] told me that no parents were allowed into the library," Langton told the outlet. "So I asked her to send me the specific policy so I could see it for myself."

According to the report, Langton said that she entered the school library earlier in the week with her son in order to check out a book and that the librarian never mentioned any policy about parents not being permitted in the room. The librarian, according to Langton, even helped her and her son locate the book they were seeking.

In response to Langton's inquiry, Keck sent a copy of a policy, the Examiner reported, that made "no mention of restricting visitor access to parts of campus anywhere" — including the library — provided visitors sign in and obtain a visitor pass.

"Langton said that while she signed in, the machine that provides visitor passes was out of order and had been for weeks," the outlet reported.

A spokesperson for the district declined to comment on the allegations on Monday.

Langton told the outlet that she plans to address the school board at its Thursday meeting.

In October, the Fairfax County Times reported that at least two books Langton mentioned in her fiery remarks were pulled from school circulation pending a review of the materials.

You can read more on the background of the controversy here.

Content warning: Graphic language and depictions of sexuality:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/mother-exposed-pedophilia-pornography-banned-from-high-school-library