Anonymous ID: d97790 May 7, 2022, 11:45 a.m. No.16230066   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0112 >>0114 >>0173 >>0707

$50 Million Of Cocaine Found At Nespresso Factory

 

Employees at a Swiss Nespresso factory were shocked after discovering about a half-ton of cocaine in a shipment of coffee beans delivered to the plant from Brazil.

 

According to AFP, workers at the Nespresso plant in Romont, in western Switzerland, notified authorities on Monday after discovering mysterious white powder inside mounds of coffee sacks in shipping containers.

 

Local police seized more than 500 kilos (1,103 pounds) of cocaine from five containers.

 

The shipment originated from Brazil, police said, adding the seized cocaine was 80% pure and had a street value of $50 million (48 million euros).

 

"It appears that all of the drugs were destined for the European market," police said.

 

The Nespresso plant is a subsidiary of the multinational food and drinks processing conglomerate NestlĂŠ. The Romont plant specializes in producing single-serve coffee capsules.

 

Bloomberg's top commodity expert Javier Blas recently told Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway in an Odd Lots podcast that in physical trading of commodities, such as agricultural, metals, and energy, traders "don't have to disclose anything."

 

Several years ago, a much larger shipment of cocaine was seized on a containership owned by JP Morgan Chase. U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized 20 tons from the ship, worth an estimated street value of $1.3 billion.

 

If it's NestlĂŠ or a JP Morgan ship, drug cartels have somehow tapped large supply chains owned by large Western companies to smuggle drugs into the developed world.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/50-million-cocaine-found-nespresso-factory

Anonymous ID: d97790 May 7, 2022, 11:52 a.m. No.16230108   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0129 >>0231 >>0425 >>0520 >>0692 >>0707

“Baby factories” in the Ukraine exposed

 

September 15, 2018

 

Damning reports have emerged of systemic exploitation in Ukrainian surrogacy businesses, with one expert labelling some of the worst clinics “baby factories”.

 

An Al Jazeera feature article published this week details the harrowing story of several surrogates and clients of the Ukraine’s largest surrogacy company, BioTexCom.

 

The company, which employs thousands of surrogates and accounts for over half of the surrogate births in the country each year, has been accused of grossly mistreating women and providing surrogates with substandard medical care.

 

According to Al Jazeera, the BioTexCom offers women generous remuneration (around US$11,000 plus a monthly stipend). Yet it provides “employees” with terrible accommodation during pregnancy, threatens fines if women break strict rules imposed during pregnancy, and fails to provide adequate medical attention through the nine months of child-bearing.

 

“We were treated like cattle and mocked by doctors”, said one woman who bore a child for a client of BioTexCom in 2017. That particular woman fell seriously ill after giving birth due to a retained placenta — an emergency condition that should be treated by doctors within hours. Yet the placenta was only removed five days later after woman started bleeding heavily and had to be rushed to intensive care.

 

The owner of BioTexCom, Albert Tochilovsky, was charged earlier this year with human trafficking, document forgery and tax evasion in Ukraine. If convicted, they could face up to 15 years in prison.

 

The Ukrainian surrogacy market also made the news recently after scores of Spanish couples who had commissioned surrogates in the country were unable to obtain Spanish passports for their newborn children.

 

https://bioedge.org/beginning-of-life-issues/baby-factories-in-the-ukraine-exposed/

Anonymous ID: d97790 May 7, 2022, 11:57 a.m. No.16230142   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0150 >>0152 >>0170 >>0213 >>0225 >>0507 >>0692 >>0707

Creepy Bill Gates Plans to Hire a 3,000-Person Social Media Team to Push Vaccines and Suppress Any Differing Information

 

Bill Gates is planning on hiring a 3,000-person social media team to push vaccines and to quash any differing opinions.

 

Gates made the comments at The Wall Street Journal Summit earlier this week.

 

Gates said vaccine misinformation spread like wildfire on the internet during the COVID pandemic. Maybe it was all of the dead people?

 

And this clown wonders why no one likes or trusts him?

 

CNBC reported:

 

Combating misinformation

 

Vaccine misinformation has spread like wildfire on social media during the Covid-19 pandemic, with some wrongly claiming that Gates was somehow using vaccines to implant 5G chips into people so that he could track their location.

 

“That’s so unexpected and almost so bizarre,” Gates said. “Now that I’m back in the physical world … people come up and yell and protest.”

 

He said it’s “dangerous” when people “cast out” on the key tool that’s being used to save people’s lives and he believes those who own social media platforms have a role to play when it comes to ensuring the truth gets shared effectively.

 

“When you don’t have the trusted leaders speaking out about vaccines, it’s pretty hard for the platform to work against that,” he admitted. “So I think we have a leadership problem and we have a platform problem.”

 

“The way that you make those platforms spread truth and not crazy stuff, there’s some real invention required there,” Gates said.

 

“It’s a huge problem in terms of legitimacy of elections or medical innovations … any sort of collective behavior,” he added.

 

The fact that information on the efficacy of drugs can move quickly and cheaply should be a blessing to mankind, Gates said, before going on to call the hydroxychloroquine saga “insane.”

 

“I can’t explain that,” he said. “I don’t think digital is responsible for that obsession with drugs that don’t work.”

 

Gates said he plans to set up a 3,000-person social media unit to help propagate accurate vaccine information in the future. He stressed that “good messages” need to be carried forward by people of trust in the community, such as political and ethnic leaders.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/creepy-bill-gates-plans-hire-3000-person-social-media-team-push-vaccines-suppress-differing-information/

Anonymous ID: d97790 May 7, 2022, 12:02 p.m. No.16230171   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0225 >>0692 >>0707

Intel leaks show US success in Ukraine — but come with risks

 

The Biden administration’s decision to step up aid to Ukraine is paying real-world dividends, providing not only the weapons to battle Russian forces but also the intelligence that’s helped Ukraine kill a stunning number of Russian generals and sink Moscow’s flagship vessel in the Baltic Sea.

 

While U.S. military and intelligence officials have denied their direct involvement in those deadly strikes, the assistance has been crucial to Ukraine’s recent battlefield successes.

 

The developments highlight the delicate dance being attempted by the Biden administration and its NATO allies, as they intensify the fight against Russian President Vladimir Putin while being careful not to provoke an escalatory response from a figure who controls the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.

 

“I think what it says is that the United States is involved in this war in virtually every way except direct fighting against the Russians,” Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security, said of the intelligence sharing with the Ukrainians.

 

At the same time, Fontaine criticized U.S. officials for talking to the media about the contributions intelligence sharing has made to Ukraine’s fight, saying that the disclosures help fuel a false Russian narrative about the war being about NATO enlargement and a provocative West.

 

“By trying to get public credit in the press for helping to kill Russian generals and sink Russian ships, I am afraid that that aids that narrative in a way that is not productive,” Fontaine said.

 

Ukraine has fought back the Russian assault for 70 days and counting, bolstered by billions of dollars in weaponry from the U.S. and its allies that include light missile launchers, assault drones and, more recently, heavy artillery like Howitzers and tanks.

 

Biden administration officials have been open that they are sharing battlefield intelligence with the Ukrainians but have stressed that Kyiv is responsible for deciding what it targets and when.

 

“We have consistently been sharing intelligence that includes information the Ukrainians can use to inform and develop their military response to Russia’s invasion,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on March 3.

 

https://thehill.com/news/administration/3480041-intel-leaks-show-us-success-in-ukraine-but-come-with-risks/

Anonymous ID: d97790 May 7, 2022, 12:18 p.m. No.16230271   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0288 >>0692 >>0707

Jared Kushner's Fund to Invest Saudi Millions in Israeli Tech, WSJ Reports

 

Wall Street Journal reports that Kushner’s new VC firm, which has already raised $2 billion from official Saudi fund, will invest directly in at least two Israeli tech companies

 

Funds raised by Jared Kushner from Saudi Arabia will soon be invested directly in Israeli hi-tech firms, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday in an exclusive report.

 

Kushner, former U.S. President Donald Trump's top aide and son-in-law, set up private equity fund Affinity Partners after leaving the White House. The firm has raised up to $3 billion – some $2 billion from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign-wealth fund, among the largest sovereign funds in the world.

 

Kushner’s firm has already selected two Israeli hi-tech firms to invest in, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing “people familiar with the investment plan.”

 

The investment, the WSJ said, was “the first known instance that the Saudi Public Investment Fund’s cash will be directed to Israel, a sign of the kingdom’s increasing willingness to do business with the country, even though they have no diplomatic relations.”

 

It is unknown who the two firms are or what sector they are active in.

 

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tech-news/jared-kushner-s-fund-to-invest-saudi-millions-in-israeli-tech-wsj-reports-1.10784486

Anonymous ID: d97790 May 7, 2022, 12:26 p.m. No.16230322   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0707

Ukrainians Mine Dam in Donetsk People’s Republic – Russia’s MoD

 

US President Joe Biden said on Friday said he approved additional security assistance for Ukraine that will include artillery munitions, radar, and other equipment. Since the start of the special operation, Washington has committed over $3.4 billion in security aid to Ukraine.

Last week, Biden asked Congress for another $33 billion in aid for Kiev, $20 billion of which would be allocated to security assistance.

Russia has said that the US and NATO should stop pumping Kiev regime with weapons if they actually seek to bring the conflict to an end. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has previously warned that the arms could also fall into the wrong hands.

On Sunday, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said a hangar with weapons and ammunition delivered to Ukraine from the United States and Europe was destroyed at a military airfield near the Ukrainian city of Odessa by Russian high-precision Oniks missiles.

Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine in February, amid intensifying attacks of Kiev's troops against the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR). President Putin stressed that the op was started to stop the eight-year-long war in Donbass, noting that Russia's goal is "demilitarization and denazification".

 

https://sputniknews.com/20220506/live-updates-biden-announces-more-security-aid-to-ukraine-including-artillery-munitions–radar-1095322099.html

Anonymous ID: d97790 May 7, 2022, 12:30 p.m. No.16230347   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0355 >>0707

LAPD Arrests Officer For Allegedly Possessing Child Pornography

 

The LAPD Internet Crimes Against Children task force arrested a Torrence police officer on suspicion of possessing child pornography.

 

A 23-year-old former Torrance police officer is scheduled to appear in Los Angeles Superior Court on June 3 following his arrest for allegedly possessing child sex abuse material.

 

Evan Robert Dahl was arrested at 11:15 a.m. Friday at the Torrance Police Station on suspicion of felony possession of the material following a Los Angeles Police Department investigation.

 

He was released at 3:45 p.m. Friday, police said.

 

"The city of Torrance and its police department are aware of the troubling allegations leading to Evan Dahl's arrest. Evan Dahl no longer works for the Torrance Police Department," said Sgt. Mark Ponegalek of the Torrance Police Department.

 

"Chief Jay Hart remains committed to transparency and accountability," the statement added.

 

The LAPD Internet Crimes Against Children task force learned in March that the unlawful material was uploaded to a social media platform from an unknown address in Torrance, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

 

Investigators then served search warrants at several locations throughout the city, including Dahl's residence, "where evidence was seized," according to the LAPD.

 

"We have and will continue to cooperate with LAPD's investigation," Ponegalek said. "Because this matter involves an ongoing criminal investigation, we must refer any additional questions to LAPD,"

 

https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/lapd-arrests-officer-allegedly-possessing-child-pornography

Anonymous ID: d97790 May 7, 2022, 12:34 p.m. No.16230372   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0382 >>0462 >>0707

Ghislaine Maxwell is moved out of solitary confinement cell after two years of 'torture' as she awaits sentencing for sex trafficking

 

Ghislaine Maxwell, 60, was arrested in July 2020 and has remained in jail since

She is facing up to 50 years in prison for five charges related to sex trafficking

She's been in solitary confinement over fears she'd kill herself like Jeffrey Epstein

 

 

Ghislaine Maxwell has been removed from solitary confinement in prison after two years of what her family claimed was ‘torture’.

 

The disgraced socialite is now sharing a dormitory style cell with other inmates and can receive visits from her family and friends for the first time since her arrest in 2020.

 

Maxwell, 60, remains at the grim Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, New York, until her sentencing next month for sex trafficking.

 

But her family welcomed the move because it means she is no longer being deprived of human contact.

 

Maxwell is facing 50 years in jail when she is sentenced for five charges related to recruiting and trafficking underage girls for the late paeodphile Jeffrey Epstein, and joining him in the sordid abuse.

 

She was kept in solitary confinement after the FBI tracked her down to a remote bolthole because prison officials feared she would kill herself before trial, as Epstein did in 2019.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10792077/Ghislaine-Maxwell-moved-solitary-confinement-two-years-awaits-sentencing.html

Anonymous ID: d97790 May 7, 2022, 12:37 p.m. No.16230396   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0423 >>0707

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg hires TEN security guards to protect his election posters from vandals after they were defaced with swastikas and Hitler moustaches

 

Vandals in Melbourne's inner-east have attacked signs of the Federal treasurer

Mr Frydenberg is furious after Kooyong billboards defaced with Nazi swastikas

Federal election is on May 21, Labor still holding a slight lead over the Coalition

 

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has taken the extraordinary step of hiring 10 security guards to protect his election billboards from vandals at night.

 

Ahead of the federal election on May 21, a number of Frydenberg's posters have been defaced with Nazi swastikas, Hitler moustaches and other political messages.

 

The vandals have been relentless in the inner-east Melbourne electorate of Kooyong, a previously safe Liberal seat.

 

Victoria Police are also investigating a supporter of Frydenberg's independent challenger Monique Ryan, who was caught on social media allegedly defacing a Frydenberg sign earlier this week.

 

Frydenberg is said to be fed up with the 'deliberate and targeted effort' to vandalise his election boards.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10791379/Treasurer-Josh-Frydenberg-hires-TEN-security-guards-protect-election-billboards-vandals.html

 

The Jewish treasurer who is funding Ukraine Nazi's

Anonymous ID: d97790 May 7, 2022, 12:45 p.m. No.16230451   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0535 >>0707

CDC Investigating 109 Mysterious Hepatitis Cases In Children, Including 5 Deaths

 

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is investigating more than 100 cases of a mysterious form of hepatitis in children, saying that five have died so far.

 

Dr. Jay Butler, the CDC’s deputy director of infectious diseases, said during a briefing said the agency is investigating 109 cases of acute hepatitis, or liver inflammation, in 24 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. The cause of the outbreak is not yet clear, he stressed, adding that about half of the children had adenovirus infections, although Butler said the CDC doesn’t know yet if adenovirus is the actual cause.

 

Approximately 90 percent of the children required hospitalization, Butler said. Five have died so far, and more have required liver transplants, he added in the briefing.

 

Last month, the CDC issued a nationwide alert after nine acute hepatitis cases were discovered among children in Georgia. Since then, a number of state agencies have reported cases and several deaths.

 

Several days ago, the CDC issued a report saying that it found no evidence that COVID-19 vaccines caused the outbreak of hepatitis among children. None of the initial children in Abalama, the agency said, received the vaccine.

 

Meanwhile, other countries have reported similar outbreaks of hepatitis among children. On Friday, the UK Health Security Agency reported that (pdf) the country’s case count had risen to 163, dating back to early January, adding that 11 children have received liver transplants so far.

 

“Adenovirus remains the most frequently detected potential pathogen. Amongst 163 UK cases, 126 have been tested for adenovirus of which 91 had adenovirus detected,” said the agency.

 

“Amongst cases the adenovirus has primarily been detected in blood.”

 

UK officials also ruled out the COVID-19 vaccine as a potential cause.

 

“There are fewer than five older case-patients recorded as having had a COVID-19 vaccination prior to hepatitis onset,” the report said, adding that most of the impacted children are too young to receive the shot.

 

“There is no evidence of a link between COVID-19 vaccination and the acute hepatic syndrome.”

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/cdc-investigating-109-mysterious-hepatitis-cases-children-including-5-deaths

Anonymous ID: d97790 May 7, 2022, 12:50 p.m. No.16230467   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0707

Report: FBI, DHS Officials Eye Violent ‘Abortion-Related Extremism’ but Do Nothing

 

The National Fusion Center Association on Thursday reportedly held a call to strategize about the metastasizing threats of violence after the Supreme Court leak that revealed Roe v. Wade may be overturned.

 

Those on the call were FBI and DHS officials, among “dozens of intelligence-sharing hubs around the country,” according to Politico. The call focused on how law enforcement might protect the federal judiciary from attacks, “including both the Supreme Court’s nine justices and the hundreds of federal judges around the country — as a potential increasing target of violence.”

 

The virtual rendezvous reportedly did not result in any determination of actions to be taken against the violence perpetrated by radical left after the Court’s leak. The call did not specifically focus on the radical left extremism at all. Instead, the focus was to “maximize information-sharing on the topic among law enforcement agencies around the country, hoping to identify threat trends in real-time.”

 

Since the Supreme Court leak, attacks have been carried out against the pro-life community by radicals. Antifa reportedly attacked a pregnancy center in Portland and allegedly wrote “Fuck CPCs” (Crisis Pregnancy Center) and “bashed the windows” of the facility.

 

On Wednesday, a church in Denver, Colorado, was vandalized “with smashed windows and spray-painted pro-abortion messages,” the Washington Times reported. The vandals reportedly desecrated the church with far-left slogans, like “my body, my choice” and “keep your religion off our bodies.” They also broke several church windows.

 

Another far-left group, dubbed “Ruth Sent Us,” has published the justices’ supposed home addresses online for the radical protestors to locate. The group has also reportedly threatened to storm churches on Mother’s Day in protest. The protests may occur in Washington, DC.

 

The left’s political violence follows the 2020 destruction, which cost the nation $1 billion to $2 billion, according to Axios. The cost of the violence exceeded that of any previous social unrest in the nation’s history.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/06/report-fbi-dhs-officials-eye-violent-abortion-related-extremism-do-nothing/

Anonymous ID: d97790 May 7, 2022, 12:52 p.m. No.16230476   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0707

Fred Savage Fired From ‘Wonder Years’ Reboot After ‘Allegations of Inappropriate Conduct,’ Production Company Says

 

Actor and director Fred Savage has been terminated from “The Wonder Years” reboot on ABC, a spokesman from 20th Television has confirmed.

 

Savage was dismissed from the series following an investigation into unspecified “allegations of inappropriate conduct,” the company spokesman told CNN in an email.

 

“Recently, we were made aware of allegations of inappropriate conduct by Fred Savage, and as is policy, an investigation was launched,” 20th Television said in a statement. “Upon its completion, the decision was made to terminate his employment as an executive producer and director of ‘The Wonder Years’.”

 

Savage, who starred in the show’s original series when it aired in the late 1980s, served as an executive producer and director for the show’s revival, according to ABC.

 

20th Television is a subsidiary of Disney Television Studios and produces the series, ABC said.

 

Savage did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.

 

The revival follows a Black middle-class family in 1960s Montgomery, Alabama, and first aired in September of 2021, according to ABC.

 

Adapted by Saladin K. Patterson, the show revisits roughly the same period beginning in 1968 as the prior version and unearths the drama and poignant qualities of those years.

 

https://www.ntd.com/fred-savage-fired-from-wonder-years-reboot-after-allegations-of-inappropriate-conduct-production-company-says_776389.html

Anonymous ID: d97790 May 7, 2022, 1:02 p.m. No.16230523   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0707

Dire Warnings From Past U.S. Presidents and Other High-Profile Leaders About an “Invisible Government” That Runs the U.S. With “No Allegiance To the People”

 

Historical Leaders Warn About an “Invisible Government” Running the U.S.

 

The warnings listed below, which appear in chronological order, began with our first president – George Washington. The last president to speak out was JFK, who was assassinated. Read what they and other political leaders have said about the invisible government.

 

“It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am. The idea that I meant to convey, was, that I did not believe that the Lodges of Free Masons in this Country had, as Societies, endeavoured to propagate the diabolical tenets of the first, or pernicious principles of the latter (if they are susceptible of seperation). That Individuals of them may… actually had a seperation [sic] of the People from their Government in view, is too evident to be questioned.” – George Washington, 1st President of the United States (1789–1797), from a letter that Washington wrote on October 24, 1798, which can be found in the Library of Congress. For an analysis of Washington’s warning, see the article “Library of Congress: George Washington Warns of Illuminati”

 

“I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.” —Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (1801–1809) and principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776), in a letter written to John Taylor on May 28, 1816

 

“A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.” – John C. Calhoun, Vice President (1825-1832) and U.S. Senator, from a speech given on May 27, 1836

 

Note that it appears that Washington’s and Jefferson’s concerns regarding bankers and separation of the people from the government was realized by 1836. This fact was confirmed in a letter written by FDR in 1933 (see below) in which he wrote that “a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” Jackson was the seventh president of the United States (1829-1937). Calhoun served as Jackson’s vice-president from 1829-1932.

 

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.”— Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography, 1913 (Appendix B)

 

“A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men… [W]e have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world—no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.” – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, The New Freedom, 1913

 

Related Article: One Day In 1913, Woodrow Wilson Had A Shocking Thought

 

“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, The New Freedom, 1913

 

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country… We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.” – Edward Bernays (“the father of public relations”), Propaganda, 1928 (note that Bernays’ book, Propaganda, begins with the above quote).

– Congressman Louis T. McFadden, from a speech delivered to the House of Representatives on June 10, 1932

 

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/82521/dire-warnings-from-past-us-presidents-and-other-highprofile-leaders-about-an-invisible-government.html

Anonymous ID: d97790 May 7, 2022, 1:03 p.m. No.16230530   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0707

Facebook aware of mass pages closure despite saying it was ‘inadvertent’

 

The report points the finger at Facebook for shutting down the pages of hospitals, government agencies and charities.

 

A bombshell report has revealed that Facebook was aware of its impact when it ‘inadvertently’ closed pages of Australian hospitals, emergency services and charities in 2021.

 

In February last year, Facebook blocked news websites in Australia in response to potential legislation that would make platforms pay publishers for content. When the blackout occurred, hundreds of other pages that were not news outlets were also hamstrung.

 

At the time of the chaos, Facebook said the closure of pages related to the Australian government, hospitals and charities was “inadvertent”.

 

However, a report from the Wall Street Journal has revealed that the blackout was hailed as a strategic masterstroke.

 

“Facebook documents and testimony filed to US and Australian authorities by whistleblowers allege that the social-media giant deliberately created an overly broad and sloppy process to take down pages – allowing swathes of the Australian government and health services to be caught in its web just as the country was launching Covid vaccinations,” the story published on May 6 read.

 

The publication alleges, according to whistleblowers and documents, the move to close these other pages was to exert maximum negotiating pressure over the Australian parliament. It was about to vote on the world’s first law that would require platforms such as Google and Facebook to pay news outlets for content.

 

“Despite saying it was targeting only news outlets, the company deployed an algorithm for deciding what pages to take down that it knew was certain to affect more than publishers, according to the documents and people familiar with the matter,” the report added.

 

Authorities who managed these Facebook pages were not told about the block in advance or provided a system of appeal once they were barred from using the platform.

 

Facebook has denied the moves were a negotiating tactic.

 

https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/facebook-aware-of-mass-pages-closure-despite-saying-it-was-inadvertent/news-story/a2a5288492131feac2c51ff28ecef8aa

Anonymous ID: d97790 May 7, 2022, 1:06 p.m. No.16230542   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0707

Monkeypox case confirmed in England

 

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) can confirm an individual has been diagnosed with monkeypox in England.

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/monkeypox-case-confirmed-in-england-1