Internal discussions from Google indicate that the search giant is “manually” curating blacklists of search terms – including Rep. Maxine Waters, anti-gun activist David Hogg, and abortion – on YouTube and other services.
The conservative news site Breitbart says it obtained an internal discussion thread from a Google employee showing the existence of a blacklist, as well as a partial list of blacklisted terms from another source within the company.
“We have tons of white- and blacklists that humans manually curate,” Breitbart quoted one Google employee. “Hopefully this isn’t surprising or particularly controversial.”
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https://www.rt.com/usa/448988-google-youtube-blacklist-breitbart/
Moscow didn’t nab American citizen Paul Whelan with plans to swap him for Russian nationals being held overseas, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
Whelan, who is an American, Canadian, British, and Irish national, was apprehended and detained in Moscow because he “was receiving certain materials he wasn’t supposed to receive,” Lavrov said at a press event on Wednesday.
The minister addressed the suggestions that the prospect of a prisoner exchange was the key motive behind Whelan’s arrest. Such notions are “completely untrue,” he stressed.
“We never do things like that. I’ll say it again: he was caught red-handed.”
Whelan, 48, was detained in late December, last year, while visiting Russia to attend a friend’s wedding. He is an Iraq War veteran and director of global security and investigations for BorgWarner, a Michigan-based car parts manufacturer.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) said that the man was apprehended while “committing an act of espionage.” He was subsequently charged with spying and faces 10 to 20 years in prison if convicted. The secret services didn’t provide details of the operation.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Lavrov noted that the investigation is still ongoing.
According to Russian media, Whelan tried to recruit a local acquaintance as a spy and received a USB drive containing classified information on various government agencies.
The man’s twin brother, David, called such a scenario “ridiculous.” He told RT’s video agency Ruptly that Whelan “wouldn’t have knowingly accepted” a USB drive with secure or confidential information on it. Whelan’s family earlier said that his innocence is “undoubted.”
Sergey Lavrov told reporters that David Whelan is currently in Russia and was “briefed” on the conditions of his brother’s detention and has no complaints about them.
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https://www.rt.com/news/448961-lavrov-paul-whelan-remarks/
Russian startup wants to place luminous ads in low-Earth orbit
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A prominent American anchorwoman on Iranian state television has been arrested by the FBI during a visit to the U.S., the broadcaster reported Wednesday, and her son said she was being held in a prison, apparently as a material witness.
Marzieh Hashemi, who worked for the network’s English-language service, was detained in St. Louis, where she had filmed a Black Lives Matter documentary after visiting relatives in the New Orleans area. She was then taken to Washington, according to her elder son, Hossein Hashemi.
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https://www.apnews.com/37cc19d2d5db450091a8224fe1e25d41
Boasting how she already defeated the Republicans after less than a week in office, newly minted Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) used a phrase for group sex to describe the Democrats’ plans until 2020.
An interview with the Washington Post, published on Wednesday, featured Ocasio-Cortez denouncing the Trump administration and the Republican party as racist, sexist relics of the past, losers in the political and cultural war.
“I also think it’s encouraging because this is my sixth day in Congress and they’re out of all their artillery,” she said at one point, saying the Republicans have been trying to manufacture outrage about her with dancing videos and fake nude photos.
“What have you got left? I’m six days into the term, and you already used all your ammo. So enjoy being exhausted for the next two years while we run train on the progressive agenda,” she added.
https://www.rt.com/usa/448989-ocasio-cortez-run-train-phrasing/
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