Filing this under NSS (No Sh*t, Sherlock).

"Musk’s new Twitter policies helped spread Russian propaganda, E.U. says

Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) has played a major role in allowing Russian propaganda about Ukraine to reach more people than before the war began, according to a study released this week by the European Commission, the governing body of the European Union.

The research found that, despite voluntary commitments to take action against Russian propaganda by the largest social media companies, including Meta, Russian disinformation against Ukraine, thrived. (...)

Musk’s X was not alone in having failed to stop the spread of Russian propaganda, the study found. Instagram, Telegram and Facebook, owned by Meta, also drew criticism."

Gift article 🔗: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/01/musk-twitter-x-russia-propaganda/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjkzNTQwODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjk0OTIzMTk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTM1NDA4MDAsImp0aSI6IjhlMDRlNWI5LTA2MjEtNGFjMi1hYmIwLTBlNGJlYmY1YmQyYiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjMvMDkvMDEvbXVzay10d2l0dGVyLXgtcnVzc2lhLXByb3BhZ2FuZGEvIn0.S9HxTVnFHJPSGcK3Uyn-OzorYLvjQI39e5NW1hsOmpA&itid=gfta

#Twitter #X #ElonMusk #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Telegram

#Russia #RussiaIsATerroristState #RussianPropaganda

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

Happy Saturday!

#Hydrangea #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Florespondance?

#photography #travel

#Portugal #Lisbon

#azulejos #PortugueseTiles

#MastoArt

A moment of calm among the madness. Early morning sunrise, Portugal.

#GoodMorning #Sunrise #Sky #Photography #Nature #NaturePhotography #SunrisePhotography

#Travel #Portugal

Behind many great women are trashy men.

"Estonia’s pro-Ukrainian PM faces pressure to quit over husband’s indirect Russian business links

Estonia’s strongly pro-Ukrainian Prime Minister, Kaja Kallas, came under increasing pressure Friday to resign, after Estonian media revealed her husband’s role in a company that indirectly did business in Russia after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year."

🔗: https://apnews.com/article/estonia-kaja-kallas-husband-russia-sanctions-ukraine-957f88b5504dc4c344d0c660b081f7a1

#KajaKallas #Estonia

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

#Russia #RussiaIsATerroristState

File this under NSS (No Sh*t, Sherlock).

"Russia never intended to solve food crisis - Macron

(...) "The consequences of Russian aggression in Ukraine are also directly felt by the most vulnerable populations in Ukraine, Europe, and around the world. Since the collapse of the Black Sea Grain Initiative in July, Russia has been striking essential infrastructures for the export of grain in the region, gravely jeopardizing global food security. All those who continued to doubt it now have proof that Russia never wanted to provide a solution to one of the direct consequences of this war," Macron said."

🔗: https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3752217-russia-never-intended-to-solve-food-crisis-macron.html

#Macron #FoodCrisis

#Russia #RussiaIsATerroristState

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

#SilentSunday #BloomScrolling

#Florespondence #Flowers #FlowersOfMastodon

#Nature #NaturePhotography #FlowerPhotography #photography

"Each day has a color, a smell."

― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#chive #Flowers #Florespondence #FlowerPhotography #FlowersOfMastodon #BloomScrolling

#Nature #NaturePhotography #photography

Filling this under NSS. (No Sh*t, Sherlock)

"Journalists find possible link between German far-right political party and Moscow

A journalistic investigation has revealed communication that may indicate influence from the Kremlin on the activities of some deputies of the far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) political party through the mediation of a proxy in Berlin and its curator in Moscow."

🔗: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/4/7414232/

#Germany #AfD

#Russia #RussiaIsATerroristState

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

Today would have been Henrietta's 103rd birthday. It's about time.

"Henrietta Lacks' descendants reach a settlement over the use of her 'stolen' cells

The family of Henrietta Lacks has reached a settlement with a science and technology company it says used cells taken without Lacks' consent in the 1950s to develop products it later sold for a profit.

Lacks, who was Black, was being treated for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins University in 1951 when doctors removed cells from her tumor without her knowledge or permission.

Those cells — now known as HeLa cells — had remarkable properties that allowed them to be endlessly reproduced, and they have since been used for a variety of scientific breakthroughs, including research about the human genome and the development of the polio and COVID-19 vaccines."

🔗: https://www.npr.org/2023/08/01/1191283359/henrietta-lacks-descendants-settlement-stolen-cells

#HenriettaLacks #HeLa #Cancer #CancerResearch #biology #science

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #MedMastodon