Propaganda

Posted on: January 24, 2011 Posted on: September 10, 2018 Posted on: February 7, 2018 Posted on: August 20, 2015 Read More

After seven years of living in Bologna, first as a student and now as a business consultant, Zhang Yimeng has come to consider northern Italy as his second home. And so, when COVID-19 began rampaging through Europe, the 27-year-old from China’s Henan province threw himself behind relief efforts. Value China,…

A huge Russian An-124-100 military transport plane laden with boxes of masks and medical supplies will arrive in the U.S. Wednesday to help the U.S. in its battle with coronavirus. But analysts say the aid flight, organized by the Russian Defense Ministry, is more of a PR stunt than a…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Kalen Keegan, a college student at the University of Nebraska Omaha, immediately noticed when her Twitter account unleashed a torrent of posts in Chinese. “My other account got…

Chengdu, China - On March 18, China marked a milestone in its "people's war" against the new coronavirus. For the first time in three months, there were no new local infections in the central province of Hubei, where more than 60 million people remain confined to their homes as part…

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday. Amazon has introduced mandatory overtime, increased hourly wages, and scrapped its security checks as it tries to motivate warehouse workers to keep coming to work. Four workers speaking to Business…

Italy is in the middle of a war against an enemy that’s both invisible and far too visible in its impact: The Covid-19 pandemic.But the Italian right-wing hasn’t been fighting the same war. The true enemies—it has desperately tried to remind its receding base—are visible, and the ones right-wing populists…

Across Sweden, young Viking enthusiasts have been angered by the actions of some far-right organisations who have adopted Viking iconography to represent white supremacist propaganda. One, in particular, is the Nordic Resistance Movement, known as the NRM.Viking enthusiast Robin Lundin is the co-founder of an association called Vikingar Mot Rasism…

Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading! Search for Coronavirus Vaccine Becomes a Global Competition (nytimes.com) Posted by msmash on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:00AM from the tussle-continues dept. A global arms race for a coronavirus vaccine is underway. The New York…

A journalist for a very-pro-Donald Trump cable network is being dragged on Twitter after asking the president a truly terrible question during Thursday’s press conference regarding the coronavirus. Although the World Health Organization has cautioned leaders against stigmatizing an area or ethnic group by using it as the name of a disease,…