Propaganda

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,…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s fastest-rising cartel, the Jalisco New Generation gang, has a reputation for ruthlessness and violence unlike any since the fall of the old Zetas cartel. In parts of the country it is fighting medieval-style battles, complete with fortified redoubts, to expand nationwide, from the outskirts of…

No, “The Simpsons” did not predict the coronavirus, one writer for the show wants to make clear. Season 4′s “Marge in Chains,” an episode from the early ’90s, features a disease called the “Osaka Flu” making its way to Springfield in a box for a juicer and rapidly infecting residents.…

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian firm accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election said on Tuesday it planned to file a $50 billion lawsuit against the United States after a U.S. federal judge dismissed the criminal case against it. Concord Management and Consulting LLC was accused of funding…

Photo: Monty Brinton (CBS)People have been using apps like Tinder to outsmart China’s censorship and propaganda machines to get real information about the coronavirus outbreak—but apparently Wuhan isn’t as locked down as the Big Brother house in Germany.The majority of the housemates on the German reality series (based on the…

On The Listening Post this week: as COVID-19 goes global, China's propaganda plan is to turn the tide of negative press in their favour; plus, the B-scheme movie of apartheid South Africa. Controlling the coronavirus narrative: China's propaganda push The coronavirus story took a turn last week when a government…