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Twitter takes down Beijing-backed influence operation pushing coronavirus messages

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Twitter has deleted 170,000 accounts tied to a Beijing-backed influence operation used to spread propaganda linked to coronavirus and Hong Kong.  The accounts aimed to spread messages favourable to the Chinese government’s response to the virus and push ‘deceptive narratives’ about politics in Hong Kong. Twitter suspended a core network of 23,750 ‘highly active’ accounts … Read more

Sky Sports ‘Choose a Chant’ feature will allow viewers to play songs during live games

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Sky Sports new FAN-tastic feature allows viewers to vote for which terrace song is played during live games and ‘choose a chant’ will even let them pick a tune for their favourite player Fans will be able to feel like they’re in a stadium by choosing football chants  Sky Sports revealed the added feature to … Read more

Facebook bans woman for sharing her colourised World War Two images that showed Hitler and Goering

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A woman has accused Facebook of trying to ‘delete history’ after the social media giant removed colourised images that showed Hitler and prominent Nazi figures from her profile and suspended her account for three days.  Russian photo colourist Olga Shirnina from Moscow, Russia, is considered a world expert in transforming historic black and white pictures … Read more

Hilarious moment woman floats down a flooded street on an airbed while sipping a cocktail

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Quarantine staycation! Hilarious moment woman floats down a flooded street on an airbed while sipping a cocktail in Ukraine’s capital city The woman took the opportunity to grab an inflatable along with a coconut drink  She made the very best of the flooded conditions and floated down the street The footage was recorded when Kyiv … Read more

Primark gives glimpse of how newly reopened shops will look

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Primark gives shoppers a glimpse of what their reopened ‘Covid secure’ shops will look like next week – but fitting rooms and toilets are staying shut for now Boss confirms there will be no discounts or sales at reopened stores  Wide array of social distancing measures being implemented by retailer  They include plastic screens, floor markings and … Read more

Sonia Kruger DROPPED from podcast over Muslim immigration views

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Sonia Kruger has been dropped from Mamamia’s beauty podcast, You Beauty. As reported by The Daily Telegraph on Friday, administrators announced on Facebook that they have removed her episode this week on sensitive skin. The lifestyle website informed followers that the decision was based on Kruger’s past comments relating to Muslim immigration, that some found … Read more

Kim Jong Un ends relationship with Trump as sanctions continue

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North Korea criticised Donald Trump in a stinging denunciation of the United States on Friday, the second anniversary of a landmark summit in Singapore where the US president shook hands with leader Kim Jong Un. It was the latest in a series of vitriolic statements from Pyongyang aimed at both Washington and Seoul, and came … Read more