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UK Government manipulation of the BBC and social media over Covid

5 September 2023

The British government set up a Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic [1]. A parliamentary inquiry has shown that this public body was censoring dissenting opinions.
The CDU is led by Sarah Connolly, a human rights specialist at Cambridge University. Its (...)

CIA censored social networks to bolster Emmanuel Macron’s candidature

2 January 2023

French president Emmanuel Macron claimed to have been the victim of Russian hackers during his 2017 election campaign. According to him, they are to blame for the leak of internal emails from his campaign team. The alleged responsibility of the Russian secret services has never been (...)

How Covid-19 information was censored globally on social media

18 December 2022

Through its lawsuit against federal public health agency Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, the America First Legal Foundation obtained a batch of internal documents, revealing that the CDC had access to a secret Google portal designed to centralize the flagging of (...)

US Supreme Court to decide on responsibilities of social networks

6 October 2022

The United States Supreme Court is poised to hear two cases concerning the responsibilities of social networks.
In the first, Gonzalez v. Google, the Court will have to rule on Google’s responsibility for allowing videos with radical content to circulate on its YouTube application. The (...)

All main social networks partner with intelligence services

16 December 2021

Since its inception, Facebook (currently Meta) has been working together with US intelligence services, which archive the totality of its private data.
WeChat and QQ (Tencent) are transparent to Chinese intelligence, which does not appear to be storing all of their data.
Moscow was lagging (...)

Trump raises $ 1 billion for Truth Social

6 December 2021

Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. and Digital World Acquisition Corp. raised $ 1 billion for Donald Trump’s social network, Truth Social, which will launch in 2022.
The names of the investors were not disclosed.
When he was sitting President of the United States, Donald Trump was (...)

Emmanuel Macron in response to the social crisis. His televised speech

by Emmanuel Macron

Paris (France) | 10 December 2018

My people, the men and women of France! Here we are together with our country and future in mind. The events over the last few weeks in France and overseas have profoundly troubled the Nation. They have mixed legitimate demands and an outpouring of violence that simply cannot be accepted. Can (...)

«Current Concerns», n°3, February 8, 2018

Catholic social teaching

Zurich (Switzerland) | 21 February 2018

“The control mechanisms in the current financial system have become so overwhelming”. Quadragesimo Anno more topical than ever, by Heinrich Wohlmeyer / It’s true: NATO with its eastward expansion has violated all pledges made. Russia’s deepest fears have been realized, by Eric S. Margolis / (...)

Charter of the social contract in Rojava

1 July 2016

We the peoples of the areas of self-administration of Democratic Kurds, Arabs and Assyrians (Assyrian Chaldeans, Arameans), Turkmen, Armenians, and Chechens, by our free will have announced this to materialize justice, freedom and democracy in accordance with the principle of ecological (...)

«Current Concerns», n° 15, 29 April 2013

"The promotion of the Mittelstand corresponds to social market economy and is an alternative to socialism and capitalism”

Zurich (Switzerland) | 29 April 2013

« "The promotion of the Mittelstand corresponds to social market economy and is an alternative to socialism and capitalism” », by Professor Dr Eberhard Hamer / « “Proposals for the regeneration of the market economy and of the SMEs
(small and medium-sized businesses)” », by Professor Dr (...)

Pentagon taking over social networks

5 March 2011

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates proceeded in January to a new allocation of internet military intervention responsibilities.
Henceforth, the U.S. Strategic Command (overseeing the nuclear strike) will concentrate on military computer hacking and cyberdefenses. The Joint Staffs will take (...)

Raul Castro Participates in Second Session of Seminar on Project of Guidelines for Social and Economic Policies

12 November 2010

HAVANA, Cuba, Nov 12 (acn) President Raul Castro attended on Thursday the second session of a seminar on the Project of Guidelines for Social and Economic Policies that is underway at the Ñico Lopez Higher School of the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) in Havana with the participation of 523 (...)

World Social Forum, ten years on

Barcelona (Spain) | 9 February 2010

Since the World Social Forum was launched in June 2000, at the Alternative Social Summit in Geneva, coinciding with the United Nations Assembly on Social Development, ten years have passed. In this decade, the world has changed and the context in which the World Social Forum (WSF) emerged is (...)

Black is Back!

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 16 January 2010

Nearly 42 years after Martin Luther King’s assassination, "Black is Back" announces the return of black activism to the political arena. In commemoration of MLK’s birthday on January 15, 1929, Voltaire Network is publishing the following statemtent which was made by the Black is Back (...)

Cuba Calls for Social Justice at UN Health Assembly

20 May 2009

Cuba called for a system of peace based on social justice and healthcare for all, during the 62nd Session of the World Health Assembly held on Tuesday in Geneva.

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