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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 (...)

«China: Democracy That Works»

Beijing (China) | 4 December 2021

Preamble
Democracy is a common value of humanity and an ideal that has always been cherished by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese people.
This year marks the centenary of the CPC. Since its founding in 1921, the Party has taken wellbeing for the Chinese people and the (...)

Declaration of the local transition monitoring committee on Mali

24 May 2021

The local transition monitoring committee, made up of ECOWAS, the African Union and MINUSMA, with members of the international community, including France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and the European Union, express its deep concern at the situation in Mali marked by the (...)

“Fratelli Tutti”

by Pope Francis

Vatican City | 3 October 2020

Encyclical letter on fraternity and social friendship
1. “FRATELLI TUTTI”.[1] With these words, Saint Francis of Assisi addressed his brothers and sisters and proposed to them a way of life marked by the flavour of the Gospel. Of the counsels Francis offered, I would like to select the one (...)

The Human Rights Situation in Ukraine - Report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Moscow (Russia) | 16 July 2020

Ukrainian ’National Militia Units’
The human rights situation in Ukraine continues to degrade. The Kyiv authorities adopt legislative acts contrary to the rules of national law and international obligations. Human rights activists document systemic violations of fundamental human (...)

Direct Line with Vladimir Putin 2019

by Vladimir Putin

Moscow (Russia) | 20 June 2019

Tatyana Remezova: Good afternoon.
As of now, we have received some 1.5 million questions from the public. Actually, the figure exceeded 1.5 million this morning. The most popular form of address is a telephone call. We have received nearly one million of them. Each call is recorded and (...)

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 (...)

Encyclical Letter Laudato Si’ on Care for our Common Home

by Pope Francis

Vatican City | 24 May 2015

1. “LAUDATO SI’, mi’ Signore” – “Praise be to you, my Lord”. In the words of this beautiful canticle, Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us. “Praise be to you, my Lord, (...)

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