Twitter Adds Context to Post About DirecTV Dropping Newsmax

Twitter has added what it claims is a user-generated context description to at least one tweet concerning DirecTV’s decision to drop Newsmax from its service. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., tweeted Wednesday afternoon that “It would be unacceptable to de-platform Newsmax, a …

27 January 2023

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Former MP Jared O’Mara owed thousands to drug dealer, court hears

Read More A former Labour MP accused of expenses fraud was thousands of pounds in debt to a drug dealer and regularly took up to five grams of cocaine a day, a court has heard. Jared O’Mara also once drank a litre of vodka before a television interview with BBC Look North and believed “a […]

Troops may be called into Northern Ireland if firefighters strike

Read More Hundreds of troops could return to Northern Ireland as cover for striking firefighters, the Guardian can disclose. The head of the region’s fire service has said the army will be formally requested to provide cover unless unions agree to do so for “high risk calls”. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has refused to […]

Israeli forces kill nine Palestinians during West Bank raid

Read More Israeli forces have killed nine Palestinians during a raid in the north of the occupied West Bank in the deadliest single day in the territory in years, prompting Palestinian leaders to cut security ties with Israel and leaving international mediators scrambling to prevent the violence from escalating. A 61-year-old woman and a male […]