Pentagon Got $1 Billion to Fight Coronavirus, Bought Drones, Jet Parts, and Body Armor Instead: Report https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-got-1-billion-to-fight-coronavirus-bought-dr-1845143131
‘Will polar bears melt?’ A qualitative analysis of children’s questions about climate change https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0963662520952999
Why Are Amnesty International Monitors Not Able to Observe the Assange Hearing? https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/22/why-are-amnesty-international-monitors-not-able-observe-assange-hearing
What Would Happen If Mark Zuckerberg Deleted All of Facebook? https://gizmodo.com/what-would-happen-if-mark-zuckerberg-shut-down-facebook-1845047563
Talking Trash - Plastics are problematic across their lifecycle; from extraction and refining to consumption and disposal they cause pollution on land, and oceans, threatening marine ecosystems, leading to toxic emissions and undermining human health https://changingmarkets.org/portfolio/talking-trash/
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Juggling information literacy in a time when COVID19 dominates the headlines @Info_Activism@twitter.com
http://datadetoxkit.org/ a resource focused on medical information literacy Health vs.Hoax https://datadetoxkit.org/en/misinformation/healthhoax/ a resource for high school students @ISLuxembourg@twitter.com #islthinks #ISLconnects
How Tech Tools Helped Taiwanese Activists Turn a Social Movement Into Real Policy Change https://slate.com/technology/2020/09/black-lives-matter-taiwan-sunrise-movement-civic-participation.html
Power, Profits and the Pandemic
From corporate extraction for the few to an economy that works for all #pdf https://www.oxfamitalia.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/la-pandemia-dei-profitti-e-dei-poteri-eng.pdf
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Over ten thousand people already signed the the petition for #BanFacialRecognitionEU
Read here https://Ban-Facial-Recognition.EU
Connect to @BanFacialRecEU@twitter.com
Sign here: https://ban-facial-recognition.wesign.it/droitshumains/ban-facial-recognition-europe
#BanFacialRecognition
#FacialRecognition
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PaoloCirio/status/1308794481043558400
leaked audio recordings obtained by The Verge, you can hear Facebook's CEO trying to hold the center - MARK IN THE MIDDLE by @CaseyNewton@twitter.com https://www.theverge.com/authors/casey-newton
Statistics are vital in helping us tell stories and make sense of the world - and yet we doubt them more than ever #audio https://rsa-events-a7ace734.simplecast.com/episodes/how-to-make-the-world-add-up-GR7FX5l5
RT @CharityComms@twitter.com
Basically an activity book for adults!
The Organiser’s Activity Book is a self-learning resource with fun and engaging exercises from social media to event organising. Download the worksheets here: https://bit.ly/3kI6b9O
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CharityComms/status/1308768843930664960
Salud vs. engaños - Vacúnate contra la #desinformación sobre salud en línea. Gracias a @diazgdev@twitter.com! https://datadetoxkit.org/es/misinformation/healthhoax/
Ecofeminism As Politics: A Conversation With Ariel Salleh
https://www.ppesydney.net/ecofeminism-as-politics-a-conversation-with-ariel-salleh/
The extradition of Julian Assange would undermine freedom of speech by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/21/extradition-julian-assange-wikileaks-democracy-not-criminal
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How do political campaigns use social media data to influence us, and what practical steps can we take to deal with it? https://datadetoxkit.org/en/privacy/voting/ #RegisterToVote
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JustinGosling/status/1308668420674772992
International Migration amid a World in Crisis https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2331502420948796
The crisis of the pandemic is clearly enabling a new era of state surveillance. But it is also facilitating new means of establishing and justifying borders and divisions within population https://www.perc.org.uk/project_posts/stay-safe-stay-away-and-put-face-masks-on-the-hygienic-sanitary-borders-of-covid-19/
RT @kenzie_nelson2@twitter.com
In case you ever wondered how Kafkaesque FB's data access process can be⬇This India-based researcher's story is NEXT LEVEL. Apparently FB outsourced its verification to a shady 3rd party that takes pictures of your house before you can access the ads API https://kit.exposingtheinvisible.org/en/what/ad-watch.html#verification-by-facebook
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kenzie_nelson2/status/1308309265204084737
Finding the roots of neo-traditionalist populism in Poland: ‘Cultural displacement’ and European integration https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2336825X20954756
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