The dismantling of the agency has been accompanied by a torrent of anger online from right-wing influencers and accounts promoting false claims and conspiratorial thinking.
Aris Yeager’s “European Kid” videos have been an unexpected hit. Wealthy people and luxury brands have noticed.
Far-right candidate Calin Georgescu’s shock first-round win comes despite a campaign budget of zero and polling in single digits.
In an emotional account from a wheelchair,a victim says she “cannot remain silent any more”. But everything about the video is made up by a troll army called Storm-1516.
Alexey Navalny lampooned Margarita Simonyan for years with the nickname “beaver-eater” after a 2012 social media post where she outlined her plans to boil up a beaver head for broth.
With two months until election day,the US Justice Department has also warned of “increasingly aggressive Iranian activity” - including a recent attempt to hack into Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Trump’s campaign said over the weekend that Iran had hacked one of its websites and the FBI said it was investigating that.
Hundreds of US-backed social media posts decried the quality of face masks,test kits and China’s Sinovac inoculation,the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines.
Legal experts say US journalists who were paid by sanctioned Iranian media entities could be in legal jeopardy.
Writing from a country where protest is violently suppressed,Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said they were standing on the right side of history.