Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.
Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.
The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.
In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.
“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.
“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”
Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc
photographers like tish murtha done a great job at this. showing the sides of british life that the right love to ignore while she used her work to push for real change in parliament.
everything looks nice when you only
show the rich side, your nostalgia is blinding you
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested as police open investigation into misconduct in public office – live updates on the blog here: https://t.co/dvuraeiKO0
30 years ago 📺
BBC2 broadcast its most expensive drama ever: Our Friends in the North.
Politics, corruption and class in the North East, it was the State of the Nation series that captured the fall of Labour Britain and the rise of Thatcher's...
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ICE removed Alex Pretti's gun, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 shot him - 10 times in 5 seconds. Your government is lying to you👇
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Blood on the Tracks was released on this day in 1975.
Bob Dylan performs “Simple Twist of Fate” with violinist Scarlet Rivera, bassist Rob Stoner, and drummer Howie Wyeth on the 1975 PBS Soundstage special “The World of John Hammond.”
If you’re in the pub tonight have a look around you. Memorise the faces. These are the real ones. Mid-week November, no football on, just pints and chat. These are the people that deserve seats in the summer when all the part-timers appear because the suns out. Proper boozers.
Israel is besieging Gaza City from three directions, pushing the nearly 1m Palestinians currently sheltering there towards southern Gaza.
Each military advance flattens homes and infrastructure in its path, threatening the erasure of millennia-old Gaza City, and displacing the people sheltering there. Most of the areas in southern Gaza which the military have allocated for relocation are within ‘no-go’ zones, or in areas unsuitable for habitation.