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Populism

Human Rights

Transnational growth of the far right in Europe

Portugal Digital with Lusa News Agency The growth of the far-right in Europe, including in Portugal, is the result of increased transnational collaboration, mainly through the Internet and outside parties or organizations, a European report concludes. “While it is important to…

Elections

Impeachment Was Only the Beginning

By Jeet Heer* -The Nation Trump’s two impeachments are just the start of a long struggle to turn the former president into a pariah. The second impeachment of Donald Trump was an improvement, but only a partial and halting one, over the first impeachment.

Democracy

It's taken Donald Trump to show social media giants the meaning of moderation

York* – The Guardian Twitter and Facebook need to be more transparent about how they choose who gets censored The enforcement of policies on content moderation by popular social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, is a continuously contentious topic. Particularly so…

Economy / Finance

The Gamers’ Uprising Against Wall Street Has Deep Populist Roots

By Ellen Brown* – Web of Debt, Blog Wall Street may own the country, as Kansas populist leader Mary Elizabeth Lease once declared, but a new generation of “retail” stock market traders is fighting back. A short squeeze frenzy driven by a new generation of gamers captured…

Fake News

Lawsuits Take the Lead in Fight Against Disinformation

Grynbaum – The New York Times Defamation cases have made waves across an uneasy right-wing media landscape, from Fox to Newsmax. In just a few weeks, lawsuits and legal threats from a pair of obscure election technology companies have achieved what years of advertising boycotts…

Elections

Executions of prisoners in the US as an electoral argument

By Navi Pillay, Federico Mayor, Bill Richardson, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Asunta Vivó Cavaller (*) The wave of executions in the United States, carried out at the federal level, of thirteen persons in the last six months of the Trump administration, is a tragic record…

Digital Age

'It let white supremacists organize': the toxic legacy of Facebook's Groups

By Kari Paul* – The Guardian Facebook has said it will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups to users, but experts warn that isn’t enough Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook CEO, announced last week the platform will no longer algorithmically recommend political groups…