Israel's ruling party suppressed the Arab vote by setting up video recorders inside voting places where many Arabs live.

Australia's planet-roaster government was unable to buy approval from the island states that Australia is helping to inundate. The host of the Pacific Islands Forum said that no amount of funding makes up for Australia’s failure to cut emissions.

Abdurahman Memet published the propaganda letters his relatives in Chinese prisons were forced to send, and now he has disappeared.

More about the split between various Yemenite groups that were previously supported by the "coalition" intervention.

The "government" of Yemen has no particular legitimacy. It was "internationally backed" in the sense that Salafi Arabia and the UAE (two cruel and vicious states) supported it, along with their unsavory allies.

May the rest of the world help the Yemenite factions make peace, instead of stirring up war.

Facebook admits having presented audio recordings of conversation between useds for purposes of improving its speech recognition.

I think this is a secondary issue. The job being done is not malicious in its own right.

What I find more worrisome is that Facebook (or Google, or Apple) could transcribe conversations automatically and use the results automatically for purposes such as surveillance capitalism, censorship, and repression.