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Slowthai’s severed Boris ‘head’ is doing what music has always done – be political
Metro UK 20 Sep 2019
In a febrile political scene it’s easy to cause offence at the moment ... Politically, the Northampton rapper has skipped the usual dinner party Brexit row and gone straight to waving a model of Boris Johnson’s severed head during a performance of Doorman at the Mercury Music Prize ... And that’s a key point to be made about music and politics....
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Twitter suspends more than 10,000 more accounts for promoting political discord
East Bay Times 20 Sep 2019
Twitter on Friday continued its crackdown on what it considers improper content on its service by removing more than 10,000 accounts for spreading political misinformation and unrest ... Most of the accounts were said to be engaged in fomenting political dissent through the spread of false information....
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Opposing China’s ‘hybrid warfare’
Taipei Times 20 Sep 2019
In Taiwan, Chinese infiltration has gone much further than just “sharp power” and it is now waging “hybrid warfare,” a term that originated in the US early this century when military theorists suggested that it be used to define armed operations that cannot be placed into the wartime or peacetime baskets....
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Twitter suspends more than 10,000 accounts for promoting political discord
SiliconValley.com 20 Sep 2019
Twitter on Friday continued its crackdown on what it considers improper content by removing more than 10,000 accounts for spreading political misinformation and unrest. Twitter said the accounts included more than 4,000 found to be operating out of the United Arab Emirates, and 4,000 others from China....
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Farooq Abdullah once defended India amid global backlash on Kashmir. Now, he has to defend himself
Quartz 20 Sep 2019
For four decades, he dominated Kashmir’s pro-establishment politics ... Around 4,000 political workers and young men deemed as potential stone pelters are also under detention ... But then, he operated on a wider political canvas in a partially autonomous Kashmir, which allowed political space for debating and challenging Kashmir’s place within India....
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Mehbooba Mufti seeks details on detainees since August 5, daughter writes to govt
The Times of India 20 Sep 2019
She said her mother's Twitter handle is now operated by her with due authorisation. Iltija said her mother, as the president of a major political party (PDP) and as the state's most recent chief minister, has instructed her to seek certain information from the government....
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Twitter suspends Saudi royal adviser Qahtani, fake Gulf accounts
Toronto Sun 20 Sep 2019
Records of his tweets are not being added to its archive of state-backed information operations, the company said in its blogpost ... Twitter said it had also taken action against accounts operating exclusively from the UAE, as well countries including Spain and Ecuador ... It did not name an entity behind that operation....
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Iowa Energy Center begins new era at IEDA
Business Record 20 Sep 2019
It is not, as some thought after a dust-up involving its operations under Iowa State University’s umbrella, kaput ... Some, including the nonprofit Iowa Environmental Council, questioned whether the move to IEDA would make the energy center a more political operation....
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Microsoft to provide free updates for voting systems running Windows 7 through 2020
The Hill 20 Sep 2019
The free Windows 7 security updates are part of Microsoft’s Defending Democracy Program, launched in 2018, which aims to protect campaigns from hacking operations, increase transparency of online political advertisements and defend against disinformation campaigns....
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Young Black Voters to Their Biden-Supporting Parents: 'Is This Your King?'
Yahoo Daily News 20 Sep 2019
... politically engaged ... Yet contrary to their stereotype as idealistic and apathetic, and with the steely pessimism of seasoned political operatives, younger voters expressed a cleareyed understanding that their efforts to lobby their relatives would not necessarily be successful....
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Twitter suspends account of former Saudi royal adviser Qahtani
The Times of India 20 Sep 2019
Records of his tweets are not being added to its archive of state-backed information operations, the company said in its blogpost ... Twitter said it had also taken action against accounts operating exclusively from the UAE, as well countries including Spain and Ecuador ... It did not name an entity behind that operation....
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Warning signs flash for Tillis in North Carolina
The Hill 20 Sep 2019
“Ultimately Republican voters come home,” one Republican operative familiar with Senate races told The Hill ... While Tillis’s allies insist that they’re not nervous about his prospects, several political strategists and operatives noted North Carolina’s long history of booting its incumbent senators from office....
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