A vaccine scientist says being tag-teamed and dogpiled on by Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, and RFK Jr. all at once has been 'overwhelming' (lemmy.world)
businessinsider.com/peter-hotez-joe-rogan-elon-mu…
AstraZeneca considers spinning off its China business (www.theguardian.com)
North Korea pledges second satellite launch after 'failure' – DW – 06/19/2023 (www.dw.com)
Multinationals to hire 250,000 refugees across Europe (www.euronews.com)
Uttar Pradesh: Row over claims of heatwave deaths in India state (www.bbc.com)
In Argentina, Inflation Passes 100% (and the Restaurants Are Packed) (ghostarchive.org)
Israel to demolish Palestinian primary school in West Bank (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
North Korea says botched satellite launch was 'gravest failure' (www.reuters.com)
Kremlin decides that goal to ''demilitarise'' Ukraine has largely been achieved (www.pravda.com.ua)
Reddit claimed to have been hacked by BlackCat, and it has threatened to leak the data (www.neowin.net)
cross-posted from: chat.maiion.com/post/3401...
Satellite images show that Spain is in danger of drying out one of the main wetlands in Europe (theconversation.com)
Deliveries of major categories of military equipment to Ukraine (www.osw.waw.pl)
All officially known military deliveries in tabular form.
The US will send depleted uranium munitions to Ukraine – a health physicist explains their military, health and environmental effects (theconversation.com)
UN experts raise 'widespread' torture concerns with Russia (www.reuters.com)
*While torture allegations have previously been levelled against both sides in the 15-month conflict, the team of U.N. independent experts said Russian forces’ methods may be “state-endorsed”. * The consistency and methods of alleged torture suggested “a level of coordination, planning and organisation, as well as the...
Russian oligarch refuses to sign deal on £2.3 bn Ukraine due to receive from sale of Chelsea FC (www.pravda.com.ua)
News and Blog Website Owners Say Traffic Is Plunging After Facebook Algorithm Change (gizmodo.com)
TL:DR; Facebook’s algorithm seems to be promoting more short form video and less news. Blogs and news sites are feeling the pinch because Facebook is one of their largest traffic channels.
Vienna Pride parade attack foiled, Austrian police say (www.bbc.com)
Japan raises age of consent for sex from 13 to 16, redefines rape in milestone law change (www.straitstimes.com)
Pentagon’s Secret Service Trawls Social Media for Mean Tweets About Generals (theintercept.com)
“The document cites access to Twitter’s “firehose,” which would grant the Army the ability to search public tweets and Twitter users without restriction, as well as analysis of 4Chan, Reddit, YouTube, and Vkontakte, a Facebook knockoff popular in Russia. Internet chat platforms like Discord and Telegram will also be...
Google Is Making Millions of Dollars From Ads for Fake Abortion Clinics: Report (www.vice.com)
Filipino fishermen in the UK live lives of peril and loneliness (ig.ft.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/128174...
How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe (inthesetimes.com)
Reddit r/pics votes on reopening with sexy pictures of John Oliver only (old.reddit.com)
The Reddit Blackout Is Breaking Reddit (www.wired.com)
Why are the US and Iran holding talks and why does it matter? (www.aljazeera.com)
