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the only thing the establishment would have been satisfied with is the brutal. ben knuckled brule between the two presidents well with the whole russian meddling saga once again dominating the us media and a new character has appeared in the story the u.s. department of justice has expanded its charges against the gun rights advocate and russian citizen maria bhutto she's now directly accused of being an agent of a foreign government. has been investigating what exactly can turn a lot biggest into a spy in the eyes of the mainstream media. well according to the affidavit they allege that essentially she was working as a lobbyist she was essentially trying to create a back channel of communication between the russian government allegedly and the republican party and the national rifle association now she appears to be a gun enthusiast there are a lot of photos on social media of her carrying
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a firearm and it is essentially alleged that she was communicating with a government bank in russia she was communicating with government officials in russia all while she was do lobbying and trying to you know work in the interests of russia and work with the national rifle association and other interests that's what's essentially alleged now from there we've seen a lot of international media jump to making allegations about spying and engaging in some kind of asked me in objectivity but if you read the affidavit that's not what's alleged what's alleged is essentially that she engaged in a lobbying this is actually what we heard from senator chris murphy regarding the arrest but no the russian operative was rolled up in what appears to be. a coordinated attack against the united states elections by the n.r.a. and the russian government that's not actually what the affidavit says it says that she was developing relations with u.s. persons and infiltrating organizations having influence in american politics for the purpose of advancing the interest of the russian federation the algae geishas
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that she was lobbying not that she was doing any spying or anything to that effect now it's also interesting is the affidavit mentions that an exchange she allegedly had with a russian government official was titled posner two point zero and this is of course a reference to latimer posner now the f.b.i. goes on to describe the lattimer posner the russian american t.v. personality as quote a propagandist who worked in the disinform ation department of the soviet k.g.b. now lattimer posner has spoken up and said he never had any contact with the k.g.b. and did not work with the k.g.b. it's also interesting to note that of course. into the f.b.i. affidavit she was communicating with government officials in russia over twitter which is not exactly a secure private communication mechanism not the kind of thing one would use of they were engaging in some kind of high tech intense espionage activities so a lot of questions are being asked but at this moment she is facing those charges and she was a rang on monday bhutto's attorney made
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a statement denying she's an agent he also said the woman offered to be interviewed by the special counsel's office but the office for some reason showed no interest in speaking to. the hype over the alleged russian spy in the u.s. was fueled on twitter one journalist appeared to reveal the visit to trump in the oval office with twitter users were quick to expose the truth.
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the horrendous acts of mobocracy cannot be permitted to inundate the law of the land the recurrent pattern of violence cannot be allowed to become the new normal in one of the latest cases indian police have arrested more than two dozen men involved in the lynching of a man over fake rumors spread that he was a child kidnapper now since the start of may this kind of fear inciting fake news about child abductors has failed at whatsapp chats india has the most users of that messenger service by any country. picks up the story. fake news a big time with a bad rep preferred by leaders politicians and the mainstream media labelled as a menace to democracy and sometimes just a way to dismiss a story which you don't agree with you are free to do big news in your facebook page or state who's on twitter too but in india the consequences of spreading fake
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news have become far more tongil and deadly overt twenty five people have reportedly been killed since may over child kidnapping claims spread via the whatsapp messaging service dozens of alleged lynch mob members have been arrested following one recent case alone but in the now those suspected still flinching over suspicion of child abduction a man was allegedly killed by an angry mob in front on. this british shares the moment mohammed as a twenty seven year old software engineer was murdered by a mob of over two thousand people wielding sticks and stones as sam and his friends one of them atari national offered some schoolchildren chocolates as a gesture of generosity but suspicious locals spurred on by whatsapp rumors inferred that the out of town as were part of
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a child abduction ring video like this one may have set off the crowd to punish the alleged kidnapper as it's gone viral in india porting to show a child abduction it was originally made by a charity promoting child safety in pakistan back in twenty sixteen at the end of the original video the little boy is returned to the problem with fake news in india has got so bad that the indian government has urged whatsapp and its owners facebook to do something about it we're stressing in education campaign in india on how to spot free news and. so the company launched a series of newspaper ads in several languages the headline says beware of whether a story is called to believe and watch out for spelling mistakes it's not going to be easy though what's that messages are encrypted that means identifying the source of each reema is near impossible india is also what saps biggest market the company
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counts over two hundred million users that combine that with a sense of panic a very stubbornly high rate of violent crime and you have all the conditions for fake news to turn into real death maybe you'll be developing there is the one who can best be relieved and want to do the corner there is going out on the move going towards a. charity online social media sources saw we need to relieve them better and we need to also be disciplined some of these so he's free wireless these platforms like facebook and whatsapp we've seen the boston norm. maret in the corner and therefore this chaos has been spreading our course as you can say that should bring more responsibly rule spending almost so it's very important that you don't it is a core mission within the citizens of this to prevent these from snowballing so we
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need to move east and to the internet going to be different to us or indeed i think there is and we. are going through this problem. shocking wave of violence erupts in pakistan ahead of the country's general elections details and much more just. good politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or
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rejected. so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be. like to be for us this is what we're looking for three in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters in the. first six. stories here on your wednesday in fact a wave of violence has hit pakistan where general elections are due to be held on the twenty fifth of a string of attacks a c. one hundred seventy five people killed almost one hundred fifty of them in a single suicide blast at a pre-election rally going down as one of the worst terror attacks in the history
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of pakistan. well among the victims were some of the elections candidates human rights commission has calling it an attempt to actually manipulate the result of the upcoming vote at the election has been mobbed not just by violence but also by a corruption scandal one of the major parties is the pakistan muslim league now led by ship as shaddy his brother is former pakistani prime minister he flew used to head the party but was detained over corruption allegations just some days ago.
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politician emraan khan he represents the center right pakistan movement for justice and we spoke to him around khan about the main issues facing pakistan. it is. the biggest crisis financial crisis never was this such a fiscal deficit never was this such a huge trade deficit and never would be institutions in such a bad state as they are in august the way forward is immediate reformation of the state institutions of regulators for the financial regulators the corruption ward watchdog. we need peace stability we need good relations and we certainly do need good relationship with the u.s. . u.s. is a superpower cannot be ignored unfortunately our relationship has been very one sided
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in the past the relationship has been whether you were us as used as a hired gun so we are paid to do their work you know to to fight their war the u.s. . has looked upon pakistan as an ally at one point and then as an enemy had the same tone so it's the only time in history i can recall where an ally keeps bombing its ally i mean the drawings we're bombing killing pakistani pakistani people causing damage and pakistan territory it's never happened i don't know of any situation like that which is have been before and that's why the anti americanism rules in pakistan. ilan mask the man behind tesla motors and space x. suffered a bit of a fall from grace as of late the entrepreneur is under fire for his criticisms of last week's tie cave rescue operation but also over his political donations.
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why in the comments i don't want my money going towards supporting the republican super pacs. have no no conception of for a k. possible so i just to pay off them. you know what's done for the showing the video to make one of the many subplots going all the way to k five no problem sorry guy you really did ask for it.
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