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The verdict: Back to you, Facebook. The company’s Oversight Board ruled Wednesday that former US President Donald Trump will remain banned from the platform for encouraging the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. But the board a group of twenty activists, lawyers, and journalists appointed by the company said Facebook was wrong to institute an “indefinite” suspension and called on the company to decide on a better-defined penalty within six months. So what should we make of the decision? And what consequences is it likely to have on online radicalization and the use and abuse of social media around the world? Our experts from the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab break it all down.
Chinese Names Funneling Donations to Proud Boys Could Be Linked to Anti-Communism
On 5/4/21 at 8:14 PM EDT
People with Chinese surnames donated nearly $85,000 to the group s recent online fundraising campaign,
USA Today reported. The campaign sought to pay the medical bills of members stabbed during clashes in Washington during December 2020.
The donors information was hacked from a crowdfunding site called GiveSendGo. The information was then published on the whistleblower site Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS). In June 2020, DDoS published 270 gigabytes of internal U.S. police documents. You have to understand how we feel–we came from communist China and we managed to come here and we appreciate it here so much, Rebecca Kwan, a $500 Proud Boys donor told
Joe and Jill Biden mocked for looking like ‘giants’ in bizarre photo with the Carters
Updated: 11:54 ET, May 4 2021
JOE and Jill Biden were mocked for looking like giants next to former president Jimmy Carter and his wife.
On Sunday, the Carter Center released the oddly-angled photo of the two presidents and the two first ladies taken last Thursday at the Carters home in Plains, Georgia.
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Twitter users compared the photo to Alice In Wonderland
The center captioned the Twitter picture: We’re pleased to share this wonderful photo from the @POTUS and @FLOTUS visit to see the Carters in Plains, Ga.! Thank you President and Mrs. Biden!
Proud Boys saw wave of contributions from Chinese diaspora before Capitol attack Will Carless, USA TODAY
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The donations started coming in about 10 p.m. on Dec. 17.
A donor named Li Zhang gave $100. A few minutes later, someone named Jun Li donated $100. Then Hao Xu gave $20, followed shortly by $25 from a Ying Pei. In all, almost 1,000 people with Chinese surnames gave about $86,000 to a fundraiser on the crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo for members of the extremist street gang the Proud Boys.
Their gifts made up more than 80% of the $106,107 raised for medical costs for members of the Proud Boys who were stabbed during violent clashes in Washington, D.C., in mid-December.