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This week on Hold Your Fire!, Richard Atwood, Crisis Group’s interim president, and guest host Comfort Ero, our interim vice president and Africa Program director, talk to Murithi Mutiga, Crisis Group’s Horn of Africa director, about the fighting in Tigray and its implications for regional politics. Murithi sheds light on the calculations of Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, rebel Tigray leaders and Eritrea, which has also sent forces into Tigray. He also talks through the Horn of A...

This week on Hold Your Fire!, Rob Malley and Naz Modirzadeh talk with New York Times cybersecurity reporter Sheera Frenkel about the role that social media platforms played in the mob assault on the U.S. Capitol and the ways that online disinformation fuels conflict worldwide.

Memoir, biography, essays and more. By Aoife Barry Saturday 9 Jan 2021, 7:00 AM Jan 9th 2021, 7:00 AM 12,406 Views 0 Comments Image: Shutterstock/patpitchaya Image: Shutterstock/patpitchaya YES, THERE ARE still more books to look out for this year. We already told you what Irish books to watch out for, and what international fiction to keep t...

Books to look out for in 2021 Irish fiction New work that has been a long time coming generates a particular shiver of anticipation. Small Things Like These (Faber, October) will be Claire Keegan’s first new work since her novella Foster, still a bestseller 10 years on. Her publisher says: “An exquisite wintery parable, Claire Keegan’s long-awaited return tells the story of a simple act of courage and tenderness, in the face of conformity, fear and judgment.” Small Things Like These...

Points that you can single out and this is really how of course this could have a targeting online defense from traditional political advertising the social media companies know everything about as they know what we love what we hate what we fear and when you when you take that knowledge and use it to deliberately spread disinformation thats when we have a problem ok so we know twitter is leading the way with this big question is you know is the competition going to follow i mean facebook uses p...

Mark zuckerberg had endorsed donald trump for reelection now facebook didnt take that down that was that was a test from his science to see how the system works its too early to tell what this was a decision what impact it will have there are still many up and questions there but we might have to see whos in the white house in a year and a bit maybe facebook will have to just tell you the facebooks position considering what happened in the presidential election in 2016 but as you say we will see...

Dorsey challenge today in his tweet he said that its not credible for us to say were working hard to stop people from gaming us this. thems to spread misleading info but if someone pays us to target and force people to see a political ad well then they can say whatever they want so obviously a swipe at facebook but it is an argument writes i mean you can tell lies an untruth as long as you paid for the right to have the space to do that so now all eyes are on facebook to see what its going to do...

Starts to really matter. hundreds of facebook how much of the testimony, you know, all of it, do we get to employees writing an open letter to facebook founder mark see from some of these individuals? zuckerberg protesting the and i think were getting to the point now where a lot of the companys policy to not testimony is starting to look fact-check political ads. this is according to the "new really overwhelmingly not on the side of the presidents. york times." we saw the letter that the and ...

Facebook, they would be able to target us with very different messages, even with very different lies. what employees are trying to tell mark zuckerberg is this is a problem when there is no shared understanding of what a candidate is saying. that way we can test this, we can call it out, and its creating this environment of everybody has a different view of the candidate. >> really quick, because we never have enough time. but has facebook said anything about this in response to the letter? >> ...

Election. and there has to be, at some point in time, a contrast between these republicans, who have just wrapped their arms around the ankles of donald trump and are going wherever he drags them, and those of us who are willing to live up to the oath that we swore. and were going to do our job, whether theres a political implication or not. >> im pro-transparency in every first, they said it wasnt regard. so im looking forward to seeing necessary, so they werent holding a vote. those public h...