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Director of Government Communications Office meets Representatives of Technology Companies Participating in Web Summit Qatar 2024

GCO, Tiktok pact to expand Qatars digital footprint

The 572-page report issued on the Oxford High School shooting offered clarity for how the district should have acted before and after the tragedy. However, questions remain.

Oxford parents and residents are still deeply concerned about the investigation into the school shooting.

Kilbrin Ploughing Association took time out to acknowledge the outstanding achievements of brother and sister Órla and Jamie Hayes at a function in Kilbrin Social Club.

LAOIS photographer Alf Harvey captured bright smiles despite dark downpours at the National Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska this week. Check out more of…

New Zealand is leading a bid to break open social media’s secret algorithms as part of The Christchurch Call  response, with backing from some big tech outfits. But without input from the biggest ones, will it undercut the extremism on social media platforms?  Mediawatch asks a social media pioneer who founded the forerunner of Twitter, but now wants to break the power of the big platforms.

Vivian Harvey, 81, goes to Guatemala every winter, where she spends five months tutoring children. And for 11 years, she has brought her dachshund, Sadie, along for the trip.

A new ban from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been placed on the...

E47 is just one example among a global constellation of state-affiliated internet censor squads both in Vietnam and around the world, but Facebook’s failure to stand up to the group should worry dissidents regardless of nationality, particularly those who might have bought into the company’s promises in the past. In an October 2019 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared that “Facebook stands for free expression” and that “in a democracy, a privat...