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Palestinian hackers were found to be involved in two “clusters of unrelated cyber espionage activity,” according to Facebook. Facebook accused the Palestinian Preventive Security Service’s (PSS) cyber department of conducting rudimentary hacking operations against Palestinian journalists, human rights activists, and Palestinian Authority political opponents in the West Bank and Gaza (PA).
Facebook accused them that they have also activity targeted Syrian opposition groups and the Iraqi military. But Ikrimah Thabet, PSS Director of Public Relations and Spokesperson, refuted the Facebook allegation. Nonetheless, the PSS cyber team worked to gain confidence from Facebook users by developing “fictitious personas” and then sending “malicious links” to the targeted accounts, allowing the PSS to spy on them. The campaign’s tactics were said to be crude but “persistent”.
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Author: Daniel Bugan
Published: 13/05/2021
During the annual World Press Freedom Day panel discussion of Stellenbosch University s Department of Journalism on 10 May 2021, expert panellists shared their views on the media s reporting on the COVID crisis. The discussion was themed “Other things happened too: The stories the media missed since the start of the COVID-19 lockdown and was livestreamed on YouTube.
Panellists were Dele Olojede, Africa s first Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; Henriëtte Loubser, editor-in-chief of Afrikaans news at Media24, and of the biggest subscription-based news platform in the country, Netwerk24, and Lister Namumba, manager of monitoring, research and analysis programmes at Media Monitoring Africa.
Celebrating the Importance of Press Freedom
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“Information and knowledge are powerful tools, and a free and independent press is the core institution connecting publics to the information they need,” said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
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The United States joins the international community in celebrating the importance of press freedom. “Information and knowledge are powerful tools, and a free and independent press is the core institution connecting publics to the information they need,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in his statement commemorating World Press Freedom Day. That’s why the United States advocates for press freedom online and offline, and for the safety of journalists worldwide.
Members of the Proud Boys and other supporters of former U.S. president Donald Trump gather in front of the U.S. Capitol to protest against the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6. PHOTO BY JIM URQUHART/REUTERS PNimg
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On World Press Freedom Day (May 3), Canadian politicians had much to say about freedom of speech and expression. The day before, Proud Boys Canada disbanded, accusing politicians of having violated those basic freedoms by designating it as a “terrorist entity.”
While Canadians are right to reject the Proud Boys’ self-described “chauvinism,” a free society should not label groups as terrorists simply for promoting prejudiced views. Democracy depends on the right to express and debate unpopular, or even offensive, opinions.