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AMY GOODMAN: Here on Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The Quarantine Report, I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. You can watch, listen and read transcripts using our iOS and Android apps. Download them for free from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store today. Former President Trump’s Facebook account will remain suspended — at least for now. On Wednesday, an Oversight Board set up by Facebook upheld the January 7th ban, saying Trump’s rhetoric created a, quote, “serious risk of violence.” But the board said Facebook should review whether the ban should be indefinite. F...

Surveillance capitalists overthrow the sovereignty of individuals The information war we are living through, heightened by the Covid-19 pandemic, has grown to the point where it too is considered a pandemic — an infodemic. But the term infodemic implies the information war is a disease that must be eradicated, without acknowledging that inherent to the war is the contestation of ideas. There’s a similar problem with the term “fake news”. Branding something fake news implies the article as a whole is fake, but that is not how propaganda functions. Propaganda buries disinformation among...

Because aren’t we all a bit sick of other people’s solutions? Recently I did an informal advice audit of my day and discovered that there are very few aspects of my existence that are not subject to advice of some persuasion. In the space of 24 hours, people I had never met told me how to sleep, how to sit, how to walk, what to eat, when to eat, whom to love, how to buy a property, how to write an email, how to bid at auction, how to raise kids, how to decide whether to have kids, how to ward off cancer, how to know if I was clenching my jaw at night, how to live to 100 (stay positive!) a...

analysis The Facebook news ban revealed how problematic it is to rely on corporations to provide fundamental public services Posted SatSaturday 20 Facebook harvests our personal data in unimaginable quantities, Gareth Hutchens writes. ( Print text only The fog lifted for a moment. Community groups, charities, sport clubs, arts centres, unions and emergency services all rely on the social media giant. Its platform plays the role of an important public messaging board. But in a country with so little civil society infrastructure, our heavy reliance on a corporation to provide such a fundamenta...

DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT SERVICES ON AMAZON PRIME. Oakville, ON, February 1, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – A new documentary, GX Now, directed and narrated by Technology Futurist Ian Khan has been released on Amazon Prime. The documentary shows how governments around the world are changing service delivery models and adapting to technology, while simultaneously creating a better citizen experience. The movie is now available on Amazon Prime Video US, Amazon Prime Video UK, Amazon Prime Video Germany and is also available on Apple TV, Roku, Firestick, Chrome TV, Roku through specifi...