Tuesday, 16 October, 2018

Votes In 18 Nations Hacked In 2016

Votes In 18 Nations Hacked In 2016

Posted on Thursday, 16 November, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Votes In 18 Nations Hacked In 2016.

On 14 November 2017, Freedom House published an exceedingly comprehensive report Freedom On The Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media To Undermine Democracy. 65 countries accounting for 87% of all internet users worldwide were assessed and a total of 30 governments were found to have been involved in some form of manipulation to distort online information, an increase over the 2016 figure. The conduits used included paid commentators, trolls, bots, false news sites, and propaganda outlets, to inflate their popular support and essentially endorse themselves. This distortion includes attempting to influence public opinion outside the borders of the countries in question, in order to manipulate foreign policies and opinions about the country responsible for the disinformation. The report also investigated state censorship of the internet and connectivity within each nation and physical attacks against netizens, human rights activists, online journalists, and online media. Online manipulation and disinformation tactics played an important role in elections in at least 18 countries over the past year, including the United States.

For the third consecutive year, China was the world’s worst abuser of internet freedom, followed by Syria and Ethiopia.

Read Articles Here:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-41983599#

https://freedomhouse.org/article/new-report-freedom-net-2017-manipulating-social-media-undermine-democracy

Read The Full Report Freedom On The Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media To Undermine Democracy Here:

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/freedom-net-2017

The Guna, known as Kuna prior to an orthographic reform in 2010, and historically as Cuna, are an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia. In the Kuna language, they call themselves Dule or Tule, meaning "people," and the name of the language in Kuna is Dulegaya, literally "people-mouth." Most Gunas live on small islands off the coast of the comarca of Kuna Yala known as the San Blas Islands. Each community has its own political organization, led by a saila, who is traditionally both the political and religious leader of the community; he memorizes songs which relate the sacred history of the people and transmits them to the people. Traditionally, Guna families are matrilinear, with the groom moving to become part of the bride's family and taking the last name of the bride as well.

M16: In and Around the Eagle Nebula.
Image Credit & Copyright: Andrew Klinger. A closer look at the Eagle Nebula shows the bright region is a window into the centre of a larger dark shell of dust. A brightly-lit workshop appears where a whole open cluster of stars is being formed in the midst of tall pillars and round globules of dark dust and cold molecular gas. Already visible are several young bright blue stars whose light and winds are burning away and pushing back the remaining filaments and walls of gas and dust. The Eagle emission nebula, tagged M16, lies about 6500 light years away, spans about 20 light-years, toward the constellation of the Serpent (Serpens). This picture involved over 25 hours of imaging and combines three specific emitted colours emitted by sulfur (coloured as red), hydrogen (yellow), and oxygen (blue).

The flag of Mozambique was adopted on May 1, 1983. It includes the image of an AK-47 with a bayonet attached to the barrel. It is one of three national flags among UN member states that features a firearm, along with those of Guatemala and Haiti. Green stands for the riches of the land, the white fimbriations signify peace, black represents the African continent, yellow symbolises the country's minerals, and red represents the struggle for independence. The rifle stands for defence and vigilance, the open book symbolises the importance of education, the hoe represents the country's agriculture, and the star symbolises Marxism and internationalism.

The Elgin Marbles are a collection of Classical Greek marble sculptures made under the supervision of Phidias and his assistants in c. 447 to 438 BC; originally part of the temple of the Parthenon. From 1801 to 1812, agents of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin removed about half of the surviving sculptures and transported them to Britain. The half not removed is now displayed in the Acropolis Museum. In Britain, the acquisition of the collection was not supported by some, and the Earl's actions was likened to vandalism. Following a public debate in Parliament and its subsequent exoneration of Elgin, he sold the Marbles to the British government in 1816. They were then passed to the British Museum, where they are now on display in the purpose-built Duveen Gallery.

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