Daily Archives: November 3, 2021

2021-11-03: News Headlines

Daniela Jimenez (2021-11-03). Facebook Censors Sandinistas in Nicaragua Days Before Presidential Elections. orinocotribune.com Social media corporation Facebook, now called Meta, reported that it eliminated an alleged network of trolling accounts aimed at national audiences in Nicaragua. However, activists and supporters of Daniel Ortega's government allege that their accounts were closed without prior notice and clarified that they are not trolls. | This was stated by Sandinista activist Ligia Sevilla, who reported that she was censored by the social media platform due to content she posted in support of the government of Daniel Ortega, and against the interests of the right-wing opposition in the Central American country, but above all…

Nan McCurdy (2021-11-03). Electoral Contras: U.S. Plotting to Sabotage Nicaraguan Democracy Yet Again. covertactionmagazine.com But Nicaraguans Will Not Let the Evil Empire Dictate Who They Vote for, with Sandinista Revolutionary Leader Daniel Ortega Poised …

Peter Bolton (2021-11-03). Socialist International's Parroting of US Line on Nicaragua Shows What a Worthless Fossil It's Become. orinocotribune.com By Peter Bolton — Nov 1, 2021 | On October 25, about two weeks before Nicaragua's 2021 presidential election, the Socialist International (SI) released a statement titled Nicaragua: A Contemporary Victim of Absolute Power. Given the steady stream of tendentious twaddle about Nicaragua that's been disseminated from Washington and dutifully repeated by the corporate-owned media, one might reasonably assume that the global federation of social democratic and labor parties would at least provide some semblance of balance. | But far from adding nuance, the statement reads as if it were a press release sent direct…

Ben Norton (2021-11-02). Meet the Nicaraguans Facebook falsely branded bots and censored days before elections. thegrayzone.com Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter suspended hundreds of influential pro-Sandinista journalists and activists days before Nicaragua's November 7 elections, falsely claiming they were government trolls. The Grayzone interviewed them to reveal the truth. (Puede leer este informe en español aquí.) MANAGUA, NICARAGUA — Just days before Nicaragua's November 7 elections, top social media platforms censored top Nicaraguan news outlets and hundreds of journalists and activists who support their country's leftist Sandinista government. The politically motivated campaign of Silicon Valley censorship amounted …

_____ (2021-11-02). Meta Deletes Over 1,000 Nicaraguan Accounts Days Before Election. popularresistance.org On Monday, Ben Nimmo, the head of Facebook-turned-Meta's global threat intelligence strategy, announced that the social media giant had taken down what he claimed was a "a troll farm run by the government of Nicaragua and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) party." | The takedown included 937 Facebook accounts, 140 Pages, 24 Groups and 363 Instagram accounts in Nicaragua. | The Meta report claimed the accounts were "one of the most cross-government troll operations we've disrupted to date, with multiple state entities participating in this activity at once," but primarily run by employees of the Nicar…

Monica Moorehead (2021-11-02). Without U.S. interference, Nicaragua's right to sovereignty, development. workers.org Managua, Nicaragua The Central American country of Nicaragua will hold national elections Nov. 7. Already the U.S. bourgeois press, a mouthpiece for U.S. imperialism, has declared that the elections will be "unfair and undemocratic." For example, the New York Times ran an article Oct. 7, entitled "Democracy, or Something Like . . . |

Benjamin Norton (2021-11-02). Facebook acusó falsamente a estos nicaragàºenses de ser troles y los censuró antes de las elecciones. thegrayzone.com Facebook, Instagram y Twitter suspendieron a cientos de periodistas y activistas pro sandinistas días antes de las elecciones del 7 de noviembre en Nicaragua, alegando falsamente que eran troles del gobierno. The Grayzone los entrevistó para revelar la verdad. (You can read this article in English here.) MANAGUA, NICARAGUA — Pocos días antes de las elecciones del 7 de noviembre en Nicaragua, las plataformas de redes sociales censuraron a influyentes medios de comunicación nicaragàºenses y a cientos de periodistas y …

Rick Sterling (2021-11-02). Líderes indígenas en Nicaragua se pronuncian contra los medios occidentales y las ONG. globalizacion.ca Nicaragua tiene una elección para elegir a su presidente y asamblea nacional el 7 de noviembre. Según las encuestas , se espera que el Frente Sandinista (FSLN) actualmente en el gobierno gane la presidencia y la mayoría de escaños en…

Hahn SR. (2021-11-02). Depressive Symptom Assessment in Medically Ill Patients. jamanetwork.com To the Editor The recent article about diagnosis of depression in patients with comorbid medical conditions failed to make 3 important points. First, in their discussion of screening tools for diagnosing depression, the authors briefly mentioned the Patient Health Questionnaire 2 (PHQ-2) and Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (PHQ-9) in conjunction with the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II), and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and contrasted these with the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 (SCID). This catalog of tools does not do jus…

Anonymous103 (2021-11-02). Sudan And The UAE: Pulling Sudanese Strings. southfront.org Illustrative Image | Written by Sudan is the exception to the rule in the United Arab Emirates' counterrevolutionary playbook. | In contrast to Egypt or Yemen, where it went out of its way to help roll back the achievements of popular revolts, the UAE was happy to see the back of Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir. | Mr. Al-Bashir was toppled in April 2019 by the country's military as mass anti-government protests demanded regime change. The m…

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