Month: March 2021

President Biden is peppering his administration with some of the most lauded critics of Big Tech, with a British-born legal scholar now tipped for a role at the Federal Trade Commission. Lina Khan was applauded in 2017 for a 24,000-word paper titled Amazon‘s Antitrust Paradox, which addressed the shortcomings of modern American competition law. While
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Mumford & Sons’ banjo player has announced he is “taking time away from the band to examine my blindspots” after facing a backlash online for praising a conservative writer. Winston Marshall tweeted support for US journalist Andy Ngo over the weekend, but later deleted the post after criticism which saw the chart-topping band trending on
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Britons hoping to go on holiday after lockdown eases can think about booking a getaway to Greece for mid-May. Greece is planning on welcoming foreign tourists from 14 May depending on the status of the COVID-19 pandemic. People living in England could be allowed to go on foreign holidays from 17 May under Boris Johnson’s
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There’s a reason that civil rights activist and Black Panther deputy chairman Fred Hampton’s story is little known, according to filmmaker Shaka King – because it “would contradict everything America represents”. Judas And The Black Messiah – the director’s first studio feature – is already very much part of the awards conversation, with a Golden
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Facebook is launching a media literacy campaign to tackle the spread of false information about the coronavirus vaccine. It follows vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi last month telling Sky News the government was battling a “tsunami of disinformation” around the jabs as well as the coronavirus pandemic itself. Facebook previously announced that it would be banning
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