Day: February 4, 2019

How to Watch Facebook Live on Desktop and Mobile

Facebook Live is the social network’s live video platform. It allows users to stream footage from their smartphone cameras directly to their Facebook news feeds. The content is diverse. There’s plenty of creative, funny, and thought-provoking footage. Unfortunately, you might also encounter less-than-savory content such as murders, sexual […]

How Your Data on Facebook Is Collected and Used to Win Elections

In 2014, a survey app designed by Aleksandr Kogan collected data on 50 million Facebook profiles. Less than 300,000 of them had consented to this collection. In 2015, he gave that data to Cambridge Analytica, a voter-profiling company. They used 30 million of those profiles to construct psychographic profiles […]

Sexual misconduct: 6 French women face defamation claim

PARIS — Six French women, along with journalists who published their accounts, face a defamation claim by a former French lawmaker they accused of sexual misconduct. The trial that opened Monday in Paris was prompted by Denis Baupin, a former prominent Green Party politician and Paris city official. […]

5 die, 2 hospitalized when plane parts hit California house

YORBA LINDA, Calif. — Five people died and two others were injured after a small plane apparently came apart, raining debris across a Southern California neighborhood and igniting a house fire before landing in a backyard, authorities said Sunday. The male pilot, who was the only person in […]

European nations raise pressure on Venezuela’s Maduro

LISBON, Portugal — A key group of European Union countries endorsed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country’s interim president on Monday, piling the pressure on embattled President Nicolas Maduro to resign and let the country hold a new presidential election. Maduro, for his part, stood defiant […]

Jury set to deliberate fate of alleged Mexican cartel boss ‘El Chapo’

A jury is expected to begin deliberations in the trial of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, alleged to be the world’s most infamous drugs cartel boss, in Brooklyn federal court on Monday. Guzman, 61, is accused of leading the Sinaloa Cartel, which became one of the most powerful drug […]

Highlights: India unveils budget aimed at wooing countryside before election

NEW DELHI – India on Friday unveiled an interim budget with giveaways for rural and poorer citizens, in what is being seen as a critical test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is facing anger over depressed farm incomes and unemployment with a general election just months away. […]

Budget 2019: Government steps up farm support, gives tax relief in pre-election budget

NEW DELHI – India’s government pledged 750 billion rupees ($10.56 billion) to support poor farmers and reduced the tax burden for the middle class on Friday, as it looked to rally support from voters with the final budget before a general election. Heading into polls that must be […]

Modi’s populist budget to weigh on next government: economists

NEW DELHI – The pre-election budget of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, including handouts for farmers and tax cuts for the lower middle class, is likely to weigh on whoever forms the next administration, economists warned on Friday. The government abandoned its budget deficit target for the next […]

Modi’s promised handout to farmers gets lukewarm response

MUMBAI – “Peanuts” was how one rural politician described a 6,000 rupee ($84) yearly handout to small farmers promised in Friday’s budget as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tries to secure the support of rural voters in a forthcoming election. Recent polls predict Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party […]

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