Conflict

Earlier this year, Meta, the company that owns Facebook and Instagram, announced that people could create posts calling for violence against Russia on its social media platforms. This was unprecedented. One of the world’s largest technology firms very publicly picked sides in a geopolitical conflict. Russia was now not just fighting a country but also multinational companies with financial stakes in the outcome. In response, Russia announced a ban on Instagram within its borders. The fallout was significant. The ban,…

A new investigation from tech accountability group The Tech Transparency Project found nearly 200 different ads on Facebook and Instagram that it claims violate the company’s own rules prohibiting ads that “promote the sale or use of weapons, weapon modification accessories, ammunition, or explosives.” Those posts include ads promoting sales of AR-15 style rifles, a controversial long gun form favored by numerous mass shooters that’s become one of the national gun debate’s most symbolic lodestones. The report comes less…

US and European Union officials will formally launch a task force next week to discuss new American laws that Europeans fear will discriminate against foreign electric car makers, according to a statement. The talks come as auto manufacturers from Stuttgart to Seoul have been angered by Biden's $430 billion "Inflation Reduction Act", enacted in August and aimed at rolling back climate change and making Washington a world leader in the electric vehicle (EV) market. Among the law's provisions are requirements that EVs be…

Mark Wu held more than $1 million of Amazon.com Inc. stock when President Biden tapped him to help craft a trade policy that would benefit U.S. technology companies and online retailers. Ethics officials at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said they gave Mr. Wu two options: Get rid of the stock or recuse himself from digital trade issues. He did neither. For several months, Mr. Wu continued working on the trade matter while keeping the shares. He had “not followed…

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Photo: Yasuyoshi Chiba (Getty Images)Reports started to surface last month that Iran was supplying Russia with so-called suicide drones, sent to attack civilian targets in Ukraine. And now stunning new images of what those drones look like in the air have been captured by photographers in Kyiv as the city suffered fresh attacks on Monday.The photos of the drones were captured by Yasuyoshi Chiba and Sergei Supinsky on Monday as Russia launched another offensive against Kyiv, a city of 2.8 million that saw missiles rain…

Three experimental studies focused on the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian Conflict showed that using a common language elicited lower levels of sympathy. Credit: Shutterstock.com The choice of language in a negotiation is often considered a technical issue, not something that could influence the outcome. But new research published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution finds peace-building proposals presented in lingua franca…

Peace activists wearing masks of Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and newly elected US President Joe Biden pose with mock nuclear missiles in front of Berlin’s landmark the Brandenburg Gate on January 29, 2021 in an action to call for more progress in nuclear disarmament.Photo: John MacDougal (Getty Images)U.S. President Joe Biden wants to make sure the American public starts off their weekend with a nice heaping dose of existential dread.Biden told an audience at a New York Democratic fundraising event Thursday that…

Tetyana Ogarkova: ‘We write and read to understand reality’Ukrainian literary scholar and journalistWar takes away the ability to speak from many. Many writers say that they cannot write. A number of readers claim that they cannot read. The reality of war is something that can deprive you of the most important things – your life, your time and your capacity to think. It is difficult to write, to think and to dream when a missile hits the very heart of your reality.But literature is still important. We write and read to…

Screenshot from a Facebook video taken by a civilian in the city of Gangneung, South Korea showing a fire after a failed missile test by the South Korean military.Screenshot: FacebookSouth Korea’s military accidentally hit its own air force base during a missile test on Tuesday, according to a new report from the Korea Times. The unfortunate accident caused a fire and sent the opposite of its intended message: That South Korea and the U.S. are ready to respond to North Korea in the event of any military escalation.North…