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Former Democratic operative Tara McGowan is sinking millions into Meta’s ad network to build Courier Newsroom, a media powerhouse for the left. Former Democratic operative Tara McGowan is sinking millions into Meta’s ad network to build Courier Newsroom, a media powerhouse for the left. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All…

Image: Lucasfilm The Star Wars prequels leaned heavily into the political side of things after the more subtle original trilogy, and the very ideals of democracy in the galaxy are currently under question because of none other than Padme. The strange machinations of the galaxy’s political system are in focus, as fans try and work out how exactly Padme, at age 14, was elected the queen of the planet. There are many, many problems with the Star Wars prequel trilogy and in particular with The Phantom Menace, but we…

Former US President Bill Clinton believes that “democracy is fragile right now”, and spoke candidly on a talk show about issues “tearing us apart”. “What’s more important? Our common humanity or differences?” Clinton mused. “And what works better to build the kind of future we all want? Does cooperation work better, or is everything a zero-sum game?” Also Read: Check out Anushka Sharma`s `NH10` sneakers He answered the rhetorical question by saying, “Life…

Beyond the SCO, Venezuela’s autocratic regime announced in 2017 a smart identification card for its citizens that aggregated employment, voting, and medical information with the help of the Chinese telecom company ZTE. And Huawei, another Chinese telecom corporation, boasts a global network of 700 localities with its smart city technology, according to the company’s 2021 annual report. This is up from 2015, when the company had about 150 international contracts in cities. Chinese surveillance platforms used for policing…

Young people prioritize issues in preparation for a political debate in Lalitpur, Nepal. Credit: Tom O'Neill, Author provided After local elections in Nepal earlier this year, the Kathmandu Post expressed some alarm that Nepalis were losing interest in voting. …

Last year, while I was working on a late draft of my novel Best of Friends, a story broke about a club known as the advisory board. It was organised by the former Conservative party co-chair Ben Elliot, and made up, at least in part, of donors paying £250,000 to the Tory party. It was an odd thing to read about, given that I had invented for the novel a club called the High Table for political donors who paid £200,000 to the party of government – I’d wondered if I was setting too high an entrance fee. I’m not claiming any…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In August 2022, a statewide referendum in Kansas saw citizens overwhelmingly reject a plan to insert anti-abortion language into the state's constitution. It comes as a slew of similar votes on abortion rights are planned in the coming months—putting the issue directly to the people after the Supreme Court struck down the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling.…

‘European flag, Picasso style’ AI abstract artwork via www.dreamstudio.ai. Between doomscrolling and disinformation, our media-saturated world makes it difficult to know who to trust. To mark today's International Day of Democracy we spoke to a journalism researcher about the role of media in a healthy democracy. …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Citizens sometimes just have to live with political decisions they dislike or think are unfair. But if their preferred party leaders communicate that the decisions have been made properly, the feeling of unfairness can diminish according to research from the University of Gothenburg. …

Robb Willer. Credit: L.A. Cicero American democracy is at risk, Stanford scholars and others have warned. Many studies have found anti-democratic attitudes and support for partisan…