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Katjana Gatterman, 2022, "The Personalization of Politics in the European Union," Oxford University Press. Credit: Oxford University Press Individual politicians and their messages increasingly matter for our interest and trust in politics. Think only of the political figures in your country and how they influence your opinion. But little is known how the personalization of politics works out in European Union politics. Do we…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The U.S. House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection intends to hold another public hearing, likely the last before it releases its official report. The hearing had been scheduled for Sept. 28, 2022 but was postponed because of Hurricane Ian. …

Shinkafi’s Secret Share The Nigerian spy boss Umaru Shinkafi, whose name has never been publicly connected to AOG or Addax, was a signatory to all five Credit Suisse accounts. A former police officer, Mr Shinkafi became the head of the National Security Organization – now known as the State Security Service – in 1979. He held the post until about a month before the civilian government was ousted in a military coup in 1983. Mr Shinkafi unsuccessfully ran in the primaries as a would-be presidential candidate under…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A study analyzing millions of tweets has revealed that Republican members of the U.S. Congress are increasingly circulating news from dubious sources, compared to their European counterparts. …

TikTok is adding for accounts belonging to politicians, government officials and political parties ahead of the midterm elections. The company says it will require these accounts to go through a “mandatory” verification process, and will restrict them from accessing advertising and other revenue generating features. Up until now, verification for politicians and other officials was entirely optional. But that’s now changing, at least in the United States, as TikTok gears up for the midterm elections this fall. In a blog…

Photo: Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency (Getty Images)President Joe Biden delivered an important speech in Philadelphia on Thursday night about the threat that Donald Trump and his followers pose to the future of American democracy. It was fiery and blunt by Biden standards. And there’s probably no better proof that Biden’s speech was desperately needed than the reaction it received online. Trump’s army of whiners and assholes absolutely lost their shit.Trump supporters were simply aghast that a president of the United States…

Over 650 workers at Google owner Alphabet are demanding it offer abortion benefits to contractors, suspend donations to anti-abortion politicians and better protect users from abortion-related disinformation and police requests. The demands were sent this week in a petition to executives seen by Reuters. They reflect concerns across the country since a US Supreme Court ruling in June prompted or raised the possibility of new restrictions on abortion and reproductive care in over half of the 50 states.Google declined to…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Good news, Mr. President: A new study from a team of political scientists finds that the age of politicians may not be voters' chief concern when they're deciding who to cast their ballots for. …

While alternatives take time to work their way, Physicists are considering negotiations with the public and funders While artificial intelligence and machine learning models are ruling the world threatening humans into oblivion, it seems particle accelerators have a lot of catching up to do to come out of the image of sophistication and complexity a hardcore science like Physics renders. Large particle colliders by and large are the only means for scientists to understand the nature of dark matter, which they believe…

Convention goers look at weapons at the Smith and Wesson booth last April at the 2015 NRA Annual Convention in Nashville, Tenn.Karen Bleier | AFP | Getty ImagesAfter releasing a statement earlier this week blaming politicians for the surge in gun violence, Smith & Wesson CEO Mark Smith is facing new backlash weeks after he refused to testify at a House hearing alongside fellow top executives of other weapons makers.Smith on Monday said his company "will never back down in our defense of the Second Amendment," and also…