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🇨🇦Canada:
Doug Ford, the brother of late Toronto mayor and known crack smoker, Rob Ford, has been elected as the Progressive Conservative party’s new leader. He has also been the subject of drug allegations.
📍Paul Butler, 28, Quantitative Analyst
🇭🇺Hungary:
Viktor Orban of the far-right has won reelection for four more years. John Oliver explains what this means for the future of the country.
📍Zsófia Kemény, 30, co-founder Topcorn.io
🇹🇿Tanzania:
Tanzanian bloggers will have to pay the government $900 per year to operate, but their applications can still be denied if their writing “causes annoyance.”
📍Tefo Mohapi, 38, Executive Director
🇳🇱Netherlands:
An estimated 10,000 people closed their Facebook accounts after popular Dutch comedian Arjen Lubach urged his viewers to delete their pages in response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Now, much of the country is talking about data collection, privacy, and whether or not they should leave Facebook too.
What is the Cambridge Analytica & Facebook scandal?
In March, news broke that the firm Cambridge Analytica harvested personal data from tens of millions of Facebook users. The data was improperly obtained from Facebook to build voter profiles used by the Trump campaign. The scandal is truly global in scope, with countries in almost every continent affected by the data breach.
How are other countries responding to the Facebook scandal?
🇬🇧United Kingdom:
Law enforcement officials raided the offices of Cambridge Analytica and opened an investigation into Facebook after news of the leak broke.
🇰🇪Kenya:
People were outraged after former Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix admitted in an undercover video that the firm handled “just about every element” of Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidential campaign in 2013 and again in 2017.
🇳🇬Nigeria:
The government is investigating Facebook and Cambridge Analytica after it emerged that the data firm worked on behalf of former president Goodluck Jonathan to spread graphic videos that painted opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari as an Islamic fundamentalist in 2007 and 2015.
🇮🇳India:
Cambridge Analytica may have improperly accessed the data of over half a million Facebook users, leading politicians from both major parties to accuse the opposing party of using data for campaign purposes.
📍Bram, 22, Student
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🇨🇩Congo:
Five rangers were killed shot in killed in Virunga National Park when a group assailant ambushed troops in the middle of the reserve. More than 170 rangers have died protecting animals in the last 20 years of the park’s operation; however, this is the single most significant loss of life in the history of the national park.
Why were they attacked?
Rangers are stationed to protect the Virunga national park where one-fourth of the world’s remaining wild mountain gorillas reside. The endangered species is a poaching target and their habitat is being destroyed by deforestation in part to supply charcoal. Human rights groups say armed groups are controlling the industry to support a rebellion.
Watch this Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary about the rangers of Virunga.
📍Anonymous
🇧🇷Brazil:
After a three day standoff and months of vowing that a conviction on corruption charges would not stop his bid for a third term as Brazil’s leader, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva surrendered to police to carry out a 12-year prison sentence for corruption and money laundering.
More context:
Mr. da Silva’s imprisonment is the result of a four-year investigation called “Operation Car Wash.” Hundreds of indictments and convictions at the highest levels of Brazil’s government and corporate elite have struck a major blow against corruption. It’s also destabilized the country’s political system and helped push the economy into a recession that’s left thousands unemployed.
Many are asking if Lula is just a scapegoat or if a change is truly on the horizon for South America’s biggest country?
Who is Lula:
Mr. da Silva, referred to as Lula spent his career a union leader who faced down Brazil’s military dictators and helped build a transformational leftist party that governed Brazil for more than 13 years.
Well, that happened 🤔:
In a speech before surrendering himself, Lula took a dig at media companies Globo and Veja:
“…the media dreams of having a photograph of Lula in jail. I can imagine Veja getting horny while putting a photo of me prison on their cover. I imagine Globo getting horny as they use a photo of me in prison. They will have multiple orgasms.”
📍Rafael 32, researcher & engineer
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