ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday accused the West of adopting “double standards” on freedom of media. Speaking at the 7th Anatolian Media Awards ceremony in the capital Ankara, Erdogan said: “Those accusing Türkiye of censorship remain silent about those (Twitter) doing real cens...
DETROIT, Michigan (AA) – Twitter CEO Elon Musk has claimed on his social media platform that the US “Government paid Twitter millions of dollars to censor information from the public.” Musk’s communication is a retweet of a lengthy thread from Michael Shellenberger, author of Apocalypse Never and San Fransicko, entitled, “THE TWITTER FIL...
HOUSTON, US (AA) – The latest “Twitter Files” thread exposing the inner workings of pre-Elon Musk Twitter discloses how the social media giant helped the US military with a secret ‘PsyOp’ campaign. “Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media gi...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has accused The New York Times of calling for undermining his prospective government. “After burying the Holocaust for years on its back pages and demonizing Israel for decades on its front pages, the New York Times now shamefully calls for undermining Israel’s elected incomi...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan has imposed a temporary ban on popular social media platform TikTok amid violent protests over fuel price hikes. In a statement, the Public Security Directorate said the widely used social media platform was suspended as it was used “for glorifying hate speech and for inciting chaos, attacking law enforcement agenci...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Far-right Zionist politician Itamar Ben-Gvir has called for the expulsion of all Al Jazeera journalists, accusing the television of spreading “false propaganda” against Israel. The call came shortly after the Doha-based network filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the point-blank killing of it...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A Jordanian filmmaker and producer is fighting stereotypes about Muslims with the help of virtual reality films on Islamic history. “We’ve been producers and filmmakers for over 10 years but we never thought that we will go into entertainment until we were in Disney,” Samah Safi Bayazid shared. Bayazid i...
HOUSTON, US (AA) – Elon Musk fired Twitter’s entire board of directors Monday, just a week after finalizing the $44 billion takeover of the social media giant. The swift move made the Tesla and SpaceX CEO the sole director of Twitter. “This is just temporary,” tweeted Musk after purging the company’s top leadershi...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has called for the designation of UK-based Persian-language news outlets as “terrorist organizations”, accusing them of stoking unrest amid ongoing protests over the death of a young Iranian woman in police custody. Kazem Gharibabadi, the deputy judiciary chief for international affairs and head of the coun...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A prominent Pakistani journalist and TV host, Arshad Sharif, was shot dead by police in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, his family and media reported on Monday. Sharif was shot in the head and killed by police after his driver and he allegedly breached a roadblock that had been set up to check […]
