EU-backed copyright rules could force YouTube to ‘bank account’ holders from uploading their videos, according to Susan Wojcicki of YouTube. In a message to account holders Susan warned that Article 13 “threatens to shut down the ability of millions of people – from creators like you to everyday users – to upload content to platforms like YouTube”. Ms. Wojcicki warned that “It threatens... 

A half-Filipino, Cesar Sayoc, who claimed to be an American Indian member of the Seminole tribe, has been arrested for the series of fake “bombs” sent to prominent Trump critics over the past few days—a development which will greatly disappoint the controlled media who were hoping that the perpetrator would be a “racist white male” or a “Russian agent”. Sayoc—whose mother was Italian... 

At least five pieces of the “Dead Sea Scrolls” on display at Washington D.C.’s Museum of the Bible are fakes, that organization has admitted—but these are only the latest in a long line of forgeries originating in Israel which have capitalized upon the Christian belief that Israel is the “holy land.” According to a statement put out by the Museum of the Bible—which opened last year at... 

US magnate George Soros and his liberal counterparts have good reason to be up in arms about Donald Trump and the Republican Party ahead of the upcoming midterms, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel told Sputnik, presenting his prognosis on who would be the winners and sore losers in the November vote. US billionaire George Soros is preparing for a decisive battle for the US Congress by investing heavily... 

Internal research commissioned by Google confirms Orwellian-scale censorship powers enjoyed by tech giants. It says free speech is a “utopian idea,” and creating “ordered spaces for safety and civility” is Google’s new mission. The name of the briefing, leaked to Breitbart, says it all. ‘The Good Censor,’ prepared by a host of prominent industry researchers and “cultural leaders,”... 

Add “a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising” to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal information. Contrary to user expectations and Facebook representatives’ own previous statements, the company has been using contact information that users explicitly provided for security purposes—or that users never provided at all—for targeted... 

An investigation has found that a large number of reviews on the site seem to have been uploaded by websites which offer glowing praise for a fee. UP to a third of reviews on TripAdvisor are fake with hotels and restaurants buying positive reviews, it has been claimed. Analysis of tens of thousands of reviews on the site has shown that top rated bed and breakfasts have almost twice as many “false”... 

Google CEO Sundar Pichai in an email to Google staff on Friday said the company has not and will not bias its search results in favor of any political cause, movement or party, according to The New York Times. “Recent news stories reference an internal email to suggest that we would compromise the integrity of our Search results for a political end. This is absolutely false,” Pichai wrote in the... 

Multiple Swedish officials contest whether a regional report detailing the country’s poor border controls was held before the recent elections, according to Sweden’s Kvällsposten. The release of the Schengen Report would have been politically “explosive,” given its content, allege police sources. “The outcome of the Schengen inspector’s visit is politically explosive,” said one... 

“Leave our children in peace. Let our children play, stop ‘playing’ with our children.” These are the words of a mother whose child was stolen and is being imprisoned in Idlib by terrorist groups and the White Helmets. I met Wafaa at her home with her husband Mohammed Ibrahim and her two sons Hamza, 9, and Lotfe, 14. Both Wafaa and Mohammed are lawyers, they met while studying at the same... 

Try to imagine this: Group A conquers a large territory, then quickly begins building it into one of the greatest nations in the world. Group B comes to Group A and say “oy vey, we are poisecuted all over the world because of our religion, please let us in.” Group A feels bad for Group B. Group A also knows what it’s like to be a persecuted religious group. Plus their religion is somewhat tied... 

Haaretz reported that Turkey has dispatched troops to Idlib, Syria to reinforce its presence in the province. The reinforcements come despite the Turkish defense minister’s recent warnings against a military solution. Radio Sputnik discussed the possibility that Turkey could help reach a ceasefire in Idlib with Ferrada de Noli, founder and chairman of Swedish Doctors for Human Rights. Sputnik: What... 

Since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya has turned into a transit point, through which 650,000 refugees have already reached Italy from Africa. Sputnik political observer Sergei Gashkov takes a look at the situation in the conflict-ridden North African nation and its impact on Europe. In Rome, the responsibility for the influx of migrants is laid on France, which persuaded NATO countries... 

The UK’s mass surveillance program is in violation of human rights, the European Court of Human Rights has declared. The challenge was instigated following the revelations from US whistle-blower Edward Snowden. The court stated there is “insufficient oversight” and “inadequate safeguards” over the government’s ‘bulk interception’ of communications. Furthermore,... 

A police force in the UK has been on the receiving end of derision after authorities encouraged citizens to report “offensive comments” that don’t even rise to the level of hate crimes. “In addition to reporting hate crime, please report non-crime hate incidents, which can include things like offensive or insulting comments, online, in person or in writing. Hate will not be tolerated in South...