One of the reasons I share a lot of posts from X is that it is the best (and sometimes worst) place to gather information about what is really happening in the world. That is the reason why the security state, particularly under Joe Biden, worked so hard to censor it, and why oppressive countries...
Daniel De Simone BBC investigations correspondent Avalon/Getty Mr Justice Chamberlain ordered MI5 to hand over secret documents MI5 is facing fresh scrutiny in the case of a violent neo-Nazi agent after a High Court judge said he had “no confidence” in the Security Service’s account of how a senior officer gave false evidence. Ahead of...
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Access to the social media platform X has been restricted in Tanzania after some official accounts of government and private institutions were targeted by hackers. On Tuesday, the official police account was compromised, with sexually explicit material and false information that the president had died being posted. The police dissociated itself from the information and...
Sheffield United have apologised after their X account was hacked on Monday, with a number of offensive and derogatory posts sent out. Sheffield Wednesday captain Barry Bannan was targeted in several of the hacked messages. They have since regained access to their profile and all posts have subsequently been deleted. “The club would like to...
Access to the social media account of Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, has been blocked by the authorities in Turkey. Imamoglu, who is the main rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, can no longer send messages in Turkey to his 9.7 million followers on X. His account is still accessible abroad. His social media...
Government minister Lucy Powell’s X account has been hacked to promote a scam “House of Commons” cryptocurrency. A string of now deleted posts on the House of Commons leader’s account described the “$HCC” coin as “a community-driven digital currency bringing people’s power to the blockchain”. The MP’s office confirmed her account was hacked on Tuesday...
Mobile phone footage has emerged that appears to contradict Israel’s account of why soldiers opened fire on a convoy of ambulances and a fire truck on March 23, killing 15 rescue workers. The video was published by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), which said it was obtained from the phone of a paramedic who...
Mobile phone footage has emerged that appears to contradict Israel’s account of why soldiers opened fire on a convoy of ambulances and a fire truck, killing 15 rescue workers. The video published by the New York Times, and said to have been filmed by a Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) paramedic who was killed, shows...
BBC Paramedic Munther Abed survived the attack that killed 15 emergency workers by diving to the floor in the back of his ambulance “I’m the only survivor who saw what happened to my colleagues,” Munther Abed says, scrolling through pictures of his fellow paramedics on his phone. He survived the Israeli attack that killed 15...
The holiday park company Center Parcs has removed links to its old X account from its website after a man who took over the account was contacted by genuine customers. Center Parcs deleted its X account in January, which meant the @CenterParcsUK handle became available. Carl Lennon, an IT consultant, registered an X account with...
NatWest and Nigel Farage have settled the dispute over the closure of one of his bank accounts. The agreed settlement comes almost two years after the Reform UK leader had his account with Coutts, the prestigious private bank for the wealthy which is owned by NatWest Group, closed. The closure led to a public row...
May local election materials are already being stuffed through letterboxes as Devon’s political parties race to get ahead of the start of the official election campaign period, which begins on Tuesday. After this date campaign spending must be recorded and declared and must stay within prescribed limits. Local election materials often contain surprising claims about...