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Conrad Omodiagbe

Russia At Work Ahead of US Elections

Once again, details have emerged linking Russia to several social media accounts and plots aimed at interfering with the hotly contested upcoming US presidential election between incumbent President Donald Trump of the Republican Party, and third-time contestant, Joe Biden of the Democratic Party. In a statement made on Tuesday the 1st of September, Facebook announced […]

Conrad Omodiagbe

Facebook Under Fire for Labelling Policy

Following through on its new policy announced in June, popular social media platform, Facebook, has on Tuesday placed a “voting info” label on a post made by U.S. President Donald Trump, that questioned the validity of the country’s mail-in voting system which he said would lead to a “corrupt election” process. Facebook, through its CEO, […]

Farida Adamu

Donald Trump and a Democracy on Life Support

The American President, Donald Trump, appears to be against democracy. On May 25, George Floyd, an unarmed 46-year-old black man was murdered after a white officer, Derek Chauvin, used his knee to pin Floyd’s neck to the ground for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Derek Chauvin was arrested and charged with third-degree murder after protests […]