How a Somali journalist tried to fix regional president’s Facebook page — and spent 38 days in jail

Global Free Speech

It’s been a month since journalist Mascuud Warsame was freed from a detention facility in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, but his memories of the harrowing experience are still vivid. He remembers trying to sleep in a tiny room where the lights were kept on most of the night, his stomach pains and acid reflux from the greasy prison food, and the constant fear that other inmates, many of whom were suspected Islamist militants, would attack him for being a journalist. But what stays with Mascuud the most is the injustice. He spent 38 days behind bars because he was tricked…

Media & Culture

Nearly 50% of West Bank Palestinians Says Israel Does Not Have A Right To Exist

After the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, thousands of college students marched through the streets chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Most of them likely had no clue which river and sea were at issue. And they probably also gave zero thought to what it would mean for Palestine to be “free.” The college students likely never heard the far more accurate version of the chant in Arabic, which translates to “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be Arab.” In short, the only Jewish state in the world would cease to…

AI & Crypto

Read More

Politics

Don't Miss!