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Meta Bids Adieu to Fact-Checking: A New Era of Free Speech or Chaos? WASHINGTON/MOGADISHU, Jan 12 As the Political Circus Returns, Meta Tosses Its Fact-Checking Habit So, here we are, folks! Meta, you know, the conglomerate behind the likes of Facebook, Instagram, and the new kid on the block, Threads, has declared the dissolution of its once shiny third-party fact-checking program. This cocktail party gem, in place since 2016, just got the ax. And with former President Donald Trump eyeing a return to the…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed admiration for Donald Trump, particularly as Trump's recent election victory casts shadows over Ukraine's ongoing conflict with Russia. In recent months, Ukraine has faced increasing territorial setbacks. Enhanced and better-equipped Russian forces are making significant inroads in crucial eastern regions, leading to some of the most intense combat witnessed since Moscow's aggression began in February 2022. Trump has been vocal about his discontent with America's current…

September Marks Numerous Unresolved Journalist Killings Ahmed Mohamed Shakur, an SNTV journalist and cameraman, lost his life in a bomb explosion on September 30, 2022, in Basra town near Mogadishu. | PHOTO/ Courtesy/SJS. The International Press Institute (IPI) persistently demands Somali authorities step up against impunity for crimes against journalists. The state of press freedom in Somalia is distressingly precarious, with scribes being subjects of both harassment and threats from the government and the militant group…

As daily marks the sixtieth anniversary of African independence, RFI brings again the musical environment of the time. On 28 November 1960, Mauritania left the French Neighborhood. On the radio, a track glorifies this historic second: Yaa Mauritani mbareck listighlal ("Could God bless Mauritania's independence" in French).…