27/10/21
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US - Judge to sentence neo-Nazi group members under terrorism law
A federal judge has concluded that two neo-Nazi group members intended to engage in terrorist activity before FBI agents arrested them ahead of a pro-gun rally in Virginia
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-sentence-neo-nazi-group-members-terrorism-law-80777926
Dubai - Facebook language moderation problems
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As the Gaza war raged and tensions surged across the Middle East last May, Instagram briefly banned the hashtag #AlAqsa, a reference to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, a flash point in the conflict.
Facebook, which owns Instagram, later apologized, explaining its algorithms had mistaken the third-holiest site in Islam for the militant group Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, an armed offshoot of the secular Fatah party.
UK - Salman Abedi: Mistake to let Manchester Arena bomber back from Libya without checks, MI5 admits
MI5 has admitted that it was a mistake not to stop the Manchester Arena bomber when he returned from Libya four days before he killed 22 people.
It emerged yesterday that Salman Abedi had contact with eight subjects of interest (SOI) to the security service — five with suspected links to Islamic State, one of whom who was in prison.
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