by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2018 The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union (EU), announced on March 21 it was bringing its tax rules “into the 21st century” with the unveiling of a new tax on digital companies. Though the EU said the digital tax is not aimed at any country or […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 20, 2018 Facebook is the “real bad guy” in the Cambridge Analytica story about big data’s role in the election of Donald Trump, Britain’s The Guardian said in an op-ed. The op-ed said that “Cambridge Analytica shouldn’t act as a diversion from the real bad guy in this story: Facebook. It […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 19, 2018 Turkey is waging “demographic jihad” in Europe, a U.S.-based Turkish journalist wrote. The attempt by Ankara “to guarantee that Muslims outnumber Christians globally has been accompanied by the erection of mosques – ‘from Europe to Africa, from the Balkans to the Central Asia’ – by Turkey’s government-funded Diyanet (Religious Affairs General Directorate),” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 19, 2018 An unelected “deep state” that a new poll finds most Americans believe is “pulling the levers of power” in Washington, D.C. China has acted to penalize “untrustworthy” citizens via their digital social credit scores. And “ballot rigging” has been caught on camera in Russia. Welcome to 2018. A new […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2018 The Russians? Please. A former employee said a British-based data mining firm helped Republicans level the playing field in “digital engagement” with voters by using the Facebook profiles of millions of Americans to build a “full-service propaganda machine” that boosted the Trump campaign in 2016. The Trump administration and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 16, 2018 Can someone get the UN a Fast Pass to Disney World? It seems the world body believes that Finland is the happiest place on Earth. According to the UN’s 2018 World Happiness report released on March 14, Finland is the world’s happiest country. The Nordic nation of 5.5 million […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2018 North Korea dispatched top diplomats separately to Sweden and Finland for what observers say were meetings to lay the groundwork for a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Choe Kang-Il, deputy director-general for North American affairs at the North’s foreign ministry, headed to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 16, 2018 Russian government hackers have for at least two years attempted cyberattacks on the U.S. power grid, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said. The attacks, beginning in March 2016 and possibly earlier, targeted multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation and manufacturing, according to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 15, 2018 “Grooming gangs” in the British town of Telford victimized up to 1,000 girls since the 1980s while whistleblowers who notified authorities of the brutal sex abuse gangs were silenced and punished, reports said. The girls were drugged, beaten and raped at the hands of the violent pedophiles. Three people […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 15, 2018 Russia has agreed to boost production in two oil fields in western Iran in a deal that will be highly lucrative for the Islamic Republic. “Increasing the production from these two fields will bring some $4 billion dollars to Iran” over the coming years, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namadar […]
