Negative views of China soar in western countries, poll finds

Unfavourable views toward China have soared in the past year in the United States and many other advanced economies, according to a survey of 14 countries conducted by the US-based Pew Research Center. The survey, conducted between June and August this year and released on Tuesday, found that a majority in each of the countries […]

Facebook to ban QAnon-themed groups, pages and accounts in crackdown

Facebook will ban any groups, pages or Instagram accounts that “represent” QAnon, the company announced Tuesday, in a sharp escalation of its attempt to crack down on the antisemitic conspiracy movement that has thrived on its platform. The policy will apply to groups, pages or Instagram accounts whose names or descriptions suggest that they are […]

Twitter removes campaign video of Trump scoring touchdown against Covid-19

Donald Trump’s election campaign may claim the president has beaten Covid-19, but it fell foul of the NFL’s copyright rules on Tuesday. The campaign tweeted a video of the San Francisco 49ers’ Brandon Aiyuk leaping over a Philadelphia Eagles defender on his way to scoring a touchdown during Sunday’s game between the two teams. The […]

GSK tells UK staff: turn off Covid test-and-trace app while at work

The pharmaceuticals firm GlaxoSmithKline has told staff to switch off the contact tracing function that allows the NHS test-and-trace app to monitor the spread of Covid-19 while at work in case it is “disruptive” to business, the Guardian has learned. GSK, which is among the companies working on a vaccine for Covid-19, sent the instruction […]

How UGC Content Is More Powerful Than an Influencer Campaign

User-generated content (UGC) is quickly becoming the most popular marketing tool ahead of online influencer campaigns. The public have become accustomed to reality stars and has-been celebrities flogging whichever never-used-gadget that they’ve been paid to promote. Since the rise of the Insta-marketeer, the Advertising Standards Authority has prescribed new rules for promoting products and services […]

From standup to stanzas: Frank Skinner’s terrific guide to poetry

‘Phwooar – Ginsy Ginsy Ginsy, I love you so much!” You won’t find that in FR Leavis. The “Ginsy” in question is beat poet Allen Ginsberg. The literary critic is Frank Skinner, deconstructing Ginsberg’s Sunflower Sutra on his Absolute Radio poetry podcast. Now embarking on its second series, the podcast is a terrific listen: bursting […]

Covid: how Excel may have caused loss of 16,000 test results in England

A million-row limit on Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet software may have led to Public Health England misplacing nearly 16,000 Covid test results, it is understood. The data error, which led to 15,841 positive tests being left off the official daily figures, means than 50,000 potentially infectious people may have been missed by contact tracers and not […]

Michelle Wolf to Melania’s roses: the arts and pop culture that sum up the Trump era

Architecture Travesty in the Rose Garden Since he’s a former real-estate tycoon, it seems fitting that Donald Trump’s tenure should express itself in some sort of building. So which edifice best defines his era? Well, there is the “big, beautiful wall” planned for the border with Mexico. “Nobody builds walls better than me!” he declared, […]

People don’t trust the facts about Trump’s coronavirus. Is it any wonder? | Simon Jenkins

The president is not really sick. He is very sick. He is pretending. He is not pretending. That was his body double in the car. He may die. The illness is a fake to win Christian sympathy. To QAnon’s followers, Covid is a deep-state Democrat trick to enslave the US and Trump’s “illness” is tactical. […]

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