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Mark Zuckerberg Reveals How President Biden’s Administration Pressured Meta To Censor COVID-19 Contents

Mark Zuckerberg
Meta Platforms CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has accused senior officials from the Joe Biden Administration of pressuring his company to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humour and satire, in 2021. In a statement on Monday addressed to Jim Jordan Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Jerrold Nadler, the committee’s Ranking Member, Zuckerberg revealed that his teams faced repeated demands from the White House to remove specific contents from Meta’s platforms. Zuckerberg stated that while Meta made its own decisions regarding content removal, the pressure exerted by the government was inappropriate. I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regretRead More

After 27 Years, Bill Gates And Wife, Melinda, End Marriage

Bill Gates and wife, Melinda
American business magnate and co-founder of Microsoft Corporation will be ending his 27-year marriage to his wife Melinda. The philanthropist took to his official Twitter handle yesterday to make theRead More

US Pledges Improvements In Visa Applicants’ Experience

United States of America visa
The United States Consulate General in Lagos has unveiled its newly-expanded and renovated consular pavilion that seeks to improve the experience that visa applicants and American citizens in Nigeria. SpeakingRead More

Biden Moves To Help LGBTQI+ People In Nigeria, Others With Resettlement Visa

US President, Joe Biden
President Joe Biden has issued a presidential memorandum aimed at expanding protection of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer and intersex (LGBTQI) people worldwide, including potentially throughRead More

Sanction APC Leaders For Assault On Democracy, PDP Urges Biden

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan
Laments disasters in Sokoto, Delta, Abuja, Rivers, others The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday urged US President Joe Biden to impose strict sanctions on leaders of the All Progressives CongressRead More

Kodak Black, Lil Wayne Both Pardoned By Donald Trump

In one of his final flexes as POTUS, President Trump has given clemency to Lil Wayne.
In one of his final flexes as POTUS, President Trump has given clemency to Lil Wayne. Following reports the Young Money rapper would be on the final list of peopleRead More

In Backlash, Congress Leads Charge For Trump’s Removal

President Donald Trump
Biden delivers stinging rebuke of would-be predecessor President’s appointees resign in protest over insurrection President Donald Trump yesterday faced a stirring revolt from the United States political establishment after heRead More

Trump Supporters Assault US Congress, Breach Democracy

President Donald Trump's Supporters Assault US Congress and Breach Democracy
Certification of Biden’s win resumes after disruption Pence to mob: you didn’t win Vice President Mike Pence returned to the United States Congress earlier today to resume the process ofRead More

Minneapolis Police Shoot Dead Man During Traffic Stop

Minneapolis police shoot and kill man during a traffic stop
A police officer shot and killed a man during a traffic stop on Wednesday, according to the Minneapolis Police Department. This is the first killing by a member of theRead More

Trump To Return To Washington Ahead Of Plan To disrupt Biden Win Certification

Joe Biden vs President Donald Trump
President Donald Trump is expected to return to Washington earlier than anticipated ahead of a planned disruption by Republicans when Congress meets next week to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win.Read More

US Supreme Court Rejects Texas’ and Trump’s Bid To Overturn Election

President Donald Trump claimed the US was 'witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history'
The US Supreme Court on Friday rejected a bid from Texas’ attorney general — supported by President Donald Trump — to block the ballots of millions of voters in battlegroundRead More