The exposure flows from data released by the UK parliament Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee's inquiry into 'fake news'.

The DUP ads were arranged by "digital advertising, web and software development" company AggregateIQ, a Canadian firm with oblique connections to Cambridge Analytica. Adverts such as seen up to 4.7 million times by Facebook users in England, Scotland and Wales, but a mere 860,000 times in Northern Ireland.

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"Social media companies cannot hide behind the claim of being merely a 'platform', claiming that they are tech companies and have no role themselves in regulating the content of their sites," the report said.

"That is not the case; they continually change what is and is not seen on their sites, based on algorithms and human intervention.

"However, they are also significantly different from the traditional model of a 'publisher', which commissions, pays for, edits and takes responsibility for the content it disseminates."

The new category - which the MPs want to see defined by government in a white paper due in autumn - should establish "clear legal liability for the tech companies to act against harmful and illegal content on their platforms". This should include content that has been referred by users and content they identify themselves.

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Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

"Alexandre Benalla never held the nuclear codes. Alexandre Benalla never lived in a 300-square-meter apartment....Alexandre Benalla was never my lover," the president said, addressing news reports and rumors about the allegedly favorable treatment given his aide.

"We shouldn't paralyze the country," said art gallery owner Franck Le Feuvre, who is among those who think the scandal is a waste of time. Benalla "is just a guy who was too zealous, and no one dared intervene so as not to offend the big boss."

Matteo Renzi, the former center-left Italian premier, called the attacks on people of "different skin colors" an emergency. He said it is no longer possible for anyone, especially those in government, to deny that.
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[Silvini] added: "I want politicians and do-gooder journalists to remember that I don't judge people on the basis of their skin color, I divide them between good people and delinquents. There's a future for the first, not for the others!"

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"What this means, I believe, is that a country with its own currency would not be subject to the kind of self-fulfilling panic that is now arguably hitting Italy."

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Not a single ballot was cast at 716 polling stations in Sunday's first round vote in the ["]volatile["] central region of Mopti and some parts of the north following threats and attacks by armed groups.

There were a total of 23,000 polling stations nationwide.

The country will vote in a Sept. 30 referendum on the agreement, which would change their country's name to "North Macedonia."

Since Donald Trump took office as US president, a new cottage industry in rational theories of his seemingly irrational behavior has developed. On one issue, however, no amount of theorizing has made sense of Trump: his treatment of America's oldest and most reliable ally.

Almost 70% of the disclosures related to four jurisdictions. They were the United Kingdom, the United States, France and Spain.

"The Supreme Court has doubts and is presenting its doubts to an outside independent organ that was set up according to EU treaties to resolve such doubts," Laskowski told reporters. The president's office immediately responded that the suspension had "no legal basis and has no effect on the president or any other organ".

The law allows the president, a PiS ally, to grant an extension to judges' terms, while the KRS, whose members include politicians, can give an opinion on who is allowed to hold a judicial position.

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Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Hans-Georg Maaßen, the president of Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), met with former Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader Frauke Petry several times in 2015, advising her how to avoid nationwide surveillance of the AfD by the German secret service and having her party designated as "right-wing extremist."

This was revealed in a recently published book, Inside AfD, by AfD dropout Franziska Schreiber. The 28-year-old author was a close colleague of Petry's and was chairperson of the AfD youth organization Junge Alternative in Saxony.