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Prime-time lies: Brazil candidates take information wars to TV
Prime-time lies: Brazil candidates take information wars to TV
by  AFP

Disinformation on social networks has become routine as Brazil heads for deeply divisive elections, but it can gain traction and a broader audience when it comes straight from the candidates' mouths on national television. But analysts warn TV is now giving broader reach to the disinformation that has been raging for months on social networks in Brazil.

Lebanon's past echoes its grim present in exhibition
Lebanon's past echoes its grim present in exhibition
by  AFP

In a war-scarred Beirut heritage house turned museum, archives of Lebanon's troubled past fuse with artistic depictions of its grim present to portray a country seemingly in perpetual turmoil. It was renovated and turned into a museum and cultural space that temporarily opened in 2017.

New Iran protests over woman's death after 'morality police' arrest
New Iran protests over woman's death after 'morality police' arrest
by  AFP

Fresh protests broke out Monday in Iran over the death of a young woman who had been arrested by the "morality police" that enforces a strict dress code, local media reported. - Anger - The morality police units enforce a dress code in the Islamic republic that demands women wear headscarves in public.

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