Nicaragua is a coastal country in Central America founded in 1821 after gaining independence from Spain, then joining the Mexican …
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Nicaragua is a coastal country in Central America founded in 1821 after gaining independence from Spain, then joining the Mexican …
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SUNY-Binghamton Tagged With: Disinformation, fake news, freedom of speech, twitter
“Elon Musk he’s such a f***ing moron” (Conover, 2022) said Adam Conover in relation to Elon Musk on the Trillionaire Pod, a podcast. Elon Musk who recently bought Twitter in an effort to “clean house” …
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SUNY-Binghamton Tagged With: Conspiracy Theories, Putin, Russia
Since Vladimir Putin has had his hand in Russian politics, he has peddled in conspiratorial thinking to help himself gain support and power within his country and the world. Russia has regained its …
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SUNY-Binghamton Tagged With: Border, child trafficking, Corruption, COVID-19, Forced Labor, forced marriage, Human Trafficking, migrant, nicolas maduro, oil crisis, organized crime, pandemic, Sex Trafficking, Venezuela
Right beneath the noses of citizens of every country in the world, lies a massive, interconnected network where humans are bought and sold, just like any other illicit commodity. The International …
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On August 4, 2022, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary gave a speech in Dallas, Texas—by his own admission “more than five thousand miles” from his homeland—and was met with cheers and applause. He …
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SUNY-Binghamton Tagged With: democratic backsliding, Democratic Erosion, European Union, Poland, populism, Stealth Authoritarianism
On July 12, 2020 incumbent Polish President Andrzej Duda won the second round of the presidential elections with 51.0% of the popular vote (BBC, 2020). Duda had first been elected to office in 2015 …
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The 2020 Tanzanian presidential election has forever had its reputation tainted by fraud allegations and the use of voter suppression tactics. Journalists and politicians of the opposition parties …
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SUNY-Binghamton Tagged With: Brexit, populism, United Kingdom
Brexit, the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union (EU), has been met with a multitude of criticism. Brexit, which was deemed to damage the United Kingdom’s economy, was voted on by the …