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Ecuadorian Environmental Defender Found Dead After Reporting Corruption and Threats

Monika Silva-Koniuszek had denounced land deals, nepotism and influence peddling. On Monday, Monika Silva-Koniuszek, a Polish-born environmental defender, was found dead in Santa Elena province on Ecuador’s coast. The following day, Interior Minister John Reimberg stated that Silva-Koniuszek appeared to have died by suicide, according to the initial evidence gathered at her home. However, the official acknowledged that the autopsy results will determine with certainty what occurred. On social media, however, human rights defenders have alleged that she was murdered, arguing that sufficient background exists to sustain that hypothesis. For at least a year, Silva-Koniuszek had been denouncing the irregular sale of more than 700 hectares in the Capaes area, where the land was sold without a public auction in 2022 by then-Mayor Otto Vera Palacios for US$6.2 million. The case gained prominence because the transaction allegedly involved the administration of La Libertad Mayor Francisco Tamariz. In April, Silva-Koniuszek also denounced the existence of an alleged network of nepotism and influence peddling involving Comptroller General Mauricio Torres, whom she accused of acting as a “wall” to prevent anti-corruption investigations. Esto publicó Mónika Silva el pasado mes de marzo en su cuenta de TikTok. Que no caiga jamás en el olvido. pic.twitter.com/IB3N73nZiy — Cristian Murillo (@socialholico) June 9, 2026 The text reads, “Monika Silva posted this on her TikTok account in March. May it never be forgotten.” A few weeks before her death, the environmental activist warned that she had been threatened and held authorities responsible should anything happen to her. “On Wednesday, March 4, while I was at the Santa Elena Judicial Council, I received two warnings about a planned contract killing against me. I hold the Ecuadorian state responsible not only for failing to prevent this potential disaster, but also for potentially facilitating it,” she said. Ecuador: Judge Rules Against Glas’s Habeas Corpus Bid as Defense Warns of Severe Malnutrition “It is not easy to kill me. And I do not say that out of arrogance or madness — quite the opposite. For years I have explained to the thousands of citizens who support me, pray for me and worry about me that what keeps me alive is my lack of fixed schedules, a life in constant movement, and the protection provided by my own community.” “The only way to locate me and know my ‘schedules and movements’ is through a surveillance system. This surveillance system has existed since Nov. 21 and was installed just 22 hours after Robinson’s death,” Silva-Koniuszek stated, referring to the 2025 killing of communicator Robinson del Pezo, who was shot to death in Santa Elena province as a result of his reports on land trafficking and political corruption. (teleSUR) From Orinoco Tribune via This RSS Feed.

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The Morpheus (auf Peertube): Das bessere Social Media ist unbekannt

“Warum fühlen sich soziale Netzwerke heute so kaputt an — und gibt es eine echte Alternative zu Instagram, TikTok, YouTube und X? In diesem Video geht es um Algorithmen, Abhängigkeit, Creator-Druck und das Fediverse: ein offenes Netz aus Mastodon, PeerTube, Lemmy, Pixelfed und mehr. Ich zeige, warum eigene Server mehr digitale Unabhängigkeit versprechen, wo das System noch scheitert und was es wirklich kostet, Social Media wieder selbst zu besitzen.”

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Scott Pelley Shows How Legacy Media Got It Wrong — Before Bari Weiss Made It Worse

Journalist Scott Pelley speaks onstage at the International Rescue Committee’s annual Freedom Award benefit on Nov. 7, 2012, in New York City. Photo: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for IRC The battle over “60 Minutes” can teach us a lot about how someone like CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss can wreak havoc on our media ecosystem. What has gotten a lot less attention, however, is the way the fight shows us how ill-equipped our media institutions already were when it comes to covering the Trump administration and MAGA-era politics. The strife at the famous magazine television news program reached a fever pitch last week, when, during a staff meeting, longtime correspondent Scott Pelley unloaded on Nick Bilton, Weiss’s pick to run the show. Pelley was fired and took to the media to defend himself. In a long interview with the New York Times over the weekend, Pelley talked about how Weiss had injected herself into the show’s editorial process. The most revealing part of the discussion centered on Pelley’s own “60 Minutes” coverage of President Donald Trump’s surge of immigration enforcement officers into Minneapolis, the uprising against the invasion, and the subsequent crackdown that led to the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents. Weiss’s role in the story was clearly toxic, but Pelley’s description of his own editorial process before Weiss got involved should also raise eyebrows. “I felt it was very important to identify that the protesters themselves were being very aggressive.” “I felt it was very important to identify that the protesters themselves were being very aggressive and that they were half of these confrontations, and so I instructed my producers to find images in which we see the protesters acting aggressively,” Pelley said. “I thought we’d done a really good job with this.” Pelley said they found evidence of protesters chest-bumping officers and hitting them with snowballs. The Minnesotans screamed at federal agents, Pelley said, and Pretti himself could be seen in one picture kicking out a police car taillight. Striving for “Balance” It’s a striking passage because it shows a revered journalist searching for a balanced narrative where there simply wasn’t one. If, after scouring hours and hours video to find evidence of “aggressive” protesters, all you can find is a chest bump and a thrown snowball, perhaps that’s a sign that your narrative that both sides were aggressive isn’t all that accurate. [ Related Amy Goodman on the Media’s “Access of Evil”](https://theintercept.com/2026/04/14/amy-goodman-democracy-now-independent-media/) The truth is that the Minneapolis protesters were remarkably restrained in the face of egregious state violence and brutality. Yes, they were angry, loud, persistent, and rude. Demonstrators yelled insults at officers, blew whistles, and recorded with their cellphones. Yet that is all First Amendment-protected activity, no matter how many times Stephen Miller or Kristi Noem try to call it “terrorism.” There’s a reason why the criminal charges against protesters have rarely held up in court: There was never any merit to them. Over and over, when it came time to present actual evidence, the government backed down, was reprimanded by a judge, or was rejected by a grand jury. Likewise, Pretti’s confrontation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement days before he was killed has nothing to do with whether immigration officers were justified in killing him. Videos of the killing show that Pretti did nothing to justify being confronted, beaten, and shot 10 times. Pelley’s remarks, by themselves, offer a lesson in the pitfalls of striving for “balance” under an administration that lies by default, lies when it doesn’t need to, and lies as a demonstration of its power. Enter Weiss Weiss, her billionaire Paramount bosses David and Larry Ellison, and the other tech billionaires who fund her publication the Free Press are all of the belief that the legacy media is overwhelmingly left of center. They’re correct in a very broad sense. Generally, journalists who work for legacy outlets have personal politics that skew liberal, but it’s more complicated than that. Legacy media journalists also tend to be institutionalists and deferential to authority. That can make them defensive of power and often skeptical of those who challenge it. Even the most revered journalistic institutions aren’t equipped to sort through the firehose of lies and propaganda pouring out of Trump’s far-right movement. As Pelley’s Minneapolis story shows, these journalists also want to be seen as fair, which can drive them to seek balance even when there is no credible “other side.” Contrary to Weiss and the MAGA world’s claims that legacy media is hopelessly blinkered, the more urgent problem right now is that even the most revered journalistic institutions aren’t equipped to sort through the firehose of lies and propaganda pouring out of Trump’s far-right movement. [ Related Bari Weiss Is Doing Exactly What She Was Installed at CBS to Do](https://theintercept.com/2025/12/22/bari-weiss-cbs-60-minutes/) Weiss’s role at both the Free Press and now at CBS News has been to make that task even more even more difficult. Her editorial feedback for Pelley, for instance, only served to muddy the waters. “About four hours after our deadline,” Pelley told the New York Times, “Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include — can we make the protesters look more violent? Now, I’m paraphrasing. I don’t have the quote, but that’s what was communicated to me. And the other thing: Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer.” Weiss’s editorial advice to Pelley wasn’t about clearer or fairer or more contextual journalism. She was asking for propaganda. Weiss’s editorial advice to Pelley wasn’t about clearer or fairer journalism. She was asking for propaganda. If Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who shot Good, reasonably feared for his life, he was legally justified in killing Good. And if Good was driving toward him, that bolsters his claim to have reasonably feared for his life. The problem is that there’s no evidence that she was. In fact, CBS News did its own analysis of the video footage, which clearly demonstrated that Good’s wheels were pointed away from Ross — as did several other outlets. As television producer Tim Carvell pointed out, however, CBS’s analysis never aired on the network; it was relegated to YouTube. Weiss’s alleged directive also glosses over how Ross and his fellow agents also created the very volatility they claimed justified his use of lethal force. And it ignores how the agents violated multiple Department of Homeland Security policies during the encounter — for example, by putting themselves in front of Good’s car, and by rushing toward her door. At the time of Good’s death, the administration and its supporters had also been pushing a much more destructive and conspiratorial narrative: that a cabal of far-left donors had been training protesters and ICE watchers to weaponize their cars against immigration officers. Not only was there zero evidence for this, it provided cover for what the agents themselves were doing. Video and witness accounts repeatedly showed agents ramming and boxing people in with their vehicles, then falsely claiming they were the victims who had been rammed. Slandering Good just reinforced the narrative. If Weiss had really wanted to provide relevant context for Good’s death, there were plenty of places to look. Perhaps Good feared for her safety because immigration officers surging into liberal cities were pulling people out of their cars and beating them. Or maybe it was relevant that Border Patrol officers have a long history of improperly placing themselves in front of moving vehicles, then using that as justification to fire at those vehicles. Weiss didn’t demand any of that. For her, balance and nuance meant telling Pelley to make his story more palatable to MAGA. Crisis of Disinformation We now live in an era in which one of the two major parties has given itself over to wild conspiracy theorists, white nationalists, and the whims and biases of a disturbed billionaire. [ Related Another Assassination Attempt, More Fertilizer for Conspiracy Theories](https://theintercept.com/2026/05/01/white-house-correspondents-dinner-conspiracy-theories/) The mere fact that Trump leads that party means the airwaves are already polluted with nonsense like whether windmills cause cancer, whether immigrants are eating neighborhood pets, and whether developing countries are “emptying their insane asylums” into the U.S. The fact that half the Congress, about 40 percent of the public, and the entire executive branch now subscribe to anti-vaccine bullshit, election denialism, and “great replacement theory” doesn’t make any of those claims legitimate. So long as a good portion of the country is in the throes of MAGA, however, there will be ongoing pressure to platform even the looniest claims out of a sense of fairness and representation. Weiss isn’t the cause of all of this, but she is an accelerant. Pelley told the New York Times that he refused to make Weiss’s changes, and that his piece aired without them. That may be encouraging, except that not everyone has the institutional stature of Scott Pelley to insulate themselves from reprisals — not even Scott Pelley, it turns out. [ Related Kash Patel Is Using MAGA’s Favorite Tool to Muzzle the Free Press](https://theintercept.com/2026/04/23/kash-patel-atlantic-lawsuit/) The request itself, however, testifies to a disinformation crisis that’s only going to get worse, particularly as Weiss starts replacing departed staff with her own people and Trump keeps leaning on media outlets. Another way it could get worse is if media honchos like those who own CBS keep gaining clout. Weiss’s own bosses, for example, have now set their sights on CNN — with Weiss reportedly expected to lead editorial at both news operations. The post Scott Pelley Shows How Legacy Media Got It Wrong — Before Bari Weiss Made It Worse appeared first on The Intercept. From The Intercept via This RSS Feed.

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World Cup openers we won’t forget

The year was 1930 and in Montevideo, Uruguay, the rain showed no signs of abating. Then, in an instant, the dreariness waned when young Frenchman Lucien Laurent scored the first goal in World Cup history . It was the start of a tournament, a ritual, and a sporting mania spanning continents and oceans. When Mexico and South Africa walk out at the Azteca Stadium today, they won’t simply be kicking off another World Cup. Instead, they will be writing the latest chapter in a 100-year-old story. Since the opening France–Mexico match at the inaugural 1930 World Cup, audiences have learned that in those 90 minutes, part of the magic is that anything can happen. Across the 22 opening matches played in World Cup history, 60 goals have been scored. This is an average of 2.7 goals per match. Often, these games feature attacking moments and palpable pressure. It’s clear the world cup always brings anticipation and drama. Opening the tournament For decades, the privilege of opening the tournament went to the defending champions. Argentina stepped onto the pitch first in 1982, Germany in 1994, Brazil in 1998, and France in 2002. But in 2006, FIFA changed the rules — from then on, the host nation would take centre stage. Germany, South Africa, Brazil, Russia, Qatar, and now Mexico have carried the torch, welcoming the world to the first match. Upsets and iconic moments Opening matches have often defied expectations. In 1990, reigning champions Argentina were stunned 1–0 by Cameroon. Twelve years later, France, fresh off their 1998 triumph, fell 1–0 to Senegal in the first game of 2002. Even hosts have stumbled. In 2022, World Cup Host Qatar became the first host nation to lose an opening match. They fell 2–0 to Ecuador. Some matches, like South Africa’s 1–1 draw with Mexico in 2010, remain memorable for sheer energy and hope rather than shock. In the world cup, every opener has its surprises. Goals that last Lucien Laurent’s strike in 1930 may have been the first, but it set the tone. Decades later, in 2010, Siphiwe Tshabalala’s thunderous goal against Mexico became one of the most iconic opening goals in World Cup history, a reminder that the tournament’s first moments echo far beyond the scoreline. Azteca Stadium makes history Today, the Azteca Stadium becomes the first venue to host a World Cup opener for a third time, having done so in 1970 and 1986. And as Mexico and South Africa prepare to take the field, the pattern feels familiar: new players, new teams, new stories—but the same truth remains. The first whistle always carries promise, and the opening match always has the power to shape a tournament. The stadium’s connection to world cup tradition is truly remarkable. From Uruguay to Mexico, across 96 years of history, World Cup openers have never been simple introductions. They are statements—sometimes shocking, sometimes symbolic, always unforgettable. Indeed, the world cup has become woven into the fabric of sports worldwide. Featured image via Hulton Archive / Getty Images By Alaa Shamali From Canary via This RSS Feed.

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Looking for suicide-proof kit for your black jail? China’s Tiktok has got you covered

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/54504338 Archived In our human rights work on China’s black jails, it has been extremely difficult to obtain photos or video of the facilities. These are secret places. No phones, no lawyer, no journalists, no family are allowed inside. Even the locations are kept hidden—typically a bag is placed over a prisoner’s head when they are moved in or out. So far, we have relied on first person testimony to understand what these black jails are like. But then we searched Douyin, China’s Tiktok (both developed by Beijing-based ByteDance) and we found something very surprising. B2B companies that make equipment for China’s security services are advertising their suicide-proofed apparatus on the platform. For the first time, we can see up close what a brand-new Liuzhi cell probably looks like. We searched for the terms “留置” (Liuzhi, one of CCP’s two types of secret jail) and words related to suicide-proofing, such as”软包墙面” (ruanbao qiangmian, padded walls). What we saw was just as horrifying as we’ve been told. Welcome to the insane asylum We found videos by three companies on Douyin showcasing their suicide-padded furniture and fittings, such as tables, chairs and walls, marketed specifically for Liuzhi. The images produce an unsettling sense of being in an insane asylum. The scripts are chilling; they seem to take delight in point out the capacity for torture their products offer. And, ironically, they do a much better job of describing Liuzhi than we ever could. The basic facts of inhumane treatment we have heard about are confirmed in the videos: the isolation, the 24-hour surveillance by two guards, the always on lights, and, the need to ask for permission for everything, even the slightest movement. The videos’ voiceovers describe how: Liuzhi cells are “heavy with the suffocating air of confinement,” the prisoner feels “forgotten by the world” Their padded furniture and walls prevent “accidental injuries during interrogation sessions,” hinting at physical torture Prisoners’ screams are simply swallowed up by the room One video boasts: “Not many people can survive a place like this without losing it.” […] What black jails does China run? In recent years, China has legalized two black jail systems: (1) Liuzhi or retention in custody, which is focused on CCP members and state workers, and (2) Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL) for everyone else (many human rights activists and rights lawyers are locked up here). Prisoners are kept for months or more, in complete isolation, subjected to extended interrogations and watched 24-hours by two guards. Any windows are blacked out. It’s constant, unending strip lighting. The psychological torture these conditions produce drive some to try to kill themselves. The authorities know this—it’s intentional to coerce a confession—so they suicide-proof the cells. […]

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Looking for suicide-proof kit for your black jail? China’s Tiktok has got you covered

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/54504338 Archived In our human rights work on China’s black jails, it has been extremely difficult to obtain photos or video of the facilities. These are secret places. No phones, no lawyer, no journalists, no family are allowed inside. Even the locations are kept hidden—typically a bag is placed over a prisoner’s head when they are moved in or out. So far, we have relied on first person testimony to understand what these black jails are like. But then we searched Douyin, China’s Tiktok (both developed by Beijing-based ByteDance) and we found something very surprising. B2B companies that make equipment for China’s security services are advertising their suicide-proofed apparatus on the platform. For the first time, we can see up close what a brand-new Liuzhi cell probably looks like. We searched for the terms “留置” (Liuzhi, one of CCP’s two types of secret jail) and words related to suicide-proofing, such as”软包墙面” (ruanbao qiangmian, padded walls). What we saw was just as horrifying as we’ve been told. Welcome to the insane asylum We found videos by three companies on Douyin showcasing their suicide-padded furniture and fittings, such as tables, chairs and walls, marketed specifically for Liuzhi. The images produce an unsettling sense of being in an insane asylum. The scripts are chilling; they seem to take delight in point out the capacity for torture their products offer. And, ironically, they do a much better job of describing Liuzhi than we ever could. The basic facts of inhumane treatment we have heard about are confirmed in the videos: the isolation, the 24-hour surveillance by two guards, the always on lights, and, the need to ask for permission for everything, even the slightest movement. The videos’ voiceovers describe how: Liuzhi cells are “heavy with the suffocating air of confinement,” the prisoner feels “forgotten by the world” Their padded furniture and walls prevent “accidental injuries during interrogation sessions,” hinting at physical torture Prisoners’ screams are simply swallowed up by the room One video boasts: “Not many people can survive a place like this without losing it.” […] What black jails does China run? In recent years, China has legalized two black jail systems: (1) Liuzhi or retention in custody, which is focused on CCP members and state workers, and (2) Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL) for everyone else (many human rights activists and rights lawyers are locked up here). Prisoners are kept for months or more, in complete isolation, subjected to extended interrogations and watched 24-hours by two guards. Any windows are blacked out. It’s constant, unending strip lighting. The psychological torture these conditions produce drive some to try to kill themselves. The authorities know this—it’s intentional to coerce a confession—so they suicide-proof the cells. […]

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Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown

Read everyone, this is hype, and Canada is being dumb on this one. The Flipper Zero is also incapable of defeating keyless systems that rely on rolling codes, a protection that’s been in place since the 1990s that essentially transmits a different electronic key signal each time a key is pressed to lock or unlock a door. Most of this reaction is due to staged videos on TikTok and politicians not understanding technology. Maybe they’ll stop a few joyriding kids, but car thiefs aren’t using F0s.

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Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

I posted this in the other thread, but… Now congress can tell any company to get fucked and sell to the highest bidder (edit: via bills crafted to target them specifically)? So much for free market republicans. China will just find another company to buy our data from, because as it turns out, the problem isn’t just TikTok, it’s the fact the it’s legal for companies (foreign and domestic) to sell and exchange our data in the first place. TikTok will still collect the same data, and instead of it going straight to China, it’ll go to a rich white fuck first and they’ll be the ones to sell it to China instead. And if the problem is the fact that it’s addictive, well, we have plenty of our own home grown addictions for people to sink their time into. You don’t see congress telling those companies to get sold to a new owner.

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Esqueci o nome de uma YouTuber. Podem me ajudar?

Era uma… se não me engano era psicóloga. Ela se mudou do Brasil para a Espanha, mas gravava em português e gravava sobre temas diversos, como a romantização da magreza extrema, vendo vídeos do TikTok sobre e depois comentando a respeito.

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Donald Trump says TikTok "worthless," might not save it after all

Man, I really hope he does the double-flipflop on this and bans it again. Because Tiktok pulled the stunt this weekend to kiss his ass, blocking the app preemptively for the USA and crediting Trump with “saving” it with the popup message. This would be most disruptive to the propaganda pushers on both sides of the globe, and piss off the most people against them.

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It's ok, we sigma now.

Any time someone uses the terms “alpha”, “beta”, or “sigma” unironically when referring to a person, I immediately write them off as a braindead waste of oxygen. I’m not even religious, and I’m praying tiktok finally gets banned.

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Gen Zers are turning to ‘radical rest,’ delusional thinking, and self-indulgence as they struggle to cope with late-stage capitalism

Gen Zers are increasingly looking for ways to prioritize quality of life over financial achievement at all costs. The TikTok trend of “soft life”—and its financial counterpart “soft saving”—is a stark departure from their millennial predecessors’ financial habits, which were rooted in toxic hustle culture and the “Girlboss” era. “Soft savings” is, to my understanding, the opposite of savings – it’s about investing resources into making yourself happy now versus forever growing your savings for some future good time. It sounds ridiculous because they’re hitting on good critiques of capitailsm, but using the language of capitalism itself. I think this really bolsters my argument that the self-diagnosis trend might be better understood as young people being critical of society, but their education system completely failed them. Since they lack access to critical, social, and political theory, they don’t have a vocabulary to express their critiques, so they’ve used the things we have taught them, like the language of mental health, to sorta make up their own critical theory. When mental health experts are super concerned and talk about how all these teens’ self-diagnoses are “wrong,” they’re missing the point. It’s a new theory using existing building blocks.

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Alabama Supreme Court Cites the Bible in Terrifying Embryo Ruling

Citing the bible seems like a good way to undermine your position. The bible 100% is pro-abortion. The bible 100% says life begins at birth. Treating a fetus like a person is one of the least Christian things the right does. Edit: just going to post this right up front here. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8KShXpd/

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$45 for a cup?!

There is a water jug & mug manufacturer named Stanley. Apparently these “Stanley” brand cups went viral on TikTok, and TikTok users proceeded to buy them all up in a craze. The meme shows homer sitting next to the championship trophy of the National Hockey League, which is called the Stanley cup (no relation whatsoever to the Stanley name brand).