We’re seeing a revolt against ol’ shiny boots DeSantis. What Republicans see happening is almost a DeSantis dynasty where he’s trying to pass it to his wife Casey. He wants her to run for governor and then control the state for another eight years. And these Republicans are just looking for any excuse now to […]
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We’ve been reading about the judge in Wisconsin who’s been arrested by the bootstrap thugs lately. The federal jackboots have gone in and arrested a state court judge because they didn’t do what she wanted them to do. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Caleb […]
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More and more states are repealing child labor laws and so Governor Ron DeSantis has decided it’s a good time to do it here in Florida. He wants children working eight hour shifts from midnight to 8:00 AM on a school nights and while legally not having to give them breaks. Transcript: *This transcript was […]
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Johnson & Johnson has been in bankruptcy court arguing that even though they make billions of dollars a year, they’re totally bankrupt. We can’t pay out thousands of claims against them. But US bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez says, no, you’re not bankrupt, this is ridiculous. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software […]
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Dakar, April 4, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Burkina Faso to release recently detained journalists Guézouma Sanogo, Boukari Ouoba, and Luc Pagbelguem after they appeared in military uniform in videos posted on social media.
“The video showing detained Burkinabe journalists Guézouma Sanogo, Boukari Ouoba, and Luc Pagbelguem wearing military uniforms reinforces fears about the fate of the seven journalists kidnapped since June 2024, six of whom are now certain to have been forcibly conscripted into the army,” said Moussa Ngom, CPJ’s Francophone Africa representative. “Authorities must stop their efforts to censor the press by forcing journalists into military service and allow them to return to their homes and work.”
In the two-minute video, published by several Burkinabe Facebook accounts since at least Wednesday, Ouoba, Sanogo, and Pagbelguem appear in military uniform in an undisclosed location. Armed men, some in Burkinabe army uniform, stand behind them. A representative of the Association of Burkinabe Journalists (AJB), who requested anonymity for safety reasons, confirmed to CPJ that they are the three journalists who have been missing since they were arrested on March 24 in the capital Ouagadougou.
Sanogo is president of the AJB, and Ouoba is the vice president, while Pagbelguem is a reporter with privately owned TV station BF1.
In the video, Pagbelguem says “the real information on the ground” has “nothing to do with what we hear and often what we see,” while Ouoba adds, “No one can report on the security situation while being in Ouagadougou.” It was unclear if the statements were made under duress.
On March 24, two National Security Council intelligence agents arrested Pagbelguem at his media outlet to “be questioned” about his March 22 report on an AJB meeting where Sanogo criticized the kidnappings of journalists by the authorities. Earlier that day, intelligence agents had arrested Sanogo and Ouoba.
Three other journalists — Serge Atiana Oulon, Adama Bayala, and Kalifara Séré — have been forcibly conscripted after going missing in June 2024. Another journalist, Alain Traoré, was seized by men in masks in July, and his whereabouts remain unknown.
CPJ’s calls to Prime Minister Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo, government spokesperson Pingdwendé Gilbert Ouedraogo, and the Ministry of Defense for comment were not answered.
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Digging with their bare hands, rescuers in Myanmar have pulled several trapped people to safety in the days following a devastating 7.7-magnitude earthquake, videos circulating on social media show.
In one, a cell phone video taken by two teenage girls, ages 13 and 16, shows them trapped with their 75-year-old grandmother in the cramped darkness of a collapsed apartment building in Mandalay, a city near the epicenter of Friday’s quake.
“We’re trapped in here! We’re trapped in here!” one of them calls out desperately. One girl taps with something metallic on a concrete slab to signal to rescuers where they are.
Only the light of a mobile phone illuminates the claustrophobic scene. Briefly, we get a glimpse of the grandmother’s bloodied face.
Their cell phone signals reached residents, who worked feverishly to dig them out. Separate video footage shows a cluster of men lifting chunks of cement with their bare hands. “We’re ready to uncover them!” one shouts.
The final seconds of the footage shows the three being carried out of the rubble on stretchers on Sunday — a happy ending amid the gloom of the worst earthquake to hit Myanmar in decades.
The military-run country is ill-equipped to respond to the disaster. It is mired in a four-year civil war that has already displaced 3 million people.
So far, the quake has killed more than 3,000 people in Myanmar, according to the military junta that took power in a 2021 coup.
In another video, a 13-year-old girl named Pan Aye Chon is unearthed from the rubble of a collapsed monastery in Mandalay after three hours of digging by rescue workers.
While she survived the quake, family members say she’s heartbroken that many of her friends who were with her died.
When the shaking started midday Friday, the girl ran out of the monastery, but then turned around to go back to try to rescue her friends. Then part of the structure fell and trapped her, family members said.
In the capital, Naypyidaw, a 63-year-old woman was rescued from the rubble after being trapped for 91 hours, or nearly four days, Reuters reported.
Video showed orange uniform-clad rescuers in white helmets searching the partially collapsed remains of a building before the woman was carried out on a stretcher.
Reuters was able to confirm the location of the video as Naypyitaw from the buildings, the road layout and the entrance to the hospital, which matched satellite imagery of the area.
The date when the video was recorded could not be verified independently, Reuters said. However, a Myanmar Fire Services Department statement said the rescue took place on the morning of April 1.
Edited by Mat Pennington and Malcolm Foster
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The Hong Kong Journalists’ Association is appealing to journalists to preserve Facebook live video footage of 2019 protests after Meta said it will start deleting archived videos from its servers.
There are concerns that much of the online footage of those protests, most of which is banned in the city amid an ongoing crackdown on dissent, will no longer be available to the general public.
That will make it easier for the authorities to impose their own narrative on events in the city’s recent history.
Facebook notified users last month that it will be deleting archived live video streams from June 5, while newly streamed live video will be deleted after 30 days from Feb. 19, 2025.
“Since the Hong Kong news media have relied heavily on Facebook Live for reporting in the past, the Journalists Association now calls on the heads of mainstream, independent and citizen media and online editors to back up their videos as soon as possible,” the Hong Kong Journalists Association said.
“If necessary, you can follow the platform’s instructions to apply for an extension to up to six months before deletion,” it said.
In one livestream still available on YouTube from Oct. 1, 2019, an out-of-breath protester collates video feeds from several sources on the ground, commenting on what is unfolding while sounding out of breath from “running” at a protest a minute earlier.
In a Facebook Live video from the same day, a professional reporter from government broadcaster RTHK, which has since been forced to toe the ruling Chinese Communist Party line in its reporting, follows protests in Wong Tai Sin, explaining what is going on to live viewers.
While one feed is run by protesters and the other by a professional journalist, both offer a sense of boots-on-the-ground immediacy that would be crucial for anyone seeking to learn what the protests were about many years later.
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A reporter for an online media outlet who gave only the pseudonym Ken for fear of reprisals said a very large proportion of the public record of the 2019 protests was streamed live on Facebook, with more than 100 videos stored there.
While current media organizations have made backups, the footage will no longer be there for anyone to browse, making the record of that year less publicly available, Ken said.
“It’s like we’ve lost an online library,” he said. “Unless someone is willing to back it up and put it all online, there’ll be no way of finding that history any more, should you want to.”
Ken and his colleagues are concerned that online records of the 2019 could disappear entirely in a few years’ time, especially as republishing them from Hong Kong could render the user vulnerable to accusations of “glorifying” the protests, and prosecution under two national security laws.
“This is a very serious problem, because certain events or people may be completely forgotten about in a few years, maybe 10 years,” Ken said.
But there are risks attached to republishing video content — especially for residents of Hong Kong.
“You don’t know whether you will be accused of incitement if you post it again,” Ken said. “You never know what your live broadcast captured and whether there was issue … under the two national security laws.”
A fellow journalist who gave only the pseudonym Mr. G for fear of reprisals said his media organization still has access to its own live streamed footage of the 2019 protests from both Facebook and YouTube.
But he said the planned deletions could lead to “the permanent loss of some historical material.”
Facebook said that the owners of the videos will receive an email or notification in advance “and can choose to download the videos, transfer them to the cloud, or convert them into reels short videos within 90 days.”
“If users need more time to process old videos, they can apply to postpone the deadline by 6 months,” it said, adding that most live video is viewed in the first few weeks after being uploaded.
Veteran media commentator To Yiu-ming said social media platforms aren’t suited for use as a historical archive.
“There’s no point criticizing them,” To said. “Users may well encounter similar practices even … if they move to another social media platform.”
“If you want to preserve the historical record, you have to use less convenient methods, and spend a bit of time and money,” he said.
The concerns over the deletion of live video come after a report claimed that Meta was willing to go to “extreme lengths” to censor content and shut down political dissent in a failed attempt to win the approval of the Chinese Communist Party and bring Facebook to millions of internet users in China.
Citing a whistleblower complaint by Sarah Wynn-Williams from the company’s China policy team, the Washington Post reported that Meta “so desperately wanted to enter the lucrative China market that it was willing to allow the ruling party to oversee all social media content appearing in the country and quash dissenting opinions.”
So it developed a censorship system for China in 2015 and planned to install a “chief editor” who would decide what content to remove and could shut down the entire site during times of “social unrest,” according to a copy of the 78-page complaint exclusively seen by The Washington Post.
Meta executives also “stonewalled and provided nonresponsive or misleading information” to investors and American regulators, the complaint said.
Meta spokesman Andy Stone told the paper that it was “no secret” the company was interested in operating in China.
“This was widely reported beginning a decade ago,” Stone was quoted as saying. “We ultimately opted not to go through with the ideas we’d explored, which Mark Zuckerberg announced in 2019.”
Translated by Luisetta Mudie. Edited by Malcolm Foster.
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Milkor, a global defence solutions provider had a strong showcasing during IDEX and NAVDEX 2025. With this edition marking their 4th time exhibiting during the show, Milkor presented new additions to their land and Naval solutions, manufactured in UAE. http://www.milkor.ae/
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Within the last nine months in California, and even going before that, tens of thousands of people have lost their insurance policies, the fire policy, not the rest of your homeowners insurance, just anything that covers fire and it’s because the insurance companies can do it. Nobody is stopping them. Transcript: *This transcript was generated […]
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Anybody with a brain can see why they lost. But the other side of it is, why did Trump win? It’s a different analysis, tied up, but it’s slightly a different analysis and what you’re seeing is that he has unique political appeal. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so […]
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Allan Lichtman, the professor, was so unequivocal about what was going to happen. There were his 13 points and he’s on every talk show. But now, how do we put any trust in what he’s saying? Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Mike Papantonio: We […]
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On New Year’s Eve, Jerry Nadler Democrat in the House says, we’ve compiled this report that outlines everything that Jim Jordan, the chair of the Judiciary Committee did to help Elon Musk make money, basically laying out what they call this collusion between Jim Jordan and Elon Musk. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a […]
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So John Fetterman says, I’m going to go sit down with Trump because he’s invited me to come sit down and the liberals are going crazy. Democrats are going nuts. They should be pleased that somebody is willing to say, look, we’ve got to talk. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software […]
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Liberal world right now is just topsy-turvy and one place they’re topsy-turvy is that the journalists who have been known as liberal commentators, liberal writers, exclusive ideology liberal, they’re being fired. They’re being fired. They’re being let go. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Mike […]
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Congressmen and congresswomen are making just crazy profit margins on their investments and they’re doing it with inside information. If you’re investing money in the stock market and you’re making 240% returns, you’re a super genius or you’re an evil criminal. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse […]
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What impact are we left with in January 6th as we go into it? For the American public, what’s their reaction to all this? If we believe that there was a coup that was going to take place, how does this affect anything? Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so […]
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Devastating forest fires have been ravaging Los Angeles and surrounding areas of California since January 7. So far, more than 25 lives have been lost in the catastrophe. More than 1,80,000 residents were forced to leave their homes and more than 12,000 buildings have been destroyed. Against this backdrop, several videos are going viral on social media including YouTube, in which it is being claimed that a mosque in the middle of the city remained safe in the grip of such a powerful forest fire, while everything else was destroyed.
A YouTube channel named Islamic Vibe uploaded a video on January 12, claiming that Masjid Al-Hikma in Los Angeles remained undamaged during the fire. The video alleges that the wind, which had been pushing flames toward the mosque, mysteriously changed direction, sparing the structure.
Similarly, YouTube channel Al-Fatahan also uploaded a similar video on January 12, claiming that while thousands of buildings were destroyed due to the devastation of the Los Angeles city fire, a Neural Imam mosque did not suffer any damage.
A YouTube channel named Discover Pakistan also uploaded a similar video claiming that all the buildings were destroyed in the fierce fire in Los Angeles city, while a Neural Imam Masjid was not damaged in which many people were offering prayers at that time.
Another YouTube channel called Islamic Survival posted a similar video on January 13, claiming that some people were taking shelter in a library amid the fires in Los Angeles. It claimed that eventually, the same library also got engulfed in the flames and everything was burnt to ashes. When a survivor who escaped from that fire later reached the library, he saw that everything there was burnt to ashes in such a devastating blaze that even iron structures had melted. However, it alleged that a single copy of the Quran remained untouched by the flames. According to the video, this miraculous event reportedly inspired several non-Muslims to convert to Islam.
Similarly, a number of other YouTube channels like Islamic Robes, Path to Jannah, etc. also posted videos with the same claim.
Frames from the viral video show skyscrapers on fire, while in one of these, skyscrapers in the entire city are shown burning. Flames can also be seen coming out of the upper parts of the buildings in the frames. There are many such frames in the video which clearly indicate that it has been created with the help of artificial intelligence. In reality, no such incident has happened and the images depict an entire city burning in some instances do not correspond to any actual locations in Los Angeles.
Alt News performed a keyword search using terms related to the incident on Google, the most used search engine in the United States. However, we did not find any news reports to corroborate that a certain mosque was left undamaged during a fire in the entire area. Nor was there any news which mentioned the incident in the library and stated that the entire library was burnt to ashes, but the Quran did not catch fire. Such an incident does not seem logically plausible either. When we searched about the mosques mentioned in the viral videos, we could not find any related news reports regarding a mosque named Al-Hikma or Neural Imam that have been published recently in the city of Los Angeles, nor could we find any information related to such mosques available on the Internet. However, several places of worship in Pasadena and Altadena were reported to have been destroyed in this fire, including Masjid Al-Taqwa.
It is worth noting that none of these contain any real image or videos related to the incident anywhere in it, nor has any official media report been cited here. All the videos and graphics have been created with the help of artificial intelligence, and the voiceover in all of them is also not a human voice, but a robotic voice. The one posted by YouTube channel Discover Pakistan is an exception in this case. This channel has created a report based on the AI-generated footage, in which a voiceover recorded by a human has been used.
Screenshots from these YouTube channels reveal a consistent use of sensational thumbnails and exaggerated headlines, created with the help of AI, to attract viewers. Many of the videos posted on these channels follow a similar pattern of fabricating stories around trending topics to gain millions of views.
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To sum up, the slew of viral videos on YouTube claiming the miraculous survival of mosques and copies of the Quran during the Los Angeles fires are entirely fabricated. These videos were created with the help of AI. Since the incident is garnering widespread headlines at the moment, these edited videos were also amassing millions of views on social media.
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The pharma industry has gone crazy about what they feel the threat of RFK is. They’re worried about things like he’s talking about doing away with pharma advertising where you turn on the television and every eight minutes there’s a new drug ad. The industry themselves won’t do anything about it because they’re making so […]
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The arguments in favor of Trump’s attempt to acquire Greenland has to do with natural resources, has to do with precious metals that we can’t get anywhere else, has to do with China making their move into Greenland. It has to do with the people in Greenland not being that crazy about the Denmark leadership […]
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The Zuckerberg Rogan interview, he said that the administration would call him almost daily, screaming at him, yelling at him to tell him that he has to censor. He tells the story of that’s where he can’t be part of this he says, he’s going to do away with censorship. We’re not going to do […]
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In some states like Florida and California and some other folks are saying, wait a second, you want to do business in this state, you take the good with the bad. It’s an investment you’re making into our state. There’s plenty of places in California where State Farm and Allstate and Farmers, these insurance companies […]
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The same players that had the back of tobacco, the same folks that were killing people by the tens of thousands, have now moved to the food industry. The food additives, there’s no guesswork anymore. They don’t have to guess, is this killing kids? Is it causing problems? Is it causing diabetes? Is it causing […]
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Donald Trump’s sentencing. When you look at what this judge has done, the evidentiary rulings he made, the procedural rulings he made, he begins to look like a dope. He wants to get a felony conviction before Trump becomes president, even though with the appellate court, it’s going to go away immediately. Transcript: *This transcript […]
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The Pentagon has been recruiting with MrBeast. It begins with the fact nobody’s signing up anymore. Are we going to give people a trophy for showing up and enlisting? But Zoomers and Generation Z have no interest in anything having to do with the U.S. military. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription […]
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President Joe Biden has said he regrets stepping down. It’s a lack of self-awareness. He doesn’t even know that he hasn’t been making decisions for the last four years. So he doesn’t even realize for four years he hasn’t even been in charge, but he regrets that he didn’t make another run at it. Transcript: […]
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James Carville is saying, nothing has changed between the time that he helped get Clinton elected and now. The American public has not made this vast change in the way they view the political world. He said, it comes down to this, the economy stupid. Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software […]
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What impact are we left with in January 6th as we go into it? For the American public, what’s their reaction to all this? If we believe that there was a coup that was going to take place, how does this affect anything? Transcript: *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so […]
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Donald Trump’s sentencing. When you look at what this judge has done, the evidentiary rulings he made, the procedural rulings he made, he begins to look like a dope. He wants to get a felony conviction before Trump becomes president, even though with the appellate court, it’s going to go away immediately. Transcript: *This transcript […]
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