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UK riots show how social media can fuel real-life harm. It’s only getting worse

CNN  —  The widespread anti-immigrant riots in the United Kingdom of the past week, and the false viral claims that fueled them, may be the clearest, most direct example yet of the way unchecked misinformation on social media can produce violence and harm in the real world. Even after authorities identified a UK national as …

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Israeli airstrike kills businessman sanctioned by US for ISIS links, Syrian media reports

CNN  —  An Israeli airstrike near the Lebanese-Syrian border has killed a prominent Syrian businessman who was sanctioned by the United States, local media reported Monday. Mohammad Baraa Qatarji died when the strike hit the car he was traveling in on the al-Saboura highway near Damascus, according to Syrian state-aligned newspaper al-Watan. Qatarji had been sanctioned in …

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