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Trump campaign says its internal messages hacked by Iran

Donald Trump’s campaign has said some of its internal communications have been hacked and suggested it was targeted by Iranian operatives. US news website Politico reported on Saturday that it had been emailed campaign documents including internal research carried out on Trump’s running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance. “These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election,” a campaign spokesman told the BBC. Politico said it had confirmed the authenticity of the documents. The BBC has not independently verified the claims. The campaign did not give any further details or any evidence linking the document leak to Iranian hackers or the Iranian government. Its statement came one day after Microsoft released a report indicating that Iranian hackers targeted the campaign of an unnamed US presidential candidate in June. Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center (MTAC) said that the campaign was sent a spear phishing email – a message designed to look trustworthy in order to get the target to click on a malicious link.

via bbc: Trump campaign says its internal messages hacked by Iran

siehe auch: Trump’s 270-Page Dossier of JD Vance’s ‘Vulnerabilities’ Hacked by Iran. The Trump campaign announced it had been hacked by “foreign sources” that leaked internal documents to news organizations. Iran is the prime suspect. The Trump campaign accused Iran of a hack-and-leak operation Saturday, after a 270-page dossier of JD Vance’s “vulnerabilities” was sent to at least two news organizations. The internal campaign vetting report on Vance was sent to Politico and The Washington Post from an AOL.com email address, along with a document on Marco Rubio, the Florida senator who was not chosen as Donald Trump’s running mate. Hours after Politico revealed it received the materials, the Trump campaign said it had been hacked, accusing Iran of the breach. (…) One email contained a 271-page report on Vance entitled “POTENTIAL VULNERABILITIES.” Robert told Politico they had a “variety of documents from [Trump’s] legal and court documents to internal campaign discussions,” and when pressed for how they obtained them, Robert responded, “I suggest you don’t be curious about where I got them from. Any answer to this question, will compromise me and also legally restricts you from publishing them.” This is by no means a first for Trump. In 2020, a hacker hacked his X account by guessing his password, “maga2020!”; Trump campaign says ‘hostile’ foreign sources hacked and leaked internal documents, emails. Former President Donald Trump’s campaign said Saturday that some internal documents and communications had been hacked and blamed it on “foreign sources hostile to the United States” intent on interfering with the presidential election. The acknowledgment by the campaign came after the POLITICO news organization reported that it had received emails from an anonymous account with documents that purported to be from inside the Trump campaign operation. “These documents were obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process,” campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement to USA TODAY.

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Meta beats censorship lawsuit by RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine group

Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab defeated an appeal by Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., challenging its censorship of Facebook posts that spread misinformation about vaccines’ efficacy and safety. In a decision on Friday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California, said the nonprofit did not show that Meta worked with or was coerced by federal officials to suppress views challenging “government orthodoxy” on vaccines. Children’s Health Defense sued in 2020, saying that Meta had violated its constitutional rights by flagging “vaccine misinformation” as false, and taking away its right to advertise on Facebook. Meta’s actions included prohibiting users from sharing claims that COVID-19 vaccines don’t work, and referring viewers of Children’s Health Defense posts to the World Health Organization for facts about COVID-19. Circuit Judge Eric Miller, appointed to the court by Republican former President Donald Trump, wrote for the appeals court that Meta was a “purely private” company with a First Amendment right not to use its platform to promote views it found distasteful. “Meta evidently believes that vaccines are safe and effective and that their use should be encouraged,” Miller wrote. “It does not lose the right to promote those views simply because they happen to be shared by the government.” The court also rejected Children’s Health Defense’s claims against the Poynter Institute and Science Feedback, which help Meta evaluate the accuracy of Facebook content. Kennedy, an independent U.S. presidential candidate, helped argue Children’s Health Defense’s appeal. Meta removed, opens new tab the group’s accounts from Facebook and Instagram in August 2022.

via reuters: Meta beats censorship lawsuit by RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine group

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Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, at centre of Olympics gender row, files legal complaint over online harassment

Khelif was crowned an Olympic champion on Friday after comfortably beating China’s Yang Liu by unanimous decision to win gold in the women’s welterweight final. The Algerian boxer at the centre of a gender row at the Paris Olympics has filed a legal complaint saying she has been a victim of online harassment. Imane Khelif’s lawyer Nabil Boudi said the complaint was filed with the Paris Prosecutor’s Office on Friday. On Saturday, the gold-winning boxer said: “All that is being said about me on social media is immoral. I want to change the minds of people around the world.” Khelif was crowned an Olympic champion on Friday after comfortably beating China’s Yang Liu by unanimous decision to win gold in the women’s welterweight final. She won each of the three rounds on the judges’ scorecards and jumped into the arms of her trainer when the decision was announced. He carried the 25-year-old around the arena on his shoulders in celebration. “For eight years, this has been my dream, and I’m now the Olympic champion and gold medalist,” Khelif said through an interpreter. Asked about the row, she told reporters: “That also gives my success a special taste because of those attacks.”

via sky: Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, at centre of Olympics gender row, files legal complaint over online harassment

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Afghanische Breakerin bei #Olympia – Erst setzt sie ein Zeichen für Frauenrechte, dann wird sie disqualifiziert – #Talash #FreeAfghanWomen

Die afghanische Breakerin Talash sagt, sie habe in ihrer Heimat Todesdrohungen erhalten. Beim Olympiadebüt ihres Sports präsentiert sie einen Umhang mit einer Botschaft und wird dafür bestraft. Die afghanische Breakerin Talash ist nach ihrem Zeichen für Frauenrechte in ihrer Heimat bei der Olympiapremiere des Tanzsports disqualifiziert worden. Die 21-Jährige hatte bei ihrem Auftritt am Freitag einen hellblauen Umhang mit der Aufschrift »Free Afghan Women« (»Befreit afghanische Frauen«) präsentiert. Dies wertete die World DanceSport Federation laut einer Mitteilung als »Zeigen eines politischen Slogans« und disqualifizierte die Athletin. Sie war in der Vorqualifikation des Wettbewerbs auch bereits sportlich ausgeschieden. Talash, die mit bürgerlichem Namen Manizha Talas heißt, ist nach der Machtübernahme der Taliban aus ihrer Heimat geflohen und tritt in Paris als Mitglied des 34 Athletinnen und Athleten starken Flüchtlingsteams an.

via spiegel: Afghanische Breakerin bei Olympia Erst setzt sie ein Zeichen für Frauenrechte, dann wird sie disqualifiziert

siehe auch: Olympic breaking athlete disqualified for ‘free Afghan women’ cape.B-girl Talash, from the Refugee Olympic team, competes while wearing a cape that reads “Free Afghan Women” during the B-girls pre-qualifier on Friday. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images CNN  —  Refugee athlete Manizha Talash was disqualified from the B-Girl breaking competition at the Olympics for wearing a cape with the words “Free Afghan Women” during her breaking battle on Friday. The 21-year-old, who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban began seizing control in 2021, now lives in Spain and represents the Refugee Team at the games as B-girl Talash. As she made her debut during the pre-qualifier battle, Talash revealed a baby blue cape under her jumper emblazoned with the words calling for Afghan women’s emancipation. World DanceSport Federation, which governs the sport, issued a statement later on Friday saying “B-Girl TALASH (EOR) was disqualified for displaying a political slogan on her attire during the Pre-Qualifier battle. Results have been updated accordingly.”

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Trump Has Started to Piss Off White Supremacists

Donald Trump’s campaign strategy has shockingly lost support with a key part of his voter base. White supremacist, Hitler fan, and far-right political pundit Nick Fuentes shockingly revoked his support from Donald Trump’s campaign early Friday, announcing on social media that he and his allies believed that the presidential bid is headed for a “catastrophic loss.” “Tonight I declared a new Groyper War against the Trump campaign,” Fuentes wrote on X (formerly Twitter) shortly after midnight, referring to a group of far-right activists known as groypers. Fuentes explained that he and his far-right squad of online trolls “support Trump” but that they view his 2024 campaign as being “hijacked” by lobbyists, consultants, and donors that had aided Trump’s 2016 Republican opponents. All in all, Fuentes believed they were “blowing it.” “Without serious changes we are headed for a catastrophic loss,” Fuentes wrote.

via newrepublic: Trump Has Started to Piss Off White Supremacists

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Trotz Geschlechter-Debatte: Boxerin Khelif im Finale – #GoForGold #Imane_Khelif

Der Olympiasieg sei „die richtige Antwort“ auf die Kontroverse um ihr Startrecht, sagt Imane Khelif. Die Boxerin ist nur noch einen Sieg von Gold und einer großen Genugtuung entfernt. Paris – Die algerische Boxerin Imane Khelif ist trotz der anhaltenden Geschlechter-Debatte um ihre Person ins Olympia-Finale eingezogen. Die 25-Jährige gewann ihr Halbfinale gegen Janjaem Suwannapheng aus Thailand einstimmig nach Punkten und boxt am Freitag in der Gewichtsklasse bis 66 kg um Gold. Khelif wurde im fast vollen Court Philippe-Chatrier, wo sonst vor 15.000 Zuschauern die großen Tennisspiele der French Open stattfinden, erneut von zahlreichen Fans mit algerischen Flaggen frenetisch angefeuert und bejubelt. „So Gott will, wird diese Krise in einer Goldmedaille gipfeln, das wäre die beste Antwort“, hatte Khelif nach ihrem Viertelfinalsieg gesagt. Sie wolle in Paris „eine Botschaft an die Menschen in der Welt“ senden. Mobbing könne „Menschen zerstören, es kann die Gedanken, den Geist und den Verstand von Menschen töten“.

via fr: Trotz Geschlechter-Debatte: Boxerin Khelif im Finale

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Thousands of anti-racism protesters take to streets to counter far-right rallies

Demonstrators form human shields in towns and cities across England, after 6,000 police drafted in to tackle disorder. Thousands of anti-racism protesters gathered across England and formed human shields to protect asylum centres after police warned of unrest from more than 100 far right-led rallies. Holding placards saying “refugees welcome” and “reject racism, try therapy”, people took to the streets in towns and cities nine days after the country was shaken by repeated riots following the murders of three girls in Merseyside. But there was little sign of the unrest seen over the past week. Police staged their biggest mobilisation to counter disorder since the 2011 riots on Wednesday as they said there was a credible threat that many of the planned gatherings could turn violent. (…) About 6,000 riot-trained officers were drafted in to tackle the expected rallies and an estimated 30 counter-protests after immigration law firms and refugee centres were listed as potential targets in a far-right chat group on the encrypted messaging app Telegram. But thousands of counter-protesters took to the streets of Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Brighton and London to protect their communities from the rumoured protests that were due to take place on Wednesday evening. At 7pm in Liverpool, hundreds of people formed a human shield outside a targeted church that hosts an immigration advice centre while women held banners saying: “Nans against Nazis”. Similar scenes were witnessed in the east London boroughs of Hackney and Walthamstow as thousands of local people and anti-fascist activists came together and held placards saying “we are one human race” and “unite against hate”. In Brighton, the handful of anti-immigration protesters who gathered outside a targeted law office were surrounded by police for their own protection after they were outnumbered by about 500 counter-protesters who chanted: “Off our streets, Nazi scum.” Later, the gathering took on a street carnival atmosphere with a samba band and loud singing.

via guardian: Thousands of anti-racism protesters take to streets to counter far-right rallies

siehe auch: UK riots latest: Thousands of counter-protesters crowd out planned far-Right rallies. Far-Right demonstrators were left outnumbered on Wednesday night as thousands of counter-protesters crowded them out in towns and cities across England. Police forces across the country had braced for more than 100 far-Right demonstrations, but it was the counter-protesters who turned out in far greater numbers. In London, more than 5,000 people amassed in Walthamstow carrying banners of ‘Oppose Tommy Robinson’ and ‘Refugees Welcome’.  Hundreds of counter-protesters also gathered outside an immigration advice centre in Brentford and the Old Fire Station in Hackney. There were also large counter-demonstrations in Birmingham, Sheffield, Liverpool, Newcastle, Bristol, and Brighton.

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