Facebook's new Fact-Checking policies have carved out an exemption for climate deniers

A "conservative" Facebook employee quietly intervened, overturning the fact check, and the misinformation was no longer labeled as false. Facebook will consider it "opinion" and therefore immune to fact-checking.
Read more: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/25/facebooks-new-fact-checking.html?source=Snapzu

Tanzanian miner becomes overnight millionaire

Saniniu Laizer sold two Tanzanite stones, with a combined weight of 15kg, for £2.4m.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53148612?source=Snapzu

Republicans push bill requiring tech companies to help access encrypted data

The proposed legislation is Congress' latest attempt to weaken encryption from tech giants.
Read more: https://www.cnet.com/news/republicans-push-bill-requiring-tech-companies-to-help-access-encrypted-data/?source=Snapzu

Europe's job retention schemes have created 9 million 'zombie jobs,' analyst warns

Europe's "blanket job-retention schemes" mean that around 9 million workers risk becoming unemployed in 2021, according to asset management firm Allianz.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/23/zombie-jobs-9-million-jobs-at-risk-in-europe-after-support-schemes.html?source=Snapzu

Fauci gives Congress COVID-19 warning

Anthony Fauci, the administration’s top infectious disease doctor, told a House panel on Tuesday that rising U.S.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/504197-fauci-gives-congress-covid-19-warning??source=Snapzu

Xi plays tough, but can China afford to make an enemy of India?

The brutal ambush in the Himalayas is the latest aggressive move from Beijing by a nation battling crises on several fronts
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/21/xi-plays-tough-but-can-china-afford-to-make-an-enemy-of-india?source=Snapzu

Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process

Antisocial network floods registrars with unjustified data requests
Read more: https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/23/facebook_gdpr_workaround/?source=Snapzu