In the headlines: the Brazilian president sanctioned by Youtube
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's Youtube channel has been suspended after the spread of false rumors linking the Covid-19 vaccine to the AIDS virus.
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For a week, Jair Bolsonaro will not be able to broadcast any content on his channel of this video platform. “
Jair Bolsonaro's channel was suspended for seven days on Youtube because the head of state broadcast false information,
” explains
Correio Braziliense
. “
Last Thursday, during his weekly show broadcast live on Youtube, which has more than 3.5
million subscribers, the president spoke of a rumor emanating
- supposedly
- from" official reports "of the government British,
”the newspaper continued. “
According to this rumor, people fully vaccinated against the coronavirus would more easily develop the AIDS virus.
"
This information is false.
They have been denied by the British government.
And the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases also assured on Saturday that there was "
no relationship between any anti-Covid-19 vaccine and AIDS
".
Youtube has therefore removed the video in question, the same is true for other platforms, Facebook and Instagram.
Columnists are once again headlong against Jair Bolsonaro
“
Enough is enough
!
", Exclaims for example the daily
O Estado
which affirms that the current head of state"
has elevated disinformation to the rank of method of governance. For years the President of the Republic has used the most shameless lies as instruments of mobilization and electoral propaganda
”.
O Estado
notes that Jair Bolsonaro has not commented on the suspension of his channel on Youtube. “
And it's not necessary. The President spread the lie and is now letting him live his life in the opaque world of social media
. "
For the newspaper
O Globo
, “
the campaign against vaccination led by Jair Bolsonaro is nothing less than a crime which must be severely punished.
This is what the final report of the Senate Commission of Inquiry into the catastrophic management of the pandemic by the President
”, a report which will be voted on today by the deputies.
Venezuela
: the difficult return to school
In neighboring Venezuela, students were to return to class yesterday after 18 months of distance learning due to the pandemic.
But, as the
Efecto Cocuyo
information site
notes
, the students were not there.
Only a small number of children were back on the school benches.
“There are
several reasons for this
”, explains
Tal Cual
: “
The lack of preparation of schools, the fear of parents, but also the lack of public transport due to the shortage of fuel
”.
United States
: Civil Rights Pioneer Calls for Justice
In Montgomery, a town in the state of Alabama, one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement is now back in the spotlight. “
African-American Claudette Colvin was 15
in March 1955, when she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. Nine months before Rosa Parks
”, recalls the
Montgomery Advertiser
today
. “
This refusal earned him his muscular arrest by white police. She was locked in a cell and then released on probation
. This supervised freedom has never been lifted. "
Now 82 years old, Claudette Colvin will file a request on Tuesday in the Montgomery juvenile court, since she was a minor at the time of the facts, to finally cancel the measure and clear her name,
”reports the local newspaper.
After the torrential rain fires in California
After the terrible forest fires that ravaged the west coast of the United States again this summer, California has had to face heavy rains in recent days accompanied by strong winds. Sacramento, the capital of California, "
recorded 13.8
centimeters of precipitation in 24
hours
: a historic record
," exclaims the daily
Sacramento Bee
. “
The storm caused floods and landslides. But it also signaled the end of the wildfire season.
"
"
For the residents of the south of the state, the sound of raindrops on the roof was music they had not heard for months,
" writes the
Los Angeles Times
.
But in the newspaper's columns, scientists warn: "
The drought on the west coast of the United States has been such for the past two years that even a wet winter would not be enough to relieve the dried up water tables
."
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