Disinformation About US Elections Targets Communities of Color
Bad actors are flooding the information landscape with false and misleading information ahead of US elections in November, disproportionately targeting communities of color. The torrent of misinformation is sparking concerns it could alter voting patterns and even affect the outcomes of the presidential and other elections.
Ten years after Ferguson, data on police killings shows a lack of progress
In the 10 years since Michael Brown Jr. was killed in Ferguson, Missouri, sparking nationwide protests against police brutality, documented police killings in the United States have continued at virtually the same rate, an NBC News analysis of the Mapping Police Violence database found.
‘Worst nightmare of my life’: Solitary confinement rises at Houston-area ICE detention center
Sitting in a small, windowless cell at the Montgomery Processing Center, Salvador Bautista was ready to give up. Bautista was placed in solitary confinement for disciplinary reasons for six weeks, a length in isolation considered torture by the United Nations. “They are driving me crazy here,” he wrote in Spanish in a letter sent from his cell in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention to his sister, Mayra Bautista Cerda, dated Feb. 18.
Afghanistan: 20 years of steady education progress ‘almost wiped out’
Afghanistan is currently the only country in the world where secondary and higher education is strictly forbidden to women and girls over age 12. The de facto authorities in Afghanistan “have almost wiped out two decades of steady progress for education” there, putting the future of an entire generation in jeopardy, the UN educational, scientific and cultural agency (UNESCO) reported on Wednesday.