Week in World News: Starting With Zuckerburg on the Hill and the Algeria Plane Crash
Facebook Mark Zuckerburg vs US Senator
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebooks founder, and chief executive has come under serious heat this week following news regarding facebooks privacy policies. The tech innovator was questioned in front of dozens of senators for two days straight at Washingtons Capitol Hill, over the 10th and 11th of April this week regarding Facebooks major scandal surrounding user’s private and sensitive data being sold to major corporations. The org also came under fire for”tampering with votes” and propagating “fake news” on the site, in which Zuckerburg, took full responsibility for, apologising during the hearing, relaying Facebook “should have done more and been more vigilant.” The senator made bold statements concerning the language of the privacy agreement on the App that he claimed felt like it was in “Swahili” designed to divert people from the reality.
Day 2
On day two of the questioning, the CEO claimed that the “data was harvested”. He also revealed that his firm was exploring whether to take action against the University of Cambridge. The institution in which researcher Aleksandr Kogan, collected and sold personal data to Cambridge Analytica, was based. There has been an uproar on social media with an onslaught of Memes and comic tweets featuring Zuckerburg.
Sorry.
AI will fix it.There, I saved you 10 hours of Mark Zuckerberg testimony, you're welcome.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) April 12, 2018
ROFL
Mark Zukerburg explaining internet to the old people. pic.twitter.com/FTVbsaXzvK— Mustafa (@IamMustafaRahim) April 12, 2018
The investigation into #CambridgeAnalytica is tugging at a loose thread that is connected to the very fabric of our society. This scandal isn't just about #Facebook/#Zuckerberg etc. It is about the way corporate power subverts our democracy to its own ends pic.twitter.com/Oos3YkzDjo
— Stefan Simanowitz (@StefSimanowitz) April 10, 2018
Booster seat for everyone’s special little guy. ???? #Zuckerberg pic.twitter.com/ekagIVDK4V
— GRANT J. KIDNEY (@GrantJKidney) April 10, 2018
Algeria Plane Crash
A military plane crashed near Algiers on Wednesday 11th April killing 257 people. The plane took off West of Algiers, from Boufarik military airport. The defence ministry reported most among the dead were army personnel and their families, it was recorded that some women and children were among the wreckage, and “30 Western Saharans.” A full investigation is being carried out, to see what caused the catastrophic event, as this is the worst plane crash in Algeria’s history. The government has declared three days to allow for national mourning.
Footage from the scene of military plane crash in Algeria, with reports saying at least 100 people may have died https://t.co/ByDhcsknvu pic.twitter.com/DIeNt1SD8s
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 11, 2018
Some of the photos of the victims of the plane crash that killed 257 people in Algeria today.
We will remember them. #Boufarik pic.twitter.com/5B0AEaxOS5
— DZ Football (@DZFootball_en) April 11, 2018
Tony Robbins Fiasco & #MeToo movement
Life coach and author Tony Robbins came under heavy critique this week after a video surfaced last Friday of one of his shows in which he stated to an audience of thousands, that women were using the #MeToo movement to “try to get significance and certainty by attacking and destroying someone else.” The public speaker received a huge amount of negative backlash on social media channels due to his words and actions. During the event, one woman (a survivor of sexual violence and abuse) Mccool, questioned the mogul stating how Mr. Robbins did not understand the nuances of the Me Too movement. The coach and writer proceeded to physically push the woman backward, whilst she physically stood her ground and pushed back on his forceful demeanour. An incredibly uncomfortable snippet of the scene went viral, causing many to question his motives as a survivor of abuse. Robbins issued a statement on his Facebook and Twitter pages detailing his deep regret for his words and actions and the welcoming of knowledge to better understand the movement.
Life coach Tony Robbins says women are using #MeToo to make themselves 'significant' — but this brave sexual abuse survivor called him out pic.twitter.com/wYxhlmc10u
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 6, 2018
Yassmin Abdul Magied deported from the US
US officials say Yassmin Abdul Magied was deported to Amsterdam as a result of not having a “correct visa” even though the public speaker, has travelled to the US on the same visa previously. The Australian author, activist, and TV personality, Abdel-Magied was due to speak at the ‘PEN World Voices festival in New York’, but she was denied entry to the country at Minneapolis airport. She was put on a plane bound for Amsterdam shortly after. The incident caught traction in the mainstream media shortly after it was documented by our girl on Twitter.
"We call on Customs and Border Patrol to admit @yassmin_a to the U.S. so that she can take her rightful place in the urgent international conversation to take place at the @PENworldvoices Festival next week." https://t.co/QjazQRoPPH
— PEN America (@PENamerican) April 12, 2018
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Hanan
Hanan has a Masters in Media in the Middle East from SOAS University. Trainee of the Muslim Women in Media institute Annual Cohort at UC Davis, California. Her interests lie in ethical fashion, modern-day slavery, and when not making Youtube videos she is somewhere in between Ballet and Kickboxing. King Julian is her spirit animal.
