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"The novelist @Hanifkureishi has said that 'nobody would have the balls' to write The Satanic Verses today. More precisely, nobody would publish it... the ayatollahs have trained them well." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/salman-rushdie-fatwa-attack/671139/ @gcaw in @TheAtlantic #SalmanRushdie #Freedom #FreeExpression

In Germany, political figures were impersonated on #TikTok.

In Colombia, a woman was able to masquerade as another candidate’s daughter.

In the Philippines, misinformation helped the son of the country’s former dictator prevail in the presidential race.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/14/business/media/on-tiktok-election-misinformation.html