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Egyptian police have arrested an activist and researcher who has been a vocal critic of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's governmentBy SAMY MAGDY Associated PressFebruary 9, 2020, 8:40 PM3 min readCAIRO -- Egyptian police arrested an activist and researcher who was a vocal critic of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's government, the interior ministry and a human rights group said Sunday. Patrick George Zaki, 27, was detained at Cairo's international airport after returning from Italy on Friday, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a local NGO, where he works as a researcher. He was taken to the prosecutor's office in his home city of Mansoura in the Nile Delta. Zaki's arrest was the latest in an unprecedented crackdown on dissent waged by El-Sissi in recent years. Thou...

Facebook’s latest effort to prevent the spread of misinformation by groups such as the Russians, who according to the FBI meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, is getting mixed reviews during a test period in Ireland. The new Facebook "View Ads" feature is currently being tested there as the country prepares for its referendum to change its abortion laws and has been scheduled for launch in the U.S. ahead of this year’s midterm elections. However, experts researching the new tool claim it doesn’t provide enough information to help protect users from misinformation and fake ads. Ireland is due to vote May 25 on whether or not to repeal the 8th Amendment to its Constitution, which bans abortion in nearly all circumstances and was enacted by a referendum in 1983. A yes vote would...

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Egypt arrests human rights activist who criticized gov’t

Facebook's transparency efforts heavily criticized ahead of Irish abortion referendum