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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has blasted Fox News allowing for 'unmitigated racism' and said she won't go on the network because their ad revenue pays the salary of a 'white supremacist sympathizer'. The Congresswoman responded after seeing a guest on Tucker Carlson's show label her Bronx-Queens, New York 14th District 'dirty' because of 'illegal aliens'. 'I go back and forth on whether to go on Fox News,' AOC told her Twitter followers Wednesday.  'The main reason I haven’t is squaring the fact that the ad revenue from it bankrolls a white supremacist sympathizer to broadcast an hour-long production of unmitigated racism, without any accountability whatsoever.'  Scroll down for video  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has blasted Fox News allowing for 'unmitigated racism' and said she won't go on the network on Wednesday after she was mocked for promoting Green New Deal She tweeted about Fox: 'It bankrolls a white supremacist sympathizer to broadcast an hour-long … [Read more...] about AOC accuses Fox News of ‘unmitigated racism’ and brands Tucker Carlson a ‘white supremacist sympathizer’ after his guest said ‘illegal aliens’ made her New York district dirty

MOSCOW: A fire broke out Thursday on Russia's only aircraft carrier as it underwent repairs in an Artic shipyard, Russian news agencies reported. The Admiral Kuznetsov has been undergoing repairs for more than two years in Murmansk and suffered previous damage in October 2018 when a crane crashed onto its deck. State news agency RIA Novosti quoted a source in the Zvezdochka shipyard as saying the fire broke out during welding operations. Initial reports said three workers were missing. More than 400 people were on board when the fire erupted, state news agency TASS quoted a Zvezdochka spokesman as saying. News agency Interfax reported that the fire had spread over an area of about 600 6,500 square feet. The Admiral Kuznetsov -- launched in 1985 and the flagship of the Russian navy -- has been undergoing its first major repairs since 1997. The repairs were expected to be completed by the end of 2020, with the warship rejoining the navy in 2021. … [Read more...] about Russia’s only aircraft carrier on fire in port: News agencies

BENGALURU: Social media giant Facebook has revamped a programme that checks for fake news on its platform, with users now being alerted to such posts as soon as they view it. Facebook started a pilot factchecking program in Karnataka last year through a partnership with fact-checking portal Boom, followed by one with Vishvas-.News. The company will now also check facts in partnership with AFP India, Fact Crescendo, Factly, Newsmobile Fact Checker, The Quint and India Today Fact Check. Facebook said in a blog post that it will use “both technology and human review to remove fake accounts, promote news literacy and disrupt the financial incentives of spammers”. The fake news posts will be rated as ‘false, mixture, false headline, opinion, satire’, among other definitions. The initiative will be rolled out in as many as 12 languages. The company had earlier tested the same in countries such as Singapore and the Netherlands. Facebook did not respond to ET’s … [Read more...] about Facebook users to finally get fake news alerts

New Delhi: Samsung India has outsourced production of some of its smartphone models to an Indo-Chinese contract manufacturing joint venture, as part of plans to make the South Asian nation a hub for servicing its local and global needs. The move, a first since 2007, when the South Korean behemoth began making mobile phones in the country, comes close on the heels of the smartphone maker shutting down its mobile phone manufacturing in China, and the recent visit of Samsung Group’s vice chairman Lee Jae-Yong to India. People familiar with the development said that the No 2 smartphone maker has already begun exporting India-made phones to Middle East, Africa and Vietnam, almost three years ahead of schedule. The South Korean company was in talks with other contract manufacturers as well to expand local production, since its existing capacity is running at full and contract manufacturing route would help it meet the high demand that some of its popular models such as A and M … [Read more...] about Samsung may have some disappointing news for India

(Reuters) - Christine Lagarde gave her first news conference after chairing a meeting of European Central Bank policymakers on Thursday. New European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde gestures as she addresses a news conference on the outcome of the meeting of the Governing Council, in Frankfurt, Germany, December 12, 2019. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski Here are the main takeaways from the event: ** As widely expected, the bank maintained the ultra-easy monetary policy stance of Lagarde’s predecessor Mario Draghi, holding its deposit rate at a record low minus 0.5% and keeping the option of another rate cut firmly on the table. ** It also kept the pace of bond purchases steady at 20 billion euros a month, a level of additional stimulus that is controversial with some of the central banks in the euro zone, notably those in Germany and the Netherlands. ** In an unprecedented brief statement before opening the regular question-and-answer session, Lagarde affirmed … [Read more...] about Factbox: Key takeaways from first ECB news conference of Christine Lagarde