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Washington (AFP) - Bot-like accounts on social media platform X that spread misinformation and hate ahead of Britain's election are now amplifying conspiracy theories around US politics, a watchdog investigation revealed Tuesday, as the race to the White House kicks into high gear. Forty-five accounts analyzed by Global Witness, which collectively generated more than four billion impressions since late May, were active in the run-up to the British polls earlier this month. Some of them subsequently pivoted to other high-profile events ahead of the US presidential election in November, includin...
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Atlanta (AFP) - US presidential hopeful Kamala Harris launched a searing attack on Donald Trump Tuesday, telling her biggest campaign rally yet that the momentum was shifting in the White House race and daring the Republican to debate her face to face. Vice President Harris's trip to Atlanta, Georgia, comes as reenergized Democrats regard the swing state as being in play again, after it looked beyond hope under President Joe Biden before his shock withdrawal from the 2024 election. The presumptive Democratic nominee is aiming to expand the party's 2024 battleground map and appeal to young Blac...
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Washington (AFP) - "Weird." Democrats want this to be the word of 2024 -- their secret weapon to bring down Donald Trump. "Trump is old and quite weird?" as a Kamala Harris campaign statement put it. "Just plain weird," Harris said. Trump has built a political career on mocking everyone from opponents to his own staffers. But being the butt of the joke makes him furious. "I hate when people laugh at me," he told a rally earlier this month. That "weird" jibe is Harris's bid, in her come-from-behind campaign, to get the whole country laughing. Where President Joe Biden used formal -- often grand...
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Washington (AFP) - The executive behind a radical governing blueprint for Donald Trump's second term in office stepped down Tuesday, prompting a statement from the Republican presidential candidate's campaign welcoming the project's "demise." Paul Dans built the hard-right Project 2025 "from scratch and bravely led this endeavor over the past two years," Kevin Roberts, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank that launched the effort, said in a statement. He didn't give a reason for the shake-up but added that he would lead the project and see it "conclude its policy drafti...
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Caracas (AFP) - Fresh demonstrations were expected in Venezuela Tuesday after one person died when security forces tried to break up protests triggered by a hotly disputed election result that gave Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro a third term in power. Security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets Monday at angry protesters challenging the reelection victory claimed by Maduro but disputed by the opposition and questioned by many other countries. Thousands of people flooded the streets of several neighborhoods in the capital, chanting "Freedom, freedom!" and "This government is going t...
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Washington (AFP) - From false claims of a "staged" assassination attempt on Donald Trump to a viral joke about his running mate having sex with a couch, American liberals have taken a page from the far-right's playbook in pushing wild conspiracy theories ahead of US elections. The liberal and left-wing warping of reality -- a trend some call "BlueAnon," a play on the QAnon conspiracy cult -- is fueling information chaos on social media platforms that are already a cesspool of right-wing falsehoods. The trend underscores how Americans on both sides of the political divide are prone to outlandis...
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Washington (AFP) - The US Supreme Court has become a political flashpoint in recent years, triggering growing calls for reform, but enacting substantive institutional change in such a polarized climate is close to impossible, analysts say. Democratic President Joe Biden unveiled proposals Monday to reform the nine-member court, which has lurched sharply to the right with the nomination of three conservative justices by his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump. Wielding a 6-3 majority, conservatives have stripped the nationwide right to abortion, weakened environmental protections and federal a...
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Austin (AFP) - Joe Biden unveiled plans Monday for sweeping US Supreme Court reforms, as he seeks to cement his legacy in the twilight of his presidency despite Republicans branding the proposals dead on arrival. Stung by shock rulings on abortion and other topics and by a series of scandals involving the conservative-dominated court, Biden called for 18-year term limits for justices and an enforceable ethics code. "Extremism is undermining public confidence in the court's decisions," Biden said in a speech outlining the "bold" plans at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library in Austin,...
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Washington (AFP) - Billionaire X owner Elon Musk was facing criticism Monday for sharing a deepfake video featuring US Vice President Kamala Harris, which tech campaigners said violated the platform's own policies. Musk reposted a manipulated Harris campaign video in which a voiceover mimicking her calls President Joe Biden senile, and declares that she does not "know the first thing about running the country," adding that as a woman and a person of color, she is the "ultimate diversity hire." The video was originally posted by an X account linked to the conservative podcaster Chris Kohls and ...
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Washington (AFP) - The 100-day sprint to the US election began Sunday, the final act of a campaign transformed by an assassination attempt and the stunning exit of President Joe Biden. After weeks of infighting and despondency over Biden's candidacy, Democrats have consolidated behind Vice President Kamala Harris, radically reshaping the race to November 5 that was fast becoming Republican nominee Donald Trump's to lose. Harris's candidacy has clearly reinvigorated her party's campaign, which said Sunday it had raised $200 million -- mostly from first-time donors -- since Biden dropped out and...
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