Are we all being watched or listened to?

 Listen to this interesting podcast published in The Guardian.

Leaks just exposed how toxic Facebook and Instagram are to teen girls and, well, everyone

 The company’s own research reveals that Instagram harms teens, that it can’t control anti-vax misinformation, and that there is a secret double standard for VIPs. In short, the problem with Facebook is Facebook.

Read this interensing article in The Guardian by  Siva Vaidhyanathan

Climate crisis: history will judge failure to act, Johnson says at UN

 Boris Johnson has warned the world’s rich countries that “history will judge”, if they fail to act now to tackle the climate crisis, as US climate envoy John Kerry suggested President Biden was poised to commit more funds to the fight.

At the UN general assembly in New York, the prime minister urged other developed countries to increase their contributions, to help meet the target of $100bn (£73bn) in climate financing set more than a decade ago.

“The world will see, and your people will remember, and history will judge,” he said, underlining the importance of achieving an ambitious outcome to the Cop26 climate talks, which the UK is hosting in Glasgow in November.

Read the whole article in The Guardian.

Volcano eruption in La palma, Spain

 

Volcano_El País