The Daily Populous

Tuesday August 8th, 2017 evening edition

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Twitter suspended a number of fake accounts over the weekend that were using false names to spread pro-Trump propaganda.

In a tweet on Saturday, President Donald Trump expressed thanks to Twitter user @Protrump45, an account that posted exclusively positive memes about the president.

Although “Nicole Mincey” was the name displayed on the Twitter page, it was not the name used to create the account.

Mashable noted that the accounts were suspected of being so-called “bots” used to spread propaganda about Trump.

By Sunday night, Twitter had suspended @Protrump45 and all of the Twitter accounts associated with the Protrump45.com website.

Looks like the fake @protrump45 account @realDonaldTrump thanked has been suspended along with a bunch of other related fake accounts pic.twitter.com/4k26boKl2j — Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) August 7, 2017. »

Google Fires Author of Divisive Memo on Gender Differences

Authored by bloomberg.com

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has fired an employee who wrote an internal memo blasting the web company’s diversity policies, creating a firestorm across Silicon Valley.

The imbroglio at Google is the latest in a long string of incidents concerning gender bias and diversity in the tech enclave.

In her initial response to the memo, Brown, who joined from Intel Corp. in June, suggested that Google was open to all hosting “difficult political views,” including those in the memo. »

Eminem’s next album ‘will be released this autumn’

Authored by nme.com

The rap icon, who previously released The Marshall Mathers LP 2 in 2013, will release his latest album this autumn, according to industry insiders HITS Daily Double.

Last year, he claimed that he was working on an album as he dropped ‘Campaign Speech’, an anti-Trump freestyle released during the run-up to the U.S. election.

“Don’t worry, I’m working on an album”, he reassured fans. »

The Most Realistic Robo-Lincoln Yet Proves the Future Is Going to Be Weird as Hell

Authored by gizmodo.com

Garner Holt Productions [GHP] has built thousands of animatronic figures for theme parks over the course of its 35-year history.

Most recently, the studio has taken charge of Disney’s audio-animatronics and its now showing off the most realistic Abraham Lincoln since Daniel Day-Lewis took home his third Oscar.

There’s something extra unnerving about the robo-Lincoln when you watch the video demonstration with the Ken Burns-style Civil War music. »