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Facebook bans accounts affiliated with far-right group the Proud Boys and founder Gavin McInnes

Facebook has started banning both individual accounts and pages, as well as associated groups, that are affiliated with the far-right extremist organization the Proud Boys.

The news was first reported today by Business Insider, which noted that members of the Proud Boys and adjacent online communities had begun complaining about the takedowns on Twitter.

Facebook confirmed to The Verge that it was banning Proud Boys members and affiliated groups and pages from both its main social network and from Instagram.

McInnes’ personal page was initially still active, but a number of high-profile groups, pages, and accounts began to disappear over the course of the day.

Both McInnes and the official Proud Boys’ Twitter accounts were banned back in August, ahead of a second “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Proud Boys members violently attacked protestors in New York City earlier this month.

The Southern Poverty Law Center considers the Proud Boys a hate group. »

Jamal Khashoggi strangled as soon as he entered consulate, prosecutor confirms

Authored by theguardian.com

Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, then his body dismembered and destroyed in a premeditated killing, the city’s chief prosecutor has said in the first official confirmation of how the Saudi journalist died.

Istanbul’s chief prosecutor, Irfan Fidan, said discussions this week with his Saudi counterpart, Saud al-Mojeb, had yielded “no concrete result”.

The Saudi prosecutor had promised “same day” answers, the statement said. »

Jamal Khashoggi strangled as soon as he entered consulate, prosecutor confirms

Authored by amp.theguardian.com

Istanbul’s chief prosecutor, Irfan Fidan, said discussions this week with his Saudi counterpart, Saud al-Mojeb, had yielded “no concrete result”.

The Saudi prosecutor had promised “same day” answers, the statement said. »

Bitcoin mining could cancel out climate change efforts, scientists say

Authored by cbc.ca

Producing bitcoin at a pace with growing demand could by 2033 defeat the aim of limiting global warming to 2 C, according to U.S. research published in the journal Nature Climate Change.

"Currently, the emissions from transportation, housing and food are considered the main contributors to ongoing climate change," said study co-author Katie Taladay in a statement.

Bitcoin mining, however, is becoming more energy efficient, said Katrina Kelly-Pitou, research associate at the University of Pittsburgh. »

Midterms 2018: Early voting by young people up 500% in Texas and Georgia

Authored by independent.co.uk

America’s early voting system allows voters to cast their ballot early, either via postal voting or at designated polling stations, in a bid to increase participation and relieve congestion on election day.

Elliott Morris, an elections specialist at The Economist, noted turnout thus far in Texas’ 15 biggest counties had surpassed total early voting turnouts in 2014.

The numbers also reveal early voting in Texas and Georgia among the over 65s and white people, two traditional Republican blocs, is significantly up, though not as dramatically as young people. »