The Nation reports Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed had announced the “indefinite” suspension in a statement on Friday by his spokesman Segun Adeyemi.

Reacting, the US said the recent suspension undermines citizens’ fundamental freedom and also sends a wrong message to investors. The United States mission in Nigeria has said that the indefinite suspension of Twitter’s operations in Nigeria by the Federal government undermines citizens’ fundamental freedom and also sends a wrong message to investors.

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“Nigeria’s constitution provides for freedom of expression. The Government’s recent #Twitterban undermines Nigerians’ ability to exercise this fundamental freedom and sends a poor message to its citizens, investors and businesses,” the statement reads.

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“Banning social media and curbing every citizen’s ability to seek, receive, and impart information undermines fundamental freedoms. As President Biden has stated, our need for individual expression, open public conversation, and accountability has never been greater.

“The path to a more secure Nigeria lies in more, not less communication, alongside concerted efforts toward unity, peace, and prosperity.”

Source – https://thenationonlineng.net/

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One tweet claimed that vaccines were a “software platform that can receive uploads”.

She also compared Dr Anthony Fauci, the top Covid adviser in the US, to “Satan” to her more than 140,000 followers.

Most recently, she tweeted that the urine and faeces of people who had received the jab needed to be separated from general sewage supplies while tests were done to measure its impact on non-vaccinated people through drinking water.

On the topic of children wearing masks, she tweeted that she was “seeing kids with their lower faces hanging inertly, absolutely unmoving facial muscles, when they take their masks off”.

Dr Wolf was also duped into tweeting a made up quote on an image of an American adult film star dressed up as a doctor.

Her suspension has been welcomed by many on the platform.

Professor Gavin Yamey tweeted that he was “pleased”, adding that “Dr Wolf peddles horrific, dangerous anti-vaxx nonsense”.

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But some have voiced concern that her suspension was stifling free speech.

Journalist Mary Beth Pfeiffer said Dr Wolf “raised damn good questions about the rush to and ramifications of mass vax. This is unAmerican silencing of dissent”.

In 2019, the US publisher of a book by Dr Wolf cancelled its release after accuracy concerns were raised.

During a BBC radio interview, it came to light that the author had misunderstood key 19th Century English legal terms within the book.

Source – bbc.co.uk

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Researchers from the University of Vermont discovered that these platforms only need access to eight of your one-time contacts in order to infer information about you. 

It comes as Silicon Valley giants face increased scrutiny about their data collection practices and whether users have enough control over their private information.

‘You alone don’t control your privacy on social media platforms,’ said Jim Bagrow, a mathematician at the University of Vermont who led the research published in the journal Nature Human Behavior. 

‘Your friends have a say too.’ 

Bagrow and his team used statistical models to analyse data from more than 30 million publicly available Twitter posts by almost 14,000 users.

Although the study focused on Twitter, the same information could be gathered form posts on other social media, like Facebook, provided access to them, Bagrow said. 

They found that machine learning algorithms may be able to infer with up to 64 percent accuracy what word a user was most likely to write next, based on what he and the people he interacted most often with had previously published.

Accuracy levels dropped only three percent to 61 percent when the algorithms were fed with text posted only by friends, according to the study.

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