spayu61

Thank you for doing this research. This looks fabricated, the same way Abdul's clock was.

In response to the guy down here (I can't post anymore): the fact that they "won a prize", as shown in the title of this post, is highly misleading, when it was just a consolation prize. THe takeaway of these news is "look at everything the US is missing for not opening their borders", and this being a consolation prize, the US is simply missing nothing. So the entire thing is a fabrication.

That's not the actual news here, because as I said, there's 0 insight on whatever they achieved. The emphasis was put on how bad it is to not let everybody in the US. Hence I believe this to be just some propaganda piece.

So what's the actual news here? That they were denied entry in the US? Should we feel bad about it or what?

There's 0 insight into what they achieved and the reporter even got the name of the European country wrong. Looks like propaganda to me.

Edit: yes, it's propaganda: "Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women’s rights, trafficking, property rights, resilience and climate change."

Really biased wrap up.

I believe the difference is intent--a phone call self destructs by default. They are not meant to be recorded (we even have laws here that prohibit it without consent of both parts). Messaging apps have, traditionally, kept logs, in both ends and in the server.

That’s not a captcha, that’s used when you’re locked out of your account and they need to verify if it’s you. Like when they ask for your ID card.

I assume this only happens if you’ve uploaded pictures of yourself in the past, so they can compare them.