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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Mar 10

    We agree with Oleg Ustenko, advisor to - to further the cause of peace, it’s vital we speedily move away from reliance on World leaders must place further sanctions on Russia’s fossil fuel industry now.

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  2. 50 minutes ago

    📣Climate justice = climate reparations that give resources to communities most affected by the . Take action to build a world where are put first! 👇

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  3. 20 hours ago

    NEW 🚨 Today we reveal that French giant ships Russian crude, despite Total's CEO promising to not take any more oil from Russia. Our investigates🔎 Read & share!

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  4. Mar 23

    An oil tanker chartered by is due to arrive in the UK 🇬🇧 today from Russia 🇷🇺 'If our sanctions regime relies on the honesty and transparency of these corporations, Putin will continue to profit' -

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  5. Retweeted
    Mar 21

    BREAKING: The Biden administration just ruled that the violence against the Rohingya by Myanmar's military amounts to GENOCIDE. Last month, Avaaz asked young Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh about their experiences – and what Facebook meant to them

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  6. Mar 22

    . just said the quiet part out loud. A project that just three months ago was considered unviable and had been scrapped is now back on the table because of Putin’s barbaric slaughter of thousands of innocent Ukrainians.

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  7. Retweeted
    Mar 21

    The use of Facebook to spread hate speech against the Rohingya in has been reported by the & our latest investigation reveals how hasn‘t done enough to contain it. Mohammed Farbes, member of the Rohingya Student Network, explains how this affects his community

    Mohammed Farbes, humanitarian worker from Myanmar
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  8. Retweeted
    Mar 21

    NEW🔴 After admitting their role in spreading hate during the Rohingya genocide in , Facebook () said it’s got better at detecting Burmese hate speech. Yet our new investigation shows it’s still incapable of detecting hateful content:

    Facebook admits role in inciting violence against Rohingya in Myanmar
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  9. Mar 22

    It’s time once again, so we put together this list of short films about the climate for you to watch on the go. Watch these films and learn more about and ✊

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  10. Mar 21

    200+ environmental activists were killed whilst defending our planet in 2020. Many of them were protecting our forests. Miguel from says that large-scale agriculture is driving both deforestation & attacks against defenders in the Amazon.

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  11. Mar 21

    This is not the moment to be locking us into more . It's the moment to recognise that they benefit dictators and despots, whilst destroying our planet. As UN Sec General says, this would be madness.

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  12. Retweeted
    Mar 21

    New investigation shows that ‘s systems to detect Burmese language hate speech on Facebook are unfit for purpose. A 🧵 1/

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  13. Retweeted
    Mar 21

    NEW investigation: 5 yrs after the genocide in Myanmar, Facebook/'s ability to detect Burmese language hate speech remains abysmally poor. All 8 ads with hate speech approved. Grim reminder of how Facebook fails to protect users outside the English-speaking world.

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    NEW🔴 After admitting their role in spreading hate during the Rohingya genocide in , Facebook () said it’s got better at detecting Burmese hate speech. Yet our new investigation shows it’s still incapable of detecting hateful content:
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  14. Mar 21

    The use of Facebook to spread hate speech against the Rohingya in has been reported by the & our latest investigation reveals how hasn‘t done enough to contain it. Mohammed Farbes, member of the Rohingya Student Network, explains how this affects his community

    Mohammed Farbes, humanitarian worker from Myanmar
    29 retweets 68 likes
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  15. Mar 21

    NEW🔴 After admitting their role in spreading hate during the Rohingya genocide in , Facebook () said it’s got better at detecting Burmese hate speech. Yet our new investigation shows it’s still incapable of detecting hateful content:

    Facebook admits role in inciting violence against Rohingya in Myanmar
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  16. Mar 21

    The expansion of industrial agriculture is leaving a trail of destruction in its wake - driving both and human rights abuses. This isn't inevitable. We can feed the world while protecting our forests and ' rights.

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  17. Mar 21

    Miguel Guimaraes from tells us that large-scale agribusiness is driving both and attacks against defenders in the Amazon. These same destructive companies are being funded by major banks based in the US, UK, EU & China.

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  18. Mar 18

    Be inspired by films about in our list of short climate films in the run-up to the :

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  19. Mar 18

    Our co-founder 's new book 📗 Very Bad People explores some of Global Witness's most challenging investigations – and how they have set the foundation for our work to tackle the .

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  20. Retweeted
    Mar 17

    As Putin’s bombs rain down on , US-chartered ships are still trading out of Russian ports. They're ignoring Biden’s plea not to profiteer and reminding us that we have to accelerate the energy transition now.

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  21. Mar 17

    Big Oil is profiteering from the war in , raking in record profits while we pay the price. This has to stop. We are joining working people to call on US Congress to hold Big Oil accountable and pass a windfall profits tax.

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