As Cuba’s authoritarian government clamps down on Internet access, a handful of U.S. lawmakers are pointing to a possible countermeasure to keep protesters online: sending high-tech balloons that operate as makeshift cell towers for the island. Support our journalism.... Cubans can easily call loved ones in Miami through Facebook.... The Internet has blown a hole in that monopoly, ” said Henken, who has extensively studied the impact of access to the online world in the long-isolated nation. L

Brian Krebs, 48, an investigative journalist who formerly reported for the Washington Post, claimed the cause of the social media shutdown is" anyone's guess" during a blog post documenting yesterday's events.... Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users were hit with a seven-hour outage after technical difficulties on the social media networks started just before 5pm on Monday.As access was restricted for many of the three companies'2.8 million users, Facebook lost a staggering ￡36. 7billion in s

” and “ Down with the dictatorship!... ” The minister called it a “ communication and information war against Cuba ”.... “ Beyond this being a campaign orchestrated ” from abroad, he said, “ there are people who are mobilising, people who are demonstrating against the government, people who have petitions – what the Cuban government must do is respect the right to protest.” – AFP....

“ There are ballistic missiles here.” “ This is terrible.... He would not name the targets but said they were “ large organisations ”.... ESET was unable to say who was responsible. Symantec Threat Intelligence detected three organisations hit by the wiper malware – Ukrainian government contractors in Latvia and Lithuania and a financial institution in Ukraine, said Vikram Thakur, its technical director....

Protesters shout slogans during an anti-government demonstration in Havana on July 11, 2021.... PHOTO: REUTERS" Their voices should be heard and their rights to express themselves respected," said singer-songwriter Cimafunk, whose real name is Erik Rodriguez.... Cuba slams dissidents as mercenaries in the pay of the United States and allied with anti-Castro Cuban exiles." It feels like a dangerous moment," Ms Ruiz said by phone, noting her neighbourhood had had no mobile data all day....

And I know that is causing a huge amount of anxiety for the Tongan community here, ” Ardern said. She said there had been significant damage to boats and shops along the Tongan coastline.... They told us to stay indoors and cover our doors and windows because it’s dangerous, ” she said.... “ I felt sorry for the people....

He'd spent years exposing Russian censorship and feared that well-intentioned efforts to aid Ukraine would instead help Putin isolate Russians from the free flow of information, aiding the Kremlin's propaganda war.“ Look, guys the only space the Russians have to talk about Ukraine.... is Facebook, ” Soldatov, now exiled in London.... “ You cannot just, like, kill our access.” Facebook didn’t, although the Kremlin soon picked up that baton, throttling both Facebook and Twitter so badly they are

He urged Ukrainians not to let up in the war.“ We still have to fight, we have to endure, ” Zelenskyy said in his nighttime video address to the nation.... Last Friday, the Pentagon said it appeared Moscow was drawing on Russian troops based in Georgia, but no details were available on their number or the timing of their expected deployment. Thousands of mercenaries from Wagner Group have been deployed in Syria since 2015.... “ I wasn’t articulating a policy change.” Biden added: “ I’m not wal