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Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram platform used automated algorithms that suggested children for groomers and predators to follow on the app, according to a 2019 internal company document presented by the FTC during the ongoing Meta antitrust trial. Bloomberg reports that the FTC revealed troubling evidence in its ongoing antitrust case against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta regarding what the government claims are Instagram’s lack of safety measures for protecting children from online predators and abusers. During court proceedings on Tuesday, the FTC presented a June 2019 internal company report titled “Inappropriate Interactions with Children on Instagram” which detailed how the social media app’s…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded to reports that India had conducted missile strikes on Pakistan, weeks after a terrorist attack was carried out in Kashmir. Rubio explained he is “monitoring the situation” between the two countries closely and expressed hope that the situation “ends quickly.” “I am monitoring the situation between India and Pakistan closely,” Rubio wrote in a wrote in a post on X. “I echo @POTUS’s comments earlier today that this hopefully ends quickly and will continue to engage both Indian and Pakistani leadership towards a peaceful resolution.” Rubio’s comments come as India’s government confirmed that early…

Five suburban Republican lawmakers in Democrat states are holding their ground, demanding that the Trump “big, beautiful” bill raise the state and local tax deduction. Reps. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY), Nick LaLota (R-NY), Mike Lawler (R-NY), Young Kim (R-CA), and Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) represent higher-income districts near major metropolitan areas, which often have higher property taxes. The lawmakers want to raise the federal deduction for state and local taxes, also known as the SALT deduction, which could serve as a boon for their constituents. Republicans lowered the SALT deduction to offset some of the cost of the SALT deduction in the…

The Republican Study Committee is praising President Donald Trump for signing an executive order ending federal funding for gain-of-function research in controversial countries. President Donald Trump signed the executive order on Monday, which essentially ends the federal funding of such research in countries including China and Iran. This comes as Trump and others remain firm on the lab leak theory — that the coronavirus originated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a result of such research. “It is the policy of the United States to ensure that United States federally funded research benefits American citizens without jeopardizing our Nation’s…

Pakistan has accused India of killing civilians in a cross-border military operation overnight and promised a forceful response. In the attacks, Indian forces targeted what New Delhi described as “terrorist camps” in the neighboring country.The escalation follows a terrorist attack in India’s Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory that left 26 civilians dead last month. The Indian government has accused Islamabad of harboring an armed group linked to the incident and characterized the pre-dawn missile and drone strike on Wednesday as retaliation.The Pakistani National Security Committee (NSC) has dismissed India’s justification for the military action, calling it an “unprovoked, cowardly and…

Image: Wikimedia Commons (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Dylan Myers, Oct. 24, 2024) Members of the military are fighting to receive religious accommodation for the flu vaccine to remain in the military, but no one is listening. In March, The Gateway Pundit spoke to Major Brennan Schilperoort, an Air Force officer of 17 years who took religious objection to the 2021 COVID-19 shot mandate, and more recently due to a change in religious beliefs, the flu vaccine. At the time of this interview, the C-130J transport aircraft pilot was facing administrative separation and a no-pay status for…

Topline The Trump administration’s transgender military ban will take effect again while litigation against it moves forward, as the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to throw out a lower court’s ruling that put the controversial policy on hold. Vin Testa waves a LGBTQ pride flag in front of the Supreme Court building on June 26, 2023 in … More Washington, DC.Getty Images Key Facts The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to throw out a lower court’s ruling that paused the policy, which states that “individuals who have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria are no…

One of the sons of Sinaloa kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has reached a plea agreement with U.S. federal prosecutors and is expected to plead guilty to several drug conspiracy charges in the coming weeks. During a court hearing on Tuesday, attorneys for Ovidio “El Raton” Guzman Lopez and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois filed a notice with U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman about Guzman’s intention to change his plea of not guilty. Based on the new information, Johnson canceled a status hearing set for May 12 and set a hearing for July 9,…

A former guitarist for the San Francisco death metal band Possessed was shot and killed by South San Francisco police last week after shooting at a neighbor and then shooting at responding officers. The San Francisco Chronicle noted that 60-year-old Brian Montana “became enraged over tree debris spilling over from a neighbor’s yard.” An argument with the neighbor ensued and soon escalated into shots being fired. The Los Angeles Times reported that Montana armed himself with various guns as officers arrived on scene and fired at police. A press release from the South San Francisco Police Department says: “The armed suspect repositioned…

Boris Pistorius reportedly wants €60 billion allocated for the armed forces this year German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius is seeking a major hike to the country’s military budget effective this year, Reuters has reported, citing sources.Pistorius, the only minister to retain his role under Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s new government, has previously claimed that Russia may attack a NATO country and that Germany “must be ready for war by 2029.”Moscow has repeatedly dismissed the claims as “utter nonsense.”Pistorius, according to a Reuters source, hopes for a “drastic increase” to over €60 billion ($68.21 billion) for the military in 2025, up from…