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UN Combats False Claims on Cantonese
Multiple recent posts on Facebook and Twitter that claim
that the United Nations (UN) has officially defined Cantonese as a language and
not a dialect and that it is not recognized as one of the six “leading
languages in daily use” has turned out to be false. The UN told AFP Fact check
that the posts, which have been shared thousands of times,...
Keeping the Internet Real
Amid all the talk of fake news, misinformation, and abuse of personal information, the ongoing battle to save net neutrality has been pushed to the background. The net neutrality rules, which passed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2015, prevent broadband and wireless companies from blocking or slowing internet...