Polish javelinist Maria Andrejczyk auctioned her #Tokyo2020 silver medal for $125k USD to help send 8-month-old Miłoszek Małysa to Stanford University for heart surgery

Żabka, a chain of Polish supermarkets, submitted the winning bid before giving the medal back to Andrejczyk

Polish javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk auctions silver medal to help an infant get heart surgery

Javelin thrower Maria Andrejczyk has auctioned off her Tokyo Games silver medal for $125,000 to help an infant in her native Poland get life-saving heart surgery.

On Wednesday, Andrejczyk posted on her Facebook page that she came across the fundraiser for 8-month-old Miłoszek Małysa, who had a serious heart defect and needed surgery, and she decided to auction off her lone Olympic medal to help raise money for his surgery.

"He already has a head start from Kubus -- a boy who didn't make it in time but whose amazing parents decided to pass on the funds they collected," she wrote in Polish on her page.

"And in this way, I also want to help. It's for him that I am auctioning my Olympic silver medal."

https://www.espn.com/olympics/trackandfield/story/_/id/32040807/polish-javelin-thrower-maria-andrejczyk-auctions-silver-medal-help-toddler-get-heart-surgery

“All our sisters, all our women are secure. Our God, our Quran, says women are a very important part of our society”

Taliban spokesman says if Afghan women "continue to live according to Sharia, we will be happy, they will be happy”

These brave women took to the streets in Kabul to protest against Taliban. They simplify asking for their rights, the right to work, the right for education and the right to political participation.The right to live in a safe society. I hope more women and men join them.

https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1427588628931301380

As Taliban fighters entered Afghanistan’s capital and seized power, photos showed workers covering up images of women outside beauty salons.



Photos of women on the facades of businesses in Kabul have been removed, as the Afghan capital falls under Taliban control.

Taliban fighters entered Kabul yesterday as Afghanistan’s president fled the city, completing a stunning seizure of power that has played out over the past few weeks as US and other western military forces withdrew from the country.



Photos from Kabul show workers painting over images of women outside a beauty salon. When the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001 – the year they were removed from power by a US-led coalition after the September 11th attacks – women were banned from work and education, and ordered not to leave their homes unless accompanied by a male relative. When they did go outside, they were required to wear the burqa.

In one photo, a man uses a paint roller to cover up an image of a woman in a green dress wearing jewellery and makeup. In another, a woman is ripping down an advertisement outside a beauty salon depicting two women not in burqas.

Women in Afghanistan now fear for their rights and lives as the Taliban reestablishes control in the country. In an interview with BBC News, Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen said that women would be able to live their lives freely under Taliban rule.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3x5bj/photos-of-women-are-being-erased-in-kabul-as-taliban-seize-power-in-afghanistan

As Taliban fighters entered Afghanistan’s capital and seized power, photos showed workers covering up images of women outside beauty salons.



Photos of women on the facades of businesses in Kabul have been removed, as the Afghan capital falls under Taliban control.

Taliban fighters entered Kabul yesterday as Afghanistan’s president fled the city, completing a stunning seizure of power that has played out over the past few weeks as US and other western military forces withdrew from the country.



Photos from Kabul show workers painting over images of women outside a beauty salon. When the Taliban last ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001 – the year they were removed from power by a US-led coalition after the September 11th attacks – women were banned from work and education, and ordered not to leave their homes unless accompanied by a male relative. When they did go outside, they were required to wear the burqa.

In one photo, a man uses a paint roller to cover up an image of a woman in a green dress wearing jewellery and makeup. In another, a woman is ripping down an advertisement outside a beauty salon depicting two women not in burqas.

Women in Afghanistan now fear for their rights and lives as the Taliban reestablishes control in the country. In an interview with BBC News, Taliban spokesperson Suhail Shaheen said that women would be able to live their lives freely under Taliban rule.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3x5bj/photos-of-women-are-being-erased-in-kabul-as-taliban-seize-power-in-afghanistan

New: Republican Party has removed a page from their website bragging about Trump’s deal with the Taliban that committed Biden to withdraw 5,000 US troops from Afghanistan — and led to the fall of Kabul today.

https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1427042329739862022

“You can always take an existing article and rewrite it just enough to avoid copyright infringement."

David Mikkelson, the co-founder of the fact-checking website Snopes, has long presented himself as the arbiter of truth online, a bulwark in the fight against rumors and fake news. But he has been lying to the site's tens of millions of readers: A BuzzFeed News investigation has found that between 2015 and 2019, Mikkelson wrote and published dozens of articles containing material plagiarized from news outlets such as the Guardian and the LA Times.

After inquiries from BuzzFeed News, Snopes conducted an internal review and confirmed that under a pseudonym, the Snopes byline, and his own name, Mikkelson wrote and published 54 articles with plagiarized material. The articles include such topics as same-sex marriage licenses and the death of musician David Bowie.

Snopes VP of Editorial and Managing Editor Doreen Marchionni suspended Mikkelson from editorial duties pending “a comprehensive internal investigation.” He remains an officer and a 50% shareholder of the company.

“Our internal research so far has found a total of 54 stories Mikkelson published that used appropriated material, including all of the stories Buzzfeed shared with us,” Marchionni and Snopes Chief Operating Officer Vinny Green said in a statement.

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Meet Jeff Zarronandia. During a brief but memorable career, his byline, which linked to a bio detailing his Pulitzer Prize and his skill at mule-skinning, appeared on at least 23 Snopes articles on topics like Donald Trump’s financial woes and false rumors about Hillary Clinton. His reporting made enemies of hoaxsters and fabulists across the political spectrum, including former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone and the late “fake-news kingpin” Paul Horner, both of whom were unaware of his true identity.

"It's just a David Mikkelson alt,” Snopes' former managing editor Brooke Binkowski explained when BuzzFeed News inquired. "He used to write about topics he knew would get him hate mail under that assumed name. Plus it made it appear he had more staff than he had."

Between 2015 and 2019, Mikkelson regularly plagiarized reporting from other news outlets in an effort, he said, to scoop up traffic.



In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Mikkelson attributed this behavior to his lack of formal journalism experience. “I didn't come from a journalism background,” he said. “I wasn't used to doing news aggregation. A number of times I crossed the line to where it was copyright infringement. I own that."

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/deansterlingjones/snopes-cofounder-plagiarism-mikkelson