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Official reporting compiled by major news outlets and watchdogs indicates that arrests in the UK linked to online communications — including social media posts and private messages — are measured in t...
Available sources show frequent reporting that thousands of people were arrested in the UK for online communications in recent years — with repeated figures of “about 12,000 arrests a year” or “over 3...
UK police have increasingly arrested people over social-media posts, with reporting that forces made “more than 30 arrests a day” (over 12,000 a year in 2023) for offensive online communications cited...
Large observational studies and some case reports have raised signals that investigators are studying possible links between COVID-19 vaccination and certain cancer outcomes, but major cancer centres ...
Arrests in the UK for social‑media posts have become a notable and contested trend: parliamentary and media reporting cite figures like “more than 30 arrests a day” (over 12,000 a year in 2023) while ...
Available reporting from media outlets and aggregators shows a range of estimates for arrests in the UK tied to online speech in 2024: major compilations reported roughly 9,700 arrests based on data f...
As of January 2026 the ("Chat Control") has moved from years of political deadlock into the formally scheduled trilogue phase after adopted a negotiating position in late 2025, but the law remains dee...
International observation of Venezuelan elections since 2018 has been highly contested: some external delegations reported in 2018, while multiple international monitors and democratic institutions la...
Yes — people have been arrested in Europe over social media posts, but available reporting shows arrests most often involve allegations that posts were illegal (hate, incitement, harassment or other o...
Recent reporting and official materials show active prosecutions in the UK for online hate and grossly offensive communications, with examples ranging from high‑profile social media convictions to man...
EU “Chat Control” (the proposed Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, aka CSAR/CSA Regulation) has been in active debate since the Commission proposal in May 2022; recent negotiation mi...
The revised “Chat Control” (CSAR) proposal in late 2025 removes the Council’s earlier explicit requirement for mandatory, universal scanning of encrypted private communications but keeps obligations a...
Available reporting shows major disagreement about annual counts and methodologies: Open Doors’ World Watch List reported 3,100 Christians killed in Nigeria in 2024 (cited by multiple outlets) while N...
EU governments reached a political compromise on the so-called “Chat Control” (Child Sexual Abuse — CSA — regulation) on 26 November 2025, replacing a mandatory scanning requirement with language that...
Dr. David E. Martin is a public figure who has repeatedly presented claims challenging mainstream COVID-19 origins, vaccines, and public health actors; his assertions have been carried in outlets rang...
Available reporting shows no official UK-wide statistic that “most male rapes in Britain” are committed by immigrants; government agencies say they do not hold comprehensive data on perpetrators’ immi...
The current EU “Chat Control” debate centers on a regulation to prevent and combat child sexual abuse that would require providers to detect and act on CSAM and grooming-related material across many s...
Nigel Farage was a central, high-profile campaigner for Brexit who led UKIP during its rise and later founded the Brexit Party, helping to mainstream Euroscepticism and mobilize voters for the Leave c...
Across the last decade the clearest in Europe occurred in and , with major advances also visible in , , and ; these parties have converted protest votes into governing power, coalition leverage, or su...
Western allies have pledged or provided “more than 800 tanks” to Ukraine since 2022, with reporting that “well over 100” of those Western-supplied tanks have been lost in combat (Army‑Technology) . Pu...