Articles by Ali M Latifi

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‘Horror Scene’: Anger as US Drone Attack Kills Afghan Children
Ali M Latifi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Sep 2021

The Ahmadi and Nejrabi families had packed all their belongings, waiting for word to be escorted to Kabul airport and moved to the United States. The Sunday [29 Aug] afternoon drone attack, which the US claimed was conducted on an Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP, or ISIS-K) target, killed 10 members of the families, ranging from two to 40 years old.

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Making Sense of Twitter’s Censorship
Ali M Latifi – Al Jazeera, 30 Jan 2012

In an announcement on its official blog, the micro-blogging service Twitter has said it will enable country-specific censorship of content on the site. In a Forbes article highly circulated on the site early Friday [27 Jan 1012], Mark Gibbs wrote that Twitter was committing “social suicide” with the censorship announcement. Gibbs’ article raised fears of an algorithm incapable of understanding the sarcasm that permeate the 140-character blasts comprising the service’s contents.

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