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Almost 1m Tripadvisor Reviews In 2020 Found To Be Fraudulent – Almost 1m reviews submitted for inclusion on Tripadvisor – equivalent to 3.6% of the total – were determined to be fraudulent by the website last year. [guardian]

Huma Abedin: Clinton Aide Details Sex Assault By US Senator – Huma Abedin said the unnamed politician pounced on her on a couch in the mid-2000s after inviting her into his home. [bbc]

NASA Discovers First Possible Planet Outside Our Galaxy – The possible exoplanet was discovered in the Whirlpool Galaxy — the spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51) — by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA said in a press release. [cnn]

Sudan: Prime Minister And Wife At Home “Under Heavy Security” After Military Coup – Western leaders have condemned the military coup which saw prime minister Abdalla Hamdock toppled, leading to fears for his safety. [sky]

Covid-19: 331 Cases, 53 Deaths Recorded In South Africa In 24 hours – Of the new cases, the most were in Gauteng (75), followed by Free State (53), the Western Cape (48) and KwaZulu-Natal (47). [timeslive]

TikTok And Snap Want To Prove They’re Not Facebook – Snap, TikTok, and YouTube set out with one important goal for Tuesday’s Senate hearing on child safety: to convince lawmakers that they are nothing like Facebook. [verge]

Not All Fruit Juices Are Created Equal – Here’s Why – It’s easy enough to grab a random fruit juice when looking for a quick boost of nutrients and energy. But with so many options on the shelves, it pays to take a closer look. [here]

MAGA, The CIA, And Silvercorp: The Bizarre Backstory Of The World’s Most Disastrous Coup – Last year, an invasion of Venezuela led by U.S. mercenaries played out as farce and ended in disaster. New interviews reveal the backstory was even more bizarre than previously thought. [vice]

8 Epic Photos Of Asteroids Seen Up Close – We’ve visited precious few of these vagabond space rocks, but that will soon change. [gizmodo]

Elon Musk Is Worth More Than MTN, Vodacom, Checkers, And Absa — Put Together – Musk is increasingly pulling away from his fellow mega-billionaires when it comes to the size of his fortune. [mybb]

Lost City, Mitchells Plain: Where Children Collect Scrap To Buy Food And Gangsters Run Rampant – Ward 99 consists of Hyde Park in Mitchells Plain and parts of Khayelitsha. The neglected state of Hyde Park, in Tafelsig, validates its status as the Lost City. [dmav]

‘Surprised’ Bavuma Reacts To De Kock Kneeling Controversy: ‘He Is A Man In His Own Shoes’ – Bavuma was made to field a barrage of questions that had everything to do with De Kock and very little to do with what transpired on the field. [sport24]

The Inglorious History Of Terrible Mascots – From derision to division – and the occasional brawl – we look at some of the more memorable, er, characters who must lead our cheers. [tele]

These Non-Invasive Treatments Work Wonders For Your Eyes, Face, And Neck – For every beauty concern, there’s a product, procedure, or therapy designed to hit your skin’s sweet spot. [here]

Harry’s Silence On Netflix’s Restaging Of Diana Interview With Martin Bashir Is Questioned – He has a $100 million deal with the streaming giant and has defended its portrayal of the royal family in the past. [dbeast]

Anne Heche Says Hollywood ‘Blacklisted’ Her For 10 Years Over Ellen Relationship – Heche and DeGeneres dated from 1997 to 2000, but the actor said the downturn in her career came after she took the daytime talk show host as her date to the 1997 premiere of “Volcano.” [huffpost]

Dave Chappelle Responds To His Apparent ‘Cancelling’, Claims He’s Being Silenced – The furore from Dave Chappelle’s new Netflix special, “The Closer”, has snowballed since the special first premiered three weeks ago. [iol]

Teaching Assistant, 25, Jailed For Sex With 14-Year-Old Schoolboy Bragged To Friends Her ‘Horny’ Pupils Would Flirt With Her – The ‘infatuated’ teaching assistant was jailed last week for grooming and having intercourse with the teenager over several months. [dmail]

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