“We honor the courage of the 1,500 Belarusian political prisoners held captive simply for trying to exercise the freedoms independence is supposed to convey," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday in a statement to mark Belarus' Independence Day.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko says some seriously ill political prisoners will be released
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"We have one program that we're using that is able to basically ingest a million articles every day from around the world — to be able to do that in a couple hundred countries in over a hundred languages — and then immediately translate, synthesize and give you a clear picture of what's happening in the information space immediately," he said.
State Department testing new AI tools to 'combat disinformation,' Blinken says
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