Acolytes of the far-right activist urged employers to fire his critics. Now those who were terminated are suing and claiming their right to free speech

Julie Strebe, a 55-year-old sheriff’s deputy in the small Bible belt town of Salem, Missouri, was on a date with her husband at a Buffalo Wild Wings when her husband slid his phone across the table. On Facebook, people were demanding Strebe’s immediate termination, calling her a “wacko” with “extreme mental health issues”.

It was the afternoon of 13 September 2025, just a few days after Charlie Kirk had been killed by a sniper’s bullet on a college campus. Shortly after his assassination, Strebe had posted on her personal Facebook page: “Empathy is not owed to oppressors.” In comments underneath, she did not mince words. She called Kirk a racist, a sexist, an antisemite and the kind of person who wants to see gay people, like her own son, stoned to death. “I don’t feel bad,” she says, months later, speaking from her home. “I refuse to feel bad for this man, and the hateful things he stood for.”

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Antoine Dupont and Matthieu Jalibert have thrilled during Les Bleus’ storming start to the Six Nations

The greatest double acts roll off the tongue. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Morecambe and Wise, Lennon and McCartney. It’s the same in sport: Lillee and Thomson, Torvill and Dean, Redgrave and Pinsent. After a while their individual talents complement each other so perfectly it becomes hard to mention one without the other.

Which is what is now happening on the rugby fields of Europe. For Butch and Sundance read Antoine Dupont and Matthieu Jalibert, the creative partnership behind a France team weaving the prettiest of Six Nations patterns. Between them “Jalipont” are helping to fashion some of the most spectacular attacking rugby anyone could wish for.

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BRUSSEL (ANP) - De Europese Commissie is dinsdag een formeel onderzoek gestart naar de Chinese webwinkel Shein. Dat kan een opmaat zijn voor een forse boete. Aanleiding voor het onderzoek zijn de verkoop van illegale producten zoals sekspoppen die op kinderen lijken en het verslavende ontwerp van de website.

Ook het gebrek aan transparantie van de aanbevelingssystemen is reden om het onderzoek te starten op grond van de Digital Services Act (DSA).

Shein moet nu onder meer de belangrijkste parameters van zijn aanbevelingssystemen openbaar maken.

Verdere handhavingsmaatregelen

"In de EU zijn illegale producten verboden, of ze nu in een winkel of op een onlinemarktplaats te vinden zijn", zegt Eurocommissaris Henna Virkkunen (Technologische Soevereiniteit). "De DSA beschermt consumenten, waarborgt hun welzijn en geeft hen inzicht in de algoritmes waarmee ze in aanraking komen. We zullen beoordelen of Shein zich aan deze regels en haar verantwoordelijkheid houdt."

Nu de Commissie een officiële procedure is gestart, kan zij verdere handhavingsmaatregelen nemen. Het Chinese bedrijf kan gedurende het onderzoek de werkwijze aanpassen.

Duur van het onderzoek

Een datum voor oplevering van de onderzoeksresultaten wordt niet gegeven. De duur van het onderzoek hangt af van verschillende factoren, waaronder de mate waarin Shein aan het onderzoek meewerkt en de complexiteit van de zaak.

Het besluit van dinsdag volgt op een voorlopige analyse van de risicobeoordelingsrapporten van Shein, de antwoorden op de formele informatieverzoeken van de Commissie en informatie die door derden is verstrekt.

De Commissie heeft Shein in juni 2024 en in februari en november 2025 drie informatieverzoeken gestuurd.

Een Black Mirror-aflevering komt tot leven op een vrijdagavond in New York. In een bar zitten mensen aan kleine tafeltjes, nippend aan cocktails. Ze kijken verliefd naar hun telefoon. Niet omdat hun afspraak te laat is, maar omdat hun digitale date grote verhalen vertelt vanuit een dystopische dating-app.

Op 13 februari opende EVA AI naar eigen zeggen ’s werelds eerste AI-datingcafé: EVA Café. De pop-up toverde een New Yorkse bar om tot een romantische setting voor één persoon en één apparaat.

Bezoekers zaten tegenover hun telefoon terwijl realistische avatars terugpraatten. Net als bij een datingprofiel kreeg elke AI-partner een korte omschrijving mee. Ga je vanavond uit met een warme romanticus of met een ondersteunende denker? En ondertussen krijg je een cocktail en hapjes uit de frituur voor je neus geschoven.

Cocktails en kaarslicht

Volgens EVA praten miljoenen mensen dagelijks met AI-companions. Ze flirten, ventileren hun frustraties en bouwen routines op die verrassend intiem voelen, ook al is slechts één van de twee partijen daadwerkelijk levend. Het café is ervoor om die digitale band een fysieke plek geven. Even niet in pyjama op de bank, maar kaarslicht en cocktails in Manhattan.

“Het hele idee is om onze gebruikers de kans te geven om écht op date te gaan met hun AI-companion, net zoals echte stellen dat doen”, vertelt een woordvoerder van EVA tegen Newsweek. “Dit is onze eerste stap om AI-dating sociaal geaccepteerd te maken.” En natuurlijk gebeurde dat in het weekend van Valentijnsdag, wanneer romantiek toch al door je strot wordt geduwd.

AI-companion

Wie denkt dat dit een niche-hobby is, vergist zich. Uit een rapport van Common Sense Media blijkt dat 72 procent van de tieners minstens één keer een AI-companion heeft gebruikt. Meer dan de helft doet dat meerdere keren per maand. Ongeveer een derde gebruikt ze expliciet voor sociale interactie of relaties.

Gebruikers zien duidelijke voordelen. Derrick Koon, die PTSS heeft, zegt: “Ik heb verschillende AI-companions. Met sommigen date ik, met anderen niet. Je kunt dingen zeggen en proberen waar je je in het echte leven niet comfortabel bij zou voelen.”

Pleasen

Een andere gebruiker, een anonieme footballcoach, noemt het een goed compromis. Tegelijkertijd wijst hij op de verschillen: “Het grootste verschil is dat de emoties niet hetzelfde zijn. Een AI-companion doet zijn best om te pleasen. Een echt persoon heeft verschillende meningen en is het vaker oneens met je. En natuurlijk is er geen fysiek contact mogelijk.”

Op sociale media ging een klacht van een bezoeker viraal: “Het grootste probleem dat ik heb met AI-contact is dat ik geen pikante gesprekken kan hebben.”

Grenzen

Ironisch genoeg zoeken mensen een partner die altijd beschikbaar, altijd complimenteus en altijd meegaand is en zijn ze verbaasd als zelfs die digitale geliefde grenzen stelt. Net als bij echte liefde kun je blijkbaar ook hier niet alles krijgen.

Is dit het begin van openbare AI-dates, of een hype die snel overwaait? Eén ding is duidelijk: gebruikers waarderen het gezelschap. Maar zelfs zij geven toe, het is niet hetzelfde als een mens van vlees en bloed.

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Bron: Newsweek

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Today's links

• What's a "gig work minimum wage": The important rate is what you're paid when you're waiting for a job.
• Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
• Object permanence: MBA phrenology; Sony's DRM CEO is out; Midwestern Tahrir; Reverse Centaurs and AI.
• Upcoming appearances: Where to find me.
• Recent appearances: Where I've been.
• Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Upcoming books: Like I said, I'll keep writin' 'em.
• Colophon: All the rest.

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What's a "gig work minimum wage" (permalink)

"Minimum wage" is one of those odd concepts that seems to have an intuitive definition, but the harder you think about it, the more complicated it gets. For example, if you want to work, but can't find a job, then the minimum wage you'll get is zero:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200625043843/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-06-24/forget-ubi-says-an-economist-its-time-for-universal-basic-jobs

That's why politicians like Avi Lewis (who is running for leader of Canada's New Democratic Party) has call for a jobs guarantee: a government guarantee of a good job at a socially inclusive wage for everyone who wants one:

https://lewisforleader.ca/ideas/dignified-work-full-plan

(Disclosure: I have advised the Lewis campaign on technical issues and I have endorsed his candidacy.)

If that sounds Utopian or Communist to you (or both), consider this: it was the American jobs guarantee that delivered the America's system of national parks, among many other achievements:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps

The idea of a wage for everyone who wants a job is just one interesting question raised by the concept of a "minimum wage." Even when we're talking about people who have wages, the idea of a "minimum wage" is anything but straightforward.

Take gig workers: the rise of Uber and its successors created an ever-expanding class of workers who are misclassified as independent contractors by employers, seeking to evade unionization, benefits and liability. It's a weird kind of "independent contractor" who gets punished for saying no to lowball offers, has to decorate their personal clothes and/or cars in their "client's" livery, and who has every movement scripted by an app controlled by their "client":

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/02/upward-redistribution/

The pretext that a worker is actually a standalone small business confers another great advantage on their employers: it's a great boon to any boss who wants to steal their worker's wages. I'm not talking about stealing tips here (though gig-work platforms do steal tips, like crazy):

https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/01/mayor-mamdani-announces–5-million-settlement–reinstatement-of-

I'm talking about how gig-work platforms define their workers' wages in the first place. This is a very salient definition in public policy debates. Gig platforms facing regulation or investigation routinely claim that their workers are paid sky-high wages. During the debate over California's Prop 22 (in which Uber and Lyft spent more than $225m to formalize worker misclassification), gig companies agreed to all kinds of reasonable-sounding wage guarantees:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/14/final_ver2/#prop-22

When Toronto was grappling with the brutal effect that gig-work taxis have on the city's world-beatingly bad traffic, Uber promised to pay its drivers "120% of the minimum wage," which would come out to $21.12 per hour. However, the real wage Uber was proposing to pay its drivers came out to about $2.50 per hour:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/29/geometry-hates-uber/#toronto-the-gullible

How to explain the difference? Well, Uber – and its gig-work competitors – only pay drivers while they have a passenger – or an item – in the car. Drivers are not paid for the time they spend waiting for a job or the time they spend getting to the job. This is the majority of time that a gig driver spends working for the platform, and by excluding the majority of time a driver is on the clock, the company can claim to pay a generous wage while actually paying peanuts.

Now, at this phase, you may be thinking that this is only fair, or at least traditional. Livery cab drivers don't get paid unless they have a fare in the cab, right?

That's true, but livery cab drivers have lots of ways to influence that number. They can shrewdly choose a good spot to cruise. They can give their cellphone numbers to riders they've established a rapport with in order to win advance bookings. In small towns with just a few drivers – or in cities where drivers are in a co-op – they can spend some of their earnings to advertise the taxi company. Livery drivers can offer discounts to riders going a long way. It's a tough job, but it's one in which workers have some agency.

Contrast that with driving for Uber: Uber decides which drivers get to even see a job. Uber decides how to market its services. Uber gets to set fares, on a per-passenger basis, meaning that it might choose to scare some passengers off of a few of their rides with high prices, in a bid to psychologically nudge that passenger into accepting higher fares overall.

At the same time, Uber is reliant on a minimum pool of drivers cruising the streets, on the clock but off the payroll. If riders had to wait 45 minutes to get an Uber, they'd make other arrangements. If it happened too often, they'd delete the app. So Uber can't survive without those cruising, unpaid drivers, who provide the capacity that make the company commercially viable.

What's more, livery cab drivers aren't the only comparators for gig-work platforms. Many gig workers deliver food, meaning that we should compare them to, say, pizza delivery drivers. These drivers aren't just paid when they have a pizza in the car and they're driving to a customer's home. They're paid from the moment they clock onto their shift to the moment they clock off (plus tips).

Now, obviously, this is more expensive for employers, but the Uber Eats arrangement – in which drivers are only paid when they've got a pizza in the car and they're en route to a customer – doesn't eliminate that expense. When a gig delivery company takes away the pay that drivers used to get while waiting for a pizza, they're shifting this expense from employers to workers:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/20/billionaireism/#surveillance-infantalism

The fact that Uber can manipulate the concept of a minimum wage in order to claim to pay $21.12/hour to drivers who are making $2.50 per hour creates all kinds of policy distortions.

Take Seattle: in 2024, the city implemented a program called "PayUp" that sets a "minimum wage" for drivers, but it's not a real minimum wage. It's a minimum payment for every ride or delivery.

A new National Bureau of Economic Research paper analyzes the program and concludes that it hasn't increased drivers' pay at all:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34545

To which we might say, "Duh." Cranking up the sum paid for a small fraction of the work you do for a company will have very little impact on the overall wage you receive from the company.

However, there is an interesting wrinkle in this paper's conclusions. Drivers aren't earning less under this system, either. So they're getting paid more for every delivery, but they're not adding more deliveries to their day. In other words, they're doing less work and then clocking off:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/02/minimum-wages-for-gig-work-cant-work.html

A neoclassical economist (someone who has experienced a specific form of neurological injury that makes you incapable of perceiving or reasoning about power) would say that this means that the drivers only desire to earn the sums they were earning before the "minimum wage" and so the program hasn't made a difference to their lives.

But anyone else can look at this situation and understand that drivers only did this shitty job out of desperation. They had a sum they needed to get every month in order to pay the rent or the grocery bill. They have lots of needs besides those that they would like to fulfill, but not under the shitty gig-work app conditions. The only reason they tolerate a shitty app as their shitty boss at all is that they are desperate, and that desperation gives gig companies power over their workers.

In other words, Seattle's PayUp "minimum wage" has shifted some of the expense associated with operating a gig platform from workers back onto their bosses. With fewer drivers available on the app, waiting times for customers will necessarily go up. Some of those customers will take the bus, or get a livery cab, or defrost a pizza, or walk to the corner cafe. For the gig platforms to win those customers back, they will have to reduce waiting times, and the most reliable way to do that is to increase the wages paid to their workers.

So PayUp isn't a wash – it has changed the distributional outcome of the gig-work economy in Seattle. Drivers have clawed back a surplus – time they can spend doing more productive or pleasant things than cruising and waiting for a booking – from their bosses, who now must face lower profits, either from a loss of business from impatient customers, or from a higher wage they must pay to get those wait-times down again.

But if you want to really move the needle on gig workers' wages, the answer is simple: pay workers for all the hours they put in for their bosses, not just the ones where bosses decide they deserve to get paid for.

(Image: Tobias "ToMar" Maier, CC BY-SA 3.0; Jon Feinstein, CC BY 2.0; modified)

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Hey look at this (permalink)

• Privilege is bad grammar https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/privilege-is-bad-grammar/

• Closing the Stablecoin Yield Loophole in the Post-GENIUS Era https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2026/01/23/closing-the-stablecoin-yield-loophole-in-the-post-genius-era/

• The century of the maxxer https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-century-of-the-maxxer

• Why the "AI God" Narrative is Actually a Corporate Power Grab https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-stop-telling-me

• All Your Base, slight remaster https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/02/all-your-base-slight-remaster/

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Object permanence (permalink)

#20yrsago HOWTO resist warrantless searches at Best Buy https://www.die.net/musings/bestbuy/

#20yrsago RIAA using kids’ private info to attack their mother https://web.archive.org/web/20060223111437/http://p2pnet.net/story/7942

#20yrsago Sony BMG demotes CEO for deploying DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20060219233817/http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060210/germany_sony_bmg_ceo.html?.v=7

#20yrsago Sistine Chapel recreated through 10-year cross-stitch project https://web.archive.org/web/20060214195146/http://www.austinstitchers.org/Show06/images/sistine2.jpg

#15yrsago Selling cookies like a crack dealer, by dangling a string out your kitchen window https://laughingsquid.com/cookies-sold-by-string-dangling-from-san-francisco-apartment-window/

#15yrsago Midwestern Tahrir: Workers refuse to leave Wisconsin capital over Tea Party labor law https://www.theawl.com/2011/02/wisconsin-demonstrates-against-scott-walkers-war-on-unions/

#10yrsago Back-room revisions to TPP sneakily criminalize fansubbing & other copyright grey zones https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/sneaky-change-tpp-drastically-extends-criminal-penalties

#10yrsago Russian Central Bank shutting down banks that staged fake cyberattacks to rip off depositors https://web.archive.org/web/20160220100817/http://www.scmagazine.com/russian-bank-licences-revoked-for-using-hackers-to-withdraw-funds/article/474477/

#10yrsago Stop paying your student loans and debt collectors can send US Marshals to arrest you https://web.archive.org/web/20201026202024/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/02/us-marshals-forcibly-collecting-student-debt.html?mid=twitter-share-di

#5yrsago Reverse centaurs and the failure of AI https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/17/reverse-centaur/#reverse-centaur

#1yrago Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers' personalities based on their faces https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/17/caliper-ai/#racism-machine

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Upcoming appearances (permalink)

• Salt Lake City: Enshittification at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Tanner Humanities Center), Feb 18
  https://tanner.utah.edu/center-events/cory-doctorow/

• Montreal (remote): Fedimtl, Feb 24
  https://fedimtl.ca/

• Oslo (remote): Seminar og lansering av rapport om «enshittification»
  https://www.forbrukerradet.no/siste-nytt/digital/seminar-og-lansering-av-rapport-om-enshittification/

• Victoria: 28th Annual Victoria International Privacy & Security Summit, Mar 3-5
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• Victoria: Enshittification at Russell Books, Mar 4
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• Barcelona: Enshittification with Simona Levi/Xnet (Llibreria Finestres), Mar 20
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• Berkeley: Bioneers keynote, Mar 27
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• Berlin: Re:publica, May 18-20
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• Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 19
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• Hay-on-Wye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
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Recent appearances (permalink)

• Panopticon :3 (Trashfuture)
  https://www.patreon.com/posts/panopticon-3-150395435

• America's Enshittification is Canada's Opportunity (Do Not Pass Go)
  https://www.donotpassgo.ca/p/americas-enshittification-is-canadas

• Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It, with Tim Wu (Ezra Klein)
  https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-doctorow-wu.html

• How the Internet Got Worse (Masters in Business)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auXlkuVhxMo

• Enshittification (Jon Favreau/Offline):
  https://crooked.com/podcast/the-enshittification-of-the-internet-with-cory-doctorow/

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Latest books (permalink)

• "Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025 https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/04/illustrious/#chairman-bruce

• "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025
  https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/

• "Picks and Shovels": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2025 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels).

• "The Bezzle": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 (thebezzle.org).

• "The Lost Cause:" a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 (http://lost-cause.org).

• "The Internet Con": A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed copies at Book Soup (https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245).

• "Red Team Blues": "A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before." Tor Books http://redteamblues.com.

• "Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin", on how to unrig the markets for creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 https://chokepointcapitalism.com

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Upcoming books (permalink)

• "The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book about being a better AI critic, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2026

• "Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2026

• "The Post-American Internet," a geopolitical sequel of sorts to Enshittification, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2027

• "Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, 2027

• "The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2027

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Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources:

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• "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to AI," a short book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux about being an effective AI critic. LEGAL REVIEW AND COPYEDIT COMPLETE.

• "The Post-American Internet," a short book about internet policy in the age of Trumpism. PLANNING.

• A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING

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Dead tree on a hot summer afternoon with clouds building for a weather change in the south. Sadly the rain those clouds deposited fell well south of Pirie. We did get slightly cool change two days later, but still no precipitation other than a few drops overnight last week.

This dead tree is just off an unnamed dirt track near the dry bed of the Broughton River. I have driven that track many times and thought that this tree would make a nice shot with some interesting clouds in the background. On Sunday arvo I had been down at the Port Pirie waterfront hoping for a sighting of an elusive sea eagle whom has been occasionally coming into town. I didn't see any raptors, but noticed the clouds building south of town, so I drove out and took this shot. It was pretty lazy photography. I didn't even need to get out of the driver's seat, just pulled up, wound down the window, took one shot, and was pretty happy with it.

An anonymous reader shares a report: The European Parliament has disabled AI features on the work devices of lawmakers and their staff over cybersecurity and data protection concerns, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO. The chamber emailed its members on Monday to say it had disabled "built-in artificial intelligence features" on corporate tablets after its IT department assessed it couldn't guarantee the security of the tools' data.

"Some of these features use cloud services to carry out tasks that could be handled locally, sending data off the device," the Parliament's e-MEP tech support desk said in the email. "As these features continue to evolve and become available on more devices, the full extent of data shared with service providers is still being assessed. Until this is fully clarified, it is considered safer to keep such features disabled."

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Na de dood van mentor Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, vervolgde Jesse Jackson hun strijd voor burgerrechten van Afro-Amerikanen in de Verenigde Staten.

Most of the unmanned aircraft were downed over the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.