June 23, 2023
Economy
A special group of Independent State Revenue Authority- AADE auditors is “scanning” social media for possible digital dodgers. It searches Facebook, Instagram, TikTok to detect suspicious transactions, cases of illegal trade and enrichment. The case of the well-known influencer, who was caught evading taxes and is facing a fine of …
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March 26, 2023
Economy, FEATURED
Greece’s Finance Ministry will scan social media and specifically Facebook and Instagram to locate tax evaders. The social media “safari” aims to identify hidden income of individuals but also companies that do businesses via the internet, Sunday edition of newspaper realnews.gr reported. Individuals will be checked based on the pictures …
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December 7, 2022
FEATURED, Lifestyle, Society
“Kilkis does not exist” No one knows how conspiracy theories start but we we certainly know how they are spread nowadays: via the social media. No matter how crazy the theory and rumor, it easily goes viral spreading across one country and beyond… The new viral claim among Greek internet …
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November 28, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
A public prosecutor in Athens has pressed charges against 20 people spreading fake news about the Covid-19 pandemic on internet and social media as well as inciting others to disobedience regarding protection measures. The Cuber-crime Division of the Greek police has submitted to the prosecutor two file cases on Friday, …
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November 3, 2021
Politics, World
Turkish police has launched a legal probe into dozens of social media users for allegedly spreading the rumor that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has died. A relevant hashtag “he is apparently dead” #olmus in Turkish has been trending on Twitter since Wednesday morning bringing the fragile Turkish Lira into turbulence. …
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September 17, 2021
Social, Society
A massive mobilization on Greek social media caused an online platform and app for food delivery to suffer a huge customers’ backlash on Friday. Reason for the strong reactions was the decision of e-food platform to change the status of dozens of its delivery workers into freelancers. In a email …
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July 6, 2021
Greece, Politics
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated that social media are dangerous for the democracy and referring to “intensity and manner of criticism he added that social media “have brought to the fore a toxicity.” A few months ago, he had brought the same argument while speaking at the Parliament. In …
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September 7, 2020
FEATURED, Very Mix
Furious social media users have been lashing out at a participant of reality show Big Brother who has made a misogynistic and vulgar comment on women and rape. Player Antonis, a 31-year-old macho from Crete, endorsed and encouraged rape on Skai TV Livestreaming: if a woman doesn’t like you, then …
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August 4, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Minister of Civil Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis, has ordered investigation and referred to Justice “coronavirus conspiracy theories” posts that recently appeared on Greek internet. On small websites and on social media, the specific posts claim that Covid-19 is in essence a “fairy tale”and urge people to refuse accepting fines and sanctions …
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August 3, 2020
FEATURED, Very Mix
A restaurant owner in Greece has come up with the perfect way of dealing with social media “influencers” scrounging for food in exchange of ‘tagging” and “publicity”.”> In the days following the reopening of restaurants in England, there were several reports of social media “influencers” trying to get free meals …
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July 19, 2019
Greece
A Greek shop owner gave live on TV his own explanation about the cause of strong earthquake that stroke Athens with 5.3R Friday noon. “We have a jinxed Prime Minister,” the man said during a live stream with private ANT1 TV. The shop owner in Liosia suburb of West Athens, …
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August 13, 2018
Economy
While Turkey’s currency crisis continues also on Monday, Erdogan’s regime believes to have found who is responsible for the crisis: it is social media accounts that “who shared posts to provoke the rise in the dollar exchange rate” and spreading fake news. Shares in Europe’s major banks lost further ground …
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August 2, 2018
Tourism
Got engaged on Santorini end of July? Somebody is searching for you … A tourist searches for couple he shot a picture of. He says he wants to give to the couple the photo he accidentally shot of the special once in a life moment. He has launched a search via …
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July 27, 2018
Turkey-GR
Hundreds of Turkish citizens gathered outside the Greek consulate in the city of Izmir on Thursday to express their solidarity with the Greek people following the devastating wildfires and the heavy death toll. Simple people and members of trade unions held banners reading “Hold On, Neighbors!” Some were holding a …
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July 17, 2018
Sports
Turkey lost 27:1 against Greece in the first match of the 2018 Men’s European Water Polo Championship in Barcelona on July 16. The defeat prompted a social media storm created by angry and sarcastic Turkish fans who humiliated their national team. “Do they really know how to swim?” one Turkish …
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May 21, 2018
Editor, Opinion
The attack on Mayor of Thessaloniki, Yiannis Boutaris has shocked the democratic world in Greece and abroad. Equally shocking has been the hate speech and incitement to violence by an -unfortunately- large portion of Greeks on social media. And not only. Several diaspora Greeks, poured their poison against Boutaris on …
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July 25, 2017
Economy
Are you a bank debtor in a cash-strapped country and owner of several accounts on social media? News is bad, my friend. The banks are after you with new methods to prove whether your claim “I have no money” is true or not. They will screen your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram …
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July 1, 2017
Tourism
All the way from Australia to Greece and from Sydney to Delos. The tiny island in the Aegean Sea, the mythological birthplace of Apollo, the island with one of the most important archaeological sites of Greece. Right next to cosmopolitan Mykonos. Movie star Hugh Jackman is on holidays in Greece, …
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April 6, 2017
Tourism, Travel
US authorities extended the visa waiver program for Greece until March 31, 2018. Greek nationals wishing a trip to the US will not need a visa. According to the National Herald in New York, the participation of Greece in the US Visa Program Suspend (US Visa Waiver Program -VWP) has …
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March 26, 2017
Politics, World
Tens of thousands of people joined a march against Brexit in London on Saturday and called for Britain to remain in the European Union. The march Unite for Europe tooks place just days before Prime Minister Theresa May will trigger Article 50 that will initiate the Brexit process from the …
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