August 25, 2024
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Psimythos, the fantastic Greek island has gone viral on internet since Saturday afternoon. For years the island was just a secret among insiders. But now after it gained popularity on social media, it is threatened to fall victim to everything swallowing tourism industry. It was started with a tweet on …
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December 2, 2020
Very Mix
Thousands of women and girls are being threatened and harassed by a website that avenges “revenge pornography.” Dozens of social media users have reacted strongly and demand the intervention of police. This website, without requiring registration and without strict conditions, allows users to circulate material, which depicts the private moments …
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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 30, 2018
Arts, Culture
Greek and international media including news agencies like Associated Press and mainstream media like NY Times fell victim of a hoax claiming that prominent Greek film director Costa Gavras had died. The hoax was posted on social media on Thursday afternoon. “I am happy to be alive,” prominent Greek director …
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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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May 9, 2018
Turkey-GR
Turkish President Recep Tayyiyp Erdogan had obviously not thought much when he challenged the Turkish people saying “If one day our nation says ‘enough,’ then we will step aside.” The magic sentence with the crucial key word “Enough” – Tamam in Turkish- was spoken out during his speech in the …
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February 20, 2018
World
The lawyers of Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan sent a Turkish Court decision to Twitter and demanded that Greek Graphic designer @JoDiGraphics removes a graph of Erodgan he has created and uploaded on Twitter in October 2015! Stop killer Erdogan #Ankara #AnkaraBombing "Δολοφόνε Ερντογαν" φωνάζουν οι διαδηλωτές στην Αγκυρα pic.twitter.com/dCLSaIGEqc …
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January 5, 2018
Greece, Politics
On January 4th 2018, Twitter suspended the account of far-right Golden Dawn (Xrysi Aygi) after Greek Helsinki Monitor filed a report for suspension on 18 December 2017 on grounds of hate speech. GD confirmed the suspension attributing the decision to conspiracy theories. The suspension came two weeks after Twitter announced …
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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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November 30, 2015
Turkey-GR
The administrator of the Twitter account of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras picked up the wrong day to refer to the Turkish-Russian feud over the downing of the Russian Su 24 last week and to draw attention to the violations of Greek FIR by Turkey as well as to the refugee …
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July 17, 2015
Economy
Greece submitted a diplomatic protest against Slovakia’s Finance Minister Peter Kazimir, news agency TASR reported. Reason for the Greek protest were several comments by Kazimir who described the tough Brussels agreement as “a punishment” for the “Greek spring” – in fact confirming many critics who said that the euro leaders …
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January 27, 2015
Politics
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sent his first tweet from his new account on Twitter Tusday evening. A kind of oath or something in front of the social media community. He wrote: “I assure you in my honor and conscience that I will always follow the Constitution and the laws, I …
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January 26, 2015
Politics
This is one of the more fun congratulations messages left-wing SYRIZA received upon winning the Greek elections. Who cares if Russian president or the President of the European Parliament sent their diplomacy-motivated messages…. This one is we like more 🙂 Bravo Syriza! Must feel like they've just won a …
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January 13, 2015
Politics
Have you been thinking all of the time that the symbol of social media Twitter is a “chirping bird” tweeting 140-characters long? Well, I have bad news for you. You have been wrong all of the time. Then according to conservative Nea Dimokratia, the fluffy Twitter bird has allegedly some connection …
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December 8, 2014
Society
Greek Police released a video footage shot by a thermographic camera from a police helicopter on Saturday night. The impressive footage shows the figures of several protesters on the rooftops of apartment buildings in Exarchia district of Athens, the center of riots and clashes on December 6th 2014. The figures …
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October 30, 2013
Society
“My children are abroad, my sister’s children are abroad, some other nieces too.” The lady was talking to her walking companion. “Where did they do?” the other woman asked and the first answered “Oh, one is in Paris, one in New York, one in London, one in Sweden…” I didn’t …
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May 21, 2013
Tourism
Famous Hollywood actor Russell Crowe spent a few days in Greece and thus on the island of Mykonos. Excited about the colors of the sun and sea in, out and around the Greek islands, Crowe tweeted on Tuesday afternoon: Russell Crowe@russellcrowe 3h “How is it that I’ve lived 49 years …
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April 28, 2013
Sky, Very Mix
Greece is soon to enter a new era. The … space era! A space port is to be set up in Kalamata, the capital of Messinia prefecture in Peloponnese. Soon. In 2015. This was revealed by Dr Periklis Papadopoulos, a NASA researcher: “Kalamata is ideal for creating a European Spaceport …
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September 24, 2012
Very Mix
Greek police arrested a 27-year-old Greek on charges of “malicious blasphemy and insutlting of religion” through Facebook. The arrest came “after thousands of e-complains from residents of different countries of the world”, so the police press release. The 27-year-old had created a page on Facebook named “Geron Pastitsios” (Elder Pastitsios), an …
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September 14, 2012
Very Mix
Leader of Independent Greeks Panos Kammenos got angry about US-President Barack Obama. Because Obama invited former prime minister George Papandreou to attend the Democrats’ congress. Not to mention the rumours that Obama allegedly offered a advisor’s position to Papandreou in view of the presidential elections in November. As Panos Kammenos saw no …
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