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Easter catch up with TFN’s own Monica Zielinski

This Easter, many Poles are celebrating the holiday with their guests from Ukraine. Natasza from Kyiv (left) joined Monica Zielinski's (right) family in Ostrołeka in March and is learning about Polish traditions such as the blessing of the Easter basket on Holy Saturday. TFN

In this edition of The Debrief, John Beauchamp speaks to new(ish!) recruit Monica Zielinski about how she’s shaking up TFN’s social platforms!

PMs of Poland, Baltics call on Tech heads to block Russian lies

The prime ministers of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have sent an open letter to the heads of the world's biggest social media companies calling on them to block the official accounts of Russian and Belarusian government institutions.

Polish govt opposes deletion of far-right party's Facebook profile

Poland will continue to protect freedom of speech in the country and in the whole of Europe and informed Facebook that it does not agree with the company’s decision, a government digital affairs official has said.

Polish court overrules Facebook on foreign language complaints

A Polish court has told social media giant Facebook that it has no legal standing to ignore complaints made in a foreign language.

Polish users data worth over EUR 1.3 bln to global tech companies

Data accumulated by Polish internet users were worth over PLN 6 billion (EUR 1.3 billion) to Google and Facebook in 2020, the Polish Economic Institute (PIE) has estimated.

Polish far-right party banned by Facebook

Facebook has blocked the account of Confederation, a Polish far-right party with 11 MPs, for repeated breaches of its rules on hate speech, and disinformation about Covid-19.

Mini-homes ‘smaller than a prison cell’ reignite housing debate

Split on two levels, plans for the matchbox apartments measuring between 13 sq/m and 2.5 sq/m imagine a kitchenette and bathroom on ground level, and then a small space for a bed above.

Holocaust survivor tracks down family of Polish woman who saved her from WWII death camp with the help of Facebook

Aviva Landau was due to visit Poland from Israel this month for the first time since leaving just after the end of the war and was keen to contact the family of her rescuer she remembers as Anna. But all she had was an old address scribbled on the back of an envelope…

Jazzman livens up statues with his ‘sousaphone’ in 100-km per day charity ride for dogs

Award-winning composer and musician Piotr Wróbel has spent the last month cycling from Warsaw to Gdańsk and searching out ‘taken-for-granted’ statues to pose with his tuba-like instrument and raise money for dogs with cancer or other diseases, or which have been injured in traffic accidents or mistreated by their owners.

Initiative launched to help older business men and women survive pandemic through social media promotion

Since launching at the beginning of April, the campaign which collects and features the profiles of businesses whose older owners have often been running them for decades, has already amassed a following of 7,000 on Facebook and 34,000 on Instagram alone. 

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