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Couple attacked by their Bahamas AirBnB host in violent outburst: ‘He just snapped’

A couple has shared the horrifying story of how they were attacked by their Airbnb host with a double edged knife.

Laura Valm and her boyfriend Ryan had been staying at the rental property near Coral Harbour in Nassau, Bahamas last week. 

The property, which averages around $168 a night, is described as being ‘private and peaceful’ but it was nothing like that for the couple, after the host attacked them.

Sharing two TikTok‘s, Valm described how they had booked the property after reading rave reviews but found their host, who they name as Jan, to be strange. 

According to Valm, their host attempted to kill her and her boyfriend and injured a man who works for him with a large double edged blade. 

Images captured by the two shows Jan being apprehended by police officers after they managed…


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Another stumbling block for Truth Social: Google bars app download over violent content

Truth Social, the social media platform backed by former president Donald Trump, aims to provide an “open, free and honest global conversation.” But one place would-be users won’t be free to access the service is on Google’s Play store. The internet giant says it isn’t allowing downloads of the app due to violent content. 

The Google Play app store allows people to pre-register for Truth Social, but they can’t yet directly download the service from the site, unlike at Apple’s App Store. In a statement to CBS MoneyWatch, Google said that it had notified Truth Social on August 19 about “several violations of standard policies in their current app submission.”

The snag with Google is yet another stumbling block for Truth Social, which rolled out earlier this year and has since 


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Amazon says violent posts forced it to drop Parler from its web hosting service

The Parler logo seen displayed on a smartphone with the Google, Amazon and Apple logos displayed on PC screen in the background. Google, Apple and Amazon have suspended the social networking app Parler.

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Amazon defended its decision to drop Parler from its web hosting service in response to a lawsuit filed by the social media app earlier this week.

In court filings late Tuesday, Amazon said it flagged dozens of pieces of violent content to the social media app starting in November. The company argued that Parler violated its contract with Amazon’s cloud-computing unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), when it failed to remove the content and that AWS suspended Parler’s account “as a last resort.”

“This case is not about suppressing speech or stifling…


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