https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Facebook announced on Friday changes to the way political advertisements are handled on the social media site ahead of the upcoming European Parliament elections. https://www.thelocal.at/20190330/facebook-to-deploy-new-transparency-tools-ahead-of-european-elections Sat, 30 Mar 2019 09:47:35 +0100 facebook-to-deploy-new-transparency-tools-ahead-of-european-elections Although Austrian leaders are lagging behind when it comes to social media, the youthful foreign minister Sebastian Kurz is the country’s most connected politician on Twitter, a new report released on Tuesday showed. https://www.thelocal.at/20150428/kurz-saves-face-for-austrian-leaders-on-twitter Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:53:57 +0200 kurz-saves-face-for-austrian-leaders-on-twitter A 25-year-old man from Lower Austria has been ordered to do community service after posting hate speech on Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz’s Facebook page. https://www.thelocal.at/20141021/community-service-for-anti-semitic-facebook-posts Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:41:00 +0200 community-service-for-anti-semitic-facebook-posts