A few months ago ACT News was aimed at Israeli advocacy, but co-founders Miri Michaeli and Moshe Klughaft now say its avatars will promote 'uplifting events from around the world'

Fadah Jassem once said Israel was 'not born' but 'dropped like a bomb in the middle of Palestine'; also sorry for feting her new role with emojis of 17 states, leaving out Israel

The New York Times, CNN, Amazon and other major sites affected by widespread failure, which also takes down websites of White House and UK government

Critics of wide-reaching move say professional journalism acted as a check on the spread of fake news before it was barred from feeds on the social media platform