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New Study: Once Again, The Mainstream Media Is A Bigger Problem In Spreading Disinformation Than Social Media
We've discussed in the past Yochai Benkler's excellent book "Network Propaganda," (and had Benkler on our podcast) showing (with a ton of data) how the inclination many have to immediately blame social media for the spread of...
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How Trump damaged science
The US president’s actions have exacerbated the pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 people in the United States, rolled back environmental and public-health regulations and undermined science and scientific institutions. Some of the harm could be permanent.
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Twitter locked President Trump’s account after he shared NY Post columnist’s email
Twitter said that it locked President Trump’s account on Monday after the commander-in-chief violated company policies by sharing the email address of a New York Post columnist in a chirp.
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A Pro-Trump Militant Group Has Recruited Thousands of Police, Soldiers, and Veterans
An Atlantic investigation reveals who they are and what they might do on Election Day.
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China censors Pence’s comments on China during vice-presidential debate
China’s powerful censors briefly blocked foreign networks' live coverage of the U.S. vice-presidential debate, intervening to prevent viewers from seeing Vice-President Mike Pence answer a question about China. The interruption, which cut the debate signal to display colour bars for nearly three minutes, affected only a small number of people in China with access to channels like CNN, which is available in some hotels and residential compounds but not in most homes.
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Trump Now Blaming Gold Star Families for Infecting Him With COVID-19
“They want to hug me, and they want to kiss me.”
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Fear and adrenochrome | Spectator USA
Adrenochrome fascinates the QAnoners less as a drug than for its role in ritual: drug-crazed Luciferian elites sacrificing young children on an altar
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Ocasio-Cortez responds to Harris on fracking: It's 'bad actually'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) weighed in on the issue of fracking during the vice presidential debate Wednesday night, tweeting that fracking is "bad" as the candidates debated environmental issues. “Fracking is bad, actually,” the New York congresswoman tweeted after Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) noted that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is not seeking to ban the practice.
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Lincoln Project leaks a damning ad where Pence slams Trump: ‘Adultery’
Hours before Mike Pence was due to make his speech to accept the nomination for the Vice Presidency during the Republican National Convention, the Lincoln Project released another ad that opens with footage of Pence discussing “Adultery”. It may be the Super PAC’s most brutal ad yet. The President of the United States has been accused of sexual misconduct, extramarital affairs, and even rape.
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What Nancy Pelosi said about the 25th Amendment
It’s not about removing Trump, it’s about introducing a reform bill.
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Trump's public lands chief refuses to leave his post despite judge's order
A controversial environment chief in the Trump administration has said he has no intention of leaving his post after a US district court judge deemed his tenure and ongoing occupation of the position illegal. William Perry Pendley, head of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), said this week that the judge’s ruling “has no impact, no impact whatsoever”.
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Microsoft takes down massive hacking operation that could have affected the election
Microsoft has disrupted a massive hacking operation that it said could have indirectly affected election infrastructure if allowed to continue. The company said Monday it took down the servers behind Trickbot, an enormous malware network that criminals were using to launch other cyberattacks, including a strain of highly potent ransomware.
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Since Trump’s COVID-19 Diagnosis, His Campaign Has Spent More Than $500K on Facebook Ads About It
In the days following President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis last week, the president’s campaign is estimated to have spent more than $500,000 on Facebook political advertisements discussing his health and treatment plans, far outpacing ad spends by other advocacy groups and campaigns about the same topic, according to data shared exclusively with Morning Consult by researchers at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering’s Ad Observatory.
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Inside the plot to kidnap Gov. Whitmer
Thirteen men are accused in a domestic terrorist plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Here's how authorities say the scheme unfolded.
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Why the Philly cheesesteak can swing a presidential election
Forget policy, it’s an Italian-American sandwich that tests candidates’ popular appeal
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We’re watching Trump’s 7th bankruptcy unfold
As a businessman, Donald Trump ran 6 businesses that declared bankruptcy because they couldn’t pay their bills. As the president running for a second term, Trump is repeating some of the mistakes he made as a businessman and risking the downfall of yet another venture: his own political operation.
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Twitter, Facebook clamp down on New York Post article about Hunter Biden
Twitter and Facebook both took steps Wednesday to limit the spread of a New York Post story about Hunter Biden that has sparked questions about its sourcing.
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'Totally Under Control': New, Secretly-Filmed Documentary Details Trump's Colossal Covid-19 Failures
Several public health experts who have spent this year watching as President Donald Trump has ignored, refuted, and openly mocked their guidance on the coronavirus pandemic are among those interviewed in a new documentary titled "Totally Under Control"—coming forward to give an insider's account of how the Trump administration's severe mismanagement of the crisis led to more than 216,000 deaths in the United States so far.
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Inside the Republican Plot for Permanent Minority Rule
How the GOP keeps cheating its way into power—and may get away with it again in 2020
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Inside the Fall of the CDC
How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation of its own leaders, causing damage that could last much longer than the coronavirus.
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