Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Twitter, Reddit and Twitch. But Not Facebook.
"Facebook remains an outlier amid the push to rein in Trump’s social media behavior. The company has repeatedly massaged or reinterpreted its policies in order to avoid sanctioning the president, according to an investigation by the Washington Post. The pattern of accommodation stretches back to Trump’s candidacy, when his call for a ban on Muslims entering the country was given an exemption from Facebook’s rule against hate speech, and continues today."
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No more going viral: why not apply social distancing to social media?
"[S]ocial networks should reintroduce friction into their sharing mechanisms. Think of it as the digital equivalent of social distancing."
NRA has shed 200 staffers this year as group faces financial crisis
Can a good guy with a gun protect them from bankruptcy?
I kid, I hope they all choke on it.
Social Media Drops the Hammer on Team Trump
"What seems to have changed is not Trump’s behavior but platforms’ assessment of the risk of calling him out for it."
WHO Chief On COVID-19 Pandemic: 'The Worst Is Yet To Come'
"'The lack of national unity and lack of global solidarity and the divided world ... is actually helping the virus to spread,' Tedros said. 'The worst is yet to come.'"
Health Insurance Shouldn't Be Tied to Employers
"If American health care were its own country, it would be the fourth largest in the world by gross domestic product. The nation spends an average of $3.5 trillion per year on health care — more than Japan, Germany, France, China, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Brazil, Spain and Australia combined — and still loses more people to preventable and treatable medical conditions than any of those countries do."
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"Facebook is 'an organization that is profiting off hate in the US and globally'." https://gizmodo.com/cheers-to-this-face...
