Has Facebook Stopped Trying? (www.404media.co)
In spring, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg invited more than a dozen professors and academics to a series of dinners at his home to discuss how Facebook could better keep its platforms safe from election disinformation, violent content, child sexual abuse material, and hate speech. Alongside these secret meetings, Facebook was regularly...
AI's Most Ambitious Music Generators Accused of 'Massive' Infringement In New Lawsuit (www.rollingstone.com)
Autopsy finds boy suffocated in NC wilderness camp death (www.wbtv.com)
Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free (www.nbcnews.com)
Federal judge rules that LGBTQ+ veterans can sue Pentagon over 'don’t ask, don’t tell' discharges (www.advocate.com)
Bankruptcy trustee discloses plan to shut down Alex Jones' Infowars and liquidate assets (apnews.com)
Black women say an Amtrak project threatens their Baltimore neighborhood’s homes — and children (19thnews.org)
Fearing Losses, Banks Are Quietly Dumping Real Estate Loans (www.nytimes.com)
If landlords can’t pay back loans on office buildings, the lenders will suffer. Some banks are trying to avoid that fate....
Hunter Biden requests new trial after conviction in gun case (www.theguardian.com)
Russian government accused of leaving citizens vulnerable to attacks like Sunday's gun rampages by turning the state's security apparatus on Kremlin critics instead of terrorist threats (www.reuters.com)
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A new sign for I-95 misspelled ‘Central.’ PennDot hid it under a black cloak. (www.inquirer.com)
Infant mortality rate rose 8% in wake of Texas abortion ban, study shows (apnews.com)
In the wake of Texas’ abortion ban, the state’s infant death rate increased and more died of birth defects, a study published Monday shows....
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange to be freed after pleading guilty to US espionage charge (www.reuters.com)
Kind of incredible, and really surprising as far as I can see :)
My Health Insurance Company Is Trying To Kill Me (www.huffpost.com)
One such encounter went like this:...
Bank of China halts payments with sanctioned Russian lenders, Russian media reports (www.themoscowtimes.com)
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A wax sculpture of Abe Lincoln was no match for D.C.’s punishing heat (www.washingtonpost.com)
Alvin Bragg Claims Victory as Jim Jordan Seethes at YouTube (www.thedailybeast.com)
Two years after Dobbs, the White House warns of Republican assaults on Americans' bodily autonomy (www.advocate.com)
Gender non-conforming family called "Satanic" after being outed by school (www.lgbtqnation.com)
2 years after Roe v. Wade, physicians still struggle to provide essential care (abcnews.go.com)
Oral ketamine tablets effective for treating depression, new study finds (www.statnews.com)
Biden stung by student loan legal loss days before taking effect (www.newsweek.com)
A Republican-led effort to block one of President Joe Biden’s student loan debt relief programs in court has succeeded just days before it was set to go into effect....