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There are legal complications with silencing a sitting US president. Before Elon, Twitter struggled to contextualize and mitigate the damage. After Elon, the “damage” got artificially boosted to the top of the feed.

I had to leave Twitter because of right wing Nazi harassment. It was bad before Musk, but it used to be possible to report and remove bad actors. After Musk, reports were DOA.

Panama suspends diplomatic relations with Venezuela pending election review (www.reuters.com)

Panama put its diplomatic relations with Venezuela “on hold” and will withdraw its diplomatic personnel from the country until a full review of Sunday’s presidential election results is conducted, President Jose Raul Mulino said on Monday....

Media Bias Fact Check - Automation

Hello World, As many of you have probably noticed, there is a growing problem on the internet when it comes to undisclosed bias in both amateur and professional reporting. While not every outlet can be like the C-SPAN, or Reuters, we also believe that it’s impossible to remove the human element from the news, especially when...

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This will be great to have. Thanks!

Media Bias Fact Check - Automation

Hello World, As many of you have probably noticed, there is a growing problem on the internet when it comes to undisclosed bias in both amateur and professional reporting. While not every outlet can be like the C-SPAN, or Reuters, we also believe that it’s impossible to remove the human element from the news, especially when...

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Thank you for putting this into place!

gedaliyah ,
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It’s an interesting suggestion, however, I can see a few potential challenges:

  • The methodology is determined by Wikipedia editors’ consensus alone. It’s unclear what the ultimate basis for inclusion/exclusion may be, or whether there is a uniform standard applied.
  • The list is far less comprehensive than MBFC and other rating sites.
  • The scope/purpose of the Wikipedia list is very different from ours. Although we are both ultimately interested in factual, verifiable truth, news/current event aggregation is not the same purpose as encyclopedic archiving.
  • The list is sometimes too granular, and sometimes too broad to be useful for live content moderation. For example, some sources are categorized differently based on the type of content, and others are grouped together.

We would want to discuss and navigate these issues prior to incorporating this list into our communities.

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Authoritarian populism knows no political party

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Remember that this is one of the districts that was jerrymandered to all hell about two years ago.

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Intimate partner abuse is a terrible tragedy.

I don’t understand this law though. Don’t billions of people practice arranged marriage? Isn’t this just enforcing western culture norms on communities arbitrarily?

Personally, I’d like to know if there is a higher rate of spousal abuse in arranged marriages when controlling for other factors. Has this been studied in Australia?

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ANSWER: It is not arbitrary. It is addressing a real problem of abuse and trafficking. Studies have been done in partnership with the communities potentially impacted.

Here is one research report from the Australian Institute of Criminology: “The cases of forced marriage examined for this study revealed consistent themes… Marital life was strict, severe and traumatic. Domestic violence, in all its forms, was commonplace—physical, sexual and emotional abuse (actual and threatened), imposed social isolation and financial manipulation—and perpetrated not just by the husband but also by the husband’s male and female relatives.”

However, it is hardly cut-and-dry. Here is another study from FECCA, which represents the interests of ethnic minority communities: “Ultimately, the current data suggests that the prevalence of forced marriage is either low or unknown in Australia… Criminalisation may drive the practice further underground, and there is no data to suggest that criminalisation has reduced the number of instances or referrals of forced marriage.”

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See edits above

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see edit above

gedaliyah ,
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As a practice, it is far more common in south and Central Asia and Africa, and is more culturally significant in those places. However, I was wrong to equate arranged marriage and forced marriage. Australian law makes that distinction, and research supports it.

“while forced marriage is not a product of any ethnic, racial or religious affiliation, certain cultural approaches and sensitivities should be employed when identifying forced marriage… Academic literature critiques the tendency to box forced marriage as a problem within new-migrant communities” (Source)[…org.au/…/FECCA-Literature-Review-on-Forced-Marri…]

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That’s uncalled for. I posted my initial reaction, which was mostly misguided. I invested the time and effort to research and learn about the issue and mostly found answers to my questions.

I edited the post to clarify and avoid potentially misleading anyone who may have been of the same mindset. Simple as that. It would be far more dishonest to delete the post and act like I didn’t have questions about the situation. Instead, I did the work to learn a little and share that knowledge with others through a well-sourced response. If you don’t appreciate the effort, while investing none of your own, that’s your own business.

Also, it’s “Say your piece.”

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Okaaaaay, you clearly did not look at what I posted.

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I appreciate your reitetating. That was a mistake I made in my original comment. They are not the same and I should not have conflated them.

Exit polling in Venezuela shows opposition beating Maduro by wide margin (www.washingtonpost.com)

Exit polling released after voting centers began to close Sunday evening showed opposition candidate Edmundo González taking 65 percent of the vote, more than doubling Maduro’s 31 percent, Edison Research reported. Venezuelans were waiting for official results.

gedaliyah ,
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It’s always seemed like a laundering scheme to me.

Although they did actually market and sell oversized lighters at a hefty profit (as “flamethrowers”).

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Hey there, Florida and California, don’t build any high speed rail! In just five years, we can build a magical system of tubes that will be twice as fast and cost half as much! Sure, it will always be just five years away, but that is a small price to pay!

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Thanks that was a weird error

Modi’s Long Game (foreignpolicy.com)

India has long been described as “the world’s largest democracy,” although in recent years, it has experienced significant backsliding: Freedom House, the V-Dem Institute, and the Economist Intelligence Unit have all downgraded India in their rankings, most acutely since 2019, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his...

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I can’t tell if you’re actually joking about election interference, or if you have some bizarre critique of the source

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It’s from the AFP newswire.

It’s difficult to imagine a more credible source.

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Here’s the leading paper of record in Colombia. I’d be interested to hear your thoughts.

eltiempo.com/…/una-ong-denuncia-nuevas-detencione…

gedaliyah OP ,
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The article is from the AFP wire. It says there right at the top if you just click on the link posted. Hope this helps.

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Well, you do know the reliability because I just told you it’s the paper of record in Colombia, and that’s easy enough to verify with a quick web search. Colombia has a leftist government, and the people generally express a strong kinship with Venezuela.

The article is about the dozens of arbitrary arrests and election persecution cases alleged since this morning.

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Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool.

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I honestly don’t think that they want a war with Hezbollah, but I don’t know if they know how to de-escalate it. Both sides have been trying to keep things ”even” in their exchanges but that kind of policy always leads to escalation.

Hezbollah just killed a bunch of kids in Israel, which I don’t think was the intent (they aren’t exactly itching for a war with Israel either). But how long can you keep firing rockets at civilians before you kill someone? Then Israel has to respond.

Who is "El Mayo" Zambada, the Sinaloa drug cartel leader now in U.S. custody? (www.pbs.org)

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the top leader and co-founder of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, eluded the reach of U.S. law enforcement for decades as the criminal organization evolved into the world’s biggest manufacturer and smuggler of illicit fentanyl pills and other drugs to the United States.

"Gen Z feels the Kamalove" Youth-led groups see surge of energy around Harris campaign | PBS News (www.pbs.org)

Youth-led progressive organizations have warned for months that Biden had a problem with young voters, pleading with the president to work more closely with them to refocus on the issues most important to younger generations or risk losing their votes. With Biden out of the race, many of these young leaders are now hoping Harris...

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I feel like speaking out against Trump is a great way to get a job for him.

If you’re willing to backpedal and support him for money and influence then he knows you are spineless and unprincipled. That means he knows exactly how to control you.

At least 11 people injured after projectiles reportedly fired from Lebanon into Israel | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

From the photos on twitter, it looks like it hit the only soccer field in town, landing between the field and the playground next to it. Hezbollah first claimed the attack, but now that there are 10 kids dead, and another several dozen kids injured they’ve backpedaled on it....

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Terrible. They have been raining down rockets in Israel since Oct. 8 and no one talks about it. There are 200,000 internally displaced Israelis and sometimes it feels like no one cares.

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Sorry, kids. It looks like you were born in the wrong country to deserve any sympathy or basic human decency.

What a monster.

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What Beirut attack? I didn’t hear about that.

gedaliyah ,
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Hardly an “attack on Beirut.” According to this it was an attack on a Hamas commander near Beirut.

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It seems like we could fix a lot of problems with the housing market if there were a law banning corporate ownership of all permanent residences.

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Rent control can be a double edged sword, leading to lower quality homes and less development - there’s no reason to build or fix homes that don’t make money. Government subsidies and oversight help a little.

I do like the idea of taxing empty homes, though. It could even be progressive so the more empty homes, the higher the tax. Corporations would lower rents to avoid the penalty.

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When you calculate with pen and paper, you’re right. With this calculator, you’re goddamn right.

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You just described every company

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There are no military installations under Israeli playgrounds. Here’s a map of Israeli military sites.

If you don’t believe that Hamas uses civilian sites to disguise their military actions, it would be ridiculously easy to disprove. Just show a map of their military sites. Further reading.

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