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NYTimes: On Election Day, Facebook and Twitter Did Better by Making Their Products Worse

On Election Day, Facebook and Twitter Did Better by Making Their Products Worse nyti.ms/2TWvxp9

“Mr. Pariser said that the platforms’ work to prevent election interference this year raised bigger questions about how they will respond to other threats.

“These platforms are used for really important conversations every day,” Mr. Pariser said. “If you do this for U.S. elections, why not other countries’ elections? Why not climate change? Why not acts of violence?”

These are the right questions to ask. The social media companies may have gotten through election night without a disaster. But as with the election itself, the real fights are still ahead.”

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NYTimes: A Top White House Coronavirus Adviser Warns of a ‘Deadly Phase’

A Top White House Coronavirus Adviser Warns of a ‘Deadly Phase’ www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/03/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates

“We are entering the most concerning and most deadly phase of this pandemic,” Dr. Birx wrote, adding: “This is not about lockdowns — it hasn’t been about lockdowns since March or April. It’s about an aggressive balanced approach that is not being implemented.”
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