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  • Fact-Checking 4 Biden Claims on His Student Loan Bailout

    Fact-Checking 4 Biden Claims on His Student Loan Bailout0

    President Joe Biden used his home state of Delaware on Friday to promote his “forgiveness” of student loan debt, which he did through executive action in August rather than through Congress. Some of Biden’s assertions during 24 minutes of remarks at Delaware State University in Dover were factual, and some less so. Biden spoke at

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  • Fact Check: Do 74% of Californians Really Oppose Sanctuary Cities?

    Fact Check: Do 74% of Californians Really Oppose Sanctuary Cities?0

    This morning, a friend sent me a story from a right-wing news site. It claimed that “74 percent of Californians want to end sanctuary cities.” The statistic didn’t seem to smell right. Seventy-four percent of Californians? The state in which Donald Trump won 33 percent of the vote? The poll ostensibly had been conducted by

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  • Fact Check: Did Republicans ‘Essentially’ Repeal Obamacare?

    Fact Check: Did Republicans ‘Essentially’ Repeal Obamacare?0

    President Donald Trump claimed the GOP tax bill that Congress passed Wednesday “essentially” repeals Obamacare. “We—I hate to say this—but we essentially repealed Obamacare because we got rid of the individual mandate, which was terrible,” said Trump during remarks after passage of the bill. Verdict: False Republicans voted to repeal the individual mandate—the requirement that Americans buy health insurance or face a penalty—but

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  • Faced With Legal Pushback, Governors Are Backing Down

    Faced With Legal Pushback, Governors Are Backing Down0

    On Wednesday, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz eased restrictions on his state’s lockdown. But the eased restrictions quickly lost the spotlight as the inconsistency with which he issued them took center stage. “Restaurants and bars are integral to what makes Minnesota great,” Walz said, announcing that they could reopen in a limited, outdoor fashion with up

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  • Facebook, surveillance capitalism, and feedback control

    Facebook, surveillance capitalism, and feedback control0

    On May 10, a United States Senate Committee sent a letter to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, asking him to respond to accusations that “employees of Facebook routinely suppressed conservative political viewpoints on the social network.” Former Facebook employees reportedly said that they had manipulated the content of “Trending Topics,” which displays news based on recent popularity, pages that

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  • Facebook Throttles Outsider Voices on Election Eve

    Facebook Throttles Outsider Voices on Election Eve0

    Facebook has removed its mask and is playing censor-in-chief on the eve of the 2020 election. On Monday morning, we found that none of the scheduled weekend posts of our alternative web publication, Intellectual Takeout, were released to the public. When attempting to post new material, Facebook informed us that restrictions are now in place to

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