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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 “We—I hate to say this—but we essentially repealed Obamacare because we got rid of the individual mandate, which was terrible,” said Trump during remarks after passage of the bill.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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  • Facebook Hearings Reveal How Government Regulations Work

    Facebook Hearings Reveal How Government Regulations Work0

    A commentator on Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before the Senate observed that the event seemed like a 5-hour tech-support call. Truth. If you have ever had to do tech support, you know the way it happens. The user is hopeless, frustrated, and essentially ignorant of the product. That’s the Senate. The support employee tries to organize

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  • Facebook Flags, Censors NPR Report on Inflated Government School Shooting Statistics

    Facebook Flags, Censors NPR Report on Inflated Government School Shooting Statistics0

    Earlier this week, NPR reported on the high number of school shootings alleged by the U.S. Department of Education. The 240 school shootings detailed in the department’s report on the 2015-2016 school year was significantly higher than other estimates. So NPR, with the assistance of the non-profit group Child Trends, began doing what good journalists do: they collected

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