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In Fast-Moving Pandemic, Sources of Falsehoods Spread by Text, Email, WhatsApp and TikTok Elude Authorities TikTok

In Fast-Moving Pandemic, Sources of Falsehoods Spread by Text, Email, WhatsApp and TikTok Elude Authorities

In Fast-Moving Pandemic, Sources of Falsehoods Spread by Text, Email, WhatsApp and TikTok Elude Authorities (washingtonpost.com) Posted by msmash on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @02:15PM from the closer-look dept. Misleading text messages claiming that President Trump was going to announce a national quarantine buzzed into cellphones across the country over…
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March 17, 2020
How Queen Elizabeth, 93, Is Being Kept Safe During the Coronavirus Pandemic The Queen

How Queen Elizabeth, 93, Is Being Kept Safe During the Coronavirus Pandemic

As information about the coronavirus pandemic rapidly changes, PEOPLEis committed to providing the most recent data in our coverage. Some of the information in this story may have changed after publication. For the latest on COVID-19, readers are encouraged to use online resources from CDC, WHO, and local public health…
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March 17, 2020
Coronavirus could be used by authoritarian leaders as excuse to undermine democracy, experts warn Catalonia

Coronavirus could be used by authoritarian leaders as excuse to undermine democracy, experts warn

In the United States, a White House staffed by xenophobes is using the coronavirus to strengthen border controls it has long wanted to embrace. In Israel and Singapore, governments are invoking the crisis over Covid-19 to track movements of people on cell phones. In Iran, a government obsessed with control…
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March 17, 2020
2:00PM Water Cooler 3/17/2020 Be Evil

2:00PM Water Cooler 3/17/2020

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Politics “But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?” –James Madison, Federalist 51 “They had one weapon left and both knew it: treachery.” –Frank Herbert, Dune “They had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.” –Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Key dates…
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March 17, 2020
NFL players will no longer be suspended for positive marijuana tests under new policy Colin Kaepernick

NFL players will no longer be suspended for positive marijuana tests under new policy

Thanks to the NFL’s new collective bargaining agreement, players will no longer be suspended for positive marijuana tests. However, insiders warn that still doesn’t absolve them from being punished in other ways. According to Sporting News, Sunday, the players’ union, the National Football League Players Association, ratified a new CBA.…
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March 17, 2020