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from EUobserver
Instagram and Google Plus join EU anti-hate speech drive
Social media outlets Instagram and Google Plus are joining ranks with other IT firms as part of a broader European Commission effort to remove online hate speech. Speaking to reporters in Brussels on Friday (19 January), EU justice commissioner Vera Jourova said the two firms would now join Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft to remove the offending material.
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Instagram and Google Plus join EU anti-hate speech drive
Social media outlets Instagram and Google Plus are joining ranks with other IT firms as part of a broader European Commission effort to remove online hate speech. Speaking to reporters in Brussels on Friday (19 January), EU justice commissioner Vera Jourova said the two firms would now join Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft to remove the offending material.
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from FEE (Foundation for Economic Education)
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, non-profit organization
20 Money Truths and Falsehoods from My Social Media Feed
Over the weekend, I asked my friends to share with me some of their favorite sayings about economics and finance. The responses ranged from the truthful to the absurd. Some were superficially true — “You've got to spend money to make money.” Some were obvious — “100 pennies make a dollar.”
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from The Heritage Foundation
RIGHT BIAS, MIXED, think tank in Washington, D.C
Don’t Let Liberals End Opinion Diversity Under Cover of "Fake News" Campaign
It may be good to jog our memory back to how the term “fake news” arrived among us. Only then do we remember that it first was intended to be used as a weapon in a sustained campaign by liberals to regain their former monopoly over news delivery, and end one of the most important and hard-won victories by conservatives—the information diversity that arrived with the internet. Disinformation, of course, has been among us since man first began to use language, sought to conceal something, and lied about it. So a very long time. But the present use of the term fake news is of much more recent vintage.
Roe v. Wade Is My Generation’s Dred Scott
Senate Democrats’ Bid to Overturn Net Neutrality Repeal Unlikely to Prevail
Senate Democrats say they have 50 votes to block the Federal Communications Commission’s December repeal of net neutrality, the 2015 policy of the FCC under the Obama administration that required internet service providers to treat all data on, and users of, the internet equally. They are still one vote short of the 51 needed to pass a Senate resolution of disapproval. If it passes the Senate, it would still need to pass the Republican-led House, and President Donald Trump would have to sign it, The Hill reported. Neither is likely to happen, however.
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Don’t Let Liberals End Opinion Diversity Under Cover of "Fake News" Campaign
It may be good to jog our memory back to how the term “fake news” arrived among us. Only then do we remember that it first was intended to be used as a weapon in a sustained campaign by liberals to regain their former monopoly over news delivery, and end one of the most important and hard-won victories by conservatives—the information diversity that arrived with the internet. Disinformation, of course, has been among us since man first began to use language, sought to conceal something, and lied about it. So a very long time. But the present use of the term fake news is of much more recent vintage.
Roe v. Wade Is My Generation’s Dred Scott
Senate Democrats’ Bid to Overturn Net Neutrality Repeal Unlikely to Prevail
Senate Democrats say they have 50 votes to block the Federal Communications Commission’s December repeal of net neutrality, the 2015 policy of the FCC under the Obama administration that required internet service providers to treat all data on, and users of, the internet equally. They are still one vote short of the 51 needed to pass a Senate resolution of disapproval. If it passes the Senate, it would still need to pass the Republican-led House, and President Donald Trump would have to sign it, The Hill reported. Neither is likely to happen, however.
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from Independent Sentinel
RIGHT BIAS
CNN’s Acosta Looks Like an Idiot as He Challenges OMB Director Mulvaney
CNN’s Jim Acosta tried to spar with OMB Director Mick Mulvaney during today’s presser but came up short as usual. Acosta actually asked why there is a shutdown when the GOP controls congress and the White House. Mulvaney explained that you need 60 votes in the Senate to pass the spending bill and there are only 51 Republicans. They need Democrats. He also said, Come on, you know that and Acosta admitted he did.
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from Intellectual Takeout
Nonprofit Organization in Bloomington, Minnesota
The Founding Fathers went to great lengths to ensure that we were a republic and not a democracy. In fact, the word democracy does not appear in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, or any other of our founding documents.
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from Shift Washington
Mercy, that was difficult: Last night lawmakers finally reached a deal to fix the state Supreme Court’s Hirst decision, a ruling which strangled building in rural areas and held back their economies. Now, families stuck in court-appointed purgatory can restart building projects. While it wasn’t the bill Republicans would have written on their own, it did represent a triumph for GOP legislators.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from Zero Hedge
CONSPIRACY-PSEUDOSCIENCE, MIXED, financial blog with aggregated news and opinion
"Explosive", "Shocking" And "Alarming" FISA Memo Set To Rock DC, "End Mueller Investigation"
All hell is breaking loose in Washington D.C. after a four-page memo detailing extensive FISA court abuse was made available to the entire House of Representatives Thursday. The contents of the memo are so explosive, says Journalist Sara Carter, that it could lead to the removal of senior officials in the FBI and the Department of Justice and the end of Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation.
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