april glaser
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Senior Research Fellow at Harvard @ShorensteinCtr. previously: investigative reporter @NBCNews. California by way of Tennessee.
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Through a tangled web of more than 22 shell companies, Bill and Melinda Gates quietly became the largest owners of farmland in America. Their farmland grows potatoes for McDonald’s fries and carrots and onions that end up in grocery stores. My latest
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Gates does not appear to count his farming investments as the nation’s largest farmland owner as part of his broader strategy to save the climate.
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1. Too often, businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription. Today @FTC finalized a rule requiring that businesses make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one. https://t.co/kAQM7OChHe
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced a
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Gosh- hi y'all! Been a while. I moved to the mountains and live a regular country life now. Mostly grilling, fishing, gardening, felling trees and lovin on my dog when not at work. Swimming in a lake or river religiously every day. Last winter I got 4.5 ft of snow! It's been wild
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This article is a great example on how the @nytimes coverage of Indigenous issues doesn’t meet the basic standards of journalism. This article grossly misrepresents what happened in the underlying custody cases and the people behind the lawsuit.
In a case that could affect thousands of Native American children, the Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments Wednesday in the case of a four-year-old girl, whose birth mother is Navajo but who is living with a white family who wants to adopt her.
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So now I've read like 5 articles on cheating at pro-fishing tournaments and it turns that polygraph tests are a really common way to catch cheaters https://t.co/HFhPUzkWWs - totally hooked on this story y'all 😬
gameandfishmag.com
With just about any amount of money up for grabs in a fishing tournament, the drive and want to win will push some anglers to find a way to break the rules.
Serious Controversy in Pro fishing tournament as multiple-time winners caught stuffing lead weights and other fish filets in their fish to have the heaviest catch to win hundreds of thousands in prizes.
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This is a mess — I remember when I was reporting on this such claims were labeled as misinformation. How do we reconcile?
A coronavirus vaccination can change the timing of when you get your period, according to research. For most people, the effect was temporary.
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1/6 We try to keep it light and fun here, but today we'd like to try and explain one of the biggest causes of frustration patrons face at the Accounts Desk: "My spouse has five books checked out, can you tell me what they are?" The answer? Simply? No.
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We dug into the role of internet infrastructure companies like Cloudflare in deciding what does and doesn’t get to stay online — whether they like it or not. Our latest looks specifically at what happened with K**ifarms and 8chan https://t.co/uECfoXsqej with @jruddock__
techpolicy.press
Infrastructure services are often positioned as a neutral default – only the denial of those services is framed as a political choice.
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We have generated a list of community-based org's in #PuertoRico with years of experience. Please share widely, and donate if you can #FionaPR: https://t.co/WDSRvtpzI4
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ORGANIZACIONES/ORGANIZATIONS (en orden alfabético inglés/español): AgitArte | Papel Machete AgitArte is an organization of working class artists and cultural organizers who work at the intersections...
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Most sophisticated thinking I've seen on content moderation in the mid-stack. "Is A Tech Company Ever Neutral? Cloudflare’s Latest Controversy Shows Why The Answer is No," by @aprilaser and @jruddock
We dug into the role of internet infrastructure companies like Cloudflare in deciding what does and doesn’t get to stay online — whether they like it or not. Our latest looks specifically at what happened with K**ifarms and 8chan https://t.co/uECfoXsqej with @jruddock__
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NEW: Been working for months on this data project w/@jeremybmerrill. The ‘big lie’ wasn’t just a plan to overturn the election. It was massive clout-building exercise that spawned a generation of influencers. It continues to polarize even w/Trump offline. https://t.co/iFI4ucDeyd
washingtonpost.com
The campaign to undermine the legitimacy of the 2020 election launched a powerful new generation of online influencers, a Washington Post analysis has found.
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For those who prefer to see Cloudflare stay out of content moderation–that ship’s sailed…untangling complex policy questions during crisis is unworkable but so is continuing to insist there are neutral players. 🔥🔥 @jruddock__ & @aprilaser
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Can’t believe this week is here! 1st stop is C-SPAN to talk w @WesleyLowery about my book Black Skinhead. Then to NYC for 9/20 book launch at Powerhouse Arena in BKN w/ @dfnbrown1 & @yu_whoooo finally back to Baltimore for a convo w @LisaMcCray Join me! https://t.co/9CCOzZu0pY
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Okay but my question is how many people haven't had covid yet but said they got it at one point to dodge an obligation. And now can't claim their natural immunity 🤔
wired.com
A small number of people appear naturally immune to the coronavirus. Scientists think they might hold the key to helping protect us all.
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It's true! My time with @NBCNewsBusiness is coming to an end and soon I'll be writing about retail more pointedly with @opinion. I'm so sad to be leaving such a humble and SMART team and equally as excited to start this new chapter of my career with Bloomberg!
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Is A Tech Company Ever Neutral? Cloudflare’s Latest Controversy Shows Why The Answer is No. Jenna Ruddock (@jruddock__) and April Glaser (@aprilaser) question why only the denial of infrastructure services is framed as a political choice:
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In our latest @jruddock__ and I argue it’s time to have a robust conversation about how decisions to pull the plug on a website are made. Governance without consistency or transparency is a spectacle. And making calls in the midst of a crisis is a mess
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Internet infrastructure companies have a role to play — whether they like it or not — in what does and doesn’t stay online, as we’ve seen with The Daily Stormer, Gab, 8chan, sex worker sites and countless examples of when internet services companies have decided to pull the plug.
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Others argue that infrastructure companies should only take down a site that’s a hub for violence when there’s a law enforcement order. But then argue at the same time that companies should fight government requests for user data. Legal orders aren’t a good rubric for any of it
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Many argue that when firms opt to stop serving a client site it’s a “slippery slope” of censorship. But the data shows the real dangerous pattern is in keeping these sites active. In 2019 alone 3 horrific mass shootings were linked to 8chan
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