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How Facebook’s new election rules sidestep the real problem

The Verge

Just this week, the president effectively told voters in North Carolina to vote twice — sending in a mail-in ballot, then showing up at the polls to vote again. The essay, which was posted on Monday, sought to defend police officers in the wake of Wisconsin cops shooting Jacob Blake seven times in the back and leaving him paralyzed.

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Chuck Todd on why Meet the Press can’t survive on just one platform

The Verge

We cover Section 230 , which is the law that says internet platforms can moderate. Ted Cruz went to Harvard Law School. And talk about, if you say something long enough, there are liberals who say there’s a liberal bias in the media when you see polling now. And I said, “Well, we can’t poll on Wednesday nights in South Carolina.”

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Elon Musk paid $25 million to find out voters really dislike him

Fast Company Tech

On Tuesday, Brad Schimel, the Trump-backed candidate in the race for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, lost in decisive fashion to his liberal opponent, Susan Crawford. Wisconsin voters, however, did not see things Musks way. (Or, Crawford won by 10 points, and Schimel called her to concede a few hours after polls closed.

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Why Twitter labeled Trump?s tweets as misleading and Facebook didn?t

The Verge

That’s the irony of all this,” said Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford University law professor who studies technology and democracy. It’s really not clear that you can change 230 (which is part of a law, let’s remember) without congressional approval. And even if you could, all the usual concerns about changing 230 still apply.

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