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Politico: Trump to sign executive order on social media amid Twitter furor

Reading Time: 6 minutesAny attempt to go after the tech companies through regulations could face serious obstacles, however. The president’s own regulators have shown little appetite in the past for taking on scrutiny of tweets and Facebook posts, and federal courts have ruled as recently as Wednesday morning that social media companies are private entities with the legal right to police content on their sites.

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For White People Only

Reading Time: 6 minutesStop that individualized bullshit of “not me.” Do not step away from your collective. You are at the center of all of this. You as an individual and you as a collective. Do not exempt yourself from the hard feelings because you cannot imagine your knee in that man’s neck.

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Vox: Twitter has finally started fact-checking Trump

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile Twitter’s move Tuesday is incremental, it signals the company is willing to take more of a stand on misleading content on its platform — even if the person tweeting that misleading information is the president of the United States. The challenge will be when it decides to weigh in on the endless bucket of half-truths, conspiracy theories, and outright lies politicians post every day, and which are likely to increase in cadence as we get closer to the 2020 presidential election.

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Guest Editorial: Confidence in Boris Johnson is steadily dropping. Cummings has to go.

Reading Time: 3 minutesConfidence in Boris Johnson is steadily dropping. If he hopes to salvage his own position,
Cummings has to go. The fact that he hasn’t already hints at some behind the scenes shenanigans
to mischief manage, or at the very least avert revelation of skeletons in the closet. There have
been lies, more lies and then gaslighting upon gaslighting by our leaders. Whatever happens
today, this story is far from over.

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Vox: Is this the end of productivity?

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe question of how to implement a humane form of economics that requires less productivity of individual workers is the more onerous task. But perhaps, with the majority of Americans forced to reckon with an unprecedented state of inactivity, we’ll be more inclined to put down our phones and separate accomplishment from self-worth. Writers like Smart have long argued that this is beneficial and, ironically, can make us more productive in the long run.

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PopSugar: After Growing Up Without a Father, a Man Made a Helpful YouTube Channel For Kids Who Need Support

Reading Time: 2 minutesOnce he became a dad, Rob knew he needed to get creative when it came to helping those children growing up without a parent. Because of his experience, over the last month, he’s been giving back to the community through his YouTube channel, “Dad, how do I?,” which provides kids and teens with “useful, practical content to many basic tasks that everyone should know how to do.”

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