Month: April 2021

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The NewsWorthy - Violent Traffic Stops, Amazon Wins Union Fight & History-Making Masters- Monday, April 12th, 2021

The news to know for Monday, April 12th, 2021!

What to know about:

  • two controversial traffic stops: one left a man dead and sparked clashes between police and demonstrators; the other led to an officer fired and state officials outraged
  • two new trends in the coronavirus pandemic: both vaccinations and hospitalizations are going up in the U.S.
  • what the results show in a closely-watched election at the nation's second-largest employer
  • how Facebook hopes to take on the trendy app Clubhouse
  • a historic first at this year's Masters

Those stories and more in just ~10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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Sources:

COVID Hospitalizations Rising: CNN, NY Post, WaPo, CDC

MN Police Shooting, Protests: Minneapolis Star Tribune, WaPo, ABC News, Brooklyn Center Police

VA Controversial Traffic Stop: NY Times, NBC News, USA Today, Axios

Prince Philip Dies: BBC, USA Today, Reuters, NBC News

Rapper DMX Dead: NPR, AP, Vulture

Biden Spending Proposal: WSJ, WaPo, NPR, The Hill

Amazon Wins Union Fight: Time, CNBC, Amazon

Facebook Tests ‘Hotline’: TechCrunch, Reuters, Screenrant, PCMag

First Japanese Masters Winner: CBS Sports, CNN, Fox News, Tiger Woods

Ramadan Begins: WaPo, Forbes, Vox

Money Monday: Electric Vehicle Sales Rising: Axios, NY Times, Canalys

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NBN Book of the Day - Philip N. Howard, “Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives” (Yale UP, 2020)

Technology is breaking politics - what can be done about it? Artificially intelligent "bot" accounts attack politicians and public figures on social media. Conspiracy theorists publish junk news sites to promote their outlandish beliefs. Campaigners create fake dating profiles to attract young voters. We live in a world of technologies that misdirect our attention, poison our political conversations, and jeopardize our democracies. With massive amounts of social media and public polling data, and in-depth interviews with political consultants, bot writers, and journalists, Philip N. Howard offers ways to take these "lie machines" apart. Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives (Yale UP, 2020) is full of riveting behind the scenes stories from the world's biggest and most damagingly successful misinformation initiatives--including those used in Brexit and U.S. elections. Howard not only shows how these campaigns evolved from older propaganda operations but also exposes their new powers, gives us insight into their effectiveness, and shows us how to shut them down. 

As dangerous as things are now, they will only get worse; the enormous flood of data coming from the so-called Internet of Things, along with the growing sophistication of artificial intelligence, will make disinformation easier to generate and disseminate and much harder to spot and remove. Howard tackles the tough task of suggesting the changes that are needed to create a radically redesigned social media ecosystem that would reinforce, rather than erode, democracy.

Medha Prasanna is an MA candidate at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. Her current research focuses on International Organizations and Human Rights Law. You can learn more about her here or email her medp16@gwu.edu

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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt - What You Need to Know About the Fourth Wave (with Natalie Dean)

Dr. Bob calls up University of Florida biostatistician Natalie Dean to ask whether or not we've hit the fourth wave. They discuss where cases are surging, why it's regional as opposed to national, and what role the vaccines will play in keeping this wave smaller than the previous three. Plus, how she's using Legos to help the masses better understand vaccine efficacy.

 

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What A Day - The Current State Of COVID with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed

Most adults in America can soon sign up for a vaccine, but we're faced with a new set of COVID-related questions on vaccine passports, virus variants, and more. To give us some answers, we're joined by epidemiologist, physician, and former Detroit health commissioner Dr. Abdul El-Sayed.

Plus, Michigan has become the center of America's latest COVID surge with an average of over 7,300 new daily cases last week. We ask Dr. El-Sayed about the link between that surge and the UK variant of the virus, B117.

And in headlines: Army Lieutenant Caron Nazario sues two police officers in Virginia over a violent traffic stop, Maryland repeals the state's police bill of rights, and workers at Amazon's Bessemer, Alabama, plant vote against unionizing.


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The Daily Signal - How Conservatives Can Reclaim Narrative on Environment

“Conservative ideals are the best way to solve environmental issues,” says Benji Backer, founder of the right-leaning environmental advocacy group American Conservation Coalition.

Backer joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to discuss how conservatives can take back the environmental conversation and advocate small-government solutions to climate issues. 

Follow the links below to learn more about the American Conservation Coalition:

ACC Membership: www.acc.eco/membership

ACC Market Environmentalism Academy: www.marketacademy.eco

Twitter: @ACC_National

Instagram: acc_national

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanConservationCoalition

Also on today’s show, we read your letters to the editor and share a “good news story” about one way you can honor a Korean War veteran on his 93rd birthday.

Click here to learn how you can send a letter to Korean War Veteran Thomas Bryan Crouch on his 93rd birthday.

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Consider This from NPR - BONUS: ‘We Already Belong’

"To Asian women, not for—there's no speaking for us, splendidly vast and manifold as our people are." So writes Korean-American novelist R.O. Kwon in an essay in Vanity Fair. The essay explores the reasons that R.O. was unable to talk openly with her own mother about rising anti-Asian rhetoric and violence in the past year, and how she finally broke that silence. In this episode, Rough Translation producer Justine Yan talks with R.O. about what the essay meant to her, and how to break familiar silences surrounding Asian American communities.

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: How Bitcoin Can Help Break Cycles of Poverty

A reading of an essay from University of Wyoming philosophy professor Bradley Rettler.

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This week’s edition of “Long Reads Sunday” features NLW reading Bradley Rettler’s “The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Bitcoin.” It is an argument that, far from being just a speculative tool for the already wealthy, bitcoin represents a disruptive force that can combat wealth inequality.


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