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Katharina Borchert
(Chief Innovation Officer at Mozilla. Ex-CEO Spiegel Online. No ghostwriters harmed in the making of these tweets. Contains traces of irony and personal opinion.)
The Washington Post
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Ben Terris
– Aug 15, 2:05 PM
Kellyanne Conway is in her living room, showing me an enormous painting of Audrey Hepburn wearing a peacock on her head, but her husband, George, really wants us to come into his office and look at a photograph of the moment everything changed.
The New York Times
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The Editorial Board
– Aug 15, 1:02 PM
In 1787, the year the Constitution was adopted, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote to a friend, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a…
The Washington Post
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Tony Romm, Elizabeth Dwoskin
– Aug 15, 1:28 PM
Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey said he is rethinking core parts of the social media platform so that it doesn't enable the spread of hate speech, harassment and false news, including conspiracy theories shared by prominent users like Alex…
Reuters found more than 1,000 examples of posts, comments and pornographic images attacking the Rohingya and other Muslims on Facebook. A secretive operation set up by the social media giant to combat the hate speech is failing to end the problem.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has shut down conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' flagship radio station. The Austin American-Statesman reported Wednesday that the pirate radio station, Liberty Radio, was hit with a $15,000 fine and at…
