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Sat, 25/02/2023 - 20:01

No Brasil, impulsionado pelo governo federal, projeto de lei tenta responsabilizar grandes empresas pelo conteúdo falso produzido por usuários.

The post Ou as big techs aceitam mudar ou as democracias em todo mundo seguirão ameaçadas pelas fake news appeared first on The Intercept.

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Sat, 25/02/2023 - 11:58

By Andrea FERRARI NEARLY drowning during a swim that started as a paddle in Boambee Creek Reserve and ended with her rescue over a kilometre out to sea on Sunday 19 February, Aldwyn Altuney is calling for danger warning signs to be put up at the Reserve. She also urged for City of Coffs Harbour...

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Sat, 25/02/2023 - 10:00
There’s a lot of back and forth going on over a new study that people say suggests masks are useless to stop the spread of an aerosol based virus. The NY Times, which has been a bastion of COVID mitigation skepticism, featured an op-ed by Brett Stephens that’s as misleading as what you can find on Breitbart any given day. Here’s Dr Tom Friedan: Masks have been an effective tool throughout the Covid pandemic, despite erroneous claims to the contrary. The widely cited Cochrane review on masks was poorly done and even more poorly communicated. Regrettably, researchers analyzed the wrong datasets, in the wrong way, and overstated their conclusions—leading to sweeping and inaccurate characterizations. Many nuances around mask type, setting, behavior, and policy are explained in this helpful piece by @dr_kkjetelina. http://bit.ly/3ErwuNN 3/ The CDC did an excellent review citing extensive evidence that masks are effective, from multiple studies.
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Sat, 25/02/2023 - 09:00
And Marjorie Taylor Greene is on it Here’s something to read while you savor your Friday afternoon cocktail. You’d better be prepared to have another: Earlier this month, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican, addressed the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee, whose purview runs from this small resort city up along the Washington state border. Before she spoke, a local pastor and onetime Idaho state representative named Tim Remington, wearing an American flag-themed tie, revved up the crowd: “If we put God back in Idaho, then God will always protect Idaho.”  Greene’s remarks lasted nearly an hour, touching on a range of topics dear to her far-right fans: claims about the 2020 election being “stolen,” sympathy for those arrested for taking part in attacking the U.S. Capitol and her opposition to vaccine mandates.
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Sat, 25/02/2023 - 08:49

By John Kiriakou / Original to ScheerPost I was very fortunate to have been able to travel to Cuba a week ago as part of a delegation of American authors, poets, and writers to participate in the 31st annual International Book Festival.  The Cubans included my first book, The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in […]

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Sat, 25/02/2023 - 07:00
Right to life only really applies to the zygotes, embryos and fetuses. No one else need apply “Right to life” zealots insist that pregnant patients must be bleeding out and literally on the verge of death before a doctor can provide life saving procedures: In Tennessee, Republican lawmakers are considering whether patients should be forced to continue dangerous pregnancies, even while miscarrying, under the state’s abortion ban — and how close to risking death such patients need to be before a doctor can legally intervene. At a legislative hearing last week, a lobbyist who played a dominant role in crafting the state’s abortion legislation made his preference clear: A pregnant patient should be in the process of an urgent emergency, such as bleeding out, before they can receive abortion care. Some pregnancy complications “work themselves out,” Will Brewer, who represents the local affiliate of the anti-abortion organization National Right to Life, told a majority-male panel of lawmakers Feb. 14.