Less than 24 hours after we learned about Meta’s smear campaign against rival social network TikTok, it has been confirmed that Facebook was showing harmful content to users over a period of six months.The failure was detailed in an internal document obtained by the Verge. It detailed a “massive ranking failure” where Facebook’s systems failed…Continue Reading
Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, March 26, 2018. (Chris Wattie/Reuters) Don’t mess it up. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE A t first blush, Indiana’s 2015 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) seemed like an uncontroversial initiative. Nineteen other states had passed similar religious-freedom bills in previous years, largely without incident. But when…Continue Reading
An employee scans packages at Amazon’s JFK8 distribution center in Staten Island, N.Y., November 25, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Employees at an Amazon warehouse in New York City voted to unionize on Friday in the first successful U.S. organizing effort at the company. The tally was 2,654 votes in favor of joining the union and 2,131 opposed,…Continue Reading
Gibson’s Food Market and Bakery in Oberlin, Ohio. (via Facebook) An Ohio appeals court has upheld a ruling that awarded more than $30 million to a bakery that accused Oberlin College of damaging its business and libeling it with false accusations of racism. A three-judge panel on the Ninth District Court of Appeals issued a…Continue Reading
Indigenous delegates from Canada’s First Nations pose for a photo with Pope Francis during a meeting at the Vatican, March 31, 2022. (Vatican Media/Handout via Reuters) Pope Francis issued an apology and asked for forgiveness on Friday for the “deplorable” abuses of indigenous people in Canada’s residential schools, many of which were run by Catholic…Continue Reading
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer walks with President Joe Biden after a lunch with the Senate Democratic Caucus at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., July 14, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) More than 90 Democratic lawmakers wrote a letter to President Biden on Thursday calling for an extension of the pause on federal student loan payments…Continue Reading
Performing two original songs, stand-up comedian, writer and musician Marcia Belsky shares comical commentary on some peculiar aspects of our culture — from Instagram-stalking your crush to fending off mansplainers on social media — and lampoons NASA’s notorious decision to provide astronaut Sally Ride with an egregious supply of tampons for her six-day trip to…Continue Reading
LEBANON, Pa. — A Pennsylvania police officer was killed and two officers were injured Thursday during a shooting while responding to a domestic disturbance, Lebanon Mayor Sherry Capello said. Police went to a home in the city at about 3:30 p.m. for the disturbance call. Nearly an hour later gunfire broke out and officers radioed…Continue Reading
A state supreme court judge in New York ordered the legislature to redraw the state’s new voting map’s lines after ruling in favor of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the recently approved redistricting plan for U.S. House districts. Judge Patrick F. McAllister, based out of Steuben County, stated in his ruling that the map’s…Continue Reading
The White House pulled out the stops for the International Transgender Day of Visibility, announcing administrative changes and firing a warning shot at Republican-led states fighting the gender-identity agenda on health care, education and women’s sports. The Biden administration heralded the coming “X” gender option on U.S. passports and TSA PreCheck documents; flew the pink, white and…Continue Reading
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