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1 year, 2 months ago

How conspiracy culture benefits the ruling elite

We spend the hour with acclaimed journalist and author Naomi Klein, whose new book Doppelganger, out this week, explores what she calls “the mirror world,” a growing right-wing alternate universe of misinformation and conspiracies that, while identifying real problems, opportunistically exploits them to advance a hateful and divisive agenda. Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has also praised Naomi Wolf, …

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2 years, 4 months ago

The rise of open water swimming in India

Live Mint

The French sailor Alain Gerbeault had famously said “I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. Open water swimming, or OWS as it is colloquially called, is any swim done in an outdoor water body—be it a river, a lake, a reservoir or the sea. It was around that time that my friends, Mehul Ved and Mitali Pinto and I decided …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Does Twitter own Signal? Well, No. Here is all you need to know

Op India

WhatsApp has recently announced major changes in its privacy policy that every user either has to accept or leave the platform. The controversy after Jack endorsed Signal Secondly, Twitter had acquired ‘Whisper Systems’ in 2011 and Signal is developed by ‘Open Whisper Systems’. Screenshots from archived blogposts of Whisper Systems Year 2013 – Moxie announced Open Whisper Systems In the …

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4 years ago

Covid vaccine: US officials promised 20 million vaccinated by 2020. It’s going slower than that

CNN

CNN — While the coronavirus pandemic continued to surge throughout the summer and fall, federal government officials repeatedly offered a ray of hope: enough vaccine doses to vaccinate 20 million Americans by the end of December. “We do still feel strongly that we will have allocated to the states by the end of the year 20 million doses of vaccine …

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4 years ago

Federal database for Covid-19 vaccination info raises concerns about privacy and vaccine uptake

CNN

CNN — As Operation Warp Speed prepares to give the first Americans the coronavirus vaccine, states are set to turn over varying levels of non-identifiable information about vaccine recipients in order to help the federal government track the effort to eradicate the virus. State immunization systems will provide non-identifying information, such as who has been vaccinated, what vaccine an individual …

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4 years, 1 month ago

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s bogus claims about Biden win, vaccine

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is rebelling against Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election with denial, delay and outright misrepresentation. A review of the past week’s claims: VACCINE DISTRIBUTION TRUMP, on Pfizer’s announcement: “As soon as April, the vaccine will be available to the entire general population with the exception of places like New York state where for …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Video shows moments before Pinkerton security guard shot dead 'Patriot Muster' protester in Denver

Daily Mail

New footage has emerged showing the Navy veteran 'Patriot Muster' protester who was shot dead by a TV crew's security guard in Denver was fired at after trying to grab a journalist's phone. 9News has said it did not know that Dolloff was armed during the protests or that he was not licensed to serve as a private security guard …

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4 years, 3 months ago

CDC instructs states to prepare for COVID-19 vaccines next month

Daily Mail

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has instructed US states and territories to prepare for one of two coronavirus vaccines to arrive as early as next month, according to the New York Times. Top US infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci told Kaiser Health News that, if the data is convincing enough that coronavirus vaccines are safe and effective, …

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4 years, 5 months ago

U.S. To Get 100 Million Doses of Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine In $1.95 Billion Deal

NPR

U.S. To Get 100 Million Doses of Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine In $1.95 Billion Deal Enlarge this image toggle caption Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images The federal government has reached a $1.95 billion deal with Pfizer to acquire 100 million doses of its vaccine candidate against the coronavirus if the Food and Drug Administration OKs it. …

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