Julia Carrie Wong
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Facebook workers rebel over Mark Zuckerberg's refusal to act against Trump
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Employees make rare display of dissent after site left up post that was hidden by Twitter
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Julia Carrie Wong Facebook's oversight board has not even started hearing cases yet, and it's already had to issue a statement expressing "appreciation" that one of its co-chairs has committed not to say the N-word anymore. 11h
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Julia Carrie Wong While some Facebook employees protest Mark Zuckerberg's decision to allow Trump to threaten violence, Stanford students are protesting a professor's use of the N-word in class on Wednesday. That professor? Co-chair of Facebook's new 'Supreme Court' 13h
Facebook declines to take action against Trump statements
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Twitter responded to the president’s post, which suggested violence against protesters, by hiding it behind a warning label
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Julia Carrie Wong Context for this: on Friday night, Zuck decided that Facebook will allow Trump to invoke a historically racist phrase to threaten violence against civilians. His rationale was that Trump is a state actor, and therefore the threat was more of a warning 26h
George Floyd: US cities brace for new protests after another night of violence
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As governors and mayors set curfews and call in national guard, Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar says ‘two-tiered justice system’ must be reformed
George Floyd protests: man killed in Detroit as demonstrations rage across US – live
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Crowds call for justice and an end to police brutality in demonstrations in Atlanta, Kentucky, New York and California
Facebook declines to take action against Trump statements
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Twitter responded to the president’s post, which suggested violence against protesters, by hiding it behind a warning label
Why Twitter should ban Donald Trump | Julia Carrie Wong
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Trump has used and abused the platform for long enough.
Twitter labels Trump's false claims with warning for first time
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President rails against decision after his tweets on mail-in voting are marked with message: ‘Get the facts’
Elon Musk v public health: a timeline of the Tesla factory standoff
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The billionaire has defied shelter-in-place orders and styled himself as an anti-lockdown hero. This is how we got here
He lived in the US for 40 years. Then he became the first to die from Covid-19 in immigration jail
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Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia’s death in San Diego last week was preventable, his sister says, as coronavirus has infected hundreds in Ice detention
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Julia Carrie Wong The first person to die of Covid-19 in ICE detention was Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejia, a 57-year-old man who had lived in the US for 40 years after fleeing civil war in El Salvador. spoke to his family 21d
Tesla workers’ unemployment may be suspended if they don't return, emails show
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Those who stay home ‘will be on unpaid leave’, email says, as employees say company is using ‘threatening tactics’
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Julia Carrie Wong Tesla is telling workers that if they do not come back to the factory – which is open in defiance of a local public health order – they may have their unemployment benefits eliminated, reports 21d
Anti-vaxx 'mobs': doctors face harassment campaigns on Facebook
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Medical experts who counter misinformation are weathering coordinated attacks. Now some are fighting back
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Julia Carrie Wong Last year I wrote about targeted harassment campaigns of healthcare providers that were being coordinated in closed anti-vaxx Facebook groups and, well, it seems relevant again 22d
California sues Uber and Lyft for misclassifying drivers as contractors
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Attorney general says the state will make the companies ‘play by the rules’ and adhere to the worker rights and protections law
Coronavirus has Elon Musk acting like just another used car salesman
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The Tesla CEO is welcome to argue for reopening America. But he is relying on bad science to make his case
'There is no absolute truth': an infectious disease expert on Covid-19, misinformation and bullshit
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Carl Bergstrom’s two disparate areas of expertise merged as reports of a mysterious respiratory illness emerged in January
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Julia Carrie Wong - If an epidemiological model changes behavior or policy, the model likely no longer applies to the new conditions. That doesn’t mean the model was wrong. 35d
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Julia Carrie Wong I had a long, fascinating, and enjoyable conversation with , an expert in infectious diseases epidemiology who also happens to have studied networked misinformation and written a book about discerning scientific bullshit 35d
British soldiers to get insect repellant as Covid-19 protection
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MoD placing order despite WHO guidance that product would not work
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Julia Carrie Wong the US and the U.K. are so unbelievably fucked 38d
Hydroxychloroquine and coronavirus: a guide to the scientific studies so far
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The drug – now a partisan wedge issue – has fueled hype and hope, but evidence of its effectiveness remains limited
Top vaccine expert claims he was fired for resisting Trump on hydroxychloroquine
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Rick Bright, who directed key government agency, tells New York Times refusal to embrace unproven treatment led to departure
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Julia Carrie Wong I know that these happen all the time now but this still feels like a very big and important inflection point in the decline of a democracy 40d
Coronavirus: Facebook will start warning users who engaged with 'harmful' misinformation
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Users who have liked, shared or commented on posts with false claims will be directed to WHO’s ‘myth busters’ page
Coronavirus live news: Trump says he will suspend all immigration to US amid pandemic
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President to sign temporary executive order ‘in light of attack from Invisible Enemy’; US oil market collapses into negative prices; global cases near 2.5 million. Follow the latest updates
Facebook bans some anti-lockdown protest pages
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The move raises thorny questions about civil rights amid the coronavirus pandemic
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Julia Carrie Wong Facebook banning anti-lockdown protests highlights the issue with a private company owning the digital “public square”. “A government that makes this decision is subject to real legal constraint and remedy. Facebook is not.” - 42d