Presidential battleground TV and radio spending emphasis shifting toward Midwest. nbcnews.com/politics/meet-…
GOP Sen. Perdue drops out of final debate amid tight race against challenger Jon Ossoff. nbcnews.com/politics/2020-…
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The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency say Iran is targeting U.S. state websites, including election websites in “an intentional effort to influence and interfere with the 2020 U.S. presidential election.” -@Tom_Winternbcnews.to/2JjqsVD
The federal government is projected to issue record subsidies to farmers across the US this year. But Black farmers, whose numbers have been dwindling for generations, say they've yet to see any big changes to keep their farms afloat. #NBCNewsThreads (1/5) nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/us…
99% of subsidies provided to farmers linked to the trade war with China went to white farmers, one report finds.
Black farmers say this level of aid has passed them by, not just in 2020, but also historically. (2/5)
When a white farmer goes to the USDA and is approved for a loan, the farmer "gets a check and goes back to farming," a Georgia farmer explains.
When Black farmers are approved, the structure of the loans require them to go to the bank with a USDA county supervisor, he said (3/5)
BREAKING: Preliminary 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes off the west coast of Turkey, USGS says; governor of Izmir, Turkey, reports some collapsed buildings.
Damage seen in Izmir, Turkey, after 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes off west coast of Turkey.
A 64-page document asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving Joe Biden's son and business in China, that was later disseminated by close associates of President Trump, appears to be the work of a fake "intelligence firm." (1/8) #NBCNewsThreadsnbcnews.to/3e9Gug9
The document, which went viral on the right-wing internet a month before the purported leak of files from Hunter Biden's laptop, was said to be authored by Swiss security analyst Martin Aspen — who doesn't exist, according to an analysis by disinformation researchers. (2/8)
Disinformation researchers say Aspen is a fabricated identity and that his profile picture was created with an artificial intelligence face generator. The firm he lists as his previous employer tells @NBCNews that nobody by that name had ever worked for their company. (3/8)
@echuckles Abhinav, an Ohio seventh grader, received his first injection of a Covid-19 vaccine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center last Thursday, making him among the youngest participants in the world to take part in a Covid-19 vaccine trial. (2/6)
@echuckles “I’m happy that he’s doing his bit for science,” Sharat says of his son. “With the Pfizer study, no major side effects have been reported so far, so that made me comfortable with enrolling Abhinav as well.” (3/6)