So Facebook is going to do cute interviews in the Metaverse and we’re all supposed to pretend that we didn’t read all that horrifying stuff in the Facebook leaks document dump?
“Facebook failed to quickly stop the spread of hate speech and misinformation against the Rohingya people, in turn contributing to the persecution and alleged genocide of the minority community in Myanmar”
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"If your party has a faction of people who believe Democrats eat children and worship Satan, that makes it a lot easier for people to buy that Democrats stole the election."
“The political paranoiac can’t stomach society as it is and thus seeks to destroy it under the guise of some looming threat: a deep state, antifa, migrant caravans, transgender bathrooms, an international pedophile ring,” Bennett Parten recently wrote
Much of the coverage that’s not outright cynical is also failing to meet the moment. The NY Times published a map that shows a “predicted decline in legal abortions.” Antiseptic language like that does not serve the reader. newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61af…
It’s been 632 days since the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. March 11, 2020, was the date, but I knew our lives weren’t going to be normal for a very long time as soon.....
“Mississippi’s case is the greatest threat to abortion rights and puts women’s health and lives on the line, with women of color and Latinas suffering the most. The need to protect women’s right to abortion has never been clearer." @RepSylviaGarcia
Texas law doesn't allow for abortion in the case of rape or incest-leading Dr. Ingrid Skop of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists to defend forcing a (hypothetical) 9-year-old to carry and deliver her rapist’s child.
"Now that Republicans are stoking a new moral panic over critical race theory, they’re using more and more books and movies as bait in their ever-evolving culture war."
"And in a move that may have achieved peak irony, a Kansas school district is removing—they’re careful to not say “banning”—The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel about a dystopia where books are banned."