Making policy for a low-trust world
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Open-source developer and manager David Recordon named White House Director of Technology
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Electric cars rise to record 54% market share in Norway – Nordic country becomes first in the world where electric car sales outstrip those powered by other means
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Hiding COVID-19: How Donald Trump Administration guidance suppresses photography of the US pandemic
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Norway's supreme court has approved government plans for oil exploration in the Barents Sea, rejecting a lawsuit by environmental groups
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Twitter will force users to delete COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories
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European Commission proposes Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act: New rules for all digital services, including social media, online marketplaces, and other platforms operating in the EU
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EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech
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'We are speeding in the wrong direction' – climate striker Greta Thunberg speaks before UN event marking five years since the Paris accord
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Amid a crackdown on ‘separatism’, how do French Muslims feel?
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Finland's parliament approved a bill designed to protect its networks against cyber threats and espionage – may be used to exclude China's Huawei and ZTE
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The Danish climate minister closing down the oil industry – Dan Jørgensen has agreed the world's most ambitious climate goal with a promise to cut 70% of emissions by 2030
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Boris Johnson announces ten-point green plan, including investments in nuclear and wind, and new combustion vehicle ban from 2030
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The pandemic, the Clean Power Plan, and the Paris Agreement: US emissions drop 7% year on year due to effects of COVID-19
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Open letter from Facebook content moderators re: pandemic
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Denmark's Minister of Agriculture has resigned over an illegal government order to cull the country's farmed mink – Mette Frederiksen also faced opposition calls to resign
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Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal: Forging a new America
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Reddit quarantined: Can changing platform affordances reduce hateful material online?
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The German government's new coronavirus ad, subtitled in English
@Axel Antoni: The German Govt's latest Corona advert - now subtitled in English. Quite good. pic.twitter.com/nbRZIm9RcN
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Suing for climate action: Can the courts save us from the black hole of political inaction?
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Poland to consider outright ban on LGBT+ Pride marches
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NASA, Artemis, a US Space Force and the election results
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Deutsche Bank suggests 5% tax on home workers to support those impacted by the pandemic
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Norwegian Air said it is facing a “very uncertain future” after the government of Norway refused to grant further financial assistance to the airline
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Florida votes to raise minimum wage to $15 an hour
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Oregon legalizes psilocybin mushrooms (for therapeutic purposes) and decriminalizes all drugs
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Polish government delays abortion ban after two weeks of protests across the country
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Denmark forced to U-turn on meat ban for state canteens – initiative had been part of the government's aim to achieve a 70% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
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Sweden is banning equipment from Chinese telecommunication firms Huawei and ZTE from its new 5G network
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Facebook is updating their hate speech policy to prohibit and remove Holocaust Denial content
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Sweden has the highest proportion of drug-related deaths in the European Union, with eighty-one cases per one million citizens – nearly four times higher than the EU average
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EARN IT Act introduced in US House of Representatives
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Japanese sex business operator sues state over virus cash handout snub
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President Trump is continuing his war on Section 230 and the right for the open internet to exist
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Norway will finance two-thirds of a large-scale project to capture and store carbon dioxide – carbon capture has long been highlighted as a way to reduce CO2 emissions
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Monterey bans gas leaf blowers in residential areas
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A crash course in CDA Section 230, and a discussion between two lawyers about the EARN IT Act and what it means for free speech and privacy online
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The country’s most important climate election is happening in Texas
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LVMH backs out of $16.2 billion acquisition of Tiffany, citing US threats of tariffs on French goods. Tiffany has filed a lawsuit to enforce the agreement
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People who live near the most toxic sites in America say they saw a level of attention they hadn't seen in decades under Donald Trump
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US gives first-ever OK for small commercial nuclear reactor
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Brazil hands out so much Covid cash that poverty nears a low
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The next front in the India-China conflict could be a canal across southern Thailand’s Kra Isthmus
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United States House subcommittee releases coronavirus task force reports kept secret by the White House
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Norway plans to drill for oil in untouched Arctic areas – critics say plan for fields off Svalbard threatens ecosystem and relations with Russia
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Inside Roblox's war on porn - The game platform is extremely popular with children, and the company is waging an endless fight against "condo games": explicit, often sex-themed user creations
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How a plan to save the power system disappeared: A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it
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The final years of Majuro
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Here’s Donald Trump’s plan to regulate social media
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Why has the Republican response to the pandemic in the USA been so mind-bogglingly disastrous?
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