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4 votes
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“Be Water!”: Seven tactics that are winning Hong Kong’s democracy revolution
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What actual resistance looks like: Glenn Greenwald, David Miranda, and Brazilian journalists are standing up to a hateful fascistic government
10 votes -
USA Today's Virginia HQ was evacuated amid a heavy police response due to a mistaken report of a person with a weapon
6 votes -
Blast hits tax office in Copenhagen in attack late on Tuesday in what police said was a deliberate attack
9 votes -
Former public servant Michaela Banerji loses High Court free speech case
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Nine dead and twenty-six injured in mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio
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Trump speaks following El Paso and Dayton shootings
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Former FBI agent says agency is “hamstrung” by Trump in investigating white supremacist movements
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Cesar Sayoc, who mailed explosive devices to Trump’s critics, sentenced to 20 years in prison
12 votes -
India rescinds Kashmir’s autonomous status. Troop surge and media blackout in effect
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Twenty-two killed, twenty-five wounded in El Paso, Texas mass shooting
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Dominic Cummings tells MPs: You've missed your chance to stop no-deal Brexit
Here's the source article in the Daily Telegraph: Dominic Cummings tells MPs: you've missed your chance to stop no-deal Brexit However, that's locked behind a hard paywall. So, here's the Reuters...
Here's the source article in the Daily Telegraph: Dominic Cummings tells MPs: you've missed your chance to stop no-deal Brexit
However, that's locked behind a hard paywall. So, here's the Reuters article reporting what the Telegraph said: Johnson's top aide says lawmakers can't stop no-deal Brexit - Sunday Telegraph
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Donald Trump to be given official state visit to Denmark
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YouTube's 'King of Random' Grant Thompson dead at 38, paragliding accident
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Journalists often withhold details of mass shooters and suicides to discourage copycats. Should that “strategic silence” be extended to extremist speech, misinformation, and propaganda, too?
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Malaysian court sides with forced labour victims over unpaid wages
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Multiple victims reported in shooting at Gilroy Garlic Festival
20 votes -
Do you live in a media bubble? Do you use Google News? I recommend using it signed-out at least 50% of the time
I recently started jumping around various browsers and machines. I sometimes keep instinctually going to Google News in all of these environments. I am often signed-out in these other browsers....
I recently started jumping around various browsers and machines. I sometimes keep instinctually going to Google News in all of these environments. I am often signed-out in these other browsers. This has been an eye-opening experience for me.
Many years ago I had blocked Fox, RT, and other crap out of my GNews feed. I was living in a bubble of my own making. I actually prefer that bubble, as there is more factual information in it, but it comes at a cost. I had lost a lot of my situational awareness of the political and media climate.
I am not trying to be centrist here, I just think that one should know the entire battlefield, not just the news given from their comfortable sources. For one thing, I had no idea of the dominance which Fox News had in Google News, also that RT was so prevalent, also that there was so many other sources of utter right-wing propaganda that had been normalized. How can I fight disinformation if I am unaware of its origins?
What do you think about this? Would you take me up on my challenge of reading the uncustomised news? Do you ever try to get out of your comfort zone in the news? Does it help inform you?
edit: Just FYI, to easily use Google News, or any other news site signed-out, first open a "private window" in your browser.
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Native Hawaiians on coverage of Mauna Kea resistance
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission appeals against Kimberly-Clark flushable wipes court decision
5 votes -
Deadly blast targets Afghan president's running mate
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Trump says Daniel Coats, director of national intelligence, to step down
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Twelve people shot at Brooklyn event
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Denmark in favour of coalition presence in Strait of Hormuz
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Pro-Donald Trump Republican aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar charged with felony theft
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How to cover 11,250 elections at once: Here’s how The Washington Post’s new computational journalism lab will tackle 2020
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Meet the man who created the fake presidential seal — a former Republican fed up with Trump
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Juul spent more than $200,000 sponsoring programs in schools meant to "convey its messaging directly to teenage children" and marketed to teens by recruiting online influencers.
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A Russian oligarch bought Maryland's election machine vendor
13 votes -
US Senate intelligence committee unveils election security report in wake of Mueller hearings
30 votes -
How a 'perfect storm' cut off water to this Colorado town
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Jeffrey Epstein on suicide watch after accused sex trafficker is found injured in New York jail
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US ‘fake news’ hits NZ gun buyback efforts
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Why Boris Johnson is even more dangerous than Trump
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‘Do not mistake our aloha for weakness’: Fourth day of Native Hawaiians protecting of sacred land and yet action is not slowing down
13 votes -
Lawyer: Shooter wasn't trying to kill a mob boss. He was under 'QAnon' delusion
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Stena Impero – Sweden makes first contact with ship captured in Iran
5 votes -
Boris Johnson will be the UK's new prime minister
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A bipartisan call to increase the Newstart allowance was removed from a parliamentary report at the direction of the Morrison government on the eve of the federal election
5 votes -
Extraordinary story of how the man who said he was the victim of a VIP paedophile ring ended up on the run in Sweden
4 votes -
Jo Swinson becomes new Liberal Democrat leader
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Firearms register, halved gun license durations, and more announced for tranche two of New Zealand gun reform: "firearm ownership is a privilege and not a right"
14 votes -
Boris Johnson is already shedding allies before he's touted to take Britain's top job
7 votes -
Fire at notorious Brooklyn federal jail as NYC enters heat wave
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Hong Kong police criticized over failure to stop attacks on protesters
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Iran 'seizes British-flagged oil tanker'
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Donald Trump says he called Sweden's prime minister Stefan Löfven to personally vouch for A$AP Rocky
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EU puts brakes on Danish plans to scrap fossil fuel cars
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After House rejects 'stupid' impeachment, Trump fuels rally crowd chant of 'send her back!' at Omar
21 votes