Diamond and Silk aren’t terrorism, and the sisters don’t advocate violence. But if the comediennes got caught up in a content-constricting algorithm, they got caught up in it for a reason: They’ve pushed conspiracy theories from Uranium One to Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) supposed secret “gay lifestyle,” and during the campaign they stumped for Trump in an interview with a neo-Nazi Holocaust denier who insists that “Jews Did 9/11.”
.. Perhaps this messy history doesn’t mean Diamond and Silk deserve for Facebook to restrict their posts’ reach or prevent them from alerting their followers to new videos. Or perhaps it does. It’s a test case for a quandary that Facebook has been muddling through since last summer, when the world and Web exploded with revelations that Russia had harnessed the platform’s reach to sow discord with destructive propaganda
.. Facebook has struggled with the contradictory onus of remaining a “platform for all ideas” while filtering out ideas it deems too dangerous. But there’s little reason to think government would do better. And there’s a lot of reason to wonder whether it even ought to try.
The Erick Erickson: Inconvenient Media Story
Erik Erikson: The media does not want to talk about the story of a Sudanese immigrant who illegally acquired a gun and shot multiple people in a church and was shot by someone with a concealed carry permit
A university in Britain stopped a study into transgender people who transitioned and then transitioned back. They de-funded a study
The NFL players are the ones who politicized this. I don’t want a politicized football game.
The NFL is a workplace. I can’t do this at my workplace.
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History of the National Anthem:
Right after WWI, the anthem was played during the 7th inning stretch and it spread.