Just the News,
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Greg Piper
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The fact-checking industry, empowered by the vast resources of social media giants, is under sustained scrutiny amid a possible legal battle among the British Medical Journal, Facebook owner Meta and a contractor it pays to flag purported COVID-19 misinformation.
Facebook stopped some readers from sharing a BMJ investigation of "data integrity" issues in a Pfizer COVID vaccine trial, BMJ editors wrote in an open letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in November. It also slapped "missing context" labels on posts that went through, warning users they could be penalized for sharing the article.
Contractor Lead Stories seemed more interested, however, in promoting guilt by association and policing political views than
City Journal,
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Jeffrey H. Anderson
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2/4/2022 3:53:06 PM
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Children are perhaps the most-masked people in America, and clearly the people least needing to be masked. Whether or not one believes that masks work—and the best available scientific research suggests, as I have detailed in City Journal, that surgical and cloth masks provide little to no benefit in stopping the spread of viruses and might even be counterproductive—kids are plainly the least likely to be struck ill by Covid and probably the least likely to spread it.
There’s an extraordinary difference—even greater than widely recognized—between Covid-19’s effects on kids and its effects on adults, as fatality
New York Post,
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Ben Feuerherd
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2/4/2022 3:08:00 PM
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Attorney-turned-criminal Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of swiping nearly $300,000 in book-advance money from his then-client Stormy Daniels.
The now twice-convicted felon — and one time rising star — now faces a maximum of 22 years in prison for his conviction on wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges.
A sentencing date has not yet been set.
Throughout the trial, prosecutors painted Avenatti, 50, as a calculating thief who stole two book-advance payments from Daniels in 2018 that totaled nearly $300,000.
The porn star, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, inked a book deal that year with St. Martin’s Press after it was revealed she was paid $130,000
PJ Media,
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Rick Moran
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2/4/2022 2:42:19 PM
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Is the dam finally breaking on maintaining the fantasy that trans women do not have an inherent advantage over biological females in competitive sports?
Sixteen members of the University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team sent a letter to the school and to the Ivy League, asking them not to take legal action that would challenge the new NCAA rules for transgender athletes to compete. The new rules would make it very difficult for their trans teammate, Lia Thomas, to compete as a female.
The 16 swimmers — out of 39 on the team — are asking that Thomas be sidelined.
“We fully support Lia Thomas in her decision to affirm
American Thinker,
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Pete McArdle
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2/4/2022 9:56:39 AM
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Joe Biden may be an accomplished grifter, habitual liar and at least three cans shy of a six-pack mentally, but what a brave commander-in-chief he is!
Take last August, when, thanks to White House incompetence, thirteen U.S. servicemen and scores of Afghans were blown to bits outside Kabul airport. The Brandon administration angrily vowed to punish those responsible. And not a month later, Sleepy Joe droned an ISIS-K terrorist, then crowed to the world about justice served and America's amazing over-the-horizon military capability.
Noted "white rage" expert General Mark Milley called the retaliatory strike "correct" and "righteous." A bristling Biden further warned ISIS-K, "We're not done with you!"
Washington Examiner [DC],
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Michael Rubin
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2/4/2022 9:16:35 AM
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Amnesty International’s latest report defining Israel as an "apartheid" state since its founding has stirred up controversy.
On the substance, the group is wrong, as Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Eid and U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch have eloquently shown. The group’s methodology is also flawed. After the release of the report, Lazar Berman, the Times of Israel’s diplomatic correspondent, interviewed Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard and the organization’s Middle East and North Africa Research and Advocacy Director Philip Luther. Suffice to say, both Callamard and Luther embarrassed themselves with inconsistency and general ignorance. Berman exposed the group's
Yahoo! Finance,
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Daniel Howley
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2/3/2022 6:29:45 PM
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Shares of Facebook parent Meta were hammered Thursday, falling 26% after the company revealed that privacy changes Apple made to its iOS platform last year have begun to sink their teeth into the social networking giant's bottom line.
During its Q4 earnings report released Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained that Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature, or ATT, will cut $10 billion out of Meta's earnings in 2022.
Apps like Snap and Pinterest, however, appear to be fairing better in handling the change. With Snap saying that its advertising partners are adapting well to the new system.
So what exactly is ATT, and how can it have such an outsized impact
PJ Media,
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Richard Fernandez
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2/2/2022 12:32:42 PM
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After months of uninterrupted growth in state power, what we are now witnessing in the disputes rocking the Australian Open, Spotify, Marvel and the trucking world are spontaneous meeting engagements in the culture wars. It’s like a chain reaction of angry people setting off other angry people. The singular thing about this development is that it would have been impossible six months ago. A psychological barrier has been breached and a taboo has fallen. The potential of this to create a cascade is considerable.
Most people psychologically want to get along, especially nonpoliticals, unless
KYW-TV [Philadelphia, PA],
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Staff
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2/1/2022 9:56:54 AM
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BENSALEM, Pa. - More than 40 people may have been involved in a brawl at a Golden Corral in Pennsylvania, police say. The fight allegedly broke out after a customer became enraged when the buffet ran out of steak. Investigators are trying to figure out who started the fight that broke out Friday night at a Golden Corral in Bensalem, Pennsylvania. Video of the incident shows punches being thrown and high chairs flying. Police confirm the brawl may have involved more than 40 people and happened following an argument among some customers. They did not say what caused the argument, as that is still under investigation. But former employee Dylan Becker CORRECTIONS*
American Thinker,
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Brian C. Joondeph MD
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2/1/2022 8:30:33 AM
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The National Organization of Women is one of the leading “women’s rights” organizations with a stated goal, “Dedicated to its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights and is the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States.” What are those rights?
Their home page has a flashing banner of “reproductive rights” front and center, which can be assumed to mean abortion on demand, anytime from conception to birth and perhaps even beyond birth, a decision made solely by the mother, without any restriction by law, government, morality, or the aspirations of the soon to be destroyed little girl who might someday want to join
Frontpage Mag,
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Bruce Thornton
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1/30/2022 10:50:41 AM
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Like other cities run by Democrats, Los Angeles is going through an epidemic of violent crime. Its Soros-funded DA George Gascón has a lot of blood on his hands for increasing the mayhem. When he was sworn in, he said his office would not prosecute a host of misdemeanor crimes, or seek the death penalty for even the most heinous murders. No surprise that, as Broken Windows policing confirmed nearly two decades ago, tolerating “non-violent” crimes has increased violent ones.
“The data,” as City Journal’s Soledad Ursúa, reports on LA, “show staggering surges of homicides, gun violence, and sexual assaults, and one can see with one’s own eyes the open-air
American Thinker,
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Clarice Feldman
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1/30/2022 5:52:51 AM
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This week the Democratic National Committee gave Justice Steven Breyer the hook, announcing that he was retiring before he’d firmly decided to do so. When he finally responded, he made clear his intention to remain on the bench until Biden’s nominee was confirmed, which at best likely will be sometime this summer if ever. As part of a deal he made with congressman and House majority whip Jim Clyburn when he was on the ropes in the primaries, President Biden promised to nominate to this significant position a black woman, and three candidates’ names -- a weak bench if the suppositions are correct -- have been
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The fight "started over steak."