“California’s fire fires revealed just this very gloomy truth”
Nitish Pahwa at slate
“Of course it is conspiracy time” about California’s fire fires, and that is “just how every major climate disaster will develop online from here and out,” says Nitish Pahwa. In an “ecosystem where social media has deliberately hobbled its ability to provide real -time, reliable updates to users, the people affected by these disasters are literally left in the dark.” It “takes time and effort to extinguish flames and send reliable information in favor of the public interest.”
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“Venezuelas Maduro may be the next dictator to fall”
Kristina Foltz at the hill
The “rapid case of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is a lesson on the alliance’s fragility between autocratic,” and shows “growing weakness and isolation” by Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, says Kristina Foltz. Dictators “Share only a common enemy-the global international regulatory scheme that would stop their criminals, oppression-driven operations.” Now “the time for the world is to increase the pressure on Nicolas Maduro to accept defeat and free Venezuela from Tyranni.”
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“How Jimmy Carter helped the religious right’s rise to power”
Neil J. Young on msnbc
It is “hard to imagine a time when to be an evangelical or openly talk about one’s religious faith would be regarded as a responsibility for a presidential candidate,” but Jimmy Carter “helped to make religious conversation to the US Presidency to a degree that never Had been seen before, “says Neil J. Young. Conservative politicians also followed Jimmy Carter’s footsteps, even when they took the nation down a completely different path. “
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“A TikTok ban would harm college’s sports” have-nots ”
Adam Minter at Bloomberg
For “thousands of college athletes”, social media is an “important tool for making money on a short college sports career,” says Adam Minter. “The reality for most college athletes is that they can’t make money if they don’t penetrate. If Tiktok disappears, they will fight to even do it.” If athletes “want to get paid, they must develop personal brands and attract the audience”, and TikTok is by far the most effective way to secure them. “
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