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Date Sent: 2018-08-11
Freedom's Phoenix AM Edition for Sunday, August 12, 2018 |
Taibbi: Beware the Slippery Slope of Facebook Censorship
Taibbi: Beware the Slippery Slope of Facebook Censorship -- Confirmed: Mark Zuckerberg Personally Made Decision to Ban Infowars -- Boston Globe Calls For All Media Outlets To Publish Anti-Trump Editorials Next Week -- Overstock lags Amazon in ecommerce but is a leader with tZero blockchain security trading -- China weakness is foreign oil dependence but will they scale to building two nuclear reactors ... -- Ending the Korean War Is in the National Interest -- The Deeper Meaning of Julian Assange -- CNN Plants 'Regretful' Trump Voter; Turns Out He's a Socialist Who Hates Trump -- Real Wages Decline Year-Over-Year -- Punishing Iran Will Cost A Fortune -- Colleges: A Force For Evil -- Particle accelerators centimeters long will drastically reduce size and cost of working .... -- Declassified Cables Detail Torture at CIA Director's Secret Black Site -- The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- AI projects are on pace to take over most of the world's computing resources around 2025 -- Samumed worth $12 billion is working on tissue regeneration to combat alzheimers and more -- Bitmain planning an $18 billion IPO followed by global domination of chips and AI -- The Life Changing Benefits Reported from Out-of-Body Experiences -- U.S. Negotiates Retreat From Afghanistan -- Long Time NSA Intelligence Official Shares His Thoughts About Supposed "Russian Hacking" -- Qanon - Warning Order Emminent Action -- Lira Collapse To Jump the Mediterranean -- Saudi Airstrike on Yemen School Bus Kills at Least 50, Mostly Children -- Laura Ingraham: 'Massive Demographic Changes Have Been Foisted On The American People'... -- 3D-printed nerve stem cells could help patch up spinal cord injuries -- Does A Tesla Going Private Transaction Make Sense? Here's The Math -- As Anti-'Open Borders' Populism Spreads, Merkel & Macron's Poll Numbers Plunge -- Alex Jones Demands Right to Congressional Hearing -- Kanye West Says He Refuses To Be A Prisoner To 'Monolithic Thought' -- Dutch anti-immigrant politician takes own life after claiming rape by 'Muslim gang' --
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News Link • Censorship
Taibbi: Beware the Slippery Slope of Facebook Censorship
08-11-2018
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https://www.rollingstone.com, By Matt Taibbi
The social network is too big and broken to properly function, and these "fixes" will only create more problems
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Confirmed: Mark Zuckerberg Personally Made Decision to Ban Infowars
08-11-2018
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https://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph Watson
Billionaires now deciding what you can see and read
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Media: Print
Boston Globe Calls For All Media Outlets To Publish Anti-Trump Editorials Next Week
08-11-2018
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http://dailycaller.com, Mike Brest
The Boston Globe has called for the coordinated publication of editorials by any and all news outlets criticizing President Trump's rhetoric on the press, scheduled for next week.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Overstock lags Amazon in ecommerce but is a leader with tZero blockchain security trading
08-11-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Overstock's blockchain investments now provide 60% of the firm's total value and the blockchain investments will drive the price to $112, an almost 150% increase from their current level according to Tom Forte, an analyst with D.A. Davidson.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
China weakness is foreign oil dependence but will they scale to building two nuclear reactors ...
08-11-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian Wang
China initially announced 25% tariffs on $16 billion worth of US imports, including oil products, LPG and coal in a new list of affected goods but left off import duties on US crude oil.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Trump Administration
Ending the Korean War Is in the National Interest
08-11-2018
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https://nationalinterest.org, by Doug Bandow
A peace treaty will do more to change Pyongyang's behavior than a return to a cycle of escalation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Wikileaks
The Deeper Meaning of Julian Assange
08-11-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By L. Reichard White
It was one of those mistakes which often happen when you involve a government in your affairs -- but it wasn't Mr. Assange, it was the two women who managed to bed him who made that mistake ?" ?" ?"
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News Link • Economy - Economics USA
Real Wages Decline Year-Over-Year
08-11-2018
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https://moneymaven.io, by Mike Mish Shedlock
Wages are not keeping up with consumer price inflation. The average worker is worse off than a year ago.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Government Debt & Financing
Punishing Iran Will Cost A Fortune
08-11-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com By Eric Margolis
President Trump keeps vowing to create more jobs in America. But his actions often speak differently.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Free Speech
Colleges: A Force For Evil
08-11-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Walter Williams
any of the nation's colleges have become a force for evil and a focal point for the destruction of traditional American values.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Energy
Particle accelerators centimeters long will drastically reduce size and cost of working ....
08-11-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com by Brian Wang
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams â€" Quasimonoenergetic laser plasma positron accelerator using particle-shower plasma-wave interactions
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Torture
Declassified Cables Detail Torture at CIA Director's Secret Black Site
08-11-2018
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AntiWar.com by Jason Ditz
Heavily redacted documents detail torture of detainees
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Robert Lee
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News Link • American History
The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
08-11-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com By Edward Curtin
"Ahab is forever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders."
â€" Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Robots and Artificial Intelligence
AI projects are on pace to take over most of the world's computing resources around 2025
08-11-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
OpenAI has determined that the computing used in Artificial Intelligence projects has doubled every 3 months since 2012. This has been an increase of 300,000 times since 2012 versus 12 times if it was following a Moore's law doubling every 18 month
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Samumed worth $12 billion is working on tissue regeneration to combat alzheimers and more
08-11-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Samumed has raised $438 million with a $12 billion valuation. Samumed is a leader in medical research and development for tissue-level regeneration.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Bitmain planning an $18 billion IPO followed by global domination of chips and AI
08-11-2018
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https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wang
Bitmain, the dominant cryptocurrency mining leader, is filing for an initial public offering (IPO) potentially for as much as $18 billion this September at a market capitalization of $40 to $50 billion. It will be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchan
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News Link • Spirituality
The Life Changing Benefits Reported from Out-of-Body Experiences
08-11-2018
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arclein
Based on my twelve-year survey of over sixteen thousand people, the reported benefits of out-of-body experiences extend far beyond the limits of our physical senses and our intellect.
After an out-of-body experience many people report an inner awa
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robert klein
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News Link • Afghanistan
U.S. Negotiates Retreat From Afghanistan
08-11-2018
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arclein
For a few years the Taliban went quiet. But continued U.S. operations, which included random bombing of weddings, torture and abduction of assumed al-Qaeda followers, alienated the people. Pakistan feared that it would be suffocated between a permane
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News Link • Trump Administration
Long Time NSA Intelligence Official Shares His Thoughts About Supposed "Russian Hacking"
08-11-2018
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arclein
To simply ignore it allows those ridden with the disease of power to keep taking advantage of us. One thing is for sure, our so-called "leaders" don't seem to care. Sure, they gather at summits every year to supposedly discuss solutions to the
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robert klein
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News Link • Turkey
Lira Collapse To Jump the Mediterranean
08-11-2018
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https://www.lewrockwell.com, By Thomas Luongo
The Turkish Lira crisis is fundamentally different than the Russian Ruble crisis of 2014/15. This one has contagion risk.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Saudi Arabia
Saudi Airstrike on Yemen School Bus Kills at Least 50, Mostly Children
08-11-2018
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https://news.antiwar.com, Jason Ditz
Saudis insist killings were 'legitimate military action'
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Political Parties
Laura Ingraham: 'Massive Demographic Changes Have Been Foisted On The American People'...
08-11-2018
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http://www.dcclothesline.com, by Chris Menahan
On Wednesday, Fox News host Laura Ingraham highlighted the left's effort to "remake America" by foisting "massive demographic changes" on the American people which "none of us ever voted for."
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Science, Medicine and Technology
3D-printed nerve stem cells could help patch up spinal cord injuries
08-11-2018
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https://newatlas.com, by Michael Irving
Spinal injuries can be like downed power lines â€" even if everything on either side of the injury is perfectly functional, the break can effectively shut down the whole system.
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Freedomsphoenix Readerfour
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News Link • Business/ Commerce
Does A Tesla Going Private Transaction Make Sense? Here's The Math
08-11-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler Durden
Assume for a second that there were no pending questions facing the Elon Musk proposed MBO of Tesla: that the funding was indeed secured, that the Board has signed off on the deal, that the requisite number of shareholders had agreed to roll their eq
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News Link • Immigration
As Anti-'Open Borders' Populism Spreads, Merkel & Macron's Poll Numbers Plunge
08-11-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com, by Duane Norman
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are now faced with their worst public approval ratings, hitting record lows, as conservatism and populism spreads across the European Union.
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News Link • Censorship
Alex Jones Demands Right to Congressional Hearing
08-11-2018
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https://www.prisonplanet.com,by Paul Joseph Watson
"You may not like me, you may despise my politics, but I am the canary in the coal mine"
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News Link • General Opinion
Kanye West Says He Refuses To Be A Prisoner To 'Monolithic Thought'
08-11-2018
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https://www.prisonplanet.com, by Steve Watson
Hip hop star says public support of Trump "represented overcoming fear and doing what you felt, no matter what anyone said"
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News Link • Activism
Dutch anti-immigrant politician takes own life after claiming rape by 'Muslim gang'
08-11-2018
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https://www.rt.com
A city councilor in The Hague and member of the anti-immigrant Freedom Party has taken her own life, hours after posting a video on Facebook in which she claimed she was gang-raped by Muslims as part of an intimidation campaign.
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News Link • Entertainment: Movies
Idris Elba for James Bond? Star is linked to 007 role AGAIN...
08-11-2018
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk, by ROXY SIMONS
Idris Elba for James Bond? Star is linked to 007 role AGAIN as producer admits 'it is time' for a non-white actor to take over from Daniel Craig
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News Link • Trump Administration
Bank CEO wanted Paul Manafort's help to become Trump's treasury secretary...
08-11-2018
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk, by BEN ASHFORD
Bank CEO wanted Paul Manafort's help to become Trump's treasury secretary and pushed staff to expedite $16 MILLION in loans for lobbyist, fraud trial told - after five hours of mystery delay
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News Link • Environment
Jury awards $289M, says Monsanto weed killer caused terminal cancer
08-10-2018
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https://www.mercurynews.com
Dewayne Johnson's lawsuit was the first of hundreds of cases filed in state and federal courts alleging that Roundup causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which Monsanto denies.
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Donna Hancock
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News Link • NATO
NATO Is the Model Entangling Alliance
08-10-2018
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https://www.fff.org, by Jacob G. Hornberger
Suppose I had an unlimited power of attorney to sign your name as a co-signer on any loan I made with the bank. Every time I went to the bank and borrowed money, I could legally obligate you to pay my loan if I defaulted.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • China
China fires SIX WARNINGS to US Navy in South China Sea 'This is China...LEAVE IMMEDIATELY'
08-10-2018
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https://www.youtube.com
THE Chinese military told a US Navy plane flying over the highly-disputed island in the South China Sea to "leave immediately". The US Navy P-8A Poseidon jet was flying at 16,500 feet to get a view of low-lying coral reefs that have been turned i
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Investigations
Mystery surrounds former sex-ring operator's Mueller probe role
08-10-2018
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https://www.politico.com
The infamous "Manhattan Madam" has ties to President Donald Trump's former political adviser Roger Stone, who is under suspicion in the Russia investigation.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Bitcoin
Bitcoin Cash Acceptance Grows -- Dish Network and Flow Partner With Bitpay
08-10-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com, by Jamie Redman
This week Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents will be pleased to hear that more merchants can now accept bitcoin cash due to the crypto-payment processing firm Bitpay announcing a few strategic partnerships this week.
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News Link • United States
US College Rejects Student Applicant for Following Alex Jones on Twitter
08-10-2018
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https://needtoknow.news, by InfoWars
Bradley Shear, an attorney who specializes in social-media cases, reported that he has a 17-year old client who was interviewing for admission to a top US college but, instead of being asked about his grades, extracurricular activities, or volunteer
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News Link • Bitcoin
Illegal Activity No Longer Dominant Use of Bitcoin: DEA Agent
08-10-2018
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https://news.bitcoin.com, by Kevin Helms
A special agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has reportedly revealed that the use of bitcoin in illegal activities has shrunk to about 10 percent from 90 percent previously. This finding contradicts the popular perception of th
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News Link • Oil
The Unforeseen Consequences Of China's Insatiable Oil Demand
08-10-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Tim Daiss
While it's true that China's crude oil imports recovered slightly in July, it was still among the lowest so far this year due to a decline in demand from smaller so-called independent "teapot" refineries.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Economy - International
Turkey Could Create A Larger Crisis Than Greece
08-10-2018
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https://www.zerohedge.com by Daniel Lacalle
The Turkish Lira collapse should have surprised no one. Yet, in this bubble-justifying market, it did.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Censorship
If We Silence Hate Speech, Will We Silence Resistance?
08-10-2018
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https://www.nytimes.com By Erik Nielson
"Hate" is a dangerously elastic label. And it has long been used to demonize unpopular expression, particularly among people of color.
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Robert Lee
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News Link • Social Networking/Social Media
Facebook is shedding massive traffic â€" and it's apparently flocking to YouTube
08-10-2018
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https://bgr.com by Andy Meek
Four billion. That, according to a new study shared with CNBC by market research firm SimilarWeb, is how many monthly page visits Facebook has shed in a slow-drip but nevertheless huge decline over the last two years.
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