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This free course from and focuses on misinformation on the radio, our biases, and how charts can be misleading.
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From : A computer glitch wrongly signaled that ballots about to be given to some Detroit voters at the polls had already been issued as absentee.
The error did not mean the voters themselves had already cast absentee ballots.
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Including print, the New York Times now has 9.3 million subscribers.
But the growth is no longer primarily in subscriptions to news alone. Rather, the Times is heavily pushing what it calls internally “the bundle.”
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"For many artists, generative AI art is a threat," writes. "But for those who embrace this new digital brush, it can be a powerful tool in their design process."
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In Florida, "GOP ROUT." In Texas, "Abbott again." In Michigan, it was "DOWN TO THE WIRE" — at least, it was until races were called in the hours after the paper printed.
See more headlines from Wednesday’s #Election2022 front pages:
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Audiences want to know the difference between truth-seeking and propaganda, CEO Monika Bauerlein writes. ”Let’s not make it harder for them with lazy both-sidesism.”
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Maribel Perez Wadsworth, president of Gannett Media and publisher of USA Today, will be leaving the company at the end of the year.
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“I look at it in this respect,” said of how he tackles a typical show . “The show has to both live in the moment and live in the archives.”
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“People were still able to vote, it was just a matter of maybe not voting in the way they wanted to,” Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Gates said.
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Got the band back together to teach ’s Power of Diverse Voices. Missed these All Stars!
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“Maybe a more modest improvement could be in the cards: Hold off on the inevitable who’s-to-blame takeouts at least until the literal morning after.”
“Justice Department election monitors traveled to voting sites in 24 states on Election Day to watch for violations of federal voting laws.
Florida did not welcome them.
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A new Google Chrome extension can help you tell the difference between actual verified accounts and twitter blue users.
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This is not the first time there were signs that Murdoch seemed to be moving on from Trump.
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Since its introduction last year, note quality has improved by leaps and bounds. And with it, activity on the platform has grown.
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During an interview, former President Donald Trump said: “Mail-in ballots by (their) very nature, even Jimmy Carter said, don’t ever use them, that will be corrupt, they can be so easily corrupted.”
He’s referencing a report where Carter did not say that.
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“Channel-surfing Friday afternoon I caught enough of Fox News’ The Five to see smirking host Jesse Watters concede he had been way over the top in touting the red wave and was in process of paying off a $1,000 bet,” writes.
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"For many artists, generative AI art is a threat," writes. "But for those who embrace this new digital brush, it can be a powerful tool in their design process."
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The federal monitors are not law enforcement or federal agents; they don’t access ballots or voting machines.
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The fake-but-verified tweet was online for three hours and has 1,500 retweets and 10,000 likes.
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The fake-but-verified tweet was online for three hours and has 1,500 retweets and 10,000 likes.
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The New York Post’s Thursday front page featured an unflattering photo illustration of Trump sitting on a brick wall with the headline “Trumpty Dumpty.”
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Including print, the New York Times now has 9.3 million subscribers.
But the growth is no longer primarily in subscriptions to news alone. Rather, the Times is heavily pushing what it calls internally “the bundle.”
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There’s a lot of data from the 2020 census that’s going to be released next year from the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident, writes, which means more stories for journalists to write.
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The media made a lot of noise over an impending red wave ahead of the midterm elections. When those predictions didn’t happen, most just kept it moving, no mea culpa necessary.
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Federal monitors have visited polling places across the nation since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, according to the Justice Department.
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Has Rupert Murdoch — owner of Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and New York Post — turned on Donald Trump?
Signs are pointing that way, but maybe we all need to tap the brakes before coming to any hard conclusions,
writes.
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Somebody posted a fake, but real-looking tweet on Thursday as Eli Lilly and Company announcing that insulin was now free, raising the hopes of millions who struggle to pay for insulin.
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In a post-Election Day article, The New York Times observed that disinformation researchers said most efforts to cast doubt on the election results failed to take hold.
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Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer said that ballots placed in the slot would be treated the same as ballots from early voting.
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Even though the census was conducted two years ago, the U.S. Census Bureau has yet to release its most detailed data about families, household relationships and comprehensive breakdowns of the U.S. population.
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A Michigan secretary of state spokesperson said the glitch affected a small number of voters, though the exact number has not yet been determined.
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“Running for office today means some candidates wear bullet-proof vests. And when they are elected, they are accused of stealing elections.”
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Verified Twitter might cost $8/month but thinking for yourself is free
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Votes are still to be counted in several key races that ultimately will determine which party controls the House and Senate.
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Since its introduction last year, note quality has improved by leaps and bounds. And with it, activity on the platform has grown.
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“There’s no problem with this at all,” said David Becker, executive director of , a nonprofit that works with election officials to promote trusted election systems.
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When the 2020 census data is released next year, it will have been three years since it was collected, raising fears among researchers that it will be outdated.
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