Month: March 2019

After live-streamed New Zealand shooting, firms push platforms to change by threatening to pull ads  The Washington Post Facebook, YouTube and Twitter go to extraordinary lengths to take down mosque massacre videos  CNBC Facebook under fire for New Zealand mosque shooting video  CBS News Facebook Told to Face Up to Extremism After New Zealand Attack  Bloomberg Why New Zealand … Read more

Devin Nunes sues Twitter for defamation and negligence  Los Angeles Times Nunes sues Twitter, some users, seeks over $250M alleging anti-conservative ‘shadow bans,’ smears  Fox News Rep. Devin Nunes Files $250M Defamation Lawsuit Against Twitter, Two Anonymous Twitter Accounts  The Daily Beast California Rep. Devin Nunes Files $250 Million Lawsuit Against Twitter for Defamation  Newsweek Nunes sues Twitter, users … Read more

Rain is in the forecast for southeast Nebraska, but river levels should continue to fall  Omaha World-Herald 74 Nebraska cities issue emergency declarations amid historic floods that killed 4 and displaced hundreds  CNN Midwest Flooding: 2 Dead As Waters Breach Levees Along Missouri River  NPR Midwest braces for more rain as deadly and historical flooding devastates the region  CBS … Read more

New Zealand shooting: Facebook faces advertising boycott over live-stream  CBS News Facebook, YouTube and Twitter go to extraordinary lengths to take down mosque massacre videos  CNBC Facebook Told to Face Up to Extremism After New Zealand Attack  Bloomberg Facebook under fire for New Zealand mosque shooting video  CBS News New video of mosque shooting was uploaded to YouTube every … Read more

Kellyanne Conway is wrong: Don’t read the alt-right manifesto filled with Russian-style red herrings  Washington Examiner George Conway was turned down from job, jealous of wife, Trump campaign manager says  Fox News Kellyanne Conway isn’t concerned about Trump’s mental health  CNN George Conway, husband of Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, has an urgent warning about the president’s mental health  CNBC … Read more

ITC Deer Park facility fire could take 2 days to burn out, officials say  KTRK-TV Houston-area chemical fire expected to burn for days  NBCNews.com Schools to reopen while firefighters battle blaze at Texas chemical plant  CNN Deer Park plant fire spreads to five more tanks; shelter-in-place lifted  Houston Chronicle Air quality near Texas fire within normal levels  The Associated Press … Read more

Elizabeth Warren CNN town hall: Live updates  CNN Elizabeth Warren says she wants to eliminate the Electoral College  Fox News Elizabeth Warren: Get rid of the Electoral College  CNN Warren calls for scrapping U.S. electoral college in 2020 televised town hall  Reuters Warren calls for abolishing Electoral College | TheHill  The Hill View full coverage on Google News >View original … Read more

Family says Obama’s top economic adviser killed himself  Washington Examiner Alan Krueger, former White House economist, dead at 58 from suicide  New York Daily News Alan B. Krueger, Economic Aide to Clinton and Obama, Is Dead at 58  The New York Times Noted Princeton professor Alan Krueger, economist who served under Obama, commits suicide  NJ.com Alan Krueger Led a … Read more

Super bloom shutdown: Lake Elsinore ends access to poppy display in Walker Canyon  KABC-TV Super bloom tourists cause small town ‘safety crisis’  BBC News Tens of thousands converge on California ‘poppy apocalypse’  Yahoo News Crowds trek to California canyon for poppy bloom  The Associated Press Poppy fields in Lake Elsinore, California, shut down to public amid Super Bloom apocalypse  USA … Read more

New Zealand Is Loath to Use Suspect’s Name to Avoid Amplifying His Cause  The New York Times Gun owners in New Zealand brace for big changes to their right to carry  The Washington Post Ardern vows to deny accused mosque gunman notoriety he seeks  Fox News Why was I asked to condemn Islamist violence days after Christchurch?  The Guardian … Read more