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As many of you may know, Facebook is one of the biggest social medias. It has over 2 billion online users every month. Users usually spend time interacting with their family or friends, but Facebook is also an important site for the publication of news. The Pew Research Centre did some research and according to a study 44% of American adults get news from facebook. And as it turns out, some of those news, are fake. Many untrue stories were being publicated in Facebook's home pages and they were being shared wildly. Facebook has started to work on this problem and find out ways to clear out this kind of posts. The problem is that the news one receives online is more ideogically filtered than the news on receives in print. Another concern is that people these days spend most of their time in social media, making Facebook a reliable source for people to take a quick glance at the news that have been posted. Facebook pages committing this acts should be removed or should be prohibited from posting these fake stories. Facebook adn other social medias should start clearing out this issues, specially because of the present generation that relies so much on them and technology.
Article: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2016/11/breaking-news
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The electrd president Donald Trump has been consistently under fire for his election of his chief strategist: Stephen Bannon. Many people such as Covil right groups, republicans and democrats have been warning trump that he represents a racist and nationalst view. Another adviser though, Kellyanne Conway defended Bannon and called him a brilliant tactician. Is she out of her mind?!
it is beleived that it could creat and unprecedented role in modern presidency. Mr. Bannon even proclamed himself as a white nationalist meaning he beleives in white overpowering and supremacy of them. Source: NY Times Article: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/politics/donald-trump-presidency.html?referer=http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/briefing/trump-obama-gwen-ifill.html FBI Director James B Comey, told the congress that the emails that he saw no evidence in the recent emails to change his idea that Hillary should face charges over the handling of classified information. This information was a relief for a lot of people since it was announced two days before the election. This helped to clear out the suspicion over her presidential campaign.
According to the law enforcement officials, many of the emails were just duplicates or personal messages that the bureau had already examined. "Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton," This letter was written by Mr. Comey to the leaders of congressional committees. He said that him and other agents had examined all the communication from and to Secretary Clinton in the new barrage of emails from when she was secretary of state. Source: Ny Times Article:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/us/politics/hilary-clinton-male-voters-donald-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-ab-top-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news New research has shown us that the ebola virus has evolved into a more deadly problem. Research suggests that the virus may have evolved a new weapon against its human hosts. Two teams of scientists showed that genetic mutation in the ebola virus may have made ebola evolve and find an easier way to enter human cells. Researches don't understand how it works yet, but there is plenty of evidence to show that it helped to expand the radius of the epidemic. People with the affected mutated virus were more likely to die.
Several analysis showed that ebola moved quickly from one victim to another, gaining new mutations throughout its path. It is safe to say that we will probably face another outbreak, and a bigger one according to Jonathan K. Ball, a virologist from the University of Nottingham. We have to be prepared and find different ways to protect ourselves and our families from this virus. Source: Ny Times Article:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/04/science/ebola-evolution-african-epidemic.html |
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