The corporate makes extra money from new algorithms that downplay information sources whereas stoking harmful hoaxes.

Within the information immediately: There’s nonetheless no plan for conserving the US from defaulting on its money owed by mid-October within the face of unanimous Senate Republican opposition to permitting another. A whistleblower confirms that Fb is aware of it is sowing social discord and violence, and that these are the posts that make it essentially the most cash. As anti-mask, anti-vaccine, and pro-racist radicals goal the nation’s college boards with more and more violent rhetoric, there’s motion within the FBI to take these threats extra critically.

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