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Wall Street Journal Facebook Investigation and the Outrage Algorithm, Instagram's toxic nature for teen girls
09/21/2021
An algorithm that exaggerates the outrage online creating an angrier place on the internet is one of the findings of the WSJ Facebook Investigation. It shows broken policies, broken tech and broken management. The effects on women are equally insidious and dangerous for mental health.
Grouped Articles
The Facebook Files, Part 4: The Outrage Algorithm - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 09/20/2021
WSJ 09/15/2021
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
WSJ 09/14/2021
Why Free Is Too High a Price for Facebook and Google
WSJ 06/08/2019
WSJ 09/16/2021
Biden’s Facebook Attack Followed Months of Frustration Inside White House
WSJ 07/18/2021
How lifting of a ban on research manipulation of a virus in 2018 by NIH (US) and HHS is related to the transmissibility of coronavirus and the pandemic
06/04/2021
Research on increasing the pathogenic power of the virus by engineering part of its genome is seen as a possible cause of the pandemic in these articles in WSJ and other media sources, based on new memos released under the Freedom if Information Act. These memos by virologists to Dr.Fauci at NIH in the US gave their analysis after their first look at the virus genome for coronavirus. The lifting of the ban on such research by US Health ministry and the NIH agency in 2018 led to labs in overseas locations being funded with US funds to conduct such research.
Grouped Articles
Opinion | Anthony Fauci and the Wuhan Lab
WSJ 06/03/2021
Ban on gain-of-function studies ends
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 06/04/2021
U.S. Is Said to Have Unexamined Intelligence to Pore Over on Virus Origins
NYTimes.com 05/28/2021
Did Covid come from a Wuhan lab? What we know so far
The Guardian 05/27/2021
Call for a Full and Unrestricted International Forensic Investigation
Group of 26 Scientists from Australia, France, Britain and the US 03/04/2021
WSJ 03/30/2021
Europe competing for scarce vaccine supplies in February 2021
02/01/2021
Grouped Articles
Covid vaccine roll-out grinds to halt as shortages hit EU
The Times 01/30/2021
Michel Barnier tells EU to step back from Covid vaccine war
The Times 01/30/2021
E.U. and U.K. Fighting Over Scarce Vaccines
NYTimes.com 01/27/2021
How "Made in America" was lost in making the chips that power smartphones, laptops and devices in cloud computing
12/22/2020
The story of how America went from making 75% of the world's chips in 1990 for electronic devices to 12% in 2020. And of China's rise from zero or negligible to becoming the largest maker of chips in the same period. The failure to protect American technology is the major lesson from this period as America looks at regaining the advantage and becoming once more the leader in technology and manufacturing.
Grouped Articles
Intel Not Inside: How Mobile Chips Overtook the Semiconductor Giant
WSJ 12/22/2020
How Nvidia’s CEO Cooked Up America’s Biggest Semiconductor Company
WSJ 12/22/2020
Why Fewer Chips Say ‘Made in the U.S.A.’
WSJ 12/22/2020
India's experience tackling coronavirus- lockdown success and the huge wave of cases after reopening
09/10/2020
Grouped Articles
India Covid Map and Case Count
NYTimes.com 09/10/2020
Record Covid-19 Numbers and Economic Downturn Throw India Into Crisis
WSJ 09/10/2020
Coronavirus updates: India overtakes Brazil to record 4.2m infections - BBC News
BBC News 09/07/2020
India Covid-19 numbers explained, September 1: Pune is now ground zero
The Indian Express 09/01/2020
Coronavirus: India surpasses US for highest single-day rise in Covid-19 cases
BBC News 08/31/2020
Covid-19 Hits India’s Already Faltering Consumers Hardest
WSJ 08/20/2020
California coronavirus
08/27/2020
Grouped Articles
California ‘never should have re-opened’ as Covid-19 cases surge to record high
France 24 07/17/2020
How Success Against the Coronavirus Turned to Crisis in California
WSJ 07/01/2020
Germany's failure in the Wirecard scandal
07/31/2020
Grouped Articles
WSJ News Exclusive | SoftBank Saw Opportunity in Wirecard Before It Unraveled
WSJ 07/29/2020
The World Health Organization in the crucial early weeks in January and February 2020- failure of the early warning system for coronavirus
06/03/2020
Grouped Articles
China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal
The Guardian 06/02/2020
Why Trump Is Taking On the World Health Organization - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 05/23/2020
Harsh Vardhan takes over as WHO executive board chief
Hindustan Times 05/24/2020
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020
Who is Dr. Harlem Brundtland? Compared to her does the WHO today flunk, and even Dr Fauci, Dr Redfield fall short
05/20/2020
Dr. Harlem Brundtland was head of the WHo during the SARS crisis which originated in China in 2003. Her swift action included questioning China's suppression of the openness of its scientific and medical community at the time, alerting the world to take action to control the epidemic. The U.S. clearly brings up Dr. Brundtland as the model that was not followed in its letter to the WHO of May 18, 2020. Dr. Redfield, head U.S. CDC was alerted by Dr. Gao Fu head of China's CDC and its medical scientific community on Dec. 31, 2019, and through Dr. Redfield the American medical scientific community including Dr. Fauci, in an early warning of what was to happen. Dr Brundtland is a three time prime minister of Norway starting with the first term in 1981 and ending with the third term in 1996. She was head of the Labor Party and had a distinguished record including her work in climate change, sustainable development and other issues. The WHO earned much respect under her leadership of the organization.
Grouped Articles
‘The only way forward for WHO is...’: Full text of Trump’s letter to WHO chief
Hindustan Times 05/19/2020
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020
Trump gives WHO ultimatum over virus handling
BBC News 05/19/2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) and cuts in U.S. funding
05/16/2020
Cuts in U.S. funding over the WHO's handling of coronavirus. Questions are being raised about the transparency, and the competence of the WHO in its handling of coronavirus including its early warning and preparation capabilities that members including Europe and the U.S. relied on in the crisis to their regret.
Grouped Articles
Trump Says U.S. Is Considering Restoring Some WHO Funding
WSJ 05/16/2020
China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal
The Guardian 06/02/2020
Why Trump Is Taking On the World Health Organization - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 05/23/2020
Harsh Vardhan takes over as WHO executive board chief
Hindustan Times 05/24/2020
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan - DER SPIEGEL
SPIEGEL ONLINE 05/20/2020
Finance ministries around the world with trillions of dollars of aid packages for coronavirus and digital taxes
05/15/2020
Grouped Articles
Analysis | Why Digital Taxes Are the New Trade War Flashpoint
Washington Post 05/15/2020
How underreporting of coronavirus created a false sense of security in the U.S. and Europe, leading to complacency and unpreparedness till it was too late
05/09/2020
Grouped Articles
How a Johns Hopkins Professor and Her Chinese Students Tracked Coronavirus
WSJ 05/09/2020
Travel From New York City Seeded Wave of U.S. Outbreaks
NYTimes.com 05/07/2020
Millions of coronavirus infections left undetected worldwide – study | DW | 08.04.2020
DW.COM 04/08/2020
The Robert Koch Institute and the reproduction ratio in Germany- key to reopening the economy
04/30/2020
Grouped Articles
Five tests that will guide us out of coronavirus lockdown
The Times 04/30/2020
Human contact tracing provides valuable clues to COVID-19 infections | DW | 27.05.2020
DW.COM 05/27/2020
The first wave: How Germany’s coronavirus contact tracers helped to ease its lockdown
The Times 05/26/2020
Kick the sugar habit
07/17/2021
Healthy living means no more than 6% of daily calories of 2000 calories a day should come from sugar intake. During the coronavirus pandemic poor health habits mean pouring gasoline on fire. It is morally indefensible and a sign of a backward country that the the health guideline is set at 10% in the US. The mean consumption of sugar today in the US is 13%. In teaspoons about 6-8 teaspoons of added sugar is the healthy limit, at 16 calories per teaspoon this is 96 calories to 120 calories from added sugar. In grams this is 24 grams at 4 grams per teaspoon of sugar. It is critical to make it a habit to look at packaged foods labels and make intelligent choices. And to simply cut the sugar we add in tea, coffee or drinks by a third or a fourth. Good habits = good health. It is also critical to start this with public education in schools from K1 to high school.
Grouped Articles
Boris Johnson must help us kick our sugar habit
The Times 07/17/21
Beware sugar highs: seven healthy ways to get more energy – from stretching to sourdough
The Guardian 04/05/21
New Limits Urged on Americans’ Sugar Consumption Amid Rising Obesity Concerns
WSJ 10/05/20
Make 2020 the Year of Less Sugar
NYTimes.com 01/06/19
Mental health crisis during the pandemic- UK, France and Japan
05/05/2021
Grouped Articles
Covid-19: French mental health ‘deteriorating’ amid lockdown, minister says
France 24 11/23/20
Japan: 'Minister of loneliness' tackles mental health crisis | DW | 23.04.2021
DW.COM 04/25/21
The mental health effects of Covid will last for a decade
The Times 01/14/21
Right to disconnect is vital for future health of home workers
04/23/21
Second wave is bringing a mental health crisis
The Times 10/21/20
Anti vaccine sentiment around the world
01/21/2021
Grouped Articles
Coronavirus: Anti-vaxxers pose major public health threat in Pakistan | DW | 19.01.2021
DW.COM 01/19/21
France, Once a Vaccine Pioneer, Is Top Skeptic in Covid-19 Pandemic
WSJ 01/18/21
Army spies to take on antivax militants
11/29/20
Anthony Fauci: 'Anti-science, anti-vaccination feeling' could thwart Covid effort – video
The Guardian 06/30/20
GCHQ in cyberwar on anti-vaccine propaganda
The Times 11/09/20
Europe in the second wave of the coronavirus and lockdowns in France, Germany and Britain
11/02/2020
Grouped Articles
Lockdown 2? The PM’s friends in the north have lived it for months
The Times 11/01/20
New lockdown: ‘Boris Johnson had no option. He could not ignore the facts any longer’
The Times 11/01/20
French buy up toilet paper and pasta ahead of second lockdown
France 24 10/31/20
As French hunker down for second Covid-19 lockdown, the new rules explained
France 24 10/31/20
Covid-19 Live Updates: European Hospitals Are Filling at an Alarming Pace
NYTimes.com 10/29/20
Coronavirus: France announces second lockdown | DW | 28.10.2020
DW.COM 10/28/20
Shift of American manufacturing overseas and the disastrous results for jobs, pandemic
08/27/2020
Grouped Articles
How China Built ‘iPhone City’ With Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner
The New York Times 12/29/16
California Nears Deal to Adopt a $15 State Minimum Wage
New York Times 03/27/16
Opinion | Bringing the Factories Home
WSJ 07/19/20
Donald Trump Presides Over GOP Remade in His Image
WSJ 08/26/20
China’s Faux Comparative Advantage
WSJ 04/15/18
Opinion | Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers
The New York Times 02/28/18
California 2020 Utopia in Dystopia- Extremes of wealth, sky high housing prices, wildfires and the pandemic
08/27/2020
The California in the early postwar years during the presidency of Truman and Eisenhower when different values prevailed, when Jerry Brown says his mother studied "basically for free", and the California of 2020. A struggle for the lost soul of America- its lost values for what Carl Sandburg called "The People, Yes." The ideas that led to the shipping overseas of America's manufacturing industry with disastrous results were created in some pockets of California such as San Jose and San Francisco.
Grouped Articles
Heat, Smoke and Covid Are Battering the Workers Who Feed America
NYTimes.com 08/28/20
A journey through a land of extreme poverty: welcome to America
The Guardian 12/15/17
Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty - The Washington Post
Washington Post 01/17/15
Wildfires around San Francisco Bay Area grow to larger than Rhode Island – live
The Guardian 08/24/20
California ‘never should have re-opened’ as Covid-19 cases surge to record high
France 24 07/17/20
How Success Against the Coronavirus Turned to Crisis in California
WSJ 07/01/20
Irresponsible behaviour of youth and young people that fueled the surge in the pandemic in July 2020
07/31/2020
Grouped Articles
Coronavirus cluster in western France pits youth against authorities preaching caution
France 24 07/30/20
California ‘never should have re-opened’ as Covid-19 cases surge to record high
France 24 07/17/20
Huawei and British 5G networks
05/25/2020
Grouped Articles
New inquiry into security risk posed by Huawei technology
The Times 05/25/20
French and British preparation for pandemics after SARS and H1N1 and letting austerity policy ditch the preparations by 2019
05/16/2020
France abandoned its effort first ramped up by the SARS pandemic, and utilized in H1N1 pandemic, and ditched this after H1N1 never happened. Britain's effort first ramped up SARS pandemic, continued through H1N1 right into the Cygnus exercize as a rehearsal preparation for a pandemic right into 2016, and lost interest after 2016 with the Brexit struggles in the country. By 2019 both countries were woefully short, China's underreporting, the lack of transparency, added to lack of enough awareness of danger in cruc1al weeks of January and February 2020.
Grouped Articles
Pandemic disarmament: Why France was ready for Covid-19 a decade too soon
France 24 05/17/20
Problem in U.S. coronavirus effort- the lack of a well funded centralized institution for data on the virus
05/15/2020
Inconsistent data with different chronologies and rules being pulled together from disparate sources by private individuals and organizations without adequate funding. This data used by decision makers for vital reopening decisions- is no way to tackle the threat of coronavirus. The need for a well funded institution setup by the U.S. government for this purpose to act as a centralized source of information, as is the practice in many other countries.
Grouped Articles
States Are Reopening With No Clear Picture of U.S. Coronavirus Cases
WSJ 05/15/20
How a Johns Hopkins Professor and Her Chinese Students Tracked Coronavirus
WSJ 05/09/20
Supply chain relocation by France, Britain and the U.S.
05/15/2020
France, Britain and the U.S. remain highly dependent on China for critical infrastructure related supplies. Action is being taken for complete reassessment of the supply chain and relocation back to the home countries and to other locations.
Grouped Articles
Covid-19 forces France to look at relocating its pharmaceutical industry
France 24 05/15/20
France's preparation for the 2002 SARS and 2009 H1N1 influenza with 1 billion masks, speedy response protocol- the lack of any preparation in 2020
05/08/2020
The financial crisis of 2009 and the eurozone crisis shifted attention, led to austerity cuts and abandonment of earlier preparation for epidemics.
Grouped Articles
Pandemic disarmament: Why France was ready for Covid-19 a decade too soon
France 24 05/17/20
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