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Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Company, Not Harm It — The former Facebook employee says her goal is to help prompt change at the social-media giant — The former Facebook Inc. employee who gathered documents that formed the foundation …
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Whistle-Blower Says Facebook ‘Chooses Profits Over Safety’ — Frances Haugen, a Facebook product manager who left the company in May, revealed that she had provided internal documents to journalists and others. — John Tye, the founder of Whistleblower Aid, a legal nonprofit …
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CBS News:
Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation — Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, “conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook.” Scott Pelley reports.
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Clare Duffy / CNN:
Facebook whistleblower revealed on ‘60 Minutes,’ says the company prioritized profit over public good
Facebook whistleblower revealed on ‘60 Minutes,’ says the company prioritized profit over public good
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Edward Helmore / The Guardian:
Facebook whistleblower to claim company contributed to Capitol attack
Facebook whistleblower to claim company contributed to Capitol attack
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Washington Post:
Billions hidden beyond reach — (Washington Post illustration; with photographs by, from top, Sebastián Vivallo Oñate/Agencia Makro/Getty Images), Tolga Akmen/WPA Pool via Getty Images, Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post, Wojtek Radwanski/AFP/Getty Images
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Secret money, swanky real estate and a Monte Carlo mystery
Secret money, swanky real estate and a Monte Carlo mystery
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Key findings from the Pandora Papers investigation
Key findings from the Pandora Papers investigation
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ICIJ, New York Post and Rolling Stone
The Guardian:
Pandora papers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful
Pandora papers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful
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BBC:
Pandora Papers: A simple guide to the Pandora Papers leak
Pandora Papers: A simple guide to the Pandora Papers leak
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Luke Harding / The Guardian:
Pandora papers reveal hidden riches of Putin's inner circle
Pandora papers reveal hidden riches of Putin's inner circle
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Insider, TASS, The Sun and Bookworm Room
Ben Smith / New York Times:
What They Saw in Ozy — The story behind the story is about the elite investors who plowed millions into a media dream without much due diligence, persuaded by the charm of Ozy's head, Carlos Watson. — There's an irresistible temptation, in this age of scams and hype …
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Pelosi shows her power — If you are betting on politics, here's my advice — put your money on Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). — Historian Robert Caro famously crowned Lyndon Johnson the “Master of the Senate.” — After last week, it's clear Pelosi is his equal in the House.
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Marianna Sotomayor / Washington Post:
For Democrats and the Biden agenda, it's becoming a matter of trust — Many liberals don't trust moderates. Key moderates no longer trust congressional leaders or the White House. And few in the House trust the Senate. — As Democrats embark this week on their latest effort …
Associated Press:
Ex-U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, sunk by ‘legitimate rape’ remark, dies — Former U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, a conservative Missouri Republican whose comment that women's bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape” sunk his bid for the U.S. Senate and became a cautionary tale for other GOP candidates, died late Sunday.
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
USPS Begins Postal Banking Pilot Program — The test allows customers to cash business or payroll checks at the post office and place them onto a gift card. — The United States Postal Service (USPS) has taken the most dramatic step in a half-century to re-establish a postal banking system in America.
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
U.S. to warn China is not complying with Trump's Phase One trade deal — U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai will declare Monday that an extensive review found China isn't meeting its commitments under the Phase One trade deal — laying the groundwork for the Biden administration to keep …
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Sarah D. Wire / Los Angeles Times:
Jan. 6 rioters exploited little-known Capitol weak spots: A handful of unreinforced windows — Four major access points that Jan. 6 rioters used to break into and overtake the U.S. Capitol had something unusual in common: They were among a dozen or so ground-floor windows and glass-paned doors that had not been recently reinforced.
Yelena Dzhanova / Insider:
A Connecticut doctor who gave patients blank, signed COVID-19 exemption forms has surrendered her medical license — Sue McIntosh, a former Connecticut physician, has surrendered her medical degree after an investigation found she gave blank exemption waivers to patients.
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Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
Flynn Secretly Paid $200,000 in Middle East Nuclear Scheme—Report — Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad dug up internal audit documents revealing more unreported payments in wild scheme for Arab power plants — Disgraced former Donald Trump National Security Adviser and Army general Michael Flynn …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Jan. 6 panel braces for collision with Trump — The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol is steeling itself for its first encounter with an immovable object: Donald Trump. — Some aspects of its work are proceeding smoothly.
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Washington Post:
Trump, talked out of announcing a 2024 bid for now, settles on a wink-and-nod unofficial candidacy — As turmoil in Afghanistan reached a crescendo in August, Donald Trump began talking again with advisers about whether he should announce his 2024 campaign for president right away.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Covid, in Retreat — New cases in the U.S. have fallen by more than a third in the past month. — Covid-19 is once again in retreat. — The reasons remain somewhat unclear, and there is no guarantee that the decline in caseloads will continue. But the turnaround is now large enough …
Miles Himmel / Washington Examiner:
Elites think they're better than you — They think they're smarter than you. They think they deserve more than you. They think they're better than you. — Who are they, you ask? Hollywood, Silicon Valley, athletes, politicians, entertainment, those who dine at the French Laundry …
Julie Luchetta / Arizona Republic:
Activists ambush Sen. Kyrsten Sinema at ASU over immigration, Build Back Better Act — Sen. Kyrsten Sinema was confronted by proponents of the democratic Build Back Better bill who followed her as she entered a public restroom on Sunday morning. — A video posted on the Twitter account …
Joseph Simonson / Washington Free Beacon:
Dems Tuck Multibillion-Dollar Handout to Illegal Immigrants Into Reconciliation — Biden's $3.5 trillion spending bill gives migrants same child benefits as Americans — President Joe Biden's budget includes a provision that provides billions of dollars in cash to illegal aliens with children.
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Washington Examiner:
Biden must reject using the PATRIOT Act to suppress angry parents' opinions — The coronavirus pandemic was obviously tragic in many ways, killing many of the most vulnerable, disrupting life, and causing job loss and economic hardship for millions. But in other ways, the experience …
Sabrina Rodriguez / Politico:
Virginia Democrats attempt to claw back Trump's gains with Latinos — Flanked by six of Virginia's top Latino leaders, over pupusas and empanadas at a recent campaign-sponsored event, Terry McAuliffe met with a group of voters from countries like El Salvador, Peru and Venezuela to talk about his vision for his state.
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