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facebook Facebook makes 'Boogaloo' groups advocating US civil war harder to find, after arrest of participants plotting violence Xeni Jardin
politics In U.S., 2,909 people die of COVID-19 in 24 hours, highest daily death toll in the U.S. yet Xeni Jardin
Technology Amazon used a China firm on U.S. blacklist for thermal cameras to monitor workers for COVID-19 fever Xeni Jardin
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health As Coronavirus infections near 100,000 worldwide, fear of mass deaths for the poor Xeni Jardin
antifa A Civil War reenactor tried to frame Antifa by fabricating threats against his own Civil War reenactments Thom Dunn
Business Charter/Spectrum sold customers expensive home security systems, then killed the program and left them high and dry Cory Doctorow
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