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reporter covering social media + politics. Ex-, 👩‍🎓 deepa.seetharaman@wsj.com /dseetharaman@protonmail.com / DM for Signal.

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    Oct 16

    New: It was once nigh impossible to get Mark Zuckerberg interested in politics. But over the last few years, as Facebook has lurched from one controversy to the next, he’s built himself into something of a political operator. Story w/ .

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    11 hours ago

    Many dietitians are speaking out against their profession, and how its majority white leaders promote a homogeneous practice that pushes a "kale and quinoa" diet and excludes them and their clients who don't fit with white/cis/thin ideals. My report:

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    5 hours ago

    A going away message just landed in my inbox from It's a thinly-veiled threat. The police in Vallejo have operated like this for decades. The police in Vallejo have an adversarial relationship with the truth. Please keep digging into the department's history.

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    9 hours ago

    We made it! The world will finally know how good we are at calling out other people’s mistakes!

    Sources: Suyash Mehta will become the first Indian-origin referee to officiate in the NBA this coming season.
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    Dec 4

    On today's front page.

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    6 hours ago

    ICYMI... here’s the incredible moment gets the legendary to sing I’m a little teapot 🎶 👏🏻 👏🏻

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  7. 10 hours ago

    This is all very, very spot on, but it was the Paris / Doyle vignette that really sold me.

    "How Gilmore Girls characters would respond to the pandemic" (a thread) Lorelai - makes her own masks from old concert T-shirts, has re-watched every movie made before 1950, uses Covid as an excuse to get out of Friday Night Dinners, but then has to Zoom into them
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    12 hours ago

    Truly skyrocketing childcare costs: in DC, for 3 kids (3, 6, 7): from $1,850 per month before the coronavirus hit to $5,300 in December

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  9. 13 hours ago

    Per a Google employee: “When someone who is the heart and soul of your team gets fired ostensibly for doing ethics research, what can you do?”

    Timnit Gebru’s team at Google is going public with their side of the story
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  10. Dec 6

    “At least 10 people are probably going to die in here, and it might be a lot more. What qualifies as an emergency? It feels like I’m on the Titanic, and we’re sinking, and I’m trying to make contact with the outside world using two soup cans and a string.”

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    Dec 6

    A Powerful Reporter Got Away With Sexual Misconduct for Decades. His Paper, and His Union, Looked the Other Way.

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    Dec 4

    This obit is just wow. “He died with covid-19, and his final days were harder, scarier and lonelier than necessary. He was not surrounded by friends and family.”

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    Dec 6

    In Tony's Hsieh's last months, he spiraled into drug and alcohol abuse, starving himself amid a new group of friends in Utah. His friends and family staged interventions, and he was on his way to rehab. Our deep dive on the life of the Zappos co-founder

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    Dec 5

    The 7-day USA death average has soared to 2,123 a day. A death every 41 seconds.

    Chart of tests, cases, current hospitalizations, and deaths nationwide.
    Our daily update is published. States reported 2.2 million tests, 211k cases, and 2,445 deaths. There are 101,190 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the US.
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  15. Dec 4

    This paper sounds important & fascinating, especially the part about the near-impossibility of auditing these systems for bias because of their size. “A methodology that relies on datasets too large to document is therefore inherently risky.”

    If you're wondering what Google was so terrified of publishing, I got a copy of the paper. Here's my best summary of what it says. Thank you to who coauthored the work for sending it my way.
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  16. Dec 4

    I’m Paul Hollywood now. Or maybe I’m cake? Either way, winner.

    You are now cursed with the job that the main character has in the last movie/TV show you watched. What's your new profession?
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    Dec 4

    "Madhu Muthukumar, senior director of product management at Robinhood, says the gambling-like visuals aren’t there to create 'a Vegas-y look' but to 'make it feel like something that’s familiar to populations that historically have not been served'" Ah.

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    Dec 4

    Hindu nationalists in India are passing state laws to prevent Hindu women marrying Muslim men, such as by banning religious conversion for marriage

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    Dec 3

    When I got on the phone with Fauci, I asked him what schedule looked like that day. Here's his full answer.

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    Dec 3

    Jenna Ellis has said she is a former Colorado prosecutor and State Dept attorney. In CO, she handled traffic cases. She isn’t listed in State Dept payroll records & was listed in one 2013 case as a lawyer for a firm providing legal-discovery help to State.

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