Facebook, Paul Manafort, Manus Island: Your Wednesday Briefing
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Facebook, Paul Manafort, Manus Island: Your Wednesday Briefing
"If Suu Kyi had so far to fall," one analyst told them, "it is because the international community raised her so high." _____ • Executives from Facebook, Twitter
and Google, above, began two days of grilling in Washington by lawmakers investigating Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, including how the online platforms were used to spread misinformation and propaganda.
[The New York Times] • China is planning a 1,000-kilometer tunnel to divert water
from one of India’s largest rivers, the Brahmaputra, to the arid Xinjiang region.
[The New York Times] • As many as 200 North Koreans may have been killed in a tunnel collapse at the
Punggye-ri nuclear test site, a Japanese news outlet reported, without specifying a time frame.
Here’s what you need to know: • Eight people were killed
and others injured in New York City after a man drove a pickup truck down a stretch of a riverside bike path in Manhattan.
• Our new video series, "Internetting with Amanda Hess," examines all the weird, wrong and totally sad aspects of online culture.
" the host said, "please do not insult them." [Phnom Penh Post] Tips, both new
and old, for a more fulfilling life. that Even if you don’t believe in them,
As the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe noted: "Without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can
form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving." Thomas Furse contributed reporting.
"If Suu Kyi had so far to fall," one analyst told them, "it is because the international community raised her so high." _____ • Executives from Facebook, Twitter
and Google, above, began two days of grilling in Washington by lawmakers investigating Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, including how the online platforms were used to spread misinformation and propaganda.
[The New York Times] • China is planning a 1,000-kilometer tunnel to divert water
from one of India’s largest rivers, the Brahmaputra, to the arid Xinjiang region.
[The New York Times] • As many as 200 North Koreans may have been killed in a tunnel collapse at the
Punggye-ri nuclear test site, a Japanese news outlet reported, without specifying a time frame.
Here’s what you need to know: • Eight people were killed
and others injured in New York City after a man drove a pickup truck down a stretch of a riverside bike path in Manhattan.
• Our new video series, "Internetting with Amanda Hess," examines all the weird, wrong and totally sad aspects of online culture.
" the host said, "please do not insult them." [Phnom Penh Post] Tips, both new
and old, for a more fulfilling life. that Even if you don’t believe in them,
As the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe noted: "Without having seen the Sistine Chapel one can
form no appreciable idea of what one man is capable of achieving." Thomas Furse contributed reporting.