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Supporters of a proposed Arkansas constitutional amendment to create a limited right to abortion claim Secretary of State John Thurston’s rejection of the measure in July was viewpoint discrimination, according to a brief filed Friday with the state Supreme Court. The group submitted more than 102,000 signatures; proposed constitutional amendments need 90,704 signatures to qualify for the ballot.🇺🇸
How Some States Are Making It Harder to Register Voters. Florida and some other states have put restrictions on voter registration drives, often with stiff fines that are dissuading some civic groups from taking part. 🇺🇸
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/us/voter-registration-drive-restrictions.html
Facebook pages linked to foreign interference in UK elections taken down after ABC investigation. Facebook algorithms have a history of amplifying election misinformation pages because it makes them more money per whistleblowers. The DOJ should investigate Facebook for election fraud. 🇺🇸
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Inside Ziklag, the Secret Organization of Wealthy Far-Right Extremist Christians Trying to Sway the 2024 Election. They’re spending millions but it may be violating the law by trying to remove millions of Americans from the voter rolls in key swing states 🇺🇸
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ziklag-secret-christian-charity-2024-election
Inside the powerful extreme-right Peter Thiel network that funded JD Vance’s political career. For Thiel, Vance’s presence on the Republican ticket is the payoff on a bet placed a decade ago, when he recruited the Yale Law School graduate as his protégé — joining his other proteges Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp CEO Mark Zuckerberg and OpenAI founder Sam Altman. Thiel’s company Palantir states it may collect, use, and disclose Americans’ personal data similar to Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp and OpenAI. 🇺🇸
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/28/jd-vance-peter-thiel-donors-big-tech-trump-vp/
Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp has agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in a privacy lawsuit over claims that the tech giant used biometric data of users without their permission, officials said Tuesday 🇺🇸
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Students learn about climate technologies at panel in DC. “We have enough opportunity in our quad-county region that the first thing that we need to do is drive successful projects and commercialization at home,” said guest speaker Francesca Covey, Miami-Dade’s regional innovation officer for the South Florida ClimateReady Tech Hub, of what should be a growing and powerful catalyst for innovation in Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe and Palm Beach counties, which together represent the hub.
https://news.fiu.edu/2024/students-learn-about-climate-technologies-at-fiu-in-dc
Election Deniers Are Ramping Up Efforts to Disenfranchise Voters. After working for months to challenge thousands of voter registrations, election denial groups are now pushing ahead with plans to challenge voters and votes ahead of the election. Leaked documents published this month by Documented and ProPublica show that one of the funders is Ziklag, a group of wealthy individuals dedicated to pushing an extremist Christian nationalist agenda.
https://www.wired.com/story/election-deniers-efforts-disenfranchise-voters/
Facebook Instagram advertisers have claimed that Facebook Instagram owes them damages worth over $7 billion. Facebook Instagram has been accused of inflating their numbers by up to 400%. A significant percentage of the audience may actually be troll or bot accounts from foreign countries. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has paved way for advertisers to pursue legal action against Facebook Instagram for damages. Many of these troll accounts seem to be used to manipulate Facebook Instagram algorithms to spread election misinformation. Congress should investigate Facebook Instagram for election fraud. 🇺🇸
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The number of women in the U.S. attempting abortions without medical assistance has surged since the Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections. A recent study found the most common method was ingesting a concoction of herbs and plants, followed by physical actions like punching themselves in the stomach and consuming alcohol and other substances. 🇺🇸
https://www.newsweek.com/home-abortions-rise-america-1932155
Russia is relying on unwitting Americans to spread election disinformation, US officials say. Authorities say the two Russian companies created fake websites and social media profiles to spread Kremlin disinformation. Fake websites designed to mimic U.S. news outlets and AI-generated social media profiles are just two methods used. 🇺🇸
Before the EU elections, disinformation campaigns were very visible on Facebook. In the US Facebook Instagram algorithms also push election disinformation on Americans. Per whistleblowers this seems to have been going on for the last 10 years, the DOJ should investigate Facebook Instagram for intentional election fraud. 🇺🇸