📩👀 On Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai demanding answers in answer to a recent study that found the tech giant's email spam filtering algorithms exhibited political bias in 2020.
"New research reveals that your company makes it much harder for Republicans to reach their supporters even while your company makes it very easy for Democrats to reach theirs," Hawley said, adding that the internet plays a crucial role for political campaigns to reach their voters.
"We further observe that Gmail marks a significantly higher percentage (67.6%) of emails from the right as spam compared to the emails from left (just 8.2%)" researchers wrote. "Gmail marked 59.3% more emails from the right candidates as spam compared to the left candidates."
He also demanded to know why Google's filtering algorithm is more pronounced than other email apps.
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"New research reveals that your company makes it much harder for Republicans to reach their supporters even while your company makes it very easy for Democrats to reach theirs," Hawley said, adding that the internet plays a crucial role for political campaigns to reach their voters.
"We further observe that Gmail marks a significantly higher percentage (67.6%) of emails from the right as spam compared to the emails from left (just 8.2%)" researchers wrote. "Gmail marked 59.3% more emails from the right candidates as spam compared to the left candidates."
He also demanded to know why Google's filtering algorithm is more pronounced than other email apps.
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❗️❗️Kherson region, which borders Crimea, to start switching to payments in rubles effective May 1.
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⚡️🤔A copy of "Mein Kampf," the political manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, has been discovered at an Azov base in Mariupol, a Sputnik correspondent reports
According to the correspondent, a Russian-language copy of the book was found at the barracks where the neo-Nazi battalion was stationed.
In 2010, Russia included "Mein Kampf" on a list of prohibited extremist materials
According to the correspondent, a Russian-language copy of the book was found at the barracks where the neo-Nazi battalion was stationed.
In 2010, Russia included "Mein Kampf" on a list of prohibited extremist materials
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❗️Biden will deliver remarks on the further support for Ukraine in the morning on Thursday, the White House says
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😳💦As water levels in the state of California approach record lows. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) announced a water emergency this morning and ordered restrictions to reduce nonessential water use in parts of Los Angeles, Ventura, and San Bernardino counties.
The water district attributed the emergency declaration to its “reliance” on “severely limited” water supplies in Northern California, which is also enduring extreme drought. It comes as the state has experienced a lack of precipitation and abnormally high temperatures in recent years.
The move includes the unprecedented measure of restricting outdoor watering to one day a week for about a third of the region.
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The water district attributed the emergency declaration to its “reliance” on “severely limited” water supplies in Northern California, which is also enduring extreme drought. It comes as the state has experienced a lack of precipitation and abnormally high temperatures in recent years.
The move includes the unprecedented measure of restricting outdoor watering to one day a week for about a third of the region.
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📣🔷Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina seems to have violated federal conflict-of-interest law by failing to report his stake in a cryptocurrency named for the anti-Joe Biden slogan "Let's Go, Brandon."
By law, members of Congress must quickly and publicly report their crypto purchases in certified congressional documents, known as periodic transaction reports.
"All financial disclosure filings must disclose ownership interests of virtual currency" worth more than $1,000 and "purchases, sales or exchanges of cryptocurrencies," the House Committee on Ethics wrote in a 2018 memorandum to lawmakers and congressional staffers.
The purchase appears to have happened in late December, according to Cawthorn's Instagram profile.
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By law, members of Congress must quickly and publicly report their crypto purchases in certified congressional documents, known as periodic transaction reports.
"All financial disclosure filings must disclose ownership interests of virtual currency" worth more than $1,000 and "purchases, sales or exchanges of cryptocurrencies," the House Committee on Ethics wrote in a 2018 memorandum to lawmakers and congressional staffers.
The purchase appears to have happened in late December, according to Cawthorn's Instagram profile.
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🔻💸The Trump administration approved a $700 million pandemic loan earmarked for national security to a trucking company despite DOD objections, a new report says
The loans to YRC Worldwide Inc., now called Yellow Corporation, violated stipulations in the CARES Act, and senior Trump officials – "potentially including the president" – were involved in getting the loan approved, Democrats on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis said in a press release.
"Today's Select Subcommittee staff report reveals yet another example of the Trump Administration disregarding their obligation to be responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars," Chairman James Clyburn said in the press release.
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The loans to YRC Worldwide Inc., now called Yellow Corporation, violated stipulations in the CARES Act, and senior Trump officials – "potentially including the president" – were involved in getting the loan approved, Democrats on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis said in a press release.
"Today's Select Subcommittee staff report reveals yet another example of the Trump Administration disregarding their obligation to be responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars," Chairman James Clyburn said in the press release.
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⚡️📹 A logistical support unit of Russia's Southern Military District supplies Mariupol residents with drinking water. 100 tonnes of water are delivered in tank trucks daily to the various parts of the liberated city.
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⚡️ Ukrainian military launched massive missile strike using Tochka-U on residential areas of center of Kherson - Russian MoD
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❗️FSB arrests ex-Ukrainian marine, preparing terrorist attack in Simferepol on Azov neo-Nazis' order
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⚡️📹 A refugee from Mariupol relayed how Ukrainian snipers killed local residents so that they would not help the DPR fighters.
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⚡️❗️ The Russian MoD's latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:
▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 67 Ukrainian military facilities over the past day.
▪️ High-precision Russian Aerospace Forces missiles hit four military facilities in Ukraine, and destroyed two depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition.
▪️ On April 27, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a massive attack using Tochka-U ballistic missiles and multiple rocket launchers at residential areas of the central part of Kherson.
▪️ Some 142 aircraft, 111 helicopters, 614 unmanned aerial vehicles, 276 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,623 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 299 multiple rocket launchers, 1,146 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,431 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.
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▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 67 Ukrainian military facilities over the past day.
▪️ High-precision Russian Aerospace Forces missiles hit four military facilities in Ukraine, and destroyed two depots of rocket and artillery weapons and ammunition.
▪️ On April 27, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a massive attack using Tochka-U ballistic missiles and multiple rocket launchers at residential areas of the central part of Kherson.
▪️ Some 142 aircraft, 111 helicopters, 614 unmanned aerial vehicles, 276 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,623 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 299 multiple rocket launchers, 1,146 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,431 special military motor vehicles have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.
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⚡️📹 Residents of the liberated Lugansk community of Melovoe, where a checkpoint on the border with Russia was opened today, expressed a desire for the absence of any borders.
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⚡️📹 Oleynik Alexander, who was evacuated from Mariupol on 10 April 2022 by the DPR military, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had organised a firing line near his house.
From this point, according to Alexander, the military regularly killed civilians who were residing in the city at the time.
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From this point, according to Alexander, the military regularly killed civilians who were residing in the city at the time.
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⚡️ Russia condemns attempts to involve Transnistria in Ukraine conflict
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⚡️📹 Natalia Atroshchenkova, an actress at the Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theatre in Mariupol, wanted to spend her whole life in a house with a view of her favourite theatre, but Ukrainian radicals changed her plans.
This woman from Mariupol told how a Ukrainian tank shelled her street for days.
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This woman from Mariupol told how a Ukrainian tank shelled her street for days.
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⚡️ German Parliament adopts resolution urging Cabinet to send heavy weapons to Ukraine
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⚡️ Moscow says calling on Ukraine to attack targets in Russia to lead to harsh response
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⚡️ Ukraine is backed by US in preparing cyber provocation against Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry says
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Ukrainians voice their regrets having voted for Zelensky:
🗣 “This man just doesn’t understand what he did. He claimed that he would negotiate even a bald devil if need be. Where did he negotiate, who did he make a deal with?"
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🗣 “This man just doesn’t understand what he did. He claimed that he would negotiate even a bald devil if need be. Where did he negotiate, who did he make a deal with?"
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