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It’s becoming increasingly clear that for Facebook there is no returning to its habits of the past. Many of its election-year tweaks to its rules and stepped-up enforcement imposed to crack down on political misinformation were supposed to be temporary. But the Jan. 6 insurrection, the rise in COVID vaccine misinformation, the persistent spread of […]
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‘National Geographic’ Reckons with Its Past: ‘For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist’
March 16th, 2018 
Awake Goy If National Geographic’s April issue was going to be entirely devoted to the subject of race, the magazine decided it had better take a good hard look at its own history. Editor in Chief Susan Goldberg asked John Edwin Mason, a professor of African history and the history of photography at the University of Virginia, […]
Sinkhole swallows house, gardens and courtyards in Hanoi, Vietnam
April 5th, 2016 Awake Goy Hundreds of people living in Hoa Lac village (Tien commune, My Duc District, Hanoi) rushed out of their homes after hearing a terrifying noise outside.There they discovered a monster gap of 10 meters in diameter and 7 meters deepth that swallowed the main road. The Death Pit! The giant sinkhole opened up at around […]
