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Title: Did a Conservative News Site Admit Its Voter-Fraud Claims Were False? | Snopes.com
Headings: Did a Conservative News Site Admit Its Voter-Fraud Claims Were False?
Did a Conservative News Site Admit Its Voter-Fraud Claims Were False?
American Thinker joined the likes of Newsmax in issuing a correction to various claims it spread during the 2020 election.
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In the days leading up to and following the 2020 presidential election on Nov. 3, 2020, U.S. President Donald Trump and conservative media outlets such as Newsmax and American Thinker repeatedly spread false statements claiming that the the election had been stolen via voter fraud. One of the most repeated (and repeatedly debunked) claims was that the company Dominion Voting Systems had used its software to rig the election. We have published several articles debunking these claims. Other news outlets and election officials have also thoroughly investigated and debunked claims that Dominion had engaged in fraudulent activity to rig the election. But you don’t have to take our word for it. On Jan. 15, 2021, the conservative website American Thinker published a statement admitting that it had published false statements about voter fraud. The American Thinker wrote:
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Title: Did a Conservative News Site Admit Its Voter-Fraud Claims Were False? | Snopes.com
Headings: Did a Conservative News Site Admit Its Voter-Fraud Claims Were False?
Did a Conservative News Site Admit Its Voter-Fraud Claims Were False?
American Thinker joined the likes of Newsmax in issuing a correction to various claims it spread during the 2020 election.
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Content: We have published several articles debunking these claims. Other news outlets and election officials have also thoroughly investigated and debunked claims that Dominion had engaged in fraudulent activity to rig the election. But you don’t have to take our word for it. On Jan. 15, 2021, the conservative website American Thinker published a statement admitting that it had published false statements about voter fraud. The American Thinker wrote: American Thinker and contributors Andrea Widburg, R.D. Wedge, Brian Tomlinson, and Peggy Ryan have published pieces on www.AmericanThinker.com that falsely accuse US Dominion Inc., Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., and Dominion Voting Systems Corporation (collectively “Dominion”) of conspiring to steal the November 2020 election from Donald Trump. These pieces rely on discredited sources who have peddled debunked theories about Dominion’s supposed ties to Venezuela, fraud on Dominion’s machines that resulted in massive vote switching or weighted votes, and other claims falsely stating that there is credible evidence that Dominion acted fraudulently. These statements are completely false and have no basis in fact. Industry experts and public officials alike have confirmed that Dominion conducted itself appropriately and that there is simply no evidence to support these claims. It was wrong for us to publish these false statements.
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Title: Did a Conservative News Site Admit Its Voter-Fraud Claims Were False? | Snopes.com
Headings: Did a Conservative News Site Admit Its Voter-Fraud Claims Were False?
Did a Conservative News Site Admit Its Voter-Fraud Claims Were False?
American Thinker joined the likes of Newsmax in issuing a correction to various claims it spread during the 2020 election.
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Content: American Thinker and contributors Andrea Widburg, R.D. Wedge, Brian Tomlinson, and Peggy Ryan have published pieces on www.AmericanThinker.com that falsely accuse US Dominion Inc., Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., and Dominion Voting Systems Corporation (collectively “Dominion”) of conspiring to steal the November 2020 election from Donald Trump. These pieces rely on discredited sources who have peddled debunked theories about Dominion’s supposed ties to Venezuela, fraud on Dominion’s machines that resulted in massive vote switching or weighted votes, and other claims falsely stating that there is credible evidence that Dominion acted fraudulently. These statements are completely false and have no basis in fact. Industry experts and public officials alike have confirmed that Dominion conducted itself appropriately and that there is simply no evidence to support these claims. It was wrong for us to publish these false statements. We apologize to Dominion for all of the harm this caused them and their employees. We also apologize to our readers for abandoning 9 journalistic principles and misrepresenting Dominion’s track record and its limited role in tabulating votes for the November 2020 election. We regret this grave error. American Thinker is the latest organization to issue a statement admitting that its coverage of the 2020 election involved a number of false statements related to voter fraud. In December 2020, Dominion Voting Systems threatened to file lawsuits against news outlets that had spread false rumors about the company.
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Title: Did a Conservative News Site Admit Its Voter-Fraud Claims Were False? | Snopes.com
Headings: Did a Conservative News Site Admit Its Voter-Fraud Claims Were False?
Did a Conservative News Site Admit Its Voter-Fraud Claims Were False?
American Thinker joined the likes of Newsmax in issuing a correction to various claims it spread during the 2020 election.
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Content: We apologize to Dominion for all of the harm this caused them and their employees. We also apologize to our readers for abandoning 9 journalistic principles and misrepresenting Dominion’s track record and its limited role in tabulating votes for the November 2020 election. We regret this grave error. American Thinker is the latest organization to issue a statement admitting that its coverage of the 2020 election involved a number of false statements related to voter fraud. In December 2020, Dominion Voting Systems threatened to file lawsuits against news outlets that had spread false rumors about the company. Shortly thereafter, Newsmax published an article to clarify statements about Dominion and Smartmatic, another voting software company engulfed in false voter-fraud rumors. Here’s an excerpt from the statement published by Newsmax: There are several facts our viewers and readers should be aware. Newsmax has found no evidence either Dominion or Smartmatic owns the other, or has any business association with each other. We have no evidence Dominion uses Smartmatic’s software or vice versa.
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Title: Did Biden 'Admit' to Voter Fraud? | Snopes.com
Headings: Did Biden ‘Admit’ to Voter Fraud?
Did Biden ‘Admit’ to Voter Fraud?
Was the Democratic U.S. presidential nominee caught red-handed confessing to large-scale voter fraud less than two weeks before Election Day? Hardly.
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Did Biden ‘Admit’ to Voter Fraud? Did Biden ‘Admit’ to Voter Fraud? Was the Democratic U.S. presidential nominee caught red-handed confessing to large-scale voter fraud less than two weeks before Election Day? Hardly. Dan MacGuill
Published 26 October 2020
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In October 2020, Joe Biden admitted to perpetrating voter fraud. Rating
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In the final weeks of the 2020 presidential election, the campaign of U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Democratic nominee Joe Biden had “admitted” to perpetrating electoral fraud.
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Title: Did Biden 'Admit' to Voter Fraud? | Snopes.com
Headings: Did Biden ‘Admit’ to Voter Fraud?
Did Biden ‘Admit’ to Voter Fraud?
Was the Democratic U.S. presidential nominee caught red-handed confessing to large-scale voter fraud less than two weeks before Election Day? Hardly.
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In October 2020, Joe Biden admitted to perpetrating voter fraud. Rating
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In the final weeks of the 2020 presidential election, the campaign of U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Democratic nominee Joe Biden had “admitted” to perpetrating electoral fraud. On Oct. 24, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweeted out a short video clip of Biden, along with the following text: BIDEN ADMITS TO VOTER FRAUD! Joe Biden brags about having the “most extensive VOTER FRAUD organization” in history!! In the video, which was originally posted by @RNCResearch, the Republican Party’s opposition research division, the former vice president can be seen saying: “Secondly, we’re in a situation where we have put together, and you guys did it for our administration — President Obama’s administration before this — we have put together I think the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.”
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Title: Did Brett Kavanaugh 'Never Try a Case' Before Being Promoted from Law Clerk to Federal Judge? | Snopes.com
Headings: Did Brett Kavanaugh ‘Never Try a Case’ Before Being Promoted from Law Clerk to Federal Judge?
Did Brett Kavanaugh ‘Never Try a Case’ Before Being Promoted from Law Clerk to Federal Judge?
Kavanaugh hadn't spent much time in courtrooms when President George W. Bush nominated him to the DC Circuit in 2003, but he did have other legal experience.
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Content: Even counting his time as a law clerk, he still has only half of the average legal experience of nominees to the DC Circuit. To put this in context, Mr. Kavanaugh would be the least experienced member of the DC Circuit in almost a quarter century. His lack of experience is underscored by his responses to questions from [Senate] Judiciary Committee members. When he was asked to name his 10 most significant cases, Mr. Kavanaugh could only cite five cases for which he actually appeared in court, and only two cases in which he was lead counsel. He even cited two cases for which he merely wrote a friend-of-the-court brief for someone who was not a party to the lawsuit. In referring to Kavanaugh’s role in “some of the most politically divisive events in recent memory,” Kennedy almost certainly meant the 2000 Florida recount and Independent Counsel Ken Starr’s investigation into the Whitewater scandal, which expanded to cover President Bill Clinton’s affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and ultimately yielded grounds for the unsuccessful impeachment of Clinton. In the mid-1990s, Kavanaugh took part in the Clinton investigations led by Starr, for whom he had worked in 1992 and 1993 when Starr was U.S. Solicitor General. In 1999, the New York Times described Kavanaugh as having been one of “the most important lawyers on the Lewinsky inquiry.” During this period, Kavanaugh controversially re-investigated the death of Vince Foster, Clinton’s White House Counsel, despite the fact that several official investigations had already concluded that Foster shot himself to death in 1993. ( Since it took place, Foster’s death has become the subject of rampant conspiracy theories implicating Bill and Hillary Clinton, about which more can be read here .)
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Title: Did Brett Kavanaugh 'Never Try a Case' Before Being Promoted from Law Clerk to Federal Judge? | Snopes.com
Headings: Did Brett Kavanaugh ‘Never Try a Case’ Before Being Promoted from Law Clerk to Federal Judge?
Did Brett Kavanaugh ‘Never Try a Case’ Before Being Promoted from Law Clerk to Federal Judge?
Kavanaugh hadn't spent much time in courtrooms when President George W. Bush nominated him to the DC Circuit in 2003, but he did have other legal experience.
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Content: In referring to Kavanaugh’s role in “some of the most politically divisive events in recent memory,” Kennedy almost certainly meant the 2000 Florida recount and Independent Counsel Ken Starr’s investigation into the Whitewater scandal, which expanded to cover President Bill Clinton’s affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky and ultimately yielded grounds for the unsuccessful impeachment of Clinton. In the mid-1990s, Kavanaugh took part in the Clinton investigations led by Starr, for whom he had worked in 1992 and 1993 when Starr was U.S. Solicitor General. In 1999, the New York Times described Kavanaugh as having been one of “the most important lawyers on the Lewinsky inquiry.” During this period, Kavanaugh controversially re-investigated the death of Vince Foster, Clinton’s White House Counsel, despite the fact that several official investigations had already concluded that Foster shot himself to death in 1993. ( Since it took place, Foster’s death has become the subject of rampant conspiracy theories implicating Bill and Hillary Clinton, about which more can be read here .) Furthermore, Kavanaugh was involved in writing up parts of the second half of Starr’s eventual report to Congress, which outlined the grounds for Clinton’s impeachment. Kavanaugh later expressed regret that Congress had decided to publish the entire report, which included intimate details of Clinton and Lewinsky’s sexual relationship, without reviewing it in advance. In late 2000, Kavanaugh joined the legal team of then-Texas governor George W. Bush as the contested results of the presidential election in Florida went before the U.S. Supreme Court. ‘A law clerk promoted to a judge’
Before his confirmation as a judge on the DC Circuit in 2006, Kavanaugh had the following experience (in reverse chronological order): 2003-2006:
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Title: FACT CHECK: Did the Clinton Foundation Pay for Chelsea's Wedding?
Headings: Did the Clinton Foundation Pay for Chelsea’s Wedding?
Did the Clinton Foundation Pay for Chelsea’s Wedding?
The rumor that the charitable foundation paid for Chelsea Clinton's 2010 wedding at Haiti's expense appears to be without merit.
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Content: In it, Band told Podesta that he had caught wind of scuttlebutt regarding Chelsea Clinton’s activities and the Clinton Foundation finances from a friend of a friend, as it were: I just received a call from a close friend of [Bill Clinton] who said that [Chelsea Clinton] told one of the bush 43 kids that she is conducting an internal investigation of money within the foundation from [Clinton Global Initiative] to the foundation. The bush kid then told someone else who then told an operative within the republican party
I have heard more and more chatter of [Chelsea Clinton] and [Bari Lurie] talking about lots of what is going on internally to people
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The investigation into her getting paid for campaigning, using foundation resources for her wedding and life for a decade, taxes on money from her parents…. I hope that you will speak to her and end this
Once we go down this road…. The e-mail was made public as part of a trove of leaked messages which U.S. intelligence agencies reported were stolen by Russian hackers from the Democratic operatives in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election and were then handed over to WikiLeaks as part of an effort not only to not only help then-candidate Donald Trump, but also to sow social division and doubt in the American democratic process. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is currently investigating allegations of collusion between the Trump camp and Russia. No tangible evidence has yet turned up documenting that the cost of Chelsea Clinton’s 2010 wedding to investment banker Marc Mezvinsky was paid out of Clinton Foundation coffers, and it’s unclear exactly what Band meant by Chelsea Clinton’s using foundation “resources” for her wedding, or why she might have been investigating who paid for her own wedding. What is clear is that Band was talking about hearsay, and the e-mail offered only nebulous information about what was being investigated (and by whom). Adding more uncertainty to the motivations and context for the exchange was the fact that Band apparently had a sour relationship with Chelsea over his role at the Clinton Foundation. According to Bill Clinton’s spokesperson, Angel Ureña, Chelsea’s wedding in Rhinebeck, New York was paid for by her parents, which Clinton himself reiterated on Twitter:
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Title: Is CNN Permanently Closing Their Doors After a Ratings Plunge of 30 Percent? | Snopes.com
Headings: Is CNN Permanently Closing Their Doors After a Ratings Plunge of 30 Percent?
Is CNN Permanently Closing Their Doors After a Ratings Plunge of 30 Percent?
A notoriously unreliable web site spread the unsubstantiated claim that the cable news network was on the verge of shutting down because of a decline in viewership.
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CNN posted a year-over-year ratings drop during the second week of May 2018, prompting celebratory notices on right-leaning web sites such as Breitbart , Daily Caller, and others on which the network is routinely cast as unreliable and a purveyor of anti-Trump propaganda. The reports were based on statistics published in Adweek showing CNN’s total-day viewership for the week of 7 May 2018 as down 29 percent from the same period in 2017, but at least one partisan site with a well-documented bent for blending fact and fiction, Your News Wire, parlayed the numbers into the exaggerated claim that the network would soon be closing its doors because of “collapsing” ratings: CNN is on the verge of permanently closing its doors after its ratings collapsed even more than last week, falling a staggering 30 percent in the second week of May.
While Fox News increased its total viewers by a healthy 6 percent and MSNBC held steady, CNN’s viewership took a nosedive, signalling that the failing news network may be about to come to an abrupt end. Breitbart.com reports: While no one in the media want to talk about it, CNN’s relentless fake news sprees have not only created a massive credibility problem for the hate network, the far-left cable channel’s ratings crisis is even more severe. Due to the network’s critical reporting on the actions of his administration, President Trump has frequently singled out CNN as one of the worst offenders in what he calls the “fake news media.” The practice has also been taken up by web sites such as Your News Wire and Breitbart, both of which have rushed to attribute CNN’s falling ratings to a “massive credibility problem.”
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Title: Is CNN Permanently Closing Their Doors After a Ratings Plunge of 30 Percent? | Snopes.com
Headings: Is CNN Permanently Closing Their Doors After a Ratings Plunge of 30 Percent?
Is CNN Permanently Closing Their Doors After a Ratings Plunge of 30 Percent?
A notoriously unreliable web site spread the unsubstantiated claim that the cable news network was on the verge of shutting down because of a decline in viewership.
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Content: CNN is on the verge of permanently closing its doors after its ratings collapsed even more than last week, falling a staggering 30 percent in the second week of May.
While Fox News increased its total viewers by a healthy 6 percent and MSNBC held steady, CNN’s viewership took a nosedive, signalling that the failing news network may be about to come to an abrupt end. Breitbart.com reports: While no one in the media want to talk about it, CNN’s relentless fake news sprees have not only created a massive credibility problem for the hate network, the far-left cable channel’s ratings crisis is even more severe. Due to the network’s critical reporting on the actions of his administration, President Trump has frequently singled out CNN as one of the worst offenders in what he calls the “fake news media.” The practice has also been taken up by web sites such as Your News Wire and Breitbart, both of which have rushed to attribute CNN’s falling ratings to a “massive credibility problem.” However, a recent poll conducted by Monmouth University found that despite a general consensus that even traditional media outlets engage in some so-called “fake news” reporting, roughly half of Americans say they still trust CNN more than Trump as an information source. ( Adweek ‘s reporting did not speculate on the putative causes of CNN’s ratings blip.) In any case, despite its year-over-year decline, CNN remained the seventh most-watched cable network in (terms of total-day viewership) for the week in question, and the eleventh most-watched in prime time. While that may be temporarily troublesome in terms of getting top dollar for advertising, it’s wishful thinking on the part of CNN’s detractors to interpret it as spelling doom for the network, which has weathered innumerable ups and downs in the television rating wars over the 38 years of its existence. Despite being down in prime time viewership during the first three months of 2018, for example, CNN posted its second-best first-quarter ratings in 10 years.
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Title: Is CNN Permanently Closing Their Doors After a Ratings Plunge of 30 Percent? | Snopes.com
Headings: Is CNN Permanently Closing Their Doors After a Ratings Plunge of 30 Percent?
Is CNN Permanently Closing Their Doors After a Ratings Plunge of 30 Percent?
A notoriously unreliable web site spread the unsubstantiated claim that the cable news network was on the verge of shutting down because of a decline in viewership.
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Content: However, a recent poll conducted by Monmouth University found that despite a general consensus that even traditional media outlets engage in some so-called “fake news” reporting, roughly half of Americans say they still trust CNN more than Trump as an information source. ( Adweek ‘s reporting did not speculate on the putative causes of CNN’s ratings blip.) In any case, despite its year-over-year decline, CNN remained the seventh most-watched cable network in (terms of total-day viewership) for the week in question, and the eleventh most-watched in prime time. While that may be temporarily troublesome in terms of getting top dollar for advertising, it’s wishful thinking on the part of CNN’s detractors to interpret it as spelling doom for the network, which has weathered innumerable ups and downs in the television rating wars over the 38 years of its existence. Despite being down in prime time viewership during the first three months of 2018, for example, CNN posted its second-best first-quarter ratings in 10 years. We note, finally, that CNN executives have announced no plans to shutter or shrink the network because of a “ratings collapse,” or for any other reason. Our request for comment from CNN’s communications team has thus far gone unanswered. Keep Snopes Debunking
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Title: Denzel Washington Switches to Trump | Snopes.com
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Denzel Washington Switches to Trump
Actor Denzel Washington did not announce that he's switching his allegiance to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
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Content: Himself a civil rights activist who in 1969 became the first black mayor in Mississippi, Evers said the GOP front-runner has the business acumen for the job. “I think he’s the best one right now,” Evers, 93, told The Post. “ He’s someone like me: he speaks from the hip. He’s not a politician.” Evers said the Mississippi economy would benefit from a president who could bring back industries that have fled overseas. “We need more and more jobs. Unemployment is way up here,” he said. “ He’s hired more employees, more people, than anyone I know in the world.” Washington has been a supporter of Barack Obama in the past, but as of August 2016 he had not formally endorsed any presidential candidate.
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Title: Denzel Washington Switches to Trump | Snopes.com
Headings: Denzel Washington Switches to Trump
Denzel Washington Switches to Trump
Actor Denzel Washington did not announce that he's switching his allegiance to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
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Content: Evers said the Mississippi economy would benefit from a president who could bring back industries that have fled overseas. “We need more and more jobs. Unemployment is way up here,” he said. “ He’s hired more employees, more people, than anyone I know in the world.” Washington has been a supporter of Barack Obama in the past, but as of August 2016 he had not formally endorsed any presidential candidate. This fake article was later repurposed to make similar false claims about actor Brad Pitt. Keep Snopes Debunking
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Title: Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People? | Snopes.com
Headings: Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People?
Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People?
More white people are killed in police shootings than Black Americans, but overall white people are statistically less likely to be killed by police than Black people.
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Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People? Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People? More white people are killed in police shootings than Black Americans, but overall white people are statistically less likely to be killed by police than Black people. Bethania Palma
Published 22 September 2016
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Police shootings kill more white Americans than Black Americans. Rating
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In absolute numbers, more white people than black people are killed in police shootings (because white people outnumber black people in America). What's False
Regardless of absolute numbers, it is true that proportionally, Black Americans are several times more likely to be killed in police shootings than white Americans are. Subscribe to our Snopes Debunker newsletter and get the latest fact checks in your inbox for free: By subscribing, you're accepting our terms and conditions and privacy policy. Keep reading, our fact check continues below.
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Title: Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People? | Snopes.com
Headings: Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People?
Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People?
More white people are killed in police shootings than Black Americans, but overall white people are statistically less likely to be killed by police than Black people.
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In absolute numbers, more white people than black people are killed in police shootings (because white people outnumber black people in America). What's False
Regardless of absolute numbers, it is true that proportionally, Black Americans are several times more likely to be killed in police shootings than white Americans are. Subscribe to our Snopes Debunker newsletter and get the latest fact checks in your inbox for free: By subscribing, you're accepting our terms and conditions and privacy policy. Keep reading, our fact check continues below. Origin
In September 2016, the ongoing issue of police shootings and race came to a head after a white police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shot and killed Terence Crutcher, an unarmed 40-year-old African-American man. Similar shootings throughout the U.S. have been caught on camera and widely shared via social media, prompting the development of the Black Lives Matter movement to address a seemingly constant stream of American police officers killing unarmed black people. The issue has also inspired some critics to disingenuously counter that white people are the ones who are killed most frequently by police officers, as expressed in a 21 April 2015 Washington Times article: An analysis shows that more white people died at the hands of law enforcement than those of any other race in the last two years, even as the Justice Department, social-justice groups and media coverage focus on black victims of police force. Any “analysis” of police killings will of course show that in absolute numbers, more white people are killed in police shootings than black people, because (non-Hispanic) whites comprise a roughly five times greater share of the U.S. population (62% vs. 13%).
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Title: Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People? | Snopes.com
Headings: Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People?
Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People?
More white people are killed in police shootings than Black Americans, but overall white people are statistically less likely to be killed by police than Black people.
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In September 2016, the ongoing issue of police shootings and race came to a head after a white police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shot and killed Terence Crutcher, an unarmed 40-year-old African-American man. Similar shootings throughout the U.S. have been caught on camera and widely shared via social media, prompting the development of the Black Lives Matter movement to address a seemingly constant stream of American police officers killing unarmed black people. The issue has also inspired some critics to disingenuously counter that white people are the ones who are killed most frequently by police officers, as expressed in a 21 April 2015 Washington Times article: An analysis shows that more white people died at the hands of law enforcement than those of any other race in the last two years, even as the Justice Department, social-justice groups and media coverage focus on black victims of police force. Any “analysis” of police killings will of course show that in absolute numbers, more white people are killed in police shootings than black people, because (non-Hispanic) whites comprise a roughly five times greater share of the U.S. population (62% vs. 13%). So any “analysis” that is based on nothing more than absolute numbers and does not take demographics into account is inaccurate and misleading
Because the federal government doesn’t keep an accurate log of police shootings, news outlets such as the Washington Post and journalists such as D. Brian Burghart have begun tracking such data independently. The Post described the statistical breakdown of fatal police shootings in 2015 thusly: According to the most recent census data, there are nearly 160 million more white people in America than there are black people. White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population.
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Title: Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People? | Snopes.com
Headings: Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People?
Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People?
More white people are killed in police shootings than Black Americans, but overall white people are statistically less likely to be killed by police than Black people.
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Content: So any “analysis” that is based on nothing more than absolute numbers and does not take demographics into account is inaccurate and misleading
Because the federal government doesn’t keep an accurate log of police shootings, news outlets such as the Washington Post and journalists such as D. Brian Burghart have begun tracking such data independently. The Post described the statistical breakdown of fatal police shootings in 2015 thusly: According to the most recent census data, there are nearly 160 million more white people in America than there are black people. White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers. According to Fatal Encounters, the database created by former Reno News & Review editor and journalism instructor Burghart (which tracks all deaths resulting from interactions with police), a total of 1,388 people were killed by police in 2015, 318 (23%) of them black, and 560 (40%) of them white. So roughly 23 percent of those killed by any police interaction in 2015 were black and just over 40 percent were white. According to those statistics (adjusted for racial demographics), black people had a 2.7 higher likelihood of being killed by police than whites. The grim trend has carried over into 2016.
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Title: Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People? | Snopes.com
Headings: Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People?
Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People?
More white people are killed in police shootings than Black Americans, but overall white people are statistically less likely to be killed by police than Black people.
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Content: As The Post noted in a new analysis, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers. According to Fatal Encounters, the database created by former Reno News & Review editor and journalism instructor Burghart (which tracks all deaths resulting from interactions with police), a total of 1,388 people were killed by police in 2015, 318 (23%) of them black, and 560 (40%) of them white. So roughly 23 percent of those killed by any police interaction in 2015 were black and just over 40 percent were white. According to those statistics (adjusted for racial demographics), black people had a 2.7 higher likelihood of being killed by police than whites. The grim trend has carried over into 2016. Of the 1,034 people killed and tracked by Burghart’s Fatal Encounters database so far this year, 215 were black while 338 were white, so thus far in 2016 black Americans have been three times more likely than white people to die in interactions with police. That statistic holds for figures sent to us by Burghart compiled between Jan. 1, 2013 to Sept. 21, 2016, with suicides-by-cop removed. Burghart told us: I think it’s pretty obvious that black people are killed at much higher rates than white people. I’m not going to say that white people are underrepresented in these numbers, since I think all people are overrepresented in this data, but it’s clear that black people are highly overrepresented.
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Title: Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People? | Snopes.com
Headings: Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People?
Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People?
More white people are killed in police shootings than Black Americans, but overall white people are statistically less likely to be killed by police than Black people.
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Content: Of the 1,034 people killed and tracked by Burghart’s Fatal Encounters database so far this year, 215 were black while 338 were white, so thus far in 2016 black Americans have been three times more likely than white people to die in interactions with police. That statistic holds for figures sent to us by Burghart compiled between Jan. 1, 2013 to Sept. 21, 2016, with suicides-by-cop removed. Burghart told us: I think it’s pretty obvious that black people are killed at much higher rates than white people. I’m not going to say that white people are underrepresented in these numbers, since I think all people are overrepresented in this data, but it’s clear that black people are highly overrepresented. Other factors that are also prevalent in analyses of deadly use of force by police officers include age, gender, mental illness, and the circumstances of the deaths. In 250 of the fatal shootings recorded by the Post in 2015, the victims showed signs of mental illness. Men were far more often killed than women. In 782 instances, the person killed was armed with some type of “deadly weapon.” In 28 instances, no record was made of the victim’s race.
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Title: Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People? | Snopes.com
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Do Police Kill More White People Than Black People?
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Content: Other factors that are also prevalent in analyses of deadly use of force by police officers include age, gender, mental illness, and the circumstances of the deaths. In 250 of the fatal shootings recorded by the Post in 2015, the victims showed signs of mental illness. Men were far more often killed than women. In 782 instances, the person killed was armed with some type of “deadly weapon.” In 28 instances, no record was made of the victim’s race. Keep Snopes Debunking
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Title: Starbucks Refuses Marines
Headings: Did Starbucks Refuse Free Product to Marines Serving in Iraq?
Did Starbucks Refuse Free Product to Marines Serving in Iraq?
A rumor that Starbucks refused free product to Marines serving in Iraq, saying the company didn't support the war or anyone taking part in it, is both old and false.
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Content: That viral missive proclaimed that Starbucks had not only refused a request for free product from some U.S. Marines serving in Iraq, but had retorted that “they don’t support the war [in Iraq] and anyone in it”: I have indeed confirmed the fact that Starbucks charged rescue workers $130.00 for 3 cases of bottled water on September 11, 2001, so the following info that was passed on to me would not be surprising to me at all!! Dear everyone: Please pass this along to anyone you know, this needs to get out in the open. Recently Marines over in Iraq supporting this country in OIF wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to let them know how much they liked their coffee and try to score some free coffee grounds. Starbucks wrote back telling the Marines thanks for their support in their business, but that they don’t support the War and anyone in it and that they won’t send them the Coffee. So as not to offend them we should not support in buying any Starbucks products. As a War vet and writing to you patriots I feel we should get this out in the open. I know this War might not be very popular with some folks, but that doesn’t mean we don’t support the boys on the ground fighting street to street and house to house for what they and I believe is right. If you feel the same as I do then pass this along, or you can discard it and I’ll never know.
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Title: Starbucks Refuses Marines
Headings: Did Starbucks Refuse Free Product to Marines Serving in Iraq?
Did Starbucks Refuse Free Product to Marines Serving in Iraq?
A rumor that Starbucks refused free product to Marines serving in Iraq, saying the company didn't support the war or anyone taking part in it, is both old and false.
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Content: Starbucks wrote back telling the Marines thanks for their support in their business, but that they don’t support the War and anyone in it and that they won’t send them the Coffee. So as not to offend them we should not support in buying any Starbucks products. As a War vet and writing to you patriots I feel we should get this out in the open. I know this War might not be very popular with some folks, but that doesn’t mean we don’t support the boys on the ground fighting street to street and house to house for what they and I believe is right. If you feel the same as I do then pass this along, or you can discard it and I’ll never know. Thanks very much for your support to me, and I know you’ll all be there again here soon when I deploy once more. Semper Fidelis,
Sgt Howard C. Wright
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A September 2008 version changed “marines” to “Royal Marines,” thereby altering the group of soldiers being slighted from American to British. We first encountered the Starbucks story in late April 2004 when it turned up in our inbox. We got in touch with the e-mail’s writer and asked him about the events that led to his penning the note about Starbucks’ response to Marines who had come to them looking for a donation of coffee. Sgt.
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Title: Starbucks Refuses Marines
Headings: Did Starbucks Refuse Free Product to Marines Serving in Iraq?
Did Starbucks Refuse Free Product to Marines Serving in Iraq?
A rumor that Starbucks refused free product to Marines serving in Iraq, saying the company didn't support the war or anyone taking part in it, is both old and false.
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Content: Many of them have elected to send their weekly mark-out to members of the military or military families, and related organizations. The claim that Starbucks would ever have said “they don’t support the War and anyone in it” is false, in light of what various news accounts show us about the coffee retailer’s attitude towards those who serve in the armed forces. In addition to what Starbucks themselves say of their beneficences to soldiers, we know from different newspaper articles of other instances of glad-hearted support. In July 2004, a Starbucks in Cincinnati was reported to have been practically overflowing with people making yellow ribbons in support of Keith “Matt” Maupin, a soldier whose fate was then uncertain (it has subsequently been reported that his remains have been found and positively identified), along with red, white, and blue ones to show support for American troops in Iraq. In June 2004 in Cleveland, when the mother of one serviceman called her local Starbucks to arrange for the shipping of some java to her son, the employees at that store insisted on paying for 30 pounds of coffee as their gift. As to another of the claims made in the e-mail, while it is true someone working at a New York City Starbucks did indeed charge ambulance workers $130 for three cases of water on September 11, 2001, it would not be quite fair to say Starbucks did this. However, act of a single, misguided employee or not, the corporation alone bears responsibility for afterwards spurning a number of opportunities to offer the rescue workers their money back or apologize to them — though the coffee giant finally took both those actions, they did so only after the story attracted online and print media attention. In addition to the “rescue workers charged for water” and the “spurned servicemen” story that is the focus of this piece, Starbucks has been the butt of a number of other unsavory rumors and mistaken beliefs just in the past few years, including: A 2002 poster promoting two new iced drinks prompted some consumers to see in it reminders of the hijacked planes hitting the twin towers. In 2001, a false story spread in e-mail about the wife of the owner of a Thailand Starbucks telling non-white customers the coffee shop was not for Asians.
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Title: Did Jerry Zeifman Fire Hillary Clinton from the Watergate Investigation? | Snopes.com
Headings: Did Jerry Zeifman Fire Hillary Clinton from the Watergate Investigation?
Did Jerry Zeifman Fire Hillary Clinton from the Watergate Investigation?
A 26-year-old Yale Law School graduate then known by her maiden name of Hillary Rodham worked on the Watergate inquiry.
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Content: She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.” How could a 27-year-old House staff member do all that? Zeifman said she was one of several individuals who engaged in a seemingly implausible scheme to deny Richard Nixon the right to counsel during the investigation. The actions of Hillary and her cohorts went directly against the judgment of top Democrats, up to and including then-House Majority Leader Tip O’Neill, that Nixon clearly had the right to counsel. In order to pull this off, Zeifman says Hillary wrote a fraudulent legal brief, and confiscated public documents to hide her deception. The brief involved precedent for representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding. When Hillary endeavored to write a legal brief arguing there is no right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding, Zeifman says, he told Hillary about the case of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who faced an impeachment attempt in 1970. “As soon as the impeachment resolutions were introduced by (then-House Minority Leader Gerald) Ford, and they were referred to the House Judiciary Committee, the first thing Douglas did was hire himself a lawyer,” Zeifman said. The Judiciary Committee allowed Douglas to keep counsel, thus establishing the precedent.
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Title: Did Jerry Zeifman Fire Hillary Clinton from the Watergate Investigation? | Snopes.com
Headings: Did Jerry Zeifman Fire Hillary Clinton from the Watergate Investigation?
Did Jerry Zeifman Fire Hillary Clinton from the Watergate Investigation?
A 26-year-old Yale Law School graduate then known by her maiden name of Hillary Rodham worked on the Watergate inquiry.
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Content: In order to pull this off, Zeifman says Hillary wrote a fraudulent legal brief, and confiscated public documents to hide her deception. The brief involved precedent for representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding. When Hillary endeavored to write a legal brief arguing there is no right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding, Zeifman says, he told Hillary about the case of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who faced an impeachment attempt in 1970. “As soon as the impeachment resolutions were introduced by (then-House Minority Leader Gerald) Ford, and they were referred to the House Judiciary Committee, the first thing Douglas did was hire himself a lawyer,” Zeifman said. The Judiciary Committee allowed Douglas to keep counsel, thus establishing the precedent. Zeifman says he told Hillary that all the documents establishing this fact were in the Judiciary Committee’s public files. So what did Hillary do? “Hillary then removed all the Douglas files to the offices where she was located, which at that time was secured and inaccessible to the public,” Zeifman said. Hillary then proceeded to write a legal brief arguing there was no precedent for the right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding — as if the Douglas case had never occurred. This passage leaves many readers with the belief that Hillary Rodham took it upon herself to decide that President Nixon should not be represented by counsel during evidentiary hearings, to deliberately draft a brief that ignored precedent in that area, and to personally hide evidence of the precedent she had ignored so that no one could discover her dishonesty.
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Title: How Many People Were Fatally Shot by US Cops the Past Year? | Snopes.com
Headings: How Many People Were Fatally Shot by US Cops the Past Year?
How Many People Were Fatally Shot by US Cops the Past Year?
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich drew attention after tweeting out the number.
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Content: They account for less than 13 percent of the U.S. population, but are killed by police at more than twice the rate of White Americans. Hispanic Americans are also killed by police at a disproportionate rate. The Washington Post’s findings for the past year are not an anomaly. In fact, the statement “nearly 1,000 people were shot and killed by police” would be true for every year since The Washington Post started tracking shooting deaths in 2015 (993 in 2015, 960 in 2016, 986 in 2017, 990 in 2018, 999 in 2019, and 1,021 in 2020). The Guardian came to a similar conclusion during its investigation in 2015 and 2016. The Guardian’s report, which included people who died in police custody but not via gunshot, such as Freddie Gray, found that 1,093 people were killed by police in 2016. So far in 2021, 274 people have been shot and killed by police across the U.S. If this pace continues, 2021 will see slightly fewer deaths from police gunfire than previous years with about 915 deaths. Police officers, of course, have also been killed in the line of duty. According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, there were 360 line-of-duty deaths in 2020. The vast majority of those deaths (232) were reportedly caused by contracting COVID-19 in the line of duty.
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Title: How Many People Were Fatally Shot by US Cops the Past Year? | Snopes.com
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How Many People Were Fatally Shot by US Cops the Past Year?
Former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich drew attention after tweeting out the number.
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Content: The second most prevalent cause was gunfire (45). Four additional officers were killed by “inadvertent gunfire.” In 2019, the FBI reported that 89 law enforcement officers were killed in line-of-duty incidents, with 48 of those deaths being the result of felonious acts, and 41 due to accidents. According to the FBI, 47 officers died in 2019 due to gun violence, with 44 of those deaths falling into the “felonious acts” category, and 3 falling into the “accidents” category. Keep Snopes Debunking
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Title: FACT CHECK: What Happens When You Cross the United States Border Illegally?
Headings: What Happens When You Cross the United States Border Illegally?
What Happens When You Cross the United States Border Illegally?
A viral Facebook post comparing U.S. immigration policy to that of North Korea and Afghanistan gets most of the facts wrong.
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Content: “A place to live”
Generally speaking, undocumented immigrants are not eligible for federal housing benefits like public housing, rental assistance, and vouchers. However, as a 2015 Congressional Research Service report outlines, some undocumented immigrants may live in a household with citizens or qualified immigrants, and thereby indirectly benefit from some public housing assistance (although the level of that assistance is reduced on a pro rata basis, due to the presence of that undocumented immigrant.) Undocumented immigrants are eligible for emergency assistance such as homeless accomodation and domestic violence shelters. It is possible for an undocumented immigrant to own a home, either by buying it outright with cash, or by using something called an individual tax identification number ( ITIN) mortgage. This allows non-citizens (including undocumented immigrants) to bypass the usual requirement of having a social security number to take out a mortgage. Some 31 percent of undocumented immigrants live in a home that is owned by at least one of its residents (as opposed to rented), according to a Migration Policy Institute analysis of data from the United States Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey. Health care
Undocumented immigrants are not eligible to enroll in Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Health Insurance Marketplace, significantly curtailing the affordable health insurance and health care available to them. However, six states and the District of Columbia have rules that allow undocumented immigrant children to avail themselves of Medicaid benefits, and undocumented immigrants are also entitled to emergency medical care. According to a 2017 Kaiser Family Foundation analysis, non-elderly undocumented immigrants are four times more likely than United States citizens to be uninsured, and fears about immigration enforcement and detection often cause undocumented immigrants to forgo preventive healthcare, leading to worse outcomes. Child benefits
It’s not entirely clear what the creator of this meme means by “child benefits,” but let’s take a look.
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Title: FACT CHECK: What Happens When You Cross the United States Border Illegally?
Headings: What Happens When You Cross the United States Border Illegally?
What Happens When You Cross the United States Border Illegally?
A viral Facebook post comparing U.S. immigration policy to that of North Korea and Afghanistan gets most of the facts wrong.
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Content: Some 31 percent of undocumented immigrants live in a home that is owned by at least one of its residents (as opposed to rented), according to a Migration Policy Institute analysis of data from the United States Census Bureau’s 2014 American Community Survey. Health care
Undocumented immigrants are not eligible to enroll in Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) Health Insurance Marketplace, significantly curtailing the affordable health insurance and health care available to them. However, six states and the District of Columbia have rules that allow undocumented immigrant children to avail themselves of Medicaid benefits, and undocumented immigrants are also entitled to emergency medical care. According to a 2017 Kaiser Family Foundation analysis, non-elderly undocumented immigrants are four times more likely than United States citizens to be uninsured, and fears about immigration enforcement and detection often cause undocumented immigrants to forgo preventive healthcare, leading to worse outcomes. Child benefits
It’s not entirely clear what the creator of this meme means by “child benefits,” but let’s take a look. Undocumented immigrant tax-payers (using an ITIN rather than a social security number) can avail themselves of a child tax credit . Low-income undocumented immigrants are also eligible for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children ( WIC ), which provides food and infant formula assistance, as well as nutritional and immunization assessments. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), a federal program that provides financial help to low-income families and pregnant women. Education
In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states are constitutionally barred from denying children a public school education on the basis of their immigration status. As a result, undocumented immigrant children can attend public schools for free, like any other children.
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Content: Additionally, in late 2016, The New York Times asked all 50 states if they were investigating reports of voter fraud in the election of Trump, who repeatedly claimed at the time that people had cheated the electoral system and submitted ballots illegally. Of the more than 137.7 million people who had voted, elections officials recalled stories to the journalists of one South Carolina woman casting an absentee ballot and voting again on Election Day, two undocumented immigrants casting invalid ballots (one of whom realized the mistake and later asked elections officials not to count his ballot), and a few voters who illegally cast ballots in elections outside their home state, among other incidents. But in total, the newspaper concluded with its reporting: No state was grappling with widespread fraud. But here is where an investigation into the above-mentioned claim by the president gets murky: While overall voter fraud is rare in America, less rare are crimes associated with absentee voter systems. In the 2012 research project, for instance, the journalists documented 491 cases of fraud involving absentee ballots — out of the billions of ballots that Americans had cast over 12 years — representing about one-fourth of all voter crimes the investigators found. Richard Hasen, a professor at the University of California at Irvine Schoo
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Title: Does Planned Parenthood Provide No Prenatal Care, Only Abortions? | Snopes.com
Headings: Does Planned Parenthood Provide No Prenatal Care, Only Abortions?
Does Planned Parenthood Provide No Prenatal Care, Only Abortions?
A video investigation purportedly showed that Planned Parenthood does not offer health services for women such as prenatal care, only abortions.
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Does Planned Parenthood Provide No Prenatal Care, Only Abortions?
A video investigation purportedly showed that Planned Parenthood does not offer health services for women such as prenatal care, only abortions.
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On 24 January 2017, the Facebook page “Live Action” published a video purportedly showing “Prenatal Care Deception” at Planned Parenthood, which has approximately 650 health centers operated by 57 affiliates across the U.S. The gist of the video’s presentation was that Planned Parenthood lies about providing reproductive and health services such as prenatal care, instead focusing solely on providing abortions: YouTube
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On 24 January 2017, the Facebook page “Live Action” published a video purportedly showing “Prenatal Care Deception” at Planned Parenthood, which has approximately 650 health centers operated by 57 affiliates across the U.S. The gist of the video’s presentation was that Planned Parenthood lies about providing reproductive and health services such as prenatal care, instead focusing solely on providing abortions: YouTube
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The majority of the above-displayed video centered on alleged audio recordings of telephone calls to Planned Parenthood centers asking about prenatal services. These calls were framed by two misleading and out-of-context quotes from Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards present in an attempt to make it seem as if her organization was falsely touting the number of prenatal care services they provide. This video quotes snippets of Richards’ saying: “
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The majority of the above-displayed video centered on alleged audio recordings of telephone calls to Planned Parenthood centers asking about prenatal services. These calls were framed by two misleading and out-of-context quotes from Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards present in an attempt to make it seem as if her organization was falsely touting the number of prenatal care services they provide. This video quotes snippets of Richards’ saying: “ Prenatal care. These are the kinds of services that folks depend on Planned Parenthood for,” and “a president who will fight for pre-natal care!” We could not find the specific origins of the first snippet, but it’s clear that Richards was listing several services that Planned Parenthood provides (and not claiming they offer only or primarily prenatal care), as she said “these are the kinds of services that folks depend on planned Parenthood for. But Live Action apparently omitted the first portion of her statement. The second snippet came from a 2016 speech in which Richards endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.
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Title: Does Planned Parenthood Provide No Prenatal Care, Only Abortions? | Snopes.com
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Does Planned Parenthood Provide No Prenatal Care, Only Abortions?
A video investigation purportedly showed that Planned Parenthood does not offer health services for women such as prenatal care, only abortions.
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Content: Prenatal care. These are the kinds of services that folks depend on Planned Parenthood for,” and “a president who will fight for pre-natal care!” We could not find the specific origins of the first snippet, but it’s clear that Richards was listing several services that Planned Parenthood provides (and not claiming they offer only or primarily prenatal care), as she said “these are the kinds of services that folks depend on planned Parenthood for. But Live Action apparently omitted the first portion of her statement. The second snippet came from a 2016 speech in which Richards endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. The portion of the speech included in the Live Action video was less about what services Planned Parenthood offers and more about what qualities the organization was looking for in a U.S. president: They want a president who believes access to health care isn’t a luxury — it’s a human right. They want a president who understands that being pro-choice also means being able to choose to have a child — and a president who will fight for prenatal care, head start, health care for kids and first class public schools because it takes a village! They want a president who will stand up to the gun lobby and demand safety for kids in schools, folks in church, and women getting healthcare — no matter what. They want a president who will demand nobody is paid less just because they are a woman — we deserve 100 cents on the dollar!
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Title: Does Planned Parenthood Provide No Prenatal Care, Only Abortions? | Snopes.com
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Does Planned Parenthood Provide No Prenatal Care, Only Abortions?
A video investigation purportedly showed that Planned Parenthood does not offer health services for women such as prenatal care, only abortions.
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Content: The portion of the speech included in the Live Action video was less about what services Planned Parenthood offers and more about what qualities the organization was looking for in a U.S. president: They want a president who believes access to health care isn’t a luxury — it’s a human right. They want a president who understands that being pro-choice also means being able to choose to have a child — and a president who will fight for prenatal care, head start, health care for kids and first class public schools because it takes a village! They want a president who will stand up to the gun lobby and demand safety for kids in schools, folks in church, and women getting healthcare — no matter what. They want a president who will demand nobody is paid less just because they are a woman — we deserve 100 cents on the dollar! They want a president who believes that access to health care isn’t a luxury it’s a human right. They also want a president who understands that being pro-choice actually means being able to choose to have a child. And a president who will fight for pre-natal care, and head start, and health care for kids, and excellent public education. Because as someone so famously said, it takes a village to raise a child. The video also used a quote from Lori Lamerand, the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Mid and South Michigan, to make it seem as if the organization were unjustly touting their prenatal care services.
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Does Planned Parenthood Provide No Prenatal Care, Only Abortions?
A video investigation purportedly showed that Planned Parenthood does not offer health services for women such as prenatal care, only abortions.
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Content: They want a president who believes that access to health care isn’t a luxury it’s a human right. They also want a president who understands that being pro-choice actually means being able to choose to have a child. And a president who will fight for pre-natal care, and head start, and health care for kids, and excellent public education. Because as someone so famously said, it takes a village to raise a child. The video also used a quote from Lori Lamerand, the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Mid and South Michigan, to make it seem as if the organization were unjustly touting their prenatal care services. According to the video, Lamerand said: “ Prenatal care! Um — and that — that is what we want to focus on. That is what is so vital.” But again, this quote was taken out of context from a speech Lamerand gave during the Pink Bus Tour in 2011, and according to Planned Parenthood, Lamerand “spoke about the vital services like birth control, pap smears, and preventative cancer screenings, which Planned Parenthood provides to women who otherwise might go without.”
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Title: Does Planned Parenthood Provide No Prenatal Care, Only Abortions? | Snopes.com
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Does Planned Parenthood Provide No Prenatal Care, Only Abortions?
A video investigation purportedly showed that Planned Parenthood does not offer health services for women such as prenatal care, only abortions.
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Content: According to the video, Lamerand said: “ Prenatal care! Um — and that — that is what we want to focus on. That is what is so vital.” But again, this quote was taken out of context from a speech Lamerand gave during the Pink Bus Tour in 2011, and according to Planned Parenthood, Lamerand “spoke about the vital services like birth control, pap smears, and preventative cancer screenings, which Planned Parenthood provides to women who otherwise might go without.” The context of these quotes is important since Live Action shared this video with the title “the Prenatal Care Deception.” In order to set up the “deception,” Live Action needed to try to establish that Planned Parenthood supposedly unjustly bragged about the prominence of their prenatal care services before offering supposed audio recordings of calls with Planned Parenthood representatives who stated that the organization did not in fact provide these services. Although Planned Parenthood does provide prenatal care services, those services are not a primary part of their operation. According to organization’s annual report for 2014-2015, they only provided 17,419 instances of prenatal care services (compared to 3,533,522 STD tests and 323,999 abortions.) Live Action offered no evidence that Planned Parenthood lied about these numbers, or that Planned Parenthood claimed they provide prenatal care services at all of their health centers.
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Title: Does Planned Parenthood Provide No Prenatal Care, Only Abortions? | Snopes.com
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Does Planned Parenthood Provide No Prenatal Care, Only Abortions?
A video investigation purportedly showed that Planned Parenthood does not offer health services for women such as prenatal care, only abortions.
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Content: The context of these quotes is important since Live Action shared this video with the title “the Prenatal Care Deception.” In order to set up the “deception,” Live Action needed to try to establish that Planned Parenthood supposedly unjustly bragged about the prominence of their prenatal care services before offering supposed audio recordings of calls with Planned Parenthood representatives who stated that the organization did not in fact provide these services. Although Planned Parenthood does provide prenatal care services, those services are not a primary part of their operation. According to organization’s annual report for 2014-2015, they only provided 17,419 instances of prenatal care services (compared to 3,533,522 STD tests and 323,999 abortions.) Live Action offered no evidence that Planned Parenthood lied about these numbers, or that Planned Parenthood claimed they provide prenatal care services at all of their health centers. Not only did Live Action present Planned Parenthood’s comments without proper context, their investigation also presented a misleading picture about the services provided by the organization. We can’t verify if every one of the phone call recordings offered in the above-displayed video was genuine, but we can say that the claim “only 5 [Planned Parenthood] facilities out of 97” provide prenatal care is misleading at best. First of all, Planned Parenthood operates more than 650 facilities in the United States. In California alone, we found 13 Planned Parenthood clinics that advertise prenatal services. Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic (PPHP), which operates health centers in Suffolk, Westchester, and Rockland counties, New York, provides prenatal care in 6 of their 10 health centers.
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Content: Not only did Live Action present Planned Parenthood’s comments without proper context, their investigation also presented a misleading picture about the services provided by the organization. We can’t verify if every one of the phone call recordings offered in the above-displayed video was genuine, but we can say that the claim “only 5 [Planned Parenthood] facilities out of 97” provide prenatal care is misleading at best. First of all, Planned Parenthood operates more than 650 facilities in the United States. In California alone, we found 13 Planned Parenthood clinics that advertise prenatal services. Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic (PPHP), which operates health centers in Suffolk, Westchester, and Rockland counties, New York, provides prenatal care in 6 of their 10 health centers. We also found that many of the Planned Parenthood clinics that do not provide prenatal care services do nonetheless state they offer resources to assist those in need of finding such care: “ If you choose to continue a pregnancy, we will provide you with a list of resources to help you obtain prenatal care.” (We also surveyed several Planned Parenthood offices ourselves. For example, we called the Family First Health Center in Fresno, California, who confirmed to us that they do in fact offer prenatal care services. We also contacted the Planned Parenthood office in Tempe, Arizona (one of the first locations mentioned in the video), who told us that they did not provide prenatal care services themselves but directed us to a nearby facility, the Mountain Park Health Center, that does.)
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Content: We also found that many of the Planned Parenthood clinics that do not provide prenatal care services do nonetheless state they offer resources to assist those in need of finding such care: “ If you choose to continue a pregnancy, we will provide you with a list of resources to help you obtain prenatal care.” (We also surveyed several Planned Parenthood offices ourselves. For example, we called the Family First Health Center in Fresno, California, who confirmed to us that they do in fact offer prenatal care services. We also contacted the Planned Parenthood office in Tempe, Arizona (one of the first locations mentioned in the video), who told us that they did not provide prenatal care services themselves but directed us to a nearby facility, the Mountain Park Health Center, that does.) The Live Action video is based on the implication that Planned Parenthood claimed to provide prenatal care services at all of their facilities, or that the organization was misleading the public about how often it provides these services. However, that simply isn’t the case: Mary Alice Carter, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood, pointed out the group’s history of being targeted with selectively edited videos, and said that the new video tried to hold the organization to a standard it had not set for itself. “It is safe to say that not every single one of our health centers provides prenatal care, and we’ve never said otherwise,” Ms. Carter said. According to an annual report published in 2015, the most recent period for which information was available, eight Planned Parenthood affiliates of the 59 that existed at the time reported that they had provided 17,419 individual prenatal services.
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Content: The Live Action video is based on the implication that Planned Parenthood claimed to provide prenatal care services at all of their facilities, or that the organization was misleading the public about how often it provides these services. However, that simply isn’t the case: Mary Alice Carter, a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood, pointed out the group’s history of being targeted with selectively edited videos, and said that the new video tried to hold the organization to a standard it had not set for itself. “It is safe to say that not every single one of our health centers provides prenatal care, and we’ve never said otherwise,” Ms. Carter said. According to an annual report published in 2015, the most recent period for which information was available, eight Planned Parenthood affiliates of the 59 that existed at the time reported that they had provided 17,419 individual prenatal services. Ms. Carter said that “100 percent” of the organization’s health centers would provide what would be considered an initial prenatal visit, which would include a referral for further prenatal services that would be available elsewhere. It should be noted that the organization’s web site states that “Planned Parenthood health centers focus on prevention: 80 percent of our patients receive services to prevent unintended pregnancy,” and that Live Action chose to compare prenatal services (approximately 17,000 in 2014-2015) to abortions (more than 300,000) for this video, which gave the misleading impression that Planned Parenthood rarely provides reproductive health services other than abortions. In reality, Planned Parenthood provides more STD screenings (4,218,149), contraception services (2,945,059), and cancer screenings (682,208) than they do abortions. Keep Snopes Debunking
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Isolated incidents that were quickly rectified were used to imply widespread voter fraud was occurring in 2020.
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Isolated incidents that were quickly rectified were used to imply widespread voter fraud was occurring in 2020. Dan Evon
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On Nov. 7, 2020, the Associated Press, the New York Times, Fox News, and several other major news outlets called the 2020 presidential election and projected that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had defeated U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. As news of President-elect Biden’s victory spread on social media, so did unsupported claims alleging voter fraud.
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Title: RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims | Snopes.com
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RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims
Isolated incidents that were quickly rectified were used to imply widespread voter fraud was occurring in 2020.
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On Nov. 7, 2020, the Associated Press, the New York Times, Fox News, and several other major news outlets called the 2020 presidential election and projected that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had defeated U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. As news of President-elect Biden’s victory spread on social media, so did unsupported claims alleging voter fraud. Many of these claims were centered around Dominion Voting Systems, a company that sells voting machines and software in the United States and Canada. We will examine a few of these claims below. Did a software glitch cause thousands of Republican votes to be marked for Democrats in Michigan? A human error resulted in a temporary miscalculation in Antrim County, Michigan, but this issue was quickly remedied. One of the most prevalent voter fraud claims to emerge in the days following the election was the accusation that a computer glitch in a software program from Dominion Voting Systems had mistakenly counted thousands of votes for President Trump as votes for President Biden.
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Title: RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims | Snopes.com
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RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims
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Content: Many of these claims were centered around Dominion Voting Systems, a company that sells voting machines and software in the United States and Canada. We will examine a few of these claims below. Did a software glitch cause thousands of Republican votes to be marked for Democrats in Michigan? A human error resulted in a temporary miscalculation in Antrim County, Michigan, but this issue was quickly remedied. One of the most prevalent voter fraud claims to emerge in the days following the election was the accusation that a computer glitch in a software program from Dominion Voting Systems had mistakenly counted thousands of votes for President Trump as votes for President Biden. This claim was based on a half-truth: a tabulation error did occur in Antrim County, but the problem was a result of a human error, and the mistake was quickly caught and corrected. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson disputed claims of deliberate election fraud in a statement: In response to the false claims made by Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, the Michigan Department of State issues the following statements of fact: Michigan’s elections were conducted fairly, effectively and transparently and are an accurate reflection of the will of Michigan voters.
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Title: RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims | Snopes.com
Headings: RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims
RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims
Isolated incidents that were quickly rectified were used to imply widespread voter fraud was occurring in 2020.
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Content: But these claims are without merit. For starters, Dominion Voting Systems uses a combination of a touchscreen and a printed ballot. In other words, it’s simply not possible to “erase” votes via a “glitch” as these votes are also recorded on paper ballots. Second, The New York Times investigated the various reports of “glitches” and found that in every instance there was a simple and detailed explanation. In Georgia, two of the “glitch” reports did not involve Dominion software. In the third, there was a brief delay in reporting vote tallies but this did not affect the count. The New York Times reported: Issues in three Georgia counties had other explanations. In one county, an apparent problem with Dominion software delayed officials’ reporting of the vote tallies, but did not affect the actual vote count. In two other counties, a separate company’s software slowed poll workers’ ability to check-in voters.
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Title: RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims | Snopes.com
Headings: RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims
RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims
Isolated incidents that were quickly rectified were used to imply widespread voter fraud was occurring in 2020.
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Content: In the third, there was a brief delay in reporting vote tallies but this did not affect the count. The New York Times reported: Issues in three Georgia counties had other explanations. In one county, an apparent problem with Dominion software delayed officials’ reporting of the vote tallies, but did not affect the actual vote count. In two other counties, a separate company’s software slowed poll workers’ ability to check-in voters. “Many of the claims being asserted about Dominion and questionable voting technology is misinformation at best and, in many cases, they’re outright disinformation,” said Edward Perez, an election-technology expert at the OSET Institute, a nonprofit that studies voting infrastructure. “ I’m not aware of any evidence of specific things or defects in Dominion software that would lead one to believe that votes had been recorded or counted incorrectly.” Georgia election officials said that there would be a “pre-certification audit will provide additional confidence that the votes were accurately counted.” Did Dominion Voting Software Delete 2.7 Million Ballots Cast for Donald Trump? No, there’s no evidence to support this claim and multiple election officials have disputed the accusations.
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Title: RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims | Snopes.com
Headings: RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims
RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims
Isolated incidents that were quickly rectified were used to imply widespread voter fraud was occurring in 2020.
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Content: “Many of the claims being asserted about Dominion and questionable voting technology is misinformation at best and, in many cases, they’re outright disinformation,” said Edward Perez, an election-technology expert at the OSET Institute, a nonprofit that studies voting infrastructure. “ I’m not aware of any evidence of specific things or defects in Dominion software that would lead one to believe that votes had been recorded or counted incorrectly.” Georgia election officials said that there would be a “pre-certification audit will provide additional confidence that the votes were accurately counted.” Did Dominion Voting Software Delete 2.7 Million Ballots Cast for Donald Trump? No, there’s no evidence to support this claim and multiple election officials have disputed the accusations. While voter fraud claims concerning Dominion Voting Software started on the fringes on the internet, they officially went mainstream on Nov. 12, 2020 when U.S. President Donald Trump posted a message on Twitter claiming that Dominion had deleted 2.7 million votes that had cast for the incumbent. There is no truth to this claim. This rumor has even been disputed by government officials in Trump’s Department of Homeland Security. Shortly after Trump issued this tweet, a coalition of election security officials issued a joint statement saying that “there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.” We took a deeper dive into this claim here .
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Title: RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims | Snopes.com
Headings: RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims
RUMOR ALERT: Dominion Voting Systems Fraud Claims
Isolated incidents that were quickly rectified were used to imply widespread voter fraud was occurring in 2020.
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Content: While voter fraud claims concerning Dominion Voting Software started on the fringes on the internet, they officially went mainstream on Nov. 12, 2020 when U.S. President Donald Trump posted a message on Twitter claiming that Dominion had deleted 2.7 million votes that had cast for the incumbent. There is no truth to this claim. This rumor has even been disputed by government officials in Trump’s Department of Homeland Security. Shortly after Trump issued this tweet, a coalition of election security officials issued a joint statement saying that “there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.” We took a deeper dive into this claim here . Does the Clinton Foundation Partner with Dominion Voting Systems? The evidence provided does not support this claim. Some social media users alleged that Dominion Voting Systems had somehow rigged the election, and claimed as proof of the conspiracy the “fact” that the company was owned in part by the Clinton Foundation. For example, WeAreTheNe.ws, a website dedicated to the QAnon conspiracy theory, posted the following image under the caption: “ CLINTON FOUNDATION HAS TIES TO THE DOMINION PROGRAM”:
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Title: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL? | Snopes.com
Headings: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Has President Obama sold the tabulating of votes in U.S. national elections to a Spanish company run by a donor to his campaign?
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Scytl is a provider of online voting solutions based in Barcelona, Spain. In January 2012, Scytl expanded its reach in that market through the acquisition of SOE Software, a provider of e-Government software solutions. [Collected via e-mail, April 2012]
The Obama administration has sold the processing rights of our votes in the general election to a company from Spain (SCYTL) It will no longer be possible to track and verify our votes. The CEO of the company donated the maximum amount to Obamas’ 2008 campaign. [Collected via e-mail, September 2012]
“GEORGE SOROS, BARACK OBAMA’S NUMBER ONE SUPPORTER AND SOURCE OF THE PRESIDENT’S LARGEST CORPORATE DONATIONS, WILL CONTROL YOUR VOTES IN THE UP COMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION — Follow the bouncing ball on the criminal corruption ruse of your USA votes. 1.) The Obama Government has outsourced the counting of votes for the 2012 election.
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Title: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL? | Snopes.com
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Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Has President Obama sold the tabulating of votes in U.S. national elections to a Spanish company run by a donor to his campaign?
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Content: [Collected via e-mail, April 2012]
The Obama administration has sold the processing rights of our votes in the general election to a company from Spain (SCYTL) It will no longer be possible to track and verify our votes. The CEO of the company donated the maximum amount to Obamas’ 2008 campaign. [Collected via e-mail, September 2012]
“GEORGE SOROS, BARACK OBAMA’S NUMBER ONE SUPPORTER AND SOURCE OF THE PRESIDENT’S LARGEST CORPORATE DONATIONS, WILL CONTROL YOUR VOTES IN THE UP COMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION — Follow the bouncing ball on the criminal corruption ruse of your USA votes. 1.) The Obama Government has outsourced the counting of votes for the 2012 election. But since WHEN does the nation need to outsource a task as uncomplicated and straightforward as vote-counting? 2.) Obama outsourced the counting to a Tampa Florida company, named SOE, that had previously been used to administer the vote counting process for over 500 American jurisdictions. 3.) But recently, SOE software has now been sold to a company named SCYTL, owned by George Soros, headquartered in Spain.
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Title: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL? | Snopes.com
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Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Has President Obama sold the tabulating of votes in U.S. national elections to a Spanish company run by a donor to his campaign?
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Content: 6.) Now the bad news: according to the “Black Box” voting site, this centralizes one “middleman” access point for over 525 voting jurisdictions: ( AL, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, KY, MI, KS, IL, IN, NC, NM, MN, NY, SC, TX, UT, WA. – and growing).” The items reproduced above claims the Obama administration has “sold the processing rights of our votes in the general election” to Scytl, the pending use of Sctyl’s systems in U.S. elections will make it impossible “to track and verify our votes,” and Scytl’s CEO was a donor to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Taking these points in order, we find: The Obama administration could not possibly have “sold the processing rights of our votes in the general election” to Scytl, as the federal government does not run elections: individual states do. It’s up to each state to determine on its own how to conduct its elections and what voting systems to use.
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Title: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL? | Snopes.com
Headings: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Has President Obama sold the tabulating of votes in U.S. national elections to a Spanish company run by a donor to his campaign?
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Content: The items reproduced above claims the Obama administration has “sold the processing rights of our votes in the general election” to Scytl, the pending use of Sctyl’s systems in U.S. elections will make it impossible “to track and verify our votes,” and Scytl’s CEO was a donor to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Taking these points in order, we find: The Obama administration could not possibly have “sold the processing rights of our votes in the general election” to Scytl, as the federal government does not run elections: individual states do. It’s up to each state to determine on its own how to conduct its elections and what voting systems to use. Moreover, it’s highly unlikely any states will be choosing to use systems like Scytl’s to implement online voting on anything more than a very limited basis in the 2012 general election. Scytl’s current list of customers includes only a few U.S. states plus the District of Columbia, all of whom have so far limited their use of Scytl systems to providing a means for overseas (i.e., military and absentee) voters to cast their ballots remotely. According to Discovery News, even those scant initial uses of online voting failed to pan out in some cases, and those systems will not be re-used in 2012: One of the nation’s first online voting experiments was a big failure. In October 2010, officials in Washington, D.C., set up an Internet-based system for overseas and military voters to cast their ballots.
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Title: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL? | Snopes.com
Headings: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Has President Obama sold the tabulating of votes in U.S. national elections to a Spanish company run by a donor to his campaign?
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Content: Moreover, it’s highly unlikely any states will be choosing to use systems like Scytl’s to implement online voting on anything more than a very limited basis in the 2012 general election. Scytl’s current list of customers includes only a few U.S. states plus the District of Columbia, all of whom have so far limited their use of Scytl systems to providing a means for overseas (i.e., military and absentee) voters to cast their ballots remotely. According to Discovery News, even those scant initial uses of online voting failed to pan out in some cases, and those systems will not be re-used in 2012: One of the nation’s first online voting experiments was a big failure. In October 2010, officials in Washington, D.C., set up an Internet-based system for overseas and military voters to cast their ballots. During a one-week test period, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics asked the public to test its integrity. Students from a University of Michigan class obliged and within 36 hours had posted the Michigan fight song on the website. “Not only were they able to penetrate the system, but also they were monitoring what was going inside the system itself,” Alexander Shvartsman, professor at the University of Connecticut’s Center for Voting Technology Research, said. He added that the students were also able to see the electronic signatures of hackers based in both China and Iran probing the D.C. site. The District of Columbia scrapped the plan and has no plans to resurrect it in 2012.
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Title: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL? | Snopes.com
Headings: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Has President Obama sold the tabulating of votes in U.S. national elections to a Spanish company run by a donor to his campaign?
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Content: During a one-week test period, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics asked the public to test its integrity. Students from a University of Michigan class obliged and within 36 hours had posted the Michigan fight song on the website. “Not only were they able to penetrate the system, but also they were monitoring what was going inside the system itself,” Alexander Shvartsman, professor at the University of Connecticut’s Center for Voting Technology Research, said. He added that the students were also able to see the electronic signatures of hackers based in both China and Iran probing the D.C. site. The District of Columbia scrapped the plan and has no plans to resurrect it in 2012. (SOE software does have a more expansive roster of U.S. customers, but their products are aimed at providing ancillary services to local governments such as helping constituents communicate with government offices or displaying election results, not systems to record and tabulate votes.) The security and auditability of online voting systems remains a subject of debate, which, as noted above, makes it quite improbable there will be any statewide (much less nationwide) use of systems like Scytl’s in tabulating votes for the 2012 presidential election. Steve Wildstrom, writing in Tech.pinions, outlined the difficulties of implementing such systems securely: Voting, alas, has unique characteristics that make internet implementations all but impossible given current technology. The big problem is that we make two demands of it that cannot be met simultaneously.
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Title: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL? | Snopes.com
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Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Has President Obama sold the tabulating of votes in U.S. national elections to a Spanish company run by a donor to his campaign?
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Content: (SOE software does have a more expansive roster of U.S. customers, but their products are aimed at providing ancillary services to local governments such as helping constituents communicate with government offices or displaying election results, not systems to record and tabulate votes.) The security and auditability of online voting systems remains a subject of debate, which, as noted above, makes it quite improbable there will be any statewide (much less nationwide) use of systems like Scytl’s in tabulating votes for the 2012 presidential election. Steve Wildstrom, writing in Tech.pinions, outlined the difficulties of implementing such systems securely: Voting, alas, has unique characteristics that make internet implementations all but impossible given current technology. The big problem is that we make two demands of it that cannot be met simultaneously. We want voting to be very, very secure. And we want it to be very, very anonymous. Internet security is difficult under the best of conditions. But voting has the additional complication that it is very difficult, if not impossible, to remedy a breach. Most of the time, all that is at stake is money, and we know how to fix that.
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Title: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL? | Snopes.com
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Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Has President Obama sold the tabulating of votes in U.S. national elections to a Spanish company run by a donor to his campaign?
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Content: We want voting to be very, very secure. And we want it to be very, very anonymous. Internet security is difficult under the best of conditions. But voting has the additional complication that it is very difficult, if not impossible, to remedy a breach. Most of the time, all that is at stake is money, and we know how to fix that. Identity theft is more complex but still there are remedies. A stolen vote is gone forever. Anonymity complicated the problem immensely. The usual way to secure an internet transaction to make certain that both the server and the person at the other end and who or what they claim to be. To cast a ballot at a polling place or vote an absentee ballot, you have to produce identification or, at a minimum, a signature that matches one on file.
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Title: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL? | Snopes.com
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Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Has President Obama sold the tabulating of votes in U.S. national elections to a Spanish company run by a donor to his campaign?
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Content: It’s not perfect. but it’s generally better than we can do on the internet. Then you are given a ballot or a card that activates an electronic voting machine, but there is no link between the ballot and your identity, guaranteeing anonymity. This is really, really hard to simulate online. The more that is done to assure your identity, the harder it is to separate that identity from the vote that is cast. Furthermore, trust is central to elections and people, rightly, have their doubts about trusting online voting. We will see more trials in this year’s voting. But widespread internet voting is still waiting for a day that may never come. Other experts in electronic voting security concur that such systems are very unlikely to be implemented in U.S. national elections for a long time yet: Some experts worry that security flaws still haven’t been fixed and that federal elections are still decades away from going fully online.
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Title: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL? | Snopes.com
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Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Has President Obama sold the tabulating of votes in U.S. national elections to a Spanish company run by a donor to his campaign?
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Content: Furthermore, trust is central to elections and people, rightly, have their doubts about trusting online voting. We will see more trials in this year’s voting. But widespread internet voting is still waiting for a day that may never come. Other experts in electronic voting security concur that such systems are very unlikely to be implemented in U.S. national elections for a long time yet: Some experts worry that security flaws still haven’t been fixed and that federal elections are still decades away from going fully online. While some states and localities are taking baby steps to embrace new voting technology, it’s not likely that online voting will come to the masses anytime soon, experts say. “We still do not know as a society how to build secure electronic systems,” said Alexander Shvartsman, professor at the University of Connecticut’s Center for Voting Technology Research. “ Obviously an electronic voting system makes everything easier, but it has to be auditable. There is no replacement for having a ballot that is verified by the voter.” Most U.S. voters will continue to use paper ballots that are counted electronically.
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Title: Do Seniors on Social Security Have to Pay for Medicare While 'Illegal Immigrants' Get It Free? | Snopes.com
Headings: Do Seniors on Social Security Have to Pay for Medicare While ‘Illegal Immigrants’ Get It Free?
Do Seniors on Social Security Have to Pay for Medicare While ‘Illegal Immigrants’ Get It Free?
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In May and June 2019, a misleading but widely seen meme about immigrants and Medicare benefits continued to circulate on Facebook: Although the trope that undocumented immigrants are cashing in on U.S. government-funded public benefits for free is a common one, it’s generally misleading.
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Title: Do Seniors on Social Security Have to Pay for Medicare While 'Illegal Immigrants' Get It Free? | Snopes.com
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Do Seniors on Social Security Have to Pay for Medicare While ‘Illegal Immigrants’ Get It Free?
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In May and June 2019, a misleading but widely seen meme about immigrants and Medicare benefits continued to circulate on Facebook: Although the trope that undocumented immigrants are cashing in on U.S. government-funded public benefits for free is a common one, it’s generally misleading. Contrary to what the meme asserts, undocumented persons do not qualify to receive Medicare. Additionally, because many undocumented persons acquire fake Social Security numbers so that they can work, they pay billions of dollars into the system but never reap those benefits, said Steven Wallace, professor of public health at the University of California, Los Angeles, and associate director of UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research. “In reality, undocumented immigrants paying into these programs actually are helping to subsidize them,” Wallace told us by phone. “ So it’s the other way around — it’s not that they’re draining the system. They’re actually subsidizing it.”
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Headings: Do Seniors on Social Security Have to Pay for Medicare While ‘Illegal Immigrants’ Get It Free?
Do Seniors on Social Security Have to Pay for Medicare While ‘Illegal Immigrants’ Get It Free?
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Content: Contrary to what the meme asserts, undocumented persons do not qualify to receive Medicare. Additionally, because many undocumented persons acquire fake Social Security numbers so that they can work, they pay billions of dollars into the system but never reap those benefits, said Steven Wallace, professor of public health at the University of California, Los Angeles, and associate director of UCLA’s Center for Health Policy Research. “In reality, undocumented immigrants paying into these programs actually are helping to subsidize them,” Wallace told us by phone. “ So it’s the other way around — it’s not that they’re draining the system. They’re actually subsidizing it.” The impacts of immigration on the economy and public benefits are political flashpoints in a larger national debate. For example, in September 2017 the Trump administration was criticized for rejecting a study by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that concluded refugees have an overall positive effect on government revenue. A 2017 study conducted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine reported that immigration “has an overall positive impact on the long-run economic growth in the U.S.” In the short term and on the local and state government levels, new immigrants do have a negative revenue impact largely due to costs associated with educating children, health care and law enforcement. But in the long term, they are a net positive on revenue due to higher incomes of their descendants who are “among the strongest fiscal and economic contributors in the U.S.”
PBS News Hour reported that “In general, more people working means more taxes — and that’s true overall with undocumented immigrants as well. Undocumented immigrants pay an estimated $11.6 billion a year in taxes, according to the Institute on Taxation & Economic Policy.
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Headings: Do Seniors on Social Security Have to Pay for Medicare While ‘Illegal Immigrants’ Get It Free?
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Content: Immigrants are also less likely to take public benefits than the native-born population for two reasons.” Those two reasons, according to PBS, are that undocumented persons aren’t eligible to receive federal public benefits, and many of the ones who are authorized to be here aren’t eligible because they earn too much money. Keep Snopes Debunking
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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz expressed the company's support for same-sex marriage but didn't tell opponents they weren't wanted as shareholders or customers.
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Content: This important legislation is aligned with Starbucks business practices and upholds our belief in the equal treatment of partners. It is core to who we are and what we value as a company. We are proud of our Pride Alliance Partner Network group, which is one of the largest Employer Resource Groups for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) employees in the U.S., helping to raise awareness about issues in the communities where
we live and work. For the last 20 years, our benefits program has offered domestic partner benefits in the U.S. These benefits include medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs and alternative health care coverage. All partners (part-time and full-time) in all work locations, whether in a store, a roasting plant or a corporate office, adhere to the same eligibility requirements for health coverage and have access to the same comprehensive health plans. We are deeply dedicated to embracing diversity and treating one another with respect and dignity, and remain committed to providing an inclusive, supportive and safe work environment for all of our partners. We look forward to seeing this legislation enacted into law. That support led the company to becoming the target of “ Dump Starbucks ” boycotts instituted by anti-gay marriage groups such as the National Organization for Marriage. At a Starbucks shareholders meeting in March 2013, shareholder Tom Strobhar (founder of The Corporate Morality Action Center, an organization which also opposes same-sex marriage) challenged Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz over the company’s financial performance, which Strobhar suggested had been harmed by Starbucks’ corporate support of same-sex marriage and the subsequent boycotts, saying: “ In the first full quarter after this boycott was announced, our sales and our earnings — shall we say politely — were a bit disappointing.”
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Content: We are deeply dedicated to embracing diversity and treating one another with respect and dignity, and remain committed to providing an inclusive, supportive and safe work environment for all of our partners. We look forward to seeing this legislation enacted into law. That support led the company to becoming the target of “ Dump Starbucks ” boycotts instituted by anti-gay marriage groups such as the National Organization for Marriage. At a Starbucks shareholders meeting in March 2013, shareholder Tom Strobhar (founder of The Corporate Morality Action Center, an organization which also opposes same-sex marriage) challenged Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz over the company’s financial performance, which Strobhar suggested had been harmed by Starbucks’ corporate support of same-sex marriage and the subsequent boycotts, saying: “ In the first full quarter after this boycott was announced, our sales and our earnings — shall we say politely — were a bit disappointing.” Schultz responded (and drew two rounds of applause from attendees) by asserting that Starbucks stock had performed well over the past year, affirming the company’s support of same-sex marriage, and stating that not all corporate decisions were based purely on economics: Not every decision is an economic decision. Despite the fact that you recite statistics that are narrow in time, we did provide a 38% shareholder return over the last year. I don’t know how many things you invest in, but I would suspect not many things, companies, products, investments have returned 38% over the last 12 months. Having said that, it is not an economic decision to me.
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Starbucks and Same-Sex Marriage
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz expressed the company's support for same-sex marriage but didn't tell opponents they weren't wanted as shareholders or customers.
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Content: He told a shareholder to sell his shares if he supported traditional marriage and didn’t like Starbucks stance against it. So let’s get this straight. If you support the 5000 year old tradition that marriage is between one man and one woman, you can’t buy shares in his far left radical company that sells designer $7.00 Grande Decaf Lattes? Done! I’ll take a Chick Fil-A and their 99 cent coffee instead. Click LIKE if it is time to BOYCOTT far left radical Starbucks and their attack on traditional marriage
Schultz told a disaffected stockholder that if he thought the company’s social policies were hurting its financial performance and he could get a better return for his money elsewhere, he was free to sell his Starbucks stock and invest in a different company. He did not say that supporters of traditional marriage were neither allowed nor desired as stockholders and customers of Starbucks. A video of Schultz’s response can be viewed here. Keep Snopes Debunking
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Starbucks and Same-Sex Marriage
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Schultz told a disaffected stockholder that if he thought the company’s social policies were hurting its financial performance and he could get a better return for his money elsewhere, he was free to sell his Starbucks stock and invest in a different company. He did not say that supporters of traditional marriage were neither allowed nor desired as stockholders and customers of Starbucks. A video of Schultz’s response can be viewed here. Keep Snopes Debunking
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Headings: Are There Problems with Voting Straight Ticket?
Are There Problems with Voting Straight Ticket?
Voters who select a 'straight ticket' may not end up voting at all in some races.
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Just Passing this on…Make sure you do the same!!!!!!!! For those who normally vote “Straight Democratic”, please pay close attention!!!!! I was informed this weekend by a group of Obama volunteers that when voting for the presidential candidate this November, you have to make sure you punch Barack’s name first, then proceed to punch “Straight Democratic” or else the vote for the president won’t count. I’m not sure if any of you are aware of this, but we know they won’t tell us this at the polls. Please make sure you inform others. The item quoted above warns voters that selecting the straight ticket option may not result in their casting a ballot for their party’s presidential candidate because presidential selections have to be undertaken separately from the straight ticket voting process. Voting processes vary from region to region, and as far as we know this warning applies only to North Carolina, where straight ticket voting is available for all races except for presidential electors; voters in that state (regardless of party) therefore need to specifically select a presidential candidate in addition to voting a straight ticket. As the Charlotte Observer cautioned readers back in 2008: Imagine you are a first time voter with a desire to vote straight party — to vote for all the candidates of a particular party.
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Headings: Was Abortion the ‘Leading Cause of Death’ in 2018?
Was Abortion the ‘Leading Cause of Death’ in 2018?
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On 31 December 2018, the Breitbart.com website reported under the headline “Abortion Leading Cause of Death in 2018 with 41 Million Killed” that “there have been some 41.9 million abortions performed in the course of the year,” making abortion “the number one cause of death worldwide in 2018, with more than 41 million children killed before birth.” That article spawned a ripple of similar reports on various other sites, most of which referred back to the Breitbart piece, which itself rested on a figure gleaned from Worldometers, a real-time tool that “analyzes the available data, performs statistical analysis, and builds our algorithm [to feed our] real time estimates.” Worldometers states that its abortion figures refer to induced abortions (as opposed to miscarriages), and that: The data on abortions displayed on the Worldometers’ counter is based on the latest statistics on worldwide abortions published by the World Health Organization (WHO). According to WHO, every year in the world there are an estimated 40-50 million abortions. This corresponds to approximately 125,000 abortions per day.
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Was Abortion the ‘Leading Cause of Death’ in 2018?
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Content: That article spawned a ripple of similar reports on various other sites, most of which referred back to the Breitbart piece, which itself rested on a figure gleaned from Worldometers, a real-time tool that “analyzes the available data, performs statistical analysis, and builds our algorithm [to feed our] real time estimates.” Worldometers states that its abortion figures refer to induced abortions (as opposed to miscarriages), and that: The data on abortions displayed on the Worldometers’ counter is based on the latest statistics on worldwide abortions published by the World Health Organization (WHO). According to WHO, every year in the world there are an estimated 40-50 million abortions. This corresponds to approximately 125,000 abortions per day. However, the most recent figure on abortions from WHO we could locate dated from 2014 and was slightly higher than Worldometers’ tally. WHO estimated that between 2010 and 2014, an average of 56 million induced abortions occurred worldwide each year. If WHO’s estimate of 56 million abortions annually held steady through 2016, when they released their survey on the top ten leading causes of death globally, it would be true that the number of abortions worldwide outnumbered overall deaths from heart disease and stroke, the top two causes of death that year. In 2016, ischemic heart disease and stroke killed a total of 15.2 million people worldwide, according to WHO, noting that “These diseases have remained the leading causes of death globally in the last 15 years”: We can infer from WHO statistics that the difference between the number of abortions worldwide versus the number of deaths from heart disease and stroke worldwide is not a new dynamic, although viral stories proclaiming that abortions “now” outnumber deaths from those other causes imply that fact is a recent development.
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Was Abortion the ‘Leading Cause of Death’ in 2018?
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Content: However, the most recent figure on abortions from WHO we could locate dated from 2014 and was slightly higher than Worldometers’ tally. WHO estimated that between 2010 and 2014, an average of 56 million induced abortions occurred worldwide each year. If WHO’s estimate of 56 million abortions annually held steady through 2016, when they released their survey on the top ten leading causes of death globally, it would be true that the number of abortions worldwide outnumbered overall deaths from heart disease and stroke, the top two causes of death that year. In 2016, ischemic heart disease and stroke killed a total of 15.2 million people worldwide, according to WHO, noting that “These diseases have remained the leading causes of death globally in the last 15 years”: We can infer from WHO statistics that the difference between the number of abortions worldwide versus the number of deaths from heart disease and stroke worldwide is not a new dynamic, although viral stories proclaiming that abortions “now” outnumber deaths from those other causes imply that fact is a recent development. Stating that abortion is the “leading cause of death” worldwide (as opposed to a medical procedure) is a problematic pronouncement, because that stance takes a political position, one which is at odds with the scientific/medical world. The medical community does not confer personhood upon fetuses that are not viable outside the womb, so counting abortion as a “cause of death” does not align with the practices of health organizations such as WHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as Heather Boonstra, director of public policy for the reproductive health research organization Guttmacher Institute, told us: Abortion is a legal, constitutionally protected medical procedure in the United States. It’s not considered a cause of death by CDC, WHO and other leading authorities, and statistics on induced abortion are excluded in the CDC’s national fetal-death statistics. The legal, philosophical, religious, and scientific arenas provide no definitive answers as to when personhood begins.
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Was Abortion the ‘Leading Cause of Death’ in 2018?
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Content: Stating that abortion is the “leading cause of death” worldwide (as opposed to a medical procedure) is a problematic pronouncement, because that stance takes a political position, one which is at odds with the scientific/medical world. The medical community does not confer personhood upon fetuses that are not viable outside the womb, so counting abortion as a “cause of death” does not align with the practices of health organizations such as WHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as Heather Boonstra, director of public policy for the reproductive health research organization Guttmacher Institute, told us: Abortion is a legal, constitutionally protected medical procedure in the United States. It’s not considered a cause of death by CDC, WHO and other leading authorities, and statistics on induced abortion are excluded in the CDC’s national fetal-death statistics. The legal, philosophical, religious, and scientific arenas provide no definitive answers as to when personhood begins. Medical advances continue to push the stage at which a fetus can be considered viable outside the womb, as Wired reported in 2015: When life begins is, of course, the central disagreement that fuels the controversy over abortion. Attacks on abortion rights are now more veiled and indirect — like secret videos pointing to Planned Parenthood’s fetal tissue donations, or state legislation that makes operating abortion clinics so onerous they have to shut down. But make no mistake, the ultimate question is, when does a fetus become a person — at fertilization, at birth, or somewhere in between? Here, modern science offers no clarity.
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Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching You?
“I’m no longer self-conscious”
I have neutralised my emotional reactions to other people looking at me.
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Content: However, it used to make me extremely awkward and self-conscious. Especially when I was “out and about”. When I would walk on the street, I was sure everyone was observing me, judging me, and watching my every move. This felt extremely uncomfortable. I was even conscious of the way I walked (how do I swing my arms to look normal, how do I walk in a cool way?) and I was worried about my facial expression. I felt pressure to appear normal, confident and cool at all times. But on the inside I felt anxious, weird and as if I was being stared at the whole time. I used to walk the newspaper, and even when I wouldn’t see any people in the street, I was still feeling as if someone or some people were starting at me, judging me. Maybe secretly from behind the curtains…
I know now it was just my imagination, but at the time it felt so true…
When you always feel like somebody’s watching you, scrutinising your every move, you probably suffer from social anxiety.
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Title: Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching You?
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Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching You?
“I’m no longer self-conscious”
I have neutralised my emotional reactions to other people looking at me.
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Content: and I was worried about my facial expression. I felt pressure to appear normal, confident and cool at all times. But on the inside I felt anxious, weird and as if I was being stared at the whole time. I used to walk the newspaper, and even when I wouldn’t see any people in the street, I was still feeling as if someone or some people were starting at me, judging me. Maybe secretly from behind the curtains…
I know now it was just my imagination, but at the time it felt so true…
When you always feel like somebody’s watching you, scrutinising your every move, you probably suffer from social anxiety. Luckily, you can overcome any and all social anxiety. “I’m no longer self-conscious”
Since about 7 years or so I don’t always feel like somebody’s watching me anymore. And like I said, the funny thing is that often people ARE watching me where I live now. In 2008 I traveled for the first time to the Philippines, and lived here for 2 years. Now that I have a lovely two-year-old daughter here, I live here longer-term.
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Content: In addition, the cost of objects go up as the objects still retain their same relative value. To lower inflation the market removes money, making it scarcer. Allocating resources that have alternative uses is the basics of economics. This allocation is driven by the scarcity of the objects that are being allocated. The more rare the resource is, the higher perceived value the object retains. This is why gold is worth more than salt, which is worth more than clay. Social Interaction
Social situations also use scarcity to make something one has, go up in value. For instance, a person might act like they are very busy on a regular basis, and free time is hard to come by. Doing so excuses them from spending time with someone they may have an obligation to. While at the same time making the time they do spend appear more valuable.
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Title: What is bridging social capital?
Headings: What is Bridging Social Capital?
What is Bridging Social Capital?
A third type – linking social capital?
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What is Bridging Social Capital? By Tristan Claridge / January 7, 2018
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Bridging social capital is a type of social capital that describes connections that link people across a cleavage that typically divides society (such as race, or class, or religion). It is associations that ‘bridge’ between communities, groups, or organisations. Bridging social capital is different from bonding social capital, which is within social groups and is characterised by dense networks with people feeling a sense on shared identity and belonging. The bonding/bridging distinction has roots in network analysis is based on methodological individualism and rational choice theory. These distinctions have been criticised for amalgamating a variety of contradictory aspects of both networks and norms into single categories [1].
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Title: What is bridging social capital?
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What is Bridging Social Capital?
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Content: By Tristan Claridge / January 7, 2018
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Bridging social capital is a type of social capital that describes connections that link people across a cleavage that typically divides society (such as race, or class, or religion). It is associations that ‘bridge’ between communities, groups, or organisations. Bridging social capital is different from bonding social capital, which is within social groups and is characterised by dense networks with people feeling a sense on shared identity and belonging. The bonding/bridging distinction has roots in network analysis is based on methodological individualism and rational choice theory. These distinctions have been criticised for amalgamating a variety of contradictory aspects of both networks and norms into single categories [1]. A different approach involves the distinction between structural and cognitive dimensions of social capital. The bonding/bridging distinction can be made in relation to a range of relationship and network characteristics. The table below summarises the main features of each. Bonding social capital
Bridging social capital
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Between
Intra
Inter
Exclusive
Inclusive
Closed
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Inward looking
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“Getting by”
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Vertical [2]
Strong ties
Weak ties
People who are alike
People who are different
Thick trust
Thin trust
Network closure
Structural holes
Public-good model
Private-good model
Bridging describe social relationships of exchange, often of associations between people with shared interests or goals but contrasting social identity [3]. Although friends are normally considered bonding social capital, friendships may also act as bridging relations, in that they may be between people of different cultural backgrounds, socioeconomic backgrounds, or ages, who may in turn provide access to information and other groups or individuals not previously known to the other [4].
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https://www.socialcapitalresearch.com/what-is-bridging-social-capital/
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Title: 4 Examples of Social Media Policies
Headings: 4 Examples of Social Media Policies
4 Examples of Social Media Policies
1. Coca-Cola
2. Razorfish
3. Washington Post
4. Cisco
The results
Your Social Media Secret Weapon
Content: it’s a “use common sense” policy, but clearly written out with questions to ask yourself before making anything public. Some highlights for the policy include: Questions to ask yourself before posting
Specific guidelines relating to Twitter and business blogging
Examples of where their guidelines would and would not apply
They also address one of the biggest concerns with social media in the workplace — productivity — rather diplomatically: “ Don’t neglect the social values, but also be practical: we have demands of our clients to meet, too.” Full text here. 3. Washington Post
Washington Post, on the other hand, isn’t as carefree. You may remember that they, and many other news organizations, banned their journalists from participating in Stewart/Colbert Rally back in October. Their social media policy isn’t very different.
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https://www.socialfresh.com/4-examples-of-social-media-policies/
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msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1251913312#6_2505149292
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Title: The Anti-War Movement – In the US and Vietnam | Socialist Alternative
Headings: The Anti-War Movement – In the US and Vietnam
The Anti-War Movement – In the US and Vietnam
“The Whole World is Watching”
36 Million Oppose War
Army Disintegrates
“Fragging”
GI Opposition
Bombshell of the Pentagon Papers
History Turns Full Circle
Footnotes:
Content: It is entirely false to suggest, as Hollywood has done in a number of movies – with the myth perpetuated by subsequent accounts of the plight of veterans – that hostility was directed at those who fought in the war. The Vietnam veterans found massive support in the antiwar movement and in society at large, particularly in the working class areas from which most of them came. By the time of the US presidential elections in 1968, terrible havoc had been wreaked in the South and an unprecedented bombing campaign in the North had returned parts of North Vietnam almost to the Stone Age. This bombing campaign, initiated by Johnson and McNamara, was supposed to have resolved the war within six months but had lasted seven times as long, producing really awesome and terrible statistics, particularly as far as the North Vietnamese were concerned. Three hundred and fifty thousand US missions had been flown, 655,000 tons of bombs were dropped over the North, 918 US aircraft had been lost and 818 American airmen killed. This was just up to the time when Johnson had decided to ‘end’ the war. In this period, McNamara had estimated that a thousand North Vietnamese civilians were being killed each week. This amounted to roughly 180,000 to 200,000 civilians dead up to 1968 in the air war alone against the North. The terrible destruction even had an effect on the top echelons of the US government, with McNamara declaring in a secret memo: “There may be a limit beyond which many Americans and much of the world will not permit the United States to go.
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https://www.socialistalternative.org/empire-defeated/anti-war-movement-us-vietnam/
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Title: Los Angeles Gangs: The Bloods and the Crips | Socialist Alternative
Headings: Los Angeles Gangs: The Bloods and the Crips
Los Angeles Gangs: The Bloods and the Crips
Los Angeles Police Department
Gary Brown
Content: In amongst such conditions, children are the most vulnerable. Society’s alienation of these youths means that the only place they can find respect, kinship and power is within a gang. The bond between gang members is so strong that many will kill or die for each other, no question. A gang has been described as being “your religion, your family, your college, your everything.” However, the current level of violence cannot be explained by these factors alone. The stigma of Black people being called ‘naturally aggressive’ is over 500 years old but the explanation for violence cannot be linked to genes or biological make-up. Violence is learned behavior. A child that is beaten frequently and unjustly will learn to resort to violence against others. Similarly, a community that is constantly visited with unjust killings and beatings at the hands of an oppressive police force can learn to settle conflicts through violent means. The internalization of problems caused by external factors, by then, has taken place.
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https://www.socialistalternative.org/panther-black-rebellion/los-angeles-gangs-bloods-crips/
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msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1252366617#3_2505801646
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Title: What Is Media Literacy, and Why Is It Important?
Headings: What Is Media Literacy, and Why Is It Important?
What Is Media Literacy, and Why Is It Important?
Critical Thinking
Civic Responsibility
Self-Expression
6 Ways To Increase Engagement On Your Facebook Page
Angelica Gaskins
Content: Critical Thinking
One of the reasons why media literacy is important is because it develops critical thinking skills from a young age. Children are no exception when it comes to media literacy, especially considering the amount of content they may be exposed to on a daily basis. As kids learn to evaluate media on their own, they begin to decipher for themselves what is pertinent, why information may be excluded and what the overall purpose is. Based on any preliminary knowledge they already have, their curiosity may become piqued, and it may lead to more logical and complex conclusions and they mentally develop. The tools of observation and interpretation delve far deeper than the face value of the media they are exposed to. These skills challenge the norm and can potentially to smart decision-making towards the future. Civic Responsibility
With great exposure, comes great responsibility. We all may have some form of social media platform on Facebook and Twitter, and we also may have our own ways of communicating across the web. While the channels of communication remain unique, there is a great responsibility in using one’s platform wisely. Current issues in modern-day society, mainly political, are discussed at length in the media today.
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https://www.socialmedia.biz/what-is-media-literacy-and-why-is-it-important/
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msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1256043161#11_2516460777
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Title: How to Use LinkedIn Events to Promote Online or In-Person Events : Social Media Examiner
Headings: How to Use LinkedIn Events to Promote Online or In-Person Events
How to Use LinkedIn Events to Promote Online or In-Person Events
What Is the LinkedIn Events Feature?
#1: Set Up Your LinkedIn Event
Provide Event Details
Link to an External Ticketing Site
Set LinkedIn Event Privacy Settings
#2: Promote Your LinkedIn Event to Your LinkedIn Network
Social Media Marketing Society (Ongoing Online Training)
Invite Your Connections to the Event
Attendee Notifications for LinkedIn Events
Share the Event With Your Network
#3: Engage and Connect With Your LinkedIn Event Attendees
Send Connection Requests to Attendees Who Aren’t in Your LinkedIn Network
Share a Post to the LinkedIn Event Feed
#4: Edit or Change Event Details
Conclusion
More articles on LinkedIn marketing:
About the author Louise Brogan
Content: When you invite someone to your event, make it clear if it’s ticketed. Your invitees may accept an invitation and not be aware that they need to buy a ticket. You’ll likely see a lot of attendees who accepted the invitation but haven’t purchased a ticket. If you’re hosting a paid webinar as your event, contact attendees to let them know how to purchase their spot. Set LinkedIn Event Privacy Settings
You can set up LinkedIn events as public or private. If your event is public, anyone can choose to attend. If it’s private, only invited guests or people who have the link to the event can see it and attend. Uninvited guests have to be approved before they can attend. If your event is private, you’ll be notified if someone is marked as ‘pending’ to be admitted into your event. Note that the privacy of the event can’t be changed once you’ve set it.
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https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/how-to-use-linkedin-events-to-promote-online-or-in-person-events/
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Title: How to Write a Social Media Policy to Empower Employees : Social Media Examiner
Headings: How to Write a Social Media Policy to Empower Employees
How to Write a Social Media Policy to Empower Employees
Why a Social Media Policy?
#1: Consider Corporate Culture
MARKETING WORKSHOPS SALE ENDS TUESDAY!
#2: Get Executive and Departmental Buy-In
#3: Determine the Scope
#4: Research State and Federal Laws
#5: Clarify Policy Rules
Social Media Marketing Workshops (Online Training)
#6: Address Professional and Personal Use
#7: Keep it Short
#8: Train Employees
#9: Launch the Social Media Policy
Over to You
MARKETING WORKSHOPS SALE ENDS TUESDAY!
Content: Research State and Federal Laws
Navigating how state and federal laws affect your company’s social media policy takes time, but it is imperative. You don’t want to be fined for not abiding by the law. Make sure to research and address all applicable laws. Image: Shutterstock. Research the NLRB and other federal labor laws that may protect social media posts. The Federal Trade Commission has rules on how to make disclosures for endorsements, reviews and other situations where product or payment is made for social mentions. Other laws prohibit non-disparagement clauses in online customer contracts. Keep an eye out for concerns from your stakeholders and department heads. For instance, as some companies develop social media policies, they claim they need access to employees’ personal social media usernames and passwords to ensure company confidentiality is kept.
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https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/write-a-social-media-policy/
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msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1257210555#9_2520036383
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Title: How to Write a Social Media Policy to Empower Employees : Social Media Examiner
Headings: How to Write a Social Media Policy to Empower Employees
How to Write a Social Media Policy to Empower Employees
Why a Social Media Policy?
#1: Consider Corporate Culture
MARKETING WORKSHOPS SALE ENDS TUESDAY!
#2: Get Executive and Departmental Buy-In
#3: Determine the Scope
#4: Research State and Federal Laws
#5: Clarify Policy Rules
Social Media Marketing Workshops (Online Training)
#6: Address Professional and Personal Use
#7: Keep it Short
#8: Train Employees
#9: Launch the Social Media Policy
Over to You
MARKETING WORKSHOPS SALE ENDS TUESDAY!
Content: Research the NLRB and other federal labor laws that may protect social media posts. The Federal Trade Commission has rules on how to make disclosures for endorsements, reviews and other situations where product or payment is made for social mentions. Other laws prohibit non-disparagement clauses in online customer contracts. Keep an eye out for concerns from your stakeholders and department heads. For instance, as some companies develop social media policies, they claim they need access to employees’ personal social media usernames and passwords to ensure company confidentiality is kept. Eighteen states have enacted laws that prohibit employers from requesting usernames or passwords: Maine and Wisconsin (2014); Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington (2013); California, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan and New Jersey (2012). The National Conference of State Legislatures has some of the best details on states enacting and considering these laws.
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https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/write-a-social-media-policy/
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msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1257210555#10_2520038273
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Title: How to Write a Social Media Policy to Empower Employees : Social Media Examiner
Headings: How to Write a Social Media Policy to Empower Employees
How to Write a Social Media Policy to Empower Employees
Why a Social Media Policy?
#1: Consider Corporate Culture
MARKETING WORKSHOPS SALE ENDS TUESDAY!
#2: Get Executive and Departmental Buy-In
#3: Determine the Scope
#4: Research State and Federal Laws
#5: Clarify Policy Rules
Social Media Marketing Workshops (Online Training)
#6: Address Professional and Personal Use
#7: Keep it Short
#8: Train Employees
#9: Launch the Social Media Policy
Over to You
MARKETING WORKSHOPS SALE ENDS TUESDAY!
Content: Eighteen states have enacted laws that prohibit employers from requesting usernames or passwords: Maine and Wisconsin (2014); Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington (2013); California, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan and New Jersey (2012). The National Conference of State Legislatures has some of the best details on states enacting and considering these laws. The National Labor Relations Board “protects the rights of employees to act together to address conditions at work, with or without a union, including discussions on social media for such purposes.” In short, make sure you talk to your legal department to ensure you’re not infringing on employee rights. #5: Clarify Policy Rules
Your goal, of course, is to empower employees to be active on social media channels and support the company in positive ways. As you move forward, you may find that employees are often willing to help share company information, but may not know what to share or how.
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https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/write-a-social-media-policy/
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msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1257638256#0_2521164209
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Title: Social Media's Top 5 Contributions to Society | Social Media Today
Headings: Social Media's Top 5 Contributions to Society
Social Media's Top 5 Contributions to Society
Content: Social Media's Top 5 Contributions to Society | Social Media Today
Social Media's Top 5 Contributions to Society
Published April 18, 2013
Most of us use some form of social media every day - and whether it's for personal communication, self-promotion or marketing, we use it religiously. Humans are creatures of habit, but they're also opinionated and impatient. Those two traits alone are the reasons why social networks thrive. People want the news fast and they want to talk about it now. Technological advancements have made it easier for people to express themselves and relay news through social media platforms. But many people tend to focus on the supposed negative effects of social media and forget about the good. Instead of focusing on social media's pitfalls and absurdities, let me remind you how its influence transforms society for the better. Here are five major contributions that social media has made to society: It's a forum for support and safety information during a crisis. There have been several recent disasters during which social media provided the only viable venue for communication.
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https://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/social-medias-top-5-contributions-society
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msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1257638256#3_2521168624
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Title: Social Media's Top 5 Contributions to Society | Social Media Today
Headings: Social Media's Top 5 Contributions to Society
Social Media's Top 5 Contributions to Society
Content: The Boston Police Department tweeted up-to-the-minute news describing injuries, death tolls and areas to avoid. In an effort to keep phone lines clear, police asked people to use social media to communicate. It's a valuable aid for crime-solving. Police departments like the NYPD are beginning to investigate gang-related crimes on social media networks. Recently, the NYPD nabbed about 60 gang members who boasted about violent criminal activity on social media. In other states like Oregon, authorities have arrested people for drinking and driving after they bragged about it publicly on Facebook. It's a form of political influence. Social media has given a true voice to the people. Last month, the rally for marriage equality spread throughout social platforms as the Supreme Court heard cases regarding same-sex marriage. Brands even took to the trend by creating relevant red equality symbols.
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https://www.socialmediatoday.com/content/social-medias-top-5-contributions-society
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msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1258362676#1_2523031835
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Title: What's Wrong with Twitter - and How do You Fix it? | Social Media Today
Headings: What's Wrong with Twitter - and How do You Fix it?
What's Wrong with Twitter - and How do You Fix it?
Published Jan. 26, 2016
Problem One: Losing Control
Solution: Do What Third-Party Providers are Doing - But Better
Problem Two: Mess and Noise
Solution: Introduce Personalized Trending Topics and Follow Recommendations
Problem Three: Growing Pains
Content: And there's the question around slowing user growth, with the platform's audience expansion falling well short of analyst expectation and estimates. And while overall revenue has continued to rise, that, too, is now projected to be lower than anticipated moving forward. The pressure of such developments is obviously taking a toll - just this week, Twitter's announced that several prominent members of its executive team will be leaving the company, signaling yet another period of adjustment and re-alignment. So what does this all mean? Does this spell the end for Twitter as we know it? Do all these changes point to a takeover, as many have suggested? For what it may (or may not) be worth, here are my thoughts on where Twitter is at and what they could do to improve on some key fronts. Problem One: Losing Control
One of Twitter's key problems has been data control. While other social networks, like Facebook and LinkedIn, operate walled gardens where their user data and insights are restricted from public view, Twitter is, by design, the opposite - virtually everything posted to Twitter is available to anyone who wants it.
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https://www.socialmediatoday.com/social-networks/whats-wrong-twitter-and-how-do-you-fix-it
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msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1258362676#3_2523035863
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Title: What's Wrong with Twitter - and How do You Fix it? | Social Media Today
Headings: What's Wrong with Twitter - and How do You Fix it?
What's Wrong with Twitter - and How do You Fix it?
Published Jan. 26, 2016
Problem One: Losing Control
Solution: Do What Third-Party Providers are Doing - But Better
Problem Two: Mess and Noise
Solution: Introduce Personalized Trending Topics and Follow Recommendations
Problem Three: Growing Pains
Content: That's how it has to be - Twitter's the ' global town square ', the place where people go to participate and add their insights into the wider, global conversation, people use Twitter as a real-time pulse of the issues and happenings of the world, and to have their say on those very same issues. But the problem with this is that Twitter's data is being used by an ever-growing number of third party providers for mention monitoring, share of voice analysis and other forms of tracking, much of which Twitter has little control over and gains little revenue from. And what's worse, some of these platforms actually reduce the need for users to visit Twitter proper, as all the data and insights are provided within these other platforms. That then reduces Twitter's capacity to monetize that audience - and as noted, user growth, both in terms of acquiring new users and time spent on platform, is a major concern for the micro-blog giant. To combat this, Twitter's been restricting access via their APIs. They've actually been doing this for years, trying to implement some form of control over their data feeds and get people back to their platform more often. The biggest recent example of this was the decision to eliminate share counts - while Twitter explained this as a system change (which may well be true), the perception was that Twitter eliminated share counts in order to push more people towards paying for their data from Gnip, Twitter's data arm, thereby enabling Twitter to a) make money from their data and b) get people to use their own platform instead of going elsewhere. Whether that is or isn't the case, it would clearly benefit Twitter if they could get more people to use their platform instead of gathering tweet-based information and insights from other providers. The whole social media monitoring industry is effectively built on Twitter, it's logical that the company would want to ensure they're getting a cut of the revenue generated in that space, and to leverage that attention to expand their audience share. Solution:
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https://www.socialmediatoday.com/social-networks/whats-wrong-twitter-and-how-do-you-fix-it
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msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1258532951#2_2523364021
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Title: 10 Useful LinkedIn Features You Might Not Know About
Headings: 10 Useful LinkedIn Features You Might Not Know About
10 Useful LinkedIn Features You Might Not Know About
Table of Contents
1. Hide your connections
2. Export your connections
3. Manage your skills & endorsements
4. Create LinkedIn showcase pages
5. Hide your identity when viewing profiles
6. Save your searches
7. Add media files to your profile
8. Record the correct pronunciation of your name
9. Merge your inactive accounts
10. Take advantage of the advanced search option
Jimit Bagadiya
Content: Hide your connections
Did you know that you can stop people from seeing your connections? This LinkedIn feature allows you to do just that. You can control exactly how open or private your connections will be and whether they’re visible to other connections within your network. You can set your settings so that your connections are only visible to you or those who are connected with you. If you make your connections ‘private’ then they’ll be visible only to you. For a business owner, it can be an issue if his/her competitors or recruitment companies see the names of his/her clients, employees and partners. You worked hard to build a relationship with all these people over the years and it’s understandable that you wouldn’t like others to approach them. To change your settings,
Scroll to the upper right-hand corner of your LinkedIn profile and select ‘privacy & settings’. Then click on the link saying ‘select who can see your connections’ and choose either ‘only me’ or ‘your connections’. After you’ve chosen the option, save your changes.
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https://www.socialpilot.co/blog/10-useful-linkedin-features-might-not-know
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msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1260126505#0_2526591586
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Title:
Headings: Maps and Map Learning in Social Studies
Research
and
Practice
Maps
and
Map
Learning
in
Social
Studies
Sarah
Witham
Bednarz,
Gillian
Acheson,
and
Robert
S.
Bednarz
Assessing
Students’
Knowledge
Teachers’
Goals
www.odt.org
Map
Learning
Map
Curriculum
An
Invitation
to
“Live
and
Learn
in
Historic
Virginia”
For
details,
call
(804)
493-8038,
ext.
1558
—Denis
Wood
Talking
Back
to
Maps
RESOURCES
FROM
RETHINKING
SCHOOLS
VISIT
US
AT
BOOTH
216
ATNCSS2006
IN
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
RETHINKING
SCHOOLS
MAGAZINE
THE
LINE
BETWEEN
US
Teaching
About
the
Border
and
Mexican
Immigration
RETHINKING
GLOBALIZATION
Teaching
for
Justice
in
an
Unjust
World
OPEN
MINDS
TO
EQUALITY
Sourcebook
of
Learning
Activities
to
Affirm
Diversity
and
Promote
Equity
Here
are
three
strategies
to
help
students
become
more
critically
“carto-literate”:
MAPS
from
page
404
Content: Maps and Map Learning in Social Studies
Social
Education
70(7),
pp
398–404,
432
©2006
National
Council
for
the
Social
Studies
Research
and
Practice
“Research
&
Practice,”
established
early
in
2001,
features
educational
research
that
is
directly
relevant
to
the
work
of
classroom
teachers. Here,
I
invited
geographer
Sarah
Bednarz
and
her
colleagues
to
summarize
the
research
on
teaching
and
learning
with
maps
in
the
social
studies
curriculum. —Walter
C.
Parker,
“Research
and
Practice”
Editor,
University
of
Washington,
Seattle
Maps
and
Map
Learning
in
Social
Studies
Sarah
Witham
Bednarz,
Gillian
Acheson,
and
Robert
S.
Bednarz
Maps
are
not
the
whole
of
geography,
but
there
can
be
no
geography
without
them. In
fact,
well-known
geographers
have
often
defined
their
subject
around
maps
and
map
use. In
1939,
Richard
Hartshorne
stated,
“So
important
is
the
use
of
maps
in
geographic
work
that
...
it
seems
fair
to
suggest
to
the
geographer
if
the
problem
cannot
be
studied
fundamentally
by
maps
...
then
it
is
questionable
whether
or
not
it
is
within
the
field
of
geography. ”1
Fifty
years
later
Peter
Haggett
expressed
the
same
sentiment
even
more
directly
and
succinctly: “Geography
is
the
art
of
the
mappable. ”2
Since
1990,
the
importance
of
maps
and
other
graphic
representations
has
become
even
more
important
to
geog-
raphy
and
geographers. This
is
due,
to
a
large
extent,
to
the
development
and
widespread
diffusion
of
geographic
(spatial)
technologies. As
computers
and
silicon
chips
have
become
more
capable
and
less
expensive,
geographic
informa-
tion
systems
(GIS),
global
positioning
satellite
(GPS)
receivers,
and
remotely
sensed
images
of
Earth
from
airplanes
and
satellites
have
become
accessible
to
geography
students
and
faculty
at
all
lev-
els.
|
https://www.socialstudies.org/system/files/publications/articles/se_700706398.pdf
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msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1260126505#1_2526595955
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Title:
Headings: Maps and Map Learning in Social Studies
Research
and
Practice
Maps
and
Map
Learning
in
Social
Studies
Sarah
Witham
Bednarz,
Gillian
Acheson,
and
Robert
S.
Bednarz
Assessing
Students’
Knowledge
Teachers’
Goals
www.odt.org
Map
Learning
Map
Curriculum
An
Invitation
to
“Live
and
Learn
in
Historic
Virginia”
For
details,
call
(804)
493-8038,
ext.
1558
—Denis
Wood
Talking
Back
to
Maps
RESOURCES
FROM
RETHINKING
SCHOOLS
VISIT
US
AT
BOOTH
216
ATNCSS2006
IN
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
RETHINKING
SCHOOLS
MAGAZINE
THE
LINE
BETWEEN
US
Teaching
About
the
Border
and
Mexican
Immigration
RETHINKING
GLOBALIZATION
Teaching
for
Justice
in
an
Unjust
World
OPEN
MINDS
TO
EQUALITY
Sourcebook
of
Learning
Activities
to
Affirm
Diversity
and
Promote
Equity
Here
are
three
strategies
to
help
students
become
more
critically
“carto-literate”:
MAPS
from
page
404
Content: ”1
Fifty
years
later
Peter
Haggett
expressed
the
same
sentiment
even
more
directly
and
succinctly: “Geography
is
the
art
of
the
mappable. ”2
Since
1990,
the
importance
of
maps
and
other
graphic
representations
has
become
even
more
important
to
geog-
raphy
and
geographers. This
is
due,
to
a
large
extent,
to
the
development
and
widespread
diffusion
of
geographic
(spatial)
technologies. As
computers
and
silicon
chips
have
become
more
capable
and
less
expensive,
geographic
informa-
tion
systems
(GIS),
global
positioning
satellite
(GPS)
receivers,
and
remotely
sensed
images
of
Earth
from
airplanes
and
satellites
have
become
accessible
to
geography
students
and
faculty
at
all
lev-
els. These
technologies
are
key
research
and
communication
tools
for
geographers
and
have
significantly
increased
inter-
est
in
geography
as
evidenced
by
rising
enrollments
in
university
undergraduate
and
graduate
programs.3
Another
indica-
tion
of
the
growing
importance
of
maps
is
a
rising
interest
among
geographers,
psychologists,
and
cognitive
scientists
in
spatial
thinking,
the
kind
of
thinking
that
underpins
map
reading
and
interpreta-
tion. Spatial
thinking
is
the
knowledge,
skills,
and
habits
of
mind
to
use
spatial
concepts,
maps
and
graphs,
and
pro-
cesses
of
reasoning
in
order
to
organize
and
solve
problems.4
Of
course
geospatial
technologies
and
their
products
are
available
to
students
and
faculty
in
all
disciplines,
and
they
have
become
ever
more
common
in
the
daily
lives
of
more
and
more
people. In
fact,
one
can
argue
that
the
ability
to
use
maps,
images,
and
spatial
technologies
intelligently
and
critically
is
becoming
a
requirement
to
participate
effectively
as
a
citizen
in
modern
society. Consider
these
four
developments: Travelers,
hikers,
hunters,
and
fishers
frequently
use
GPS
systems
to
find
their
locations
and
to
assist
them
in
getting
to
their
destination.
|
https://www.socialstudies.org/system/files/publications/articles/se_700706398.pdf
|
msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1260126505#2_2526600464
|
Title:
Headings: Maps and Map Learning in Social Studies
Research
and
Practice
Maps
and
Map
Learning
in
Social
Studies
Sarah
Witham
Bednarz,
Gillian
Acheson,
and
Robert
S.
Bednarz
Assessing
Students’
Knowledge
Teachers’
Goals
www.odt.org
Map
Learning
Map
Curriculum
An
Invitation
to
“Live
and
Learn
in
Historic
Virginia”
For
details,
call
(804)
493-8038,
ext.
1558
—Denis
Wood
Talking
Back
to
Maps
RESOURCES
FROM
RETHINKING
SCHOOLS
VISIT
US
AT
BOOTH
216
ATNCSS2006
IN
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
RETHINKING
SCHOOLS
MAGAZINE
THE
LINE
BETWEEN
US
Teaching
About
the
Border
and
Mexican
Immigration
RETHINKING
GLOBALIZATION
Teaching
for
Justice
in
an
Unjust
World
OPEN
MINDS
TO
EQUALITY
Sourcebook
of
Learning
Activities
to
Affirm
Diversity
and
Promote
Equity
Here
are
three
strategies
to
help
students
become
more
critically
“carto-literate”:
MAPS
from
page
404
Content: These
technologies
are
key
research
and
communication
tools
for
geographers
and
have
significantly
increased
inter-
est
in
geography
as
evidenced
by
rising
enrollments
in
university
undergraduate
and
graduate
programs.3
Another
indica-
tion
of
the
growing
importance
of
maps
is
a
rising
interest
among
geographers,
psychologists,
and
cognitive
scientists
in
spatial
thinking,
the
kind
of
thinking
that
underpins
map
reading
and
interpreta-
tion. Spatial
thinking
is
the
knowledge,
skills,
and
habits
of
mind
to
use
spatial
concepts,
maps
and
graphs,
and
pro-
cesses
of
reasoning
in
order
to
organize
and
solve
problems.4
Of
course
geospatial
technologies
and
their
products
are
available
to
students
and
faculty
in
all
disciplines,
and
they
have
become
ever
more
common
in
the
daily
lives
of
more
and
more
people. In
fact,
one
can
argue
that
the
ability
to
use
maps,
images,
and
spatial
technologies
intelligently
and
critically
is
becoming
a
requirement
to
participate
effectively
as
a
citizen
in
modern
society. Consider
these
four
developments: Travelers,
hikers,
hunters,
and
fishers
frequently
use
GPS
systems
to
find
their
locations
and
to
assist
them
in
getting
to
their
destination. These
systems
are
also
becoming
more
common
in
auto-
mobiles. Google,
the
most
popular
internet
search
utility,
now
offers
users
maps
at
virtually
any
scale
desired
and,
recently,
through
Google
Earth,
remotely
sensed
images
that
users
can
view
from
any
direction
or
angle. Governments
and
non-governmental
organizations
(NGOs)
typically
make
information
available
via
printed
and,
increasingly,
online
maps. For
example,
the
federal
government
lets
online
users
map
census
data; cities
and
towns
post
their
planning
and
land-use
maps
on
the
internet;
|
https://www.socialstudies.org/system/files/publications/articles/se_700706398.pdf
|
msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1260126505#5_2526612927
|
Title:
Headings: Maps and Map Learning in Social Studies
Research
and
Practice
Maps
and
Map
Learning
in
Social
Studies
Sarah
Witham
Bednarz,
Gillian
Acheson,
and
Robert
S.
Bednarz
Assessing
Students’
Knowledge
Teachers’
Goals
www.odt.org
Map
Learning
Map
Curriculum
An
Invitation
to
“Live
and
Learn
in
Historic
Virginia”
For
details,
call
(804)
493-8038,
ext.
1558
—Denis
Wood
Talking
Back
to
Maps
RESOURCES
FROM
RETHINKING
SCHOOLS
VISIT
US
AT
BOOTH
216
ATNCSS2006
IN
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
RETHINKING
SCHOOLS
MAGAZINE
THE
LINE
BETWEEN
US
Teaching
About
the
Border
and
Mexican
Immigration
RETHINKING
GLOBALIZATION
Teaching
for
Justice
in
an
Unjust
World
OPEN
MINDS
TO
EQUALITY
Sourcebook
of
Learning
Activities
to
Affirm
Diversity
and
Promote
Equity
Here
are
three
strategies
to
help
students
become
more
critically
“carto-literate”:
MAPS
from
page
404
Content: The
map
has
taken
on
iconic
status
and
reinforces
the
erroneous
view
that
President
Bush’s
victory
was
a
landslide. The
population-
based
cartogram
constructed
by
Michael
Gastner
and
colleagues
at
the
University
of
Michigan
(Figure
2)
offers
a
more
accurate
representation
of
the
vote.7
In
this
way,
maps
and
graphics
may
play
a
role
in
legitimating
or
disputing
specific
ideologies,
beliefs,
and
practices. These
developments,
and
more,
both
allow
and
require
modern
citizens
to
understand
spatial
information
pre-
sented
on
electronic
and
printed
maps
and
images. For
this
reason,
helping
students
become
competent
users
and
creators
of
these
technologies
should
be
an
important
element
of
all
of
the
social
studies—maps
are
not
just
for
geography
anymore. This
places
a
new—but
wel-
comed—burden
on
geography
educators
to
ensure
that
map
learning
and
spatial
thinking
are
taught
and
taught
well
in
the
social
studies.8
But
are
they? Assessing
Students’
Knowledge
Assessments
indicate
that
students
are
not
competent
map
users. An
analysis
of
the
2001
National
Assessment
of
Educational
Progress
(NAEP)
geography
exam
revealed
that
at
every
level
(grades
4,
8,
and
12)
test
items
that
required
stu-
dents
to
use
and
interpret
maps
were
the
most
challenging
(see
Table
1). At
grade
4,
nine
of
the
ten
most
difficult
items
required
map
interpretation,
construc-
tion,
or
use. For
grades
8
and
12,
five
and
seven
of
the
ten
most
frequently
missed
questions
involved
maps.9
Teachers’
Goals
One
explanation
for
these
low
scores
is
that
few
social
studies
teachers
are
aware
of
the
growing
importance
of
maps,
or
are
Figure
1. Election
Results
by
State.
|
https://www.socialstudies.org/system/files/publications/articles/se_700706398.pdf
|
msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1260126505#6_2526617156
|
Title:
Headings: Maps and Map Learning in Social Studies
Research
and
Practice
Maps
and
Map
Learning
in
Social
Studies
Sarah
Witham
Bednarz,
Gillian
Acheson,
and
Robert
S.
Bednarz
Assessing
Students’
Knowledge
Teachers’
Goals
www.odt.org
Map
Learning
Map
Curriculum
An
Invitation
to
“Live
and
Learn
in
Historic
Virginia”
For
details,
call
(804)
493-8038,
ext.
1558
—Denis
Wood
Talking
Back
to
Maps
RESOURCES
FROM
RETHINKING
SCHOOLS
VISIT
US
AT
BOOTH
216
ATNCSS2006
IN
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
RETHINKING
SCHOOLS
MAGAZINE
THE
LINE
BETWEEN
US
Teaching
About
the
Border
and
Mexican
Immigration
RETHINKING
GLOBALIZATION
Teaching
for
Justice
in
an
Unjust
World
OPEN
MINDS
TO
EQUALITY
Sourcebook
of
Learning
Activities
to
Affirm
Diversity
and
Promote
Equity
Here
are
three
strategies
to
help
students
become
more
critically
“carto-literate”:
MAPS
from
page
404
Content: Assessing
Students’
Knowledge
Assessments
indicate
that
students
are
not
competent
map
users. An
analysis
of
the
2001
National
Assessment
of
Educational
Progress
(NAEP)
geography
exam
revealed
that
at
every
level
(grades
4,
8,
and
12)
test
items
that
required
stu-
dents
to
use
and
interpret
maps
were
the
most
challenging
(see
Table
1). At
grade
4,
nine
of
the
ten
most
difficult
items
required
map
interpretation,
construc-
tion,
or
use. For
grades
8
and
12,
five
and
seven
of
the
ten
most
frequently
missed
questions
involved
maps.9
Teachers’
Goals
One
explanation
for
these
low
scores
is
that
few
social
studies
teachers
are
aware
of
the
growing
importance
of
maps,
or
are
Figure
1. Election
Results
by
State. Figure
2. Election
Results
by
State
in
a
Population
Cartogram. Source: M.
Gastner,
C.
Shalizi,
and
M.
Newman. Maps
and
Cartograms
of
the
2004
U.S.
Presidential
Election
Results,
www-personal.
|
https://www.socialstudies.org/system/files/publications/articles/se_700706398.pdf
|
msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1260126505#7_2526620166
|
Title:
Headings: Maps and Map Learning in Social Studies
Research
and
Practice
Maps
and
Map
Learning
in
Social
Studies
Sarah
Witham
Bednarz,
Gillian
Acheson,
and
Robert
S.
Bednarz
Assessing
Students’
Knowledge
Teachers’
Goals
www.odt.org
Map
Learning
Map
Curriculum
An
Invitation
to
“Live
and
Learn
in
Historic
Virginia”
For
details,
call
(804)
493-8038,
ext.
1558
—Denis
Wood
Talking
Back
to
Maps
RESOURCES
FROM
RETHINKING
SCHOOLS
VISIT
US
AT
BOOTH
216
ATNCSS2006
IN
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
RETHINKING
SCHOOLS
MAGAZINE
THE
LINE
BETWEEN
US
Teaching
About
the
Border
and
Mexican
Immigration
RETHINKING
GLOBALIZATION
Teaching
for
Justice
in
an
Unjust
World
OPEN
MINDS
TO
EQUALITY
Sourcebook
of
Learning
Activities
to
Affirm
Diversity
and
Promote
Equity
Here
are
three
strategies
to
help
students
become
more
critically
“carto-literate”:
MAPS
from
page
404
Content: Figure
2. Election
Results
by
State
in
a
Population
Cartogram. Source: M.
Gastner,
C.
Shalizi,
and
M.
Newman. Maps
and
Cartograms
of
the
2004
U.S.
Presidential
Election
Results,
www-personal. umich.edu/~mejn/election/.
prepared
and
motivated
to
teach
about
and
with
maps. Teaching
about
maps
means
providing
students
with
the
skills
and
understandings
required
to
read,
interpret,
and
produce
maps. Teaching
with
maps
means
using
maps
to
help
students
learn
key
social
studies
concepts
and
relationships. Teaching
with
maps
enables
students
to
learn
through
maps—
that
is,
to
think
spatially—in
various
reasoning
and
problem-solving
contexts
in
the
classroom
and
real
world.10
A
recent
survey
completed
by
mem-
bers
of
the
Texas
Alliance
for
Geographic
Education
provides
information
about
teachers’
attitudes
towards
maps,
how
they
use
maps,
and
how
they
teach
map
skills.11
These
teachers
taught
elemen-
tary
(K-5),
middle
(6-8),
and
high
(9-12)
school,
and
they
ranged
in
classroom
experience
from
one
to
38
years
with
an
average
of
almost
14
years. All
were
expected
to
teach
map
skills
as
a
compo-
nent
of
the
state-mandated
social
studies
curriculum,
which
includes
geography
as
a
strand
from
kindergarten
to
grade
12.
|
https://www.socialstudies.org/system/files/publications/articles/se_700706398.pdf
|
msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1260126505#8_2526623662
|
Title:
Headings: Maps and Map Learning in Social Studies
Research
and
Practice
Maps
and
Map
Learning
in
Social
Studies
Sarah
Witham
Bednarz,
Gillian
Acheson,
and
Robert
S.
Bednarz
Assessing
Students’
Knowledge
Teachers’
Goals
www.odt.org
Map
Learning
Map
Curriculum
An
Invitation
to
“Live
and
Learn
in
Historic
Virginia”
For
details,
call
(804)
493-8038,
ext.
1558
—Denis
Wood
Talking
Back
to
Maps
RESOURCES
FROM
RETHINKING
SCHOOLS
VISIT
US
AT
BOOTH
216
ATNCSS2006
IN
WASHINGTON,
D.C.
RETHINKING
SCHOOLS
MAGAZINE
THE
LINE
BETWEEN
US
Teaching
About
the
Border
and
Mexican
Immigration
RETHINKING
GLOBALIZATION
Teaching
for
Justice
in
an
Unjust
World
OPEN
MINDS
TO
EQUALITY
Sourcebook
of
Learning
Activities
to
Affirm
Diversity
and
Promote
Equity
Here
are
three
strategies
to
help
students
become
more
critically
“carto-literate”:
MAPS
from
page
404
Content: umich.edu/~mejn/election/.
prepared
and
motivated
to
teach
about
and
with
maps. Teaching
about
maps
means
providing
students
with
the
skills
and
understandings
required
to
read,
interpret,
and
produce
maps. Teaching
with
maps
means
using
maps
to
help
students
learn
key
social
studies
concepts
and
relationships. Teaching
with
maps
enables
students
to
learn
through
maps—
that
is,
to
think
spatially—in
various
reasoning
and
problem-solving
contexts
in
the
classroom
and
real
world.10
A
recent
survey
completed
by
mem-
bers
of
the
Texas
Alliance
for
Geographic
Education
provides
information
about
teachers’
attitudes
towards
maps,
how
they
use
maps,
and
how
they
teach
map
skills.11
These
teachers
taught
elemen-
tary
(K-5),
middle
(6-8),
and
high
(9-12)
school,
and
they
ranged
in
classroom
experience
from
one
to
38
years
with
an
average
of
almost
14
years. All
were
expected
to
teach
map
skills
as
a
compo-
nent
of
the
state-mandated
social
studies
curriculum,
which
includes
geography
as
a
strand
from
kindergarten
to
grade
12. The
survey
revealed
that
these
teach-
ers’
methods
were
highly
individualized. They
used
a
variety
of
approaches
and
materials,
including
the
textbook,
work-
books,
and
self-made
worksheets. Three
broad
approaches
to
teaching
map
les-
sons
were
identified: employing
hands-
on
activities,
repeating
lessons
periodi-
cally,
and
making
the
content
relevant
to
students. Teachers
described
hands-on
activities,
especially
“making”
(labeling
blank
outline
map
|
https://www.socialstudies.org/system/files/publications/articles/se_700706398.pdf
|
msmarco_v2.1_doc_52_1261613903#6_2531250466
|
Title: 9 Companies Around the World Embracing Diversity in a BIG Way
Headings: 9 Companies Around the World That Are Embracing Diversity in a BIG Way
9 Companies Around the World That Are Embracing Diversity in a BIG Way
1. Sodexo
2. Johnson & Johnson
3. Mastercard
4. Accenture
5. Kaiser Permanente
6. EY
7. Coca-Cola
8. Marriott International
9. Novartis
Find out how the likes of IBM, IKEA and Siemens
drive hiring excellence with SocialTalent
Content: Mastercard consistently makes it into the Top 10 of DiversityInc’s 50 Best Companies for Diversity list. They believe that “diversity is what drives better insights, better decisions, and better products. It is the backbone of innovation”. A particularly unique project that Mastercard has executed over the past few years involves getting older employees in the company more active when it comes to social media. To address generational barriers, “YoPros” BRG (the Young Professionals Business Resource Group) offers a one-on-one ‘Social Media Reverse Mentoring’ program to older employees who want to become familiarised with the platforms. 4. Accenture
Industry: Professional Services/Consulting
# of Employees Worldwide: 513,000+
Diversity & Inclusion: Accenture believe that “no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion or sexual orientation.”
|
https://www.socialtalent.com/blog/diversity-and-inclusion/9-companies-around-the-world-that-are-embracing-diversity
|
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