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YouTube gets reminder to follow EU law over Hamas content
TikTok says action taken on Israel conflict videos
- TikTok Fights Misinformation During Israel-Hamas Conflict
Reuters Fact Check Suggests Israelis Unharmed at Music Festival. They're Meta's Major Fact-Checking Partner.

Reuters fact checks an online video taken from an Israeli concert—but not the music festival Hamas infiltrated last weekend—and goes on to debunk the claim that Israelis were "running for their lives." They weren’t—at the Oct. 4 concert depicted in the video—but Reuters makes no mention of the fact that hundreds of Israelis were actually slaughtered at a concert three days later.

California will give some Mexican residents in-state community college tuition
The Decades-Long Travesty That Made Millions of Americans Mistrust Their Schools

For decades, the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project was a behemoth in American education. As many as 1 in 4 U.S. elementary schools used Calkins’ signature curriculum. But that number is dwindling as a growing chorus of cognitive scientists, learning experts, and parents—many amplified by education journalist Emily Hanford via her 2022 podcast Sold a Story—argue that the Calkins approach to reading is ineffective at best, actively harmful at worst, and a large part of why more than half of our country’s fourth graders aren’t demonstrating proficiency on reading exams.
‘Take Back Pride at Clemson’ protest held after tampons removed from men’s bathrooms.
Tax universities to deliver loan forgiveness

Buying a home was a dream for millennials like me. For many it wont be possible
Ending Junk Fees, the Most Annoying Thing in American Commerce

For instance, H. Rodgin Cohen of Sullivan and Cromwell, who was the most important bank lawyer during the 2008 financial crisis and recently brokered the sale of Silicon Valley Bank, recently argued that cutting credit card late fees from $30 to $8 is bad, because it could hinder “access to credit to underserved segments of the population.” In obnoxious lawyer-speak, what Cohen is saying is that if credit card companies can’t rip off poor people, then they won’t offer credit cards to poor people.
Automakers Have Big Hopes for EVs; Buyers Aren't Cooperating
SEC Adopts Rule to Increase Transparency into Short Selling

America's 'Gold Standard' GPS Risks Falling Behind Rival Systems
Lake City Ammo Plant Cancels All Commercial Contracts

Lake City, which currently supplies 30% of the civilian market for 5.56 ammunition... is owned by the US Government, but operated by Olin Winchester. Winchester produces ammo and sells it to the government.

If it’s true that they’ve cancelled their commercial contracts, this means the US Government is requiring more ammunition, enough that they can’t produce enough to sell the excess.
The Army is planning for a conflict with China–including shoring up blood supply
US Confirms 2nd Carrier Group En Route To "Deter Hostile Actions Against Israel" | ZeroHedge
A war over Taiwan is a real possibility, and the U.S. is not prepared