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		<title>Johnny Depp &#038; Amber Heard: Trial by TikTok</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 16:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Amber Heard Says Social Media Was A Factor For Her Defamation Trial Jury.” (from NPR, politically left/liberal) “Online Creators Steered the Conversation on Amber Heard and Johnny Depp and Grew Their Accounts in the Process.” (from Insider, politically left/liberal) “Amber Heard and the Death of #MeToo.” (from The New York Times, politically left/liberal) “Truth Was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Facebook, Whistleblowers &#038; Regulating the Internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;News Literacy Project (NLP) on Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen.&#8221;  (from News Literacy Project ,politically centrist) &#8220;Facebook Whistleblower&#8217;s Push for Stricter Social Media Regulation is Raising Free Speech Concerns.&#8221; (from Daily Caller, politically right/conservative) &#8220;Whistle-Blower Unites Democrats and Republicans in Calling for Regulation on Facebook.&#8221; (from The New York Times, politically left/liberal) &#8220;Whistleblower to Senate: Don&#8217;t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Student Surveillance Apps: Protecting or Harming?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2021 20:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Exclusive Data: An Inside Look at the Spy Tech That Followed Kids Home for Remote Learning—and Now Won’t Leave.” (The 74 Million, politically centrist) “What Minneapolis Public Schools Learned From Six Months of Monitoring Student Communications—Inside and Outside school Hours.” (from MinnPost, politically centrist) “Schools Are Pushing the Boundaries of Surveillance Technologies.” (from Electronic Freedom [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Redefining Narratives About Drug Use and Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“When Getting High Is a Hobby, Not a Habit.” (from The New York Times, politically liberal) “Meet Carl Hart: Parent, Columbia Professor—and Heroin User.” (from The Guardian, politically liberal) “Why a Columbia Neuroscientist Acknowledged Using Heroin.” (from The Chronicle of Higher Education, politically centrist) “I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Zoomers &#038; Boomers: Old School Liberals vs. The Woke</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2021 20:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“What the Old Don’t Get About The Woke.” from Persuasion, (politically centrist) “What the Woke Don’t Get About The Old.” from Persuasion, (politically centrist) “Why So Many Young Women Don’t Call Themselves Feminists.” From BBC News (politically centrist) “In Defense of Woke.” (from The New York Times, politically liberal) “Why This Revolution Isn’t Like the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Cancel Culture: Social Justice or Censorship?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2021 19:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The Long and Tortured History of Cancel Culture.” (from The New York Times, left/liberal bias) “What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In.” (from The New York Times, left/liberal bias) “Fight ‘Cancel Culture’ on Campus.” (from Persuasion, centrist bias) “Bullying in the Name of Social Justice: A Sign of the Times.” (from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Antiracist Dilemma</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2020 20:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Princeton Admitted Past Racism. Now It Is Under Investigation.” (from The New York Times, politically left/liberal) &#160;“Princeton Acknowledged ‘Embedded’ Racism. The Education Dept. Says That’s grounds for an Investigation.” (from The Chronicle of Higher Education (politically centrist) “A Contrarian Take on the Department of Education’s Princeton Investigation.” (from The National Review, politically right/conservative) Princeton University [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Social Dilemma: “How Do You Wake Up from the Matrix If You Don’t Know You’re in the Matrix?”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2020 17:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Our social media platforms are powered by a surveillance-based busines model designed to mine, manipulate, and extract our human experiences at any cost"]]></description>
		
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		<title>1619 vs. 1776: Controversy in Black History</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[1&#8243;1776 Club&#8221; 2&#8243;1619 Podcast&#8221; “On US Slavery’s 400th Anniversary, How Ancestry Quests Help Heal.” (from The Christian Science Monitor, politically Centrist) “We Respond to the Historians Who Critiqued The 1619 Project” from The New York Times, politically Liberal) “Historians Roast the 1619 Project” (from National Review, politically Conservative) “Group of Black Leaders Fights ‘New York [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>&#8220;Articles of Unity&#8221; Calls for Third Party. Twitter Bans Them.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Articles of Unity website: Articles of Unity (politically centrist) “The Articles of Unity” (from Medium,( politically left/liberal) “Press Release for Our Twitter Ban” (from Articles of Unity website) &#8220;Radical Professor Bret Weinstein&#8217;s Bold Plan to Save the Republic&#8221; (from Medium, politically left/liberal) “No Cooperation Allowed? Twitter Suspends Cancel Culture Prof’s ‘Articles of Unity’ Call For [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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