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Tech journalist Frmr @NBCNews , @AlJazeeraEnglish , @PopSci editor-in-chief Author of “The Loop: How AI is Creating a World without Choices and How to Fight Back”

Oakland, CA

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Jacob Ward

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Are you freaking out about ChatGPT, Midjourney, and the other AI tools impersonating human language, taste and creativity? Maybe you'd be interested in my book, which describes the collision course we're on between human instinct and machine learning.

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This eye-opening narrative journey into the rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence reveals the dangerous ways AI is exploiting the unconscious hab...

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A report out today in Nature finds that we've been underestimating the effects of climate-change-related flooding, and that major cities across the globe will be inundated and essentially unlivable by 2050.

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There’s a new kind of ambulance in San Francisco. Dial 911 in certain neighborhoods, report a nonviolent mental-health crisis, and an experimental team of specialists arrive instead of the police. We spent the day watching this new team at work.

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Cancelling SXSW represents about $350M in lost revenue for the city of Austin. This is an enormous act of civic responsibility.

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An Update on SXSW 2020. Please read our full statement here:

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"Sea levels projected by 2050 are high enough to threaten land currently home to a total of 150 (140–170) million people to a future permanently below the high tide line." 150 MILLION PEOPLE.

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Bombay, Jakarta, Bangkok, some of the most densely populated cities in the world, literally filling with water at each high tide.

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The @nytclimate folks have horrifying visuals they've put together. Here's Bangkok. The term the Times used was "erase," which is pretty much right.

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Before now, the satellite images used to generate height measurements confused the software that made the estimates. Basically, we were confusing the heights of the tops of trees and buildings with the surface.

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Enormous climate pressure in densely packed places destabilizes everybody everywhere, as those people struggle to find a new home. Added to other volatile ingredients like nationalism and poverty, the cocktail is explosive.

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Most of the effects will be felt in eight Asian nations: China, Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Japan. But every country will be affected. Why?

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So estimates of flooding were often based on the wrong information, and that meant we'd thought there was more time, and fewer effects, than this new report suggests.

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"I'm proud of the work we did at CISA," Krebs told NBC News on Tuesday night after the firing. "I'm proud of the teammates I had at CISA. We did it right." via @nbcnews @kevincollier @KatyTurNBC @KenDilanianNBC and @JuliaEAinsley

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The new report instead uses AI to do error-correction, and to more accurately estimate land heights. And man, suddenly the estimates were very scary.

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What does #racism look like on a map? From closed schools to bus lines to access to health care, Jesus Hernandez maps the racial and spatial data that reveals runaway #inequality in American cities. Watch our @nbcnewsnow story.

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Haha wow.

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TikTok says the Trump administration has forgotten about trying to ban it, would like to know what’s up

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Facebook is the #1 platform for political disinformation, says a new Oxford study out today. “Are social media platforms really creating a space for...democracy? Or are they amplifying content that keeps citizens addicted, disinformed, and angry?”

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Every Wednesday at 8am, students at Alameda Elementary spring from bed to be part of the “bike bus,” in which nearly 200 kids ride to school together. Watching it was for me a very emotional goodbye to the isolation and sadness of the last two years.

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Already, the UN security council is wondering whether it should be formally treating climate change as a security threat.

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2 years

BREAKING: According to a Pelosi family member, the suspect broke in through a backyard window, and told Paul Pelosi he was going to tie him up and wait for Nancy to come home. When the intruder wasn’t looking Mr. Pelosi called 911.

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I have personally watched several meetings implode when AI makers suggest to a roomful of academics that it’s possible to encode “human values” into their creation, and the academics have to point out that no two people even in that same room share a common set of them.

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“What are human values, and how do we align to them?” Very excited to release our new paper on values alignment, co-authored with @ryan_t_lowe and funded by @openai . 📝:

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3 years

After years of an essentially open-mic policy, every @realDonaldTrump post in the last 24 hours has been labeled by @Facebook in some way, and @Twitter has labeled his last five tweets.

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Today is the beginning of a grand national experiment in San Francisco. Bartenders, waiters, gym owners must now check your vaccine card before letting you drink, eat, or exercise indoors. At a time when other cities can’t even agree on mask mandates, it’s a US first. @MSNBC

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Sunstein argued that Americans saw an immediate short-term benefit to fighting terrorism, but no immediate short-term benefit to fighting climate change, and theorized that certain conditions had to be met for that to change.

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Tonight on @NBCNightlyNews we’re looking at new systems that “fingerprint” the facial and behavioral tics of political figures to identify #deepfakes of them. Good news: we’re in front of the threat. Bad news: we’ll now always doubt video evidence. #deepfake #AI #Election2020

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Jacob Ward

4 years

That first proposal is one experts say has been a long time coming. There is no comprehensive federal database for even seeing how many use of force incidents there are each year, even though Congress ordered the Attorney General to begin tracking that information in 1994.

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Those bills will: ✅Create a new federal agency to investigate police misuse of force ✅Criminalize police violence against protesters ✅ Limit the President's ability to deploy troops against U.S. citizens ✅ Create a relief fund for communities trying to rebuild

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@CassSunstein once wrote about "the stark difference between American reactions to terrorism-related risks and American reactions to the risks associated with climate change."

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If millions of city-dwellers will be forced from their homes in the next 30 years, I guess I'm thinking maybe the threats of climate change and terrorism will collapse together such that we finally move on them together.

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Jacob Ward

4 years

When the experts who study nationalism and populism say authoritarianism is here, it’s not an exaggeration.

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Journalists are being assaulted by police; Trump rails against “lamestream media.” White nationalism is surging; Trump declares *anti-fascism* a terrorist “organization.” Cops are killing Black people; Trump calls protesters “radical left anarchists”. Authoritarianism is here.

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How long does it take for a hacker to crack open a voting machine used in 18 states, 8 of them swing states? Two minutes. Watch my report with @CASottile from @defcon Saturday morning on @TODAYshow .

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"The United States will probably have to manage the impact of global human security challenges, such as threats to public health, historic levels of human displacement, assaults on religious freedom, and the negative effects of environmental degradation and climate change."

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"Unlike most of its competitors, Parler apparently had no mechanism in place to strip sensitive metadata from its users’ videos prior to posting them online," and it turns out geodata to within 11 meters was part of that. via @gizmodo

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Parler Users Breached Deep Inside U.S. Capitol Building, GPS Data Shows

At least several users of the far-right social network Parler appear to be among the hoard of rioters that managed to penetrate deep inside the U.S. Capitol building and into areas normally restric...

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And the 2019 worldwide threat assessment from the Director of National Intelligence says the US has to handle the huge instability climate change will produce.

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(Also, the report uses population projections from 2010, which means it's probably UNDERESTIMATING the number of people affected.)

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I try not to take criticism or praise of my home setup to heart, but when @ratemyskyperoom gives me props, I think back on how I fought depression during the pandemic by going hard at making a nice shot. Thanks for the encouragement!

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On Air. In the Loop. Love the blue. One of the best lit setups on cable. 10/10 @byjacobward

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Protest outside #Oakland City Hall now well over 1000 people. Amazing to see it have grown tenfold before our eyes. Now 15 minutes past curfew. We haven’t seen a single uniformed police officer.

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Quiet Saturday night and Sunday morning in Sacramento, where 1000 National Guard have joined CHP in locking down the Capitol Grounds.

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A quiet, intense, church-like atmosphere as protesters take turns speaking at the front of a group of roughly 50, nearly two hours past curfew in Oakland.

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Spending #JuneteenthDay on @MSNBC with ILWU Local 10, the Oakland longshoremen who refused to load boats bound for Apartheid-era South Africa, who recruited from Black churches even in the 1930s, and who today coordinated a stoppage of nearly 30 ports in honor of #GeorgeFloyd .

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Tonight on @NBCNightlyNews we visit a factory that found that doing away with marijuana testing wildly increased their pool of job applicants. They now don’t test for THC even in states where marijuana is illegal. The nation is changing. (An @EzraNBC production.)

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Jacob Ward

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Here’s Trump’s Executive Order. The gist of it is that it tries to strip social media platforms of protection under Section 230(c) when they “edit” content with labels like Twitter did to Trump’s tweets today.

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Got tear-gassed and lost my crew on live TV tonight.

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Today is my last at @NBCNews . I’m deeply grateful for my time there and eager to share what’s next. The chance to cover tech in a new way for so many years alongside that team made it the best gig I’ve ever had.

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The former White House official called the trouble caused by Hannity, and Fox more broadly, “a fucked-up feedback loop” that puts Trump “in a weird headspace...Everyone on staff has to go and knock down all the fucking fires they started.”

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Please have a look at the future Ben and @kattenbarge have uncovered - it’s where we all might have expected the tech to take us, but it’s been horrifically amplified by the online culture no one saw coming, and what laws there are don’t protect victims. Man. Please read.

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I've been covering bad parts of the internet for long time now. For years, there was one site extremist researchers warned me not to cover because publicizing it would be dangerous. But it's time people know KiwiFarms—and how they're chasing political enemies around the world.

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EXCLUSIVE on @TODAYshow this morning: a preview of the new book “An Ugly Truth” by @sheeraf and @ceciliakang , which goes deep inside Facebook via interviews with more than 400 company employees. Even as we interviewed them Facebook kept calling.

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4 years

This is what jumped out at me too. "And damage president Trump." The emails circulating so far would do the opposite.

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DNI Director Ratcliffe said these foreign emails were designed to harm president Trump. The one that most people got, posing as the Proud Boys, said "You will vote for Trump on election day or we will come after you." Is there a different bogus email? I'd like to hear see it.

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Mehdi Hasan is a peerless interviewer - truly an artist - and regularly makes news on air (watch his 2019 interview with Erik Prince). This is a big win for us.

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There are many reasons this is a terrible idea, but the big one is mutation.

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I just announced Texas is OPEN 100%. EVERYTHING. I also ended the statewide mask mandate.

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Tonight I'm joining @SRuhle on @11thHour to talk about Trump's increasingly open relationship with QAnon. I want to nod here at @BostonJoan 's new book Meme Wars, in which she and her coauthors document just how long Trump has relied on Q adherents for support and strategy.

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A small group of MIT grad students are still protesting daily their school’s involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.

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Does deplatforming work? Does keeping extremism off mainstream social media further radicalize the smaller crowd on smaller platforms? What other options are there? We asked experts on extremism and communication.

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Dr. Michelle Tom is fighting coronavirus on the Navajo Nation. And, like 30% of the nation, where the confirmed infection rate is 9 times the rate in neighboring Arizona, she doesn’t have RUNNING WATER at home.

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I should also shout out @ClimateCentral , which did the research published yesterday in Nature. They do great work.

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The enforcement capabilities granted it go far beyond drug enforcement, according to this.

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Protest outside #Oakland City Hall now numbers 500 and growing as people stream in from surrounding neighborhoods. Less than 10 minutes to curfew.

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What can we learn from alternative-911 programs like San Francisco’s? I’ll be on with @AliVelshi and Chief Simon Pang, who helps run the SF program, tomorrow morning on @VelshiMSNBC . @MSNBC

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There’s a new kind of ambulance in San Francisco. Dial 911 in certain neighborhoods, report a nonviolent mental-health crisis, and an experimental team of specialists arrive instead of the police. We spent the day watching this new team at work.

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For the first time in my career, I just wrote a phone number on my arm with a marker before going to work.

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“During the war, Gen. George C. Marshall commissioned a study to measure the effectiveness of mixed-gender combat units. He and his staff were stunned by the finding that they performed better than all-male units.”

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The Many Roles of Women in War: Sniper, Pilot, Death Camp Guard (Published 2018)

A museum exhibit about the roles of women in World War II reveals how every person had an impact, for better or worse, at home and on the battlefield.

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A day after we aired this, @realDonaldTrump has fired @CISAKrebs , head of @CISAgov , whose verdict on this election — "“no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised” — was the final word on hacking in this election.

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. @realDonaldTrump tweeted out @byjacobward ’s 2019 story twice about a Las Vegas hacker conference to imply voter fraud. So Jake went back to organizers, experts, & officials to see whether anything he saw in Vegas took place during the election.

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Nearly 30M Texans going unmasked to movies, gyms, religious services creates an opportunity for the virus to change as it copies itself, becoming potentially more dangerous, more infectious, or both.

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4 years

This makes me crazy. Any journalist who claims not to know where to go to pursue reliable information is feigning ignorance or not doing the job. And the effect is to encourage people to throw up their hands and believe whatever they like right now, to everyone’s peril.

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Team, my first book is out in January. “The Loop” is a journey into the dangerous ways AI is exploiting the unconscious habits of our minds. Please consider pre-ordering, and if you or someone you know wants to talk about the future of human behavior LMK!

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The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back

The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back

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2 years

I feel like all I end up thinking about these days is how the attention economy has created perverse incentives that are driving, not just reflecting, bad choices.

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"A Portland man allegedly tried to open the emergency door of a Delta Air Lines flight because he wanted people to videotape him sharing his thoughts on the Covid-19 vaccine, federal authorities said."

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Nothing like watching 150+ kids ride bikes to school together to cure the sadness of the last two years. Tonight on @NBCNightlyNews .

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This UN extinction report is so awful to read. Just head-snapping. My kids and I were watching nature videos yesterday afternoon, as we often do, and they were throwing out all sorts of heartbreaking suggestions for "helping the earth."

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A few details to note: the program, modeled on the Cahoots program in Oregon, is funded by Prop C, a business tax passed in 2018. So this is not “defunding the police.” But it is an experiment in changing their role.

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It’s good to see @oneunderscore__ getting so much praise and attention today. He deserves it. How he and @BrandyZadrozny wake up each morning and march off into the dark corners of reporting they do I’ll never understand. Respect.

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How does violent online propaganda spread? Can we protect our kids from it? What should the legal and moral standards be? Join me tonight at 10p ET in conversation with Brian Williams and Rachel @maddow on MSNBC.

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The Bay Area sheltered in place eight days before San Francisco's first death. Now the nation's largest state is projected to suffer vastly fewer COVID-19 fatalities than other regions of the country. What can we learn from California?

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How San Francisco has kept its coronavirus numbers low

San Francisco has managed to keep its coronavirus cases and fatalities low. Officials there took action early, issuing a stay-at-home order eight days before the city’s first COVID-19 death, which...

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@AliVelshi @SteveKrak Health officials in several states tell me they need the media to raise the level of alarm. I ask them point-blank “are we hyping this?” They all tell me “No.” As one put it this week: ”There will be a lot of sickness and a lot of deaths. We need people to take it seriously.”

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Paul Pelosi was struck in the head with a hammer multiple times, according to the family member, and is in surgery now.

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The sheer illuminating power of a good explanation on brilliant display here.

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#sharpiegate explained @MSNBC @NBCNews

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Talking to this family made me choke up, and watching them again brings it all right back. They built something very special, and were so brave both trying to defend it and now facing the prospect of rebuilding it.

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“At that point there was nothing I could do but just watch it go down.” - Oregon resident @byjacobward shares the story of a family who lost their home and business in the Oregon wildfires.

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We showed up around 1:30a to find pockets of Phoenix, Oregon, burning. But we had no idea how much damage daylight would reveal, and the hot winds here today are threatening to repeat the cycle.

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"How fast and how devastating this fire was is what have officials so concerned about Oregon's future." @byjacobward on Oregon wildfires

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The legal folks seem to think that this whole thing is both a) legally laughable and nonetheless b) a way of making Twitter and Facebook's life very difficult.

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This is a very big deal, opening the doors to federal surveillance that city and state rules will not be able to touch.

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SCOOP w/ @a_cormier_ : DOJ granted DEA the authority to conduct "covert surveillance" & collect intel on people participating in protests over George Floyd's death. We obtained the DEA memo written by Timothy Shea, DEA acting administrator & ex-US atty

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@ratemyskyperoom I’m grateful! I recently unloaded that bookshelf, scooted it over about eight inches, and reshelved everything just to center things up better. This is my reward.

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The SF Bay Area was the first urban area to shut down back in the spring, and now it’s leading California again as ICU capacity falls across the state. I’ll be on @MSNBC all morning to talk about the hopes for flattening the curve again.

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Stars being born, dancing, and dying, along with evidence of real clouds (ie water!) on a distant world. Big day for @NASA . Tonight on @NBCNightlyNews .

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BREAKING: U.S. government calls for breakup of #Facebook . "The lawsuit asks the court to order the 'divestiture of assets, divestiture or reconstruction of businesses (including, but not limited to, Instagram and/or WhatsApp)'" via @David_Ingram

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FTC sues to break up Facebook, sell off assets like Instagram and WhatsApp

The FTC's suit asks a federal court to force the sell-off of assets such as Instagram and WhatsApp.

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4 years

@oliviasolon Was just speaking with an economist the other day who studies WFH and has found a similar dynamic: without a building to go to, employee loyalty evaporates more quickly than it does when they have to show up in a place with other people each day.

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And consider that, as Chief William Scott told us, some police departments are eager for this sort of help. One study found that more than 20% of law-enforcement time is spent responding to and transporting people in a mental-health crisis.

Road Runners: The Role and Impact of Law Enforcement in Transporting Individuals with Severe Mental...

Faced with limited community treatment options and a dire shortage of psychiatric inpatient beds, those in need of mental health treatment may not receive it until a crisis occurs and law enforcement...

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Also, we worked hard to sort out the most ethical way to portray this work without violating the privacy of the people we filmed. We asked their permission, but because they were in distress, decided to blur their faces. All feedback welcome.

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Jacob Ward

4 years

Montreal, Berkeley, Seattle, Oakland, New York closing streets, in some cases for good, and building new pedestrian and bike paths.

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Brent Toderian

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Montreal Mayor @Val_Plante announced the creation in the coming weeks of 320+ km of new pedestrian & bike paths connecting parks & green spaces across the city. The total network will cover 1,200+ km. “To encourage Montrealers to go outside & move safely.”

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We spoke with Americans estranged from one another — sisters from brothers, daughters from mothers, 25-year friendships ruined — after a deep dive into social media. Why do we end up in separate realities? Experts say it's our brains, and the industry built to grab them. (Thread)

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A new @NBCNews poll finds that 64% of Americans believe that social media is doing more to divide us than unite us. @byjacobward looks at why extreme political content is so popular on social media platforms.

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Jacob Ward

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Morgan is wearing a gas mask, credentialed media, he’s with an obvious crew, camera live, hit with tear gas and a flashbang. The rules have changed. Stay safe, everyone.

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Morgan Chesky

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It is clear tonight that Minnesota law enforcement is intent on making sure the free reign of crowds ends. #NBCNews

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Jacob Ward

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It is one of my greatest hopes as a journalist to get across a fundamental idea: your individual privacy is not the thing under greatest threat. (1/15)

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Jacob Ward

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So scary. This is a police armament, hitting my colleague @jolingkent during what would have been obvious to anyone nearby was a live broadcast. Stay safe, Jo.

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Paige Cornwell

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Oh My God. @jolingkent just got hit by a flash bang/firework live on @MSNBC while reporting from the protest in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.

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Jacob Ward

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It’s 4:45am and right now a few of us (such as @Moonalice and @jolingkent ) are headed to be part of @AliVelshi ’s new show. It’s a crazy hour but I’m feeling very lucky to have the chance. If you’re up early this fine Sunday please join us!

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Jacob Ward

4 years

Why did @Twitter attach a fact-check to two of the president’s tweets for the first time, but left everything else alone? We’re in SF for @MSNBC with @KatyTurNBC to talk about where the line should be.

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Jacob Ward

3 years

John Kerry’s appointment as special climate envoy is the first time such a position will sit on the National Security Council. Military and intelligence officials have argued for years that climate is a national security threat.

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NEWS: President-elect @JoeBiden has announced six new cabinet positions, including the first Latino to serve as Homeland Security secretary and the first woman to lead intelligence.

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Jacob Ward

4 years

LAPD just announced it's doing away with its predictive software, PredPol, which used simple algorithms to forecast areas likely to see crime. Back in 2015 I went on assignment in LA for @AliVelshi to see it firsthand. Here's me talking with its creator about the bias potential.

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Jacob Ward

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I’ll be on @MSNBC with @AliVelshi at 1:30pm ET / 10:30am PT today to talk about this week’s climate reports and the fight to get the word out. It’s my first appearance as an @NBCNews correspondent.

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Jacob Ward

2 years

It also happens that @KhanhPhamForOR is a parent at Alameda Elementary, and is writing a bill that allows school districts to reallocate some bus funding to compensate parents for putting a bike bus together. It’s not for everyone, but it should be available to anyone, she says.

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Jacob Ward

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I'm an @NBCNews correspondent investigating technology's human effects. The most powerful forces determining that impact are inside a handful of companies. Do you work at one? Don't let me misreport what's happening. Teach me what you know. Signal: +1 347 514 5169

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Jacob Ward

5 years

As @aza put it to me just now, “it’s a reminder that an experience that’s fun on an individual basis absolutely sucks at scale.”

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Jacob Ward

3 years

Critics say the Texas energy grid’s independence from the rest of the U.S. “allowed its infrastructure to shirk federal regulations that require cold-weather capabilities,” writes my colleague @kevincollier . via @nbcnews

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Why Texas’ energy grid is unable to handle the winter storms

“This has been an extraordinary event for Texas,” said Bill Magness, the CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

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Jacob Ward

2 years

Its leader, PE teacher @CoachBalto , is proud of his school, but also told me that “volunteering is inequitable and unsustainable,” and he hopes that this kind of thing can be formalized by school districts by renumerating the parents who spend time making it happen.

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Jacob Ward

4 years

I’ll be on @MSNBC with @AliVelshi today at 3:30pm ET with what I’ve learned about the technologies that could show us not just where pandemics are headed, but where they originated. One big takeaway: we have the algorithms to forecast outbreaks. Getting the data is another story.

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Jacob Ward

3 years

Another quiet morning in Sacramento with heavy military and police presence around the Capitol Grounds (and a couple of TV news people drinking coffee).

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