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And what was worse? She argued against choice for veterans, even saying that we should have “VA care for all.” Via The Nation: She said that should Medicare for All be passed, the VA would most likely remain unchanged. While many champions of universal health-care coverage are fighting to essentially abolish private health insurance while […]
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The report was right there, in black and white: “Ocasio-Cortez Appears On ‘The Price Is Right,’ Guesses Everything Is Free.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was pumped to attend a taping of The Price Is Right in Hollywood this week. The special guest introduced herself as a U.S. representative and rising star of the Democratic Party. Things got interesting when the game began and every time it was her turn to estimate the price of an item her answer was “free.”
Items included a set of Italian leather handbags, an all expenses paid trip to the Bahamas, and a brand new 2019 BMW 330i, at all of which Ocasio-Cortez shouted, “FREE!”When host Drew Carey asked if Ocasio-Cortez understood the game’s rules, she told Carey not to cat-call her and then responded, “Don’t hate me cause you ain’t me.”
Pretty funny. And the Democratic socialist from New York might well do that if she ever appears on the show (she does, after all, call for free health care, free college tuition, and free cash for everyone, along with pushing an climate change program estimated to cost $93 trillion over 10 years).
But the story was just a joke, posted by the satirical website Babylon Bee.
For some reason, Snopes — which calls itself the “definitive fact-checking resource” and was once employed by Facebook to rule on what is true and what is not — decided to “fact check” the fake article.
Q: Did U.S. Rep. @AOC repeatedly guess "free" on the TV show "The Price is Right?"
A: https://t.co/95RRj4nSzs pic.twitter.com/L6KZTfjibR— snopes.com (@snopes) April 16, 2019
“FALSE,” said the website.
“In mid-April 2019, an image supposedly showing U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez guessing that the cost of an item was ‘free’ during an appearance on the daytime television game show ‘The Price is Right’ started circulating on social media,” Snopes wrote, posting the above picture. “This is not a genuine photograph of Ocasio-Cortez on the show. This image was created for a satirical article that was originally published by The Babylon Bee.”
“This viral image combined a photograph of the congresswoman during her appearance on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ in June 2018 with a still from an October episode of ‘The Price is Right.’ “
After much mocking of Snopes, the “fact” checker posted an explanation.
“What started as a story about @AOC on a satirical website also spread on social media as a standalone altered image. Without context, it is inevitable in today’s misinformation age that some people will see, believe, and keep scrolling,” Snopes wrote on Twitter.
What started as a story about @AOC on a satirical website also spread on social media as a standalone altered image. Without context, it is inevitable in today’s misinformation age that some people will see, believe, and keep scrolling: https://t.co/95RRj4nSzs
Roll the video ?️ pic.twitter.com/Q0R2GVx8vf
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It’s not the first time Snopes fact-checked a Bee piece. In February, Snopes ruled as “FALSE” a Bee story headlined, “Jussie Smollett Offered Job At CNN After Fabricating News Story Out Of Thin Air.”
And these people are the ones checking the veracity of news?
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Social media companies are going to have to come up with a solution for privacy scandals. Otherwise, the government will do it for them and their bosses won’t like it. On Thursday, two sources told NBC News that regulators are debating if and how they will hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responsible for Facebook’s private information leaks. Facebook’s latest privacy scandal was that it "unintentionally uploaded" the email contact lists of approximately 1.5 million users. 540 million users’ data was found uploaded to Amazon Cloud for the public to…
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Social media platforms and Big Tech companies have been slowly working to censor content on their platforms more efficiently. Emma Llanso, Director of Free Expression at the Center for Democracy and Technology, wrote in an op-ed for Wired that the response to the New Zealand mass shooting in March brought the internet to a terrifying reality.
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The song was for a Broadway show mocking racism. That’s why Robeson also sang it. Via Fox News: The New York Yankees have decided to no longer run Kate Smith’s version of “God Bless America” during their seventh-inning stretch because of Smith’s affiliation with songs that carried racist lyrics. Most famously, Smith sang a 1931 […]
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The reason there are almost no redactions in Volume Two of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russian report is that “It’s all crap,” conservative pundit Mark Levin declared on his nationally-syndicated radio program Thursday.
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You know which company could weather a good privacy controversy right now? Facebook.
After all, making Cambridge Analytica a household name didn’t really sour anyone on the social media giant. Releasing the phone numbers of two-factor authentication users to companies for advertisements they couldn’t opt out of? A minor blip. That time when they accidentally reset 14 million users’ default settings so that they would post publicly instead of privately? Whoops.
So, imagine my relief when I found out it was Facebook, as opposed to one of those social media companies with shakier reputations that might not be able to cope with another scandal, that uploaded the email contacts of more than a million users to their servers without the permission of said users.
“Since May 2016, the social-networking company has collected the contact lists of 1.5 million users new to the social network,” Business Insider reported on Thursday.
“The Silicon Valley company said the contact data was ‘unintentionally uploaded to Facebook,’ and it is now deleting them.
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“The revelation comes after pseudononymous security researcher e-sushi noticed that Facebook was asking some users to enter their email passwords when they signed up for new accounts to verify their identities, a move widely condemned by security experts. Business Insider then discovered that if you entered your email password, a message popped up saying it was ‘importing’ your contacts without asking for permission first.”
Users weren’t given any chance “to opt out, cancel the process, or interrupt it midway through” once it began harvesting the email contacts.
While the security breach didn’t give Facebook the content of the user’s emails, it did tell them who the user was emailing with. According to Business Insider, this information was used “to improve Facebook’s ad targeting, build Facebook’s web of social connections, and recommend friends to add.” Of course it was.
The company says it will notify all of the users whose email data was uploaded without their permission. Thursday was indeed a red-letter day for Facebook, as it was also revealed that another major PR face-plant involving password storage was much more widespread than initially revealed.
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“Facebook says it stored millions of Instagram users’ passwords in plain text, leaving them exposed to people with access to certain internal systems,” The Verge reported. “The security lapse was first reported last month, but at the time, Facebook said it only happened to ‘tens of thousands of Instagram users,’ whereas the number is now being revised up to ‘millions.’ The issue also affected ‘hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users’ and ‘tens of millions of other Facebook users.’
“Passwords are supposed to be stored in an encrypted format that allows websites to confirm what you’re entering without directly reading it. But as Krebs on Security first reported, various errors seem to have caused Facebook’s systems to log some passwords in plain text since as early as 2012. Facebook noticed the problem in January and said in March that the issue had been resolved.”
Again: Whoops!
I don’t just mention this to pile on a platform that rightly deserves opprobrium for a freight train of privacy scandals over the past few years, though that’s certainly a) deserved and b) fun. I’d instead like to point you to the fact that this all comes as Mark Zuckerberg is literally begging Congress to regulate his industry.
In a Washington Post Op-Ed on March 30, the Facebook CEO said that he believed “we need a more active role for governments and regulators. By updating the rules for the Internet, we can preserve what’s best about it — the freedom for people to express themselves and for entrepreneurs to build new things — while also protecting society from broader harms.”
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Or, as a Reason headline put those calls for government intervention more succinctly: “Zuckerberg’s Plea: Regulate Me Before I Violate People’s Privacy Again!”
“While Congress has been holding hearings, poking tech execs, and dancing the legislative Fandango, the marketplace has imposed actual sanctions” on Facebook, Thomas Hazlett wrote in a piece published Wednesday.
“Between the time Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal was revealed, March of last year, and March of this year, shareholders lost more than $61.6 billion adjusted for overall market (NASDAQ) fluctuations.”
A proposed fine of up to 4 percent on annual revenue for violations of the law in legislation written by Democrat Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, meanwhile, would have only cost Facebook a mere $2.2 billion.
And make no mistake, this kind of regulation would be good for Facebook and its shareholders while being bad for the free market. What Facebook aims at doing is ossifying the current social media landscape so that the current leaders — most notably Facebook and Twitter — won’t face new competition. It would take a lot to challenge those platforms now, but imagine the kind of resources it would require if new entrants to the marketplace didn’t just have to make a better product and market it more effectively but also had to comply with a slew of government regulations purportedly designed to protect your privacy.
Hazlett and I would part ways on whether regulation is required when dealing with Facebook, but it oughtn’t be on the company’s terms. Protecting Facebook and protecting your data are two different things. What the company wants is the former disguised as the latter. That ought to be a non-starter, for reasons that were all too evident Thursday.
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Sisterhood.
That’s the word I kept hearing repeated as women gathered in Texas hill country last week for A Girl & A Gun‘s sold out national conference.
And, after spending a few days among the ladies, it wasn’t hard to see why.
About an hour away from the BBQ pits of Austin, among the Bluebonnet-covered rolling hills, where there’s a Whataburger in every small town, lies the massive Reveille Peak Ranch. It’s there where 450 women congregated to take courses from 60 different professional firearms trainers over the course of 3 days. They came from all across the country and all different backgrounds to improve their shooting.
And they did it together.
Women in Gun Sisterhood jackets at A Girl & A Gun’s national conference / Stephen Gutowski
"Oh my gosh. You will never go anywhere in the world other than this event where you will find 400 women and no drama," Gabriella Marra, a club facilitator from Newington, Conn., told me during the event. "They are a drama-free bunch. All they want to do is shoot, be safe, have fun. They are probably the nicest people you’ll ever encounter."
"It’s a sisterhood," Samantha Brengard, a member from Florida, said. "It’s not ‘what can I get back,’ it’s ‘what can I do for you?’"
The camaraderie and kinship really radiated. Whether it was borrowing ammo to finish a class or some cash for dinner, the women were there for each other. If somebody couldn’t get a shooting drill quite right there was guidance from not just the instructors but the other attendees and it was given with a considerate touch.
The atmosphere was inviting—something akin to a church outing. It was refreshing to see firearms training that’s as professional as any I’ve experienced but with a different approach than the adrenaline-soaked, high-pressure atmosphere that certainly can be effective but shouldn’t be the only option.
"I think everybody really does a great job of being here for each other," Lynn Dao, a member from Philadelphia, said. "For instance, I left my holster and my girls got me. They already hooked me up with another holster and another firearm to borrow."
"It’s that connection," Brengard told me while tearing up. "It’s that connection you get. It’s the relief of having somebody there at 3 o’clock in the morning when you gotta call somebody and say ‘help me!"
That connection, Dao told me, is something she thinks can encourage women like her to embrace their gun rights.
"If you’re thinking about getting into firearms, if you’re not sure about getting into firearms, just look up A Girl & A Gun. See what they have to offer," she said. "It’s a really great resource and it really does promote the best of being a woman and taking control of your safety and your independence. It’s been a really monumental part of my life."
The gun rights movement and firearms industry have been saying for years that women are the fastest growing demographic among gun owners and has been making efforts to bring in even more. The National Rifle Association has a program for women’s outreach. The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the industry’s trade group, has been recommending new approaches to attracting more female customers. However, A Girl & A Gun sets itself apart by being founded by women, run by women, and its events are designed with women in mind.
The 2019 national conference is no exception. For $400, the attendees were treated to three days of non-stop training from competitive shooters, law enforcement officers, military trainers, and medical professionals. And many of the trainers were the top female shooters in the country. From Tracy Barnes, to Tatiana Whitlock, to Gabby Franco, to Dianna Muller, to Vicki Farnam.
Classes were offered for all skill levels but it was apparent to me after a few days of watching and interacting with them that most of the women in attendance were somewhere between intermediate or expert shooters.
Some of the classes dealt with female-specific issues, like the best holsters and carry styles to suit the unique concerns of women, but most, like the tactical medical training course, were focused on issues faced by all gun owners or concealed carriers. There was a class for shooting on the move. There was training for shooting from and around cars. There were classes for unarmed self-defense. There was training for shooting sporting clays. There was an AR-15 building class. The list goes on and on.
That variety of quality courses and the uniquely pleasant atmosphere—one I haven’t experienced to the same level at other shooting events—is what seemed to draw women from all over the country.
"For that price, you really cannot find that amount of classes with these caliber of instructors anywhere else," Dao said. "I think that’s what sets it apart on top of the sisterhood spirit."
The trainers were just as impressed by the women as the women were by the trainers.
"They’re very competent gun handlers and they have an ethic of safety I don’t find anywhere else," Austin Davis, who owns the Virtual Tactical Academy, said. "There really isn’t a competition here. The only time they look down is to reach down and give somebody a hand up. It is the most supportive environment I’ve ever been in and I’ve been a professional speaker for 30 years."
"We threw a lot of different things at these ladies to try and test their skills," Tracy Barnes, Olympic shooter and firearms trainer, said. "The women are great. They’re having such a great time. They’re very eager to learn. They’re just sponges. They’re absorbing it all in."
"That’s a real refreshing thing, to come to a class where everyone is very eager to either be with you specifically or to learn a specific subject that you’re offering," Craig Smith, one of the owners of Immersive Training Solutions, told me. "That’s really cool. It’s a great environment. It’s very electric."
Of course, the professional training wasn’t the only thing going on at the conference. There was plenty of pure fun to be had too.
There was a demo day where some of the firearms industry’s biggest players like Sig Sauer, Mossberg, Glock, STI, and more let the ladies sample their latest guns and accessories. A full day was dedicated to letting the women interact with the gun companies hoping to win at least a slice of
Samantha Brengard in Heligunner’s Robinson R44 / Stephen Gutowski
this fastest-growing demographic.
There was also a helicopter with a machinegun. That part was just for fun. And, I can tell you, flying along at tree top level in a Robinson R44 with the doors off and a fully-automatic M4 hanging out the side is *chefs kiss*.
But, as fun as trying out new guns at demo day and zipping around in that helicopter was, when I think about my week in Texas with the women of A Girl & A Gun it’s that atmosphere of sisterhood, that camaraderie and kinship which really sticks out most. In a shooting world still dominated by tacticool testosterone junkies—if less so than ever before—we could use more of that.
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