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Intercept: Google Carrying Out Secret ‘Performance Review’ of Chinese ‘Project Dragonfly’

Google is reportedly carrying out a secret "performance review" of its censored Chinese search app, codenamed Project Dragonfly, despite the company claiming in December that is has no plans to launch the project. Project Dragonfly faced widespread condemnation including from members of Congress, human rights organizations, and hundreds of Google employees themselves.

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HUD Charges Facebook with Housing Discrimination

Tech giant Facebook has reportedly been charged with housing discrimination by HUD based on ads that allegedly violate the Fair Housing Act. HUD Secretary Ben Carson said, “Facebook is discriminating against people based upon who they are and where they live."

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Trump Says He’s Sending in the Feds – Smollett & Foxx Better Get Ready

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Trump Says He’s Sending in the Feds – Smollett & Foxx Better Get Ready

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President Donald Trump said the FBI and Department of Justice will investigate the dropped charges against actor Jussie Smollett, who apparently orchestrated a hate crime and filed a false police report.

“FBI & DOJ to review the outrageous Jussie Smollett case in Chicago. It is an embarrassment to our Nation!” Trump tweeted Thursday morning.

Under normal circumstances, the FBI shouldn’t investigate stupid prosecutorial decisions, but this is not a normal circumstance.

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Smollett’s case reeks of potential corruption, and it was a state prosecutor who let him off the hook.

Smollett was charged with 16 counts of disorderly conduct after a police investigation into his allegedly fake hate crime, but the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx dropped the charges Tuesday.

“I believe that the outcome — him having to forfeit the $10,000, having to do community service, based on the allegations, and again the (low-level) felony and no (criminal) background, are an outcome that we could expect with this type of case,” Foxx said Wednesday, defending her staff’s decision.

But the decision by Foxx’s office was immediately criticized by several officials, from the mayor of Chicago to the Chicago Police Department.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel slammed the prosecutor’s decision as a “whitewash of justice” and openly asked, “Is there no decency in this man?”

And Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson bluntly said he doesn’t think justice was served.

“You all know where I stand on this. Do I think justice was served? No,” Johnson said. “What do I think justice is? I think this city is still owed an apology.”

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“They chose to hide behind secrecy and broker a deal to circumvent the judicial system.”

To make the case sound even more fishy, a court order stopped Chicago police from releasing documents about the case.

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It’s obvious to many individuals — from Chicago police officers, to Chicago’s mayor to the president of the United States — that Smollett is getting away with an apparent heinous hoax.

It shouldn’t have gotten to this point, but Trump will try to ensure that Smollett is brought to justice.

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Cory Booker Tells Woman At CNN Townhall We Need Medicare-For-All. There’s Just One Problem.

Democrats vying for the 2020 presidential nomination have really gotten behind the idea that our healthcare system is broken and needs to be fixed, and that the fix is “Medicare-for-all.” Forget that just a decade ago Democrats completely overhauled the healthcare system claiming Obamacare was the answer to all our problems, but here we are.

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Parkland Teacher Blasts School District, Local Officials, Media for Politicizing Shooting, Not Helping Kids

A math teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., lambasted local officials and the national media Wednesday for using the 2018 shooting there to focus on gun control while skimping on mental-health resources for traumatized survivors.

"Parkland should go down in history as a case study in local incompetence aided and abetted by national partisan-driven coverage," teacher Kimberly Krawczyk wrote on the education news site The 74. "It seemed like everyone — from the Grammys to ESPN — was celebrating how strong our students were. But no one stopped to ask if they were actually all right."

Krawczyk blasted the national media for focusing on gun control and opposition to the NRA in the aftermath of the shooting. CNN, MSNBC, and other national outlets heavily promoted that message after such as organizations such as Everytown for Gun Safety helped bring some of the survivors to prominence in the movement for gun control.

CNN won a Cronkite Award for its town hall immediately after, which strongly favored the gun control argument and used students who had survived to promote the cause. Tragically, two students have committed suicide since the shooting, and Krawczyk blamed the lack of resources offered to traumatized students.

The Broward County School District provided "elementary school counselors who had no background in trauma counseling," failing to give students privacy with counselors, Krawczyk wrote. School district officials turned their focus to a #MSDStrong campaign that drew national attention, but, Krawczyk said, only further harmed students by requiring them to "be strong." She also stated CNN would have better served the two Parkland students who took their own lives by shining a light on conditions in the school instead of ginning up partisan outrage:

CNN just won the Cronkite Award for its town hall on the Parkland shooting and gun control. If it had instead sent a camera crew into the school, I think Sydney Aiello and Calvin Desir might still be with us.

One look at the school’s media center in the weeks after the massacre would have revealed that the "care" provided by the Broward County School District was only reinforcing the trauma.

The school district filled the room with elementary school counselors who had no background in trauma counseling and told students seek help there if they wanted. The school district did not solicit the advice of mental health experts or implement a basic standard of care. There weren’t even privacy curtains. If a student tried to talk but broke down and cried, everyone could see.

District officials were distracted by their desire to craft a political narrative around the shooting, Krawczyk said.

"So much suffering could have been mitigated if our local leaders focused more on getting kids the help they needed and less on trying to craft a national political narrative," she wrote.

Krawczyk said the school district is guilty of lying, spinning, and even threatening local news outlets for reporting on their mistakes.

"School district leaders falsely labeled facts about what went wrong as ‘fake news’ and put all the blame on the National Rifle Association," she wrote.

She also quoted at length a mother of a student who was injured but survived the shooting. The mom said the district was worried about photo ops rather than being there for her son:

Photo ops and press conferences seem to be the district’s focus, rather than focusing on those who are suffering. … Is some guidance on how the students can return to their classes after seeing their classmates murdered too much to ask? … This district should really be embarrassed. … Even the president of the United States, the first lady, the governor, the attorney general, the chief of staff and a senator had the time to hug my son. But not my school district, and not my son’s principal.

While gun control has been the preferred topic of the national media regarding the Parkland shooting, much of the local news has been about the mishandling of the attack by law enforcement. Sheriff’s deputies did not go into the school to intervene, and Sheriff Scott Israel was fired by the governor after a drawn-out series of recriminations, including a state report showing officers had been untruthful in statements about their response to the shooting.

Along with Krawczyk’s article, The 74 published a response by the Broward County School District, which argues it provided adequate resources to students and teachers.

"The Broward County School District responds that it focused on the wellness of students, faculty, families and the community immediately after the shooting, and continues to assess the needs of students across the county and address those needs," the statement reads.

"Our district continues to assess the needs of students across the county and to leverage all available resources to address those needs."

Krawczyk concluded her piece by imploring reporters to handle shootings differently in the future.

"The next time there’s a school shooting, please look into what’s actually happening at the school after. Kids’ lives will depend on it," she wrote.

"And on behalf of all Marjory Stoneman Douglas students, teachers and parents, I hope the district will finally take mental health seriously, so that these two senseless suicides don’t mark the start of an epidemic."

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