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Facebook, YouTube Warn Of More Mistakes As Machines Replace Moderators As tech firms send workers home, it's creating new challenges over how to handle harmful content, including dangerous health claims. So Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are bringing in the machines. Read more on NPR

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Authors, Publishers Condemn The 'National Emergency Library' As 'Piracy' Citing the coronavirus, the Internet Archive expanded its lending program for the digital copies of millions of books. But many writers and publishers say it is sharing their work without permission. Read more on NPR

Amazon, Instacart Grocery Delivery Workers Strike For Coronavirus Protection And Pay Amazon workers in New York and Instacart workers nationwide plan to walk off their jobs Monday. They want more access to paid sick leave as well as protective gear and other safety measures. Read more on NPR

Facebook Pledges $100 Million To Aid News Outlets Hit Hard By Pandemic Facebook says it will give $25 million to aid U.S. and Canadian local newspapers and sites. It promises to spend $75 million in ads to pour money into newsrooms ailing financially from Coronavirus. Read more on NPR

Instacart, Amazon Workers Plan To Strike Over Safety Concerns Workers from Amazon and Instacart are planning to go on strike. They're asking their companies to do more to keep them safe during the coronavirus outbreak. Read more on NPR

Cybersecurity Lawyer Who Flagged The WHO Hack Warns Of 'Massive' Remote Work Risks A large number of the workforce is staying home during the coronavirus. Alexander Urbelis, hacker-turned-information-security attorney, says the remote working environment is a hacker's paradise. Read more on NPR

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An LA Native Drives Us Through His Hometown — Using Google Street View Multidisciplinary artist Felix Quintana created honest portraits of South Central Los Angeles' people and urban landscape with the help of archived images. Read more on NPR

Apple's New Tool Let's You Screen Yourself For COVID-19 A new COVID-19 website and app allow users to screen themselves for coronavirus symptoms and receive recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on what to do next. Read more on NPR

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New Site Collects Reports Of Anti-Asian American Sentiment Amid Coronavirus Pandemic Russell Jeung, a professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, describes harassment, assault and microagressions against Asian Americans during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more on NPR

Gig Workers Would Get Unemployment Safety Net In Rescue Package Uber drivers, Airbnb hosts and other gig workers who have lost their livelihoods because of the coronavirus pandemic would get some relief under the proposed new $2 trillion federal rescue package. Read more on NPR

Facebook Steps Up Efforts To Combat The Spread Of Coronavirus Misinformation Nick Clegg, vice president of global affairs and communications, says the company will work to remove coronavirus-related information that has the potential to cause physical harm. Read more on NPR

The Biggest Distance-Learning Experiment In History: Week One Districts are scrambling to get remote learning lessons in place. But over half of students live near the poverty line, 14% have a learning disability, and some struggle just to find Internet access. Read more on NPR

More Telework Also Means More Porn — And That's Good News For Hackers Working from home can make employees more vulnerable to hackers — especially if they're browsing websites they wouldn't visit when the boss is watching. Read more on NPR

How Facebook Wants To Handle Misinformation Around The Coronavirus Epidemic NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Facebook Vice President of Global Affairs and Communications Nick Clegg about the platform's efforts to stop the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus. Read more on NPR

A Etiquette Primer For Zoom And Other Videoconferencing Services Some people are just getting used to telework, and making blunders on tools such as Zoom — including going to the bathroom while your webcam is live. Here are some videoconference etiquette tips. Read more on NPR

A Grounded Biden Campaign Is Trying To Reach Voters In The Cloud Often overshadowed online by his rivals, Joe Biden is holding virtual town halls and fundraisers. He's also trying to compete for TV airtime as the country is consumed by a historic crisis. Read more on NPR

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Supercomputers Recruited To Hunt For Clues To A COVID-19 Treatment Scientists hope a machine can do what a person can't: Quickly analyze every physical and chemical aspect of the coronavirus and sift through the world's drugs for subtle clues that might prove useful. Read more on NPR

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A Playlist Tracking The Many New Tracks Being Written About The Coronavirus Spotify "data alchemist" Glenn McDonald has been regularly scanning the platform for new songs addressing the crisis, updating his master playlist along the way. Read more on NPR

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Margrethe Vestager: How Can We Ensure Fair Competition Online? When we shop in a store, we're used to having options. But in a digital economy controlled by tech monopolies, choice isn't built in. Margrethe Vestager is on a mission to change that. Read more on NPR

Claire Wardle: Why Do We Fall For Misinformation? How does a set of misleading videos online turn into a dangerous health crisis ... all in the span of three days? Claire Wardle discusses the real life consequences of misinformation online. Read more on NPR

Zeynep Tufekci: How Do We Build Systems Of Trust Online? With so much data collected on our online behavior, it's bound to be misused. Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci says to rebuild trust in the internet, we need to entirely restructure how it operates. Read more on NPR

Adam Alter: How Do We Take Back Control Of Our Attention? Within the last decade, we've opted to replace time spent on hobbies, exercise, and conversation with screen time. Social psychologist Adam Alter describes ways we can reclaim our attention. Read more on NPR

Edward Snowden: Why Does Online Privacy Matter? Edward Snowden revealed government programs that collected our private data. Today, he says private corporations have become just as intrusive—but without the restraints placed on government. Read more on NPR

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Israel Begins Tracking And Texting Those Possibly Exposed To The Coronavirus The move draws criticism over privacy, as concerns rise about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attempts to stay in power. Read more on NPR

As Hanging Out Gets Difficult, More People Are Turning To Social Video Games New restrictions have placed limits on in-person gatherings. Online video games are proving popular as people look for a way to socialize during this time of social distancing. Read more on NPR

Trump Invokes A Cold War Relic, The Defense Production Act, For Coronavirus Shortages A law that allows the executive branch to direct industrial production is being used to spur firms to step up their output of scarce items, such as face masks and ventilators. Read more on NPR

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Coronavirus Triple Duty: Working, Parenting, And Teaching From Home Coronavirus life just got super real for parents. Many suddenly have the task of making sure their kids learn while adjusting to a new life of managing working exclusively from home. Read more on NPR

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Internet Traffic Surges As Companies And Schools Send People Home People are turning to video streaming and online gaming, while companies scramble to make sure their systems can handle remote workers. Read more on NPR

Uber, Lyft Halt Shared Carpool Service In U.S. And Canada The San Francisco-based transportation firms say they are acting in line with public health efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Both are still operating their regular ride-hailing services. Read more on NPR

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Tech Companies Aim To Stop COVID-19 Disinformation The Coronavirus is not just a medical epidemic. The World Health Organization says fake news about the virus is spreading faster than the disease. Tech companies attempting to control disinformation. Read more on NPR

During Coronavirus Outbreak, Virtual Doctor Visits Are Encouraged Public health officials urge Americans to use telemedicine to help reduce the spread of coronavirus at doctor's offices and to ease the burden on hospitals. What is telemedine and how do you use it? Read more on NPR

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Virtual Happy Hour Anyone? Working From Home But Keeping Connected How do you keep your office connected when people are working from home and practicing social distancing? One CEO is throwing virtual happy hours and online karaoke parties. Read more on NPR

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A Spy Agency's Challenge: How To Sort A Million Photos A Day The Earth's entire land mass is being photographed by satellites every single day. Trying to make sense of all these images falls to a U.S. spy agency many have never heard of. Read more on NPR

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The Ford Bronco Nears A Return Ford is set to launch a new version of the Bronco, its SUV. Photos have appeared of two-door and four-door models. Read more on NPR

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SXSW Events Canceled Over Coronavirus Concerns South by Southwest — a massive art, music and technology festival — has been canceled over fears that visitors might help spread the coronavirus in Austin, Texas. Read more on NPR

The Show Will Not Go On: Austin Cancels SXSW Because Of Coronavirus "We are devastated to share this news with you," organizers said in a statement. "'The show must go on' is in our DNA, and this is the first time in 34 years that the March event will not take place." Read more on NPR

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How Russia Is Trying To Boost Bernie Sanders' Campaign Sen. Sanders says he was briefed by the intelligence community about Russia's efforts to aid his campaign, which has gotten more positive support from Russian media than other Democratic candidates. Read more on NPR

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Report: Russian Election Trolling Becoming Subtler, Tougher To Detect A cache of Instagram posts has yielded what researchers call a more up-to-date look at election interference operations. Much of it is familiar, but now executed with more sophistication. Read more on NPR

Coronavirus Concerns Stymie Live Music Performances And SXSW Organizers, public officials, musicians and other performers are very publicly grappling with competing priorities — and are trying to find innovative ways to deal with canceled events worldwide. Read more on NPR

Coronavirus: Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft Urge Seattle Workers To Stay Home U.S. companies are trying to limit disruption from the coronavirus outbreak by curtailing travel and telling some employees to work from home. Several major tech firms are among the latest to act. Read more on NPR

What To Know About The Election Security Situation After Super Tuesday The biggest day of voting so far in 2020 wasn't faultless, but it also might have gone much worse. Moves and counter-moves are afoot to influence Americans and protect the vote. Read more on NPR

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Twitter Vows That As Disinformation Tactics Change, Its Policies Will Keep Pace Twitter's new policy attempts to flag and provide greater context for content that the platform believes to have been "significantly and deceptively altered or fabricated." Read more on NPR

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How Computer Modeling Of COVID-19's Spread Could Help Fight The Virus As the world watches the outbreak of a novel coronavirus, epidemiologists are watching simulations of that outbreak on their computers to try to predict what might happen next. Read more on NPR

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