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Baseball Fans Rule In An Online Game Made For Pandemic Times The online game Blaseball is about building community and organizing against malevolent forces beyond your control. It's also surreal, bizarre and a little weird. Read more on NPR

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'Russia Doesn't Have To Make Fake News': Biggest Election Threat Is Closer To Home National security officials say Russia is again trying to disrupt the election. But this time, it doesn't have to work so hard because Americans are spreading mistruths and doubts about the election. Read more on NPR

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Uber Can Keep Operating In London, Magistrate Rules Regulators had refused to renew Uber's license, finding its lax security controls had put passengers at risk. But a court found that Uber had fixed the problems and was fit to operate in the city. Read more on NPR

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Morning News Brief Trump dismisses published report that he paid little in federal income taxes. GOP aims to get Supreme Court nominee confirmed by election. And, U.S. judge halts Trump's TikTok ban, before it started. Read more on NPR

In Internet Dead Zones, Rural Schools Struggle With Distanced Learning Many American schools are back in class via distance learning. It's stressful everywhere but especially in rural districts where most students lack high-speed Internet and cell phone service at home. Read more on NPR

U.S. Judge Halts Trump's TikTok Ban, Hours Before It Was Set To Start The decision grants TikTok a short-term reprieve, but the wildly popular app's fate still faces an extraordinary amount of uncertainty. Read more on NPR

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Author Interview: Adapting To Social Media's Disruptions In 'The Hype Machine' NPR's Michel Martin speaks with MIT professor Sinan Aral about his new book, The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health – and How we Must Adapt. Read more on NPR

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New DOJ Filing: TikTok's Owner Is 'A Mouthpiece' Of Chinese Communist Party In a new court filing, the Trump administration offers its most thorough explanation to date of why it considers the hit video-sharing app a national security threat. Read more on NPR

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Google To Halt Political Ads After Polls Close, Amid Worries Over Delayed Results The tech giant will not allow election-related ads in Search, on YouTube or any of its other properties, citing the likelihood of delayed election results. Read more on NPR

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Civil Rights Groups Say If Facebook Won't Act On Election Misinformation, They Will Facebook critics are banding together to monitor misinformation, hate speech and voter suppression on the social network because, they argue, it has fallen short. Read more on NPR

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Facebook, Twitter Remove More Russian-Backed Fake Accounts Ahead Of Election The social media companies said the accounts and pages were linked to Russian actors that had launched "hack-and-leak" operations to hurt Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Read more on NPR

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You Think Your Favorite Video Game Is Hard? Try Speedrunning It Speedrunning is the quirky subculture dedicated to playing through video games as fast as is humanly possible, exploiting glitches in game code and advanced techniques to barrel ahead. Read more on NPR

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TikTok: Even A Temporary Ban Could Make 90% Of Users Quit The App Lawyers for popular video app TikTok are asking a federal judge to block President Trump's order banning the app from taking effect on Sunday. Read more on NPR

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Justice Department Proposes Weakening Social Media's Legal Shield The Justice Department's proposal would hold Facebook and Twitter more accountable for users' posts. One critic says the Trump administration is "trying to work the refs ahead of the election." Read more on NPR

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A Tech Powerhouse, U.S. Lags In Using Smartphones For Contact Tracing Google and Apple teamed up on using smartphones to track coronavirus infections. But the systems are only available in a few states, where they're being used by a tiny percentage of the population. Read more on NPR

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Can Circuit Breakers Stop Viral Rumors On Facebook, Twitter? False claims that blame left-wing activists for wildfires in Oregon have spread on social media. To stop the rumors, some experts say platforms should take inspiration from the stock market. Read more on NPR

Facebook Removes Chinese Accounts Posting About Foreign Policy, 2020 Election Most of the operation's activity focused on Chinese interests in the South China Sea but also included some content about U.S. politics. Read more on NPR

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