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For an academic, Michael Caulfield has an odd request: Stop overthinking what you see online. Mr. Caulfield, a digital literacy expert at Washington State University Vancouver, knows all too well that at this very moment, more people are fighting for the opportunity to lie to you than at perhaps any other point in human history. Misinformation rides the greased algorithmic rails of powerful social media platforms and travels at velocities and in volumes that make it nearly impossible to stop. That alone makes information warfare an unfair fight for the average internet user. But Mr. Caulfield argues that the deck is stacked even further against us. That the way we’re taught from a young age to evaluate and think critically about information is fundamentally flawed and out of step with the chaos of the current internet. “We’re taught that, in order to protect ourselves from bad information, we need to deeply engage with the stuff that washes up in front of us,” Mr. Caulfield told me...

A 13 year-old girl stole her mother’s SUV, then smashed the huge vehicle into two homeless men at high speed and killed both, police say. Extremely disturbing doorbell camera footage showed the moment the unnamed teen lost control of the car in Escondido, California, on Friday night. Its tires could be heard screeching as it mounted a curb and crashed into a set of planters. Two homeless men were sleeping there at the time. One died instantly, with the other succumbing to his injuries after being rushed to a hospital. Another 13 year-old was in the car at the time of the collision, police said. Neighbor Ivan Calderon, who witnessed the death smash, told Fox5: ‘The car was just speeding off right here. I’m not sure if they were trying to make a turn and they didn’t handle it, and just went straight to the wall.’ ‘What are they thinking, you know? We read on the report that they were coming from Vista, and Vista is pretty far for you to be driving if you’re 13 years old, especially...

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CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments. Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart the state’s economy by attracting technology firms, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday. The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services. The measure to further economic development with the “alternative form of local government” has not yet been introduced in the Legislature. Sisolak pitched the concept in his State of the State address delivered Jan. 19. The plan would bring in new businesses at the forefront of “groundbreaking technologies” without the use of tax abatements or other publicly funded incentive packages that...

Denisa Stastna and her boyfriend said they were just filming the demonstrations when her head was pushed against a building by the high-pressure water coming from the cannon over the weekend. The Czech national had to have more than 15 stitches because of the fracture, local media reported. ‘We just stood there filming and walked away. They had no right to use the water cannon on us,’ Ms Stastna told Omroepbrabant. Her boyfriend, Michael Piksel, insisted the couple were ‘never out for violence’ and were only filming the protests in Eindhoven. They said they are going to take action against the police for her injuries. A spokesperson for Dutch prosecutor Janine Kramer said: ‘There was an emergency order and there were several announcements that you had to leave. ‘If you do not leave then you are in principle punishable.’ The demonstrations came after the Netherlands announced a tough curfew forcing people to stay inside their houses from 9pm until 4.30am every day. It was...

The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel peace prize for the way its call for systemic change has spread around the world. In his nomination papers, the Norwegian MP Petter Eide said the movement had forced countries outside the US to grapple with racism within their own societies. “I find that one of the key challenges we have seen in America, but also in Europe and Asia, is the kind of increasing conflict based on inequality,” Eide said. “Black Lives Matter has become a very important worldwide movement to fight racial injustice. “They have had a tremendous achievement in raising global awareness and consciousness about racial injustice.” Eide, who has previously nominated human rights activists from Russia and China for the prize, said one other thing that impressed him about the Black Lives Matter movement was the way “they have been able to mobilise people from all groups of society, not just African-Americans, not just oppressed people, it has...