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Interview about censorship during the pandemic with Henry Widdas. Henry chairs NW Lancashire Branch of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and reports for the Lancashire Post: how Covid 19 has affected journalism; civil liberties issues with lockdown; mandatory vaccination; Black Lives Matter protests; Contact Tracing using military software; US Presidential election; SAGE encouraging media to increase sense of risk of Covid 19;
Simon Dolan – the science behind the lockdown. Government faces legal action over refusal to publish Sage minutes. Businessman Simon Dolan says ministers must disclose science behind lockdown. A millionaire businessman is launching legal action against the government after it refused to disclose minutes of the Sage meetings that informed its decision to impose the coronavirus lockdown. Simon Dolan, who owns Jota Aviation, said he received an unsatisfactory response to his challenge over the legality of the lockdown in a “letter before action” sent two weeks ago. He and his lawyers intend to go to the high court to seek permission for an urgent judicial review of the background to the lockdown imposed on 23 March. He had sought to obtain minutes from meetings of the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE)…
AI writing stories; lockdown and surveillance state; Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots. Users of the homepages of the MSN website and Edge browser will now see news stories generated by AI. Dozens of journalists have been sacked after Microsoft decided to replace them with artificial intelligence software. Staff who maintain the news homepages on Microsoft’s MSN website and its Edge browser – used by millions of Britons every day – have been told that they will be no longer be required because robots can now do their jobs. Around 27 individuals employed by PA Media – formerly the Press Association – were told on Thursday that they would lose their jobs in a month’s time after Microsoft decided to stop employing humans to select, edit and curate news articles on its homepages. Employees were told Microsoft’s decision to end the contract with PA Media was taken at short notice as part of a global shift away from humans in favour of automated updates for news. One staff member who worked on the team said: “I spend all my time reading about how automation and AI is going to take all our jobs, and here I am – AI has taken my job.”..
US billionaires $0.5 trillion richer from the lockdown: American billionaires got $434 billion richer during the pandemic @ROBTFRANK – Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg had the biggest gains.Bezos added $34.6 billion to his wealth and Zuckerberg picked up $25 billion.;
Covid-19 around in Dec 2019; New coronavirus spread swiftly around world from late 2019, study finds. LONDON (Reuters) – A genetic study of samples from more than 7,500 people infected with COVID-19 suggests the new coronavirus spread quickly around the world after it emerged in China sometime between October and December last year, scientists said on Wednesday. Scientists at University College London’s Genetics Institute found almost 200 recurrent genetic mutations of the new coronavirus – SARS-CoV-2 – which the UCL researchers said showed how it is adapting to its human hosts as it spreads. “Phylogenetic estimates support that the COVID-2 pandemic started sometime around Oct. 6, 2019 to Dec. 11, 2019, which corresponds to the time of the host jump into humans,” the research team, co-led by Francois Balloux, wrote in a study published in the journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution. Balloux said the analysis also found that the virus was and is mutating, as normally happens with viruses, and that a large proportion of the global genetic diversity of the virus causing COVID-19 was found in all of the hardest-hit countries. That suggests SARS-CoV-2 was being transmitted extensively around the world from early on in the epidemic, he said. “All viruses naturally mutate. Mutations in themselves are not a bad thing and there is nothing to suggest SARS-CoV-2 is mutating faster or slower than expected,” he said. “So far, we cannot say whether SARS-CoV-2 is becoming more or less lethal and contagious.”.. lockdown politicised – Unions against easing lockdown;
Bill Gates subject of conspiracy theorists – Coronavirus: why Bill Gates is the bogeyman of conspiracy theorists.
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