From the outside, Twitter’s content moderation decisions look haphazard at best. From the inside, they look worse, especially because government officials play an unseemly and arguably unconstitutional role in shaping those decisions. The internal communications that Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, has been gradually revealing to a select few journalists show that the company’s former…
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A 36-year-old Santa Ana man was sentenced on Tuesday, Dec. 13, to 15 years to life in prison for killing an escort seven years ago in a Newport Beach office building where he was a janitor. Nain Isaac Nieto Hernandez, 36, had been convicted of second-degree murder in the Dec. 18, 2015, killing of 23-year-old…
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By Matt O’Brien, Barbara Ortutay and David Klepper | Associated Press What you’re seeing in your feed on Twitter is changing. But how? The social media platform’s new owner, Elon Musk, has been trying to prove through giving selected journalists access to some of the company’s internal communications dubbed “The Twitter Files” that officials from…
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Actress Mallori Johnson first encountered the work of writer Octavia Butler when she read “Fledgling,” a novel about a young Black vampire. It was the summer before she left home for the Julliard School in New York City. “I just fell in love with the fact that she was able to create these kinds of…
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EL SEGUNDO — It was billed as a few sons of superstars going head-to-head. ESPN aired Monday night’s boys basketball game between Chatsworth’s Sierra Canyon and New York’s Christ the King, but all eyes were watching Bronny James and Kiyan Anthony, more famous for the names on the backs of their jerseys than the front.…
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A new report commissioned by the county says the Orange County Power Authority, which gives about 800,000 homeowners and businesses an option to buy renewable energy, is failing on several fronts. Specifically, the report dated Dec. 9 by Local Power LLC, says the 2-year-old Power Authority’s problems include: • Customers opting out at twice the…
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By Andrew Selsky | Associated Press SALEM, Ore. — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced Tuesday that she is commuting the sentences of all of the state’s 17 inmates awaiting execution, saying their death sentences will be changed to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Brown, a Democrat with less than a month remaining…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now This week’s CIF-SS high school boys soccer polls, released Tuesday, Dec. 13 CIF-SS BOYS SOCCER POLLS (Selected by the CIF-SS Boys Soccer Committee) DIVISION 1/2 1 JSerra 2 Servite 3 Mira Costa 4 Santa Ana Valley 5 Montclair 6 Valencia/Placentia 7 Godinez…
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The SoCal Indie Bestseller List for the sales week ended Dec. 11 is based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Southern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound. For an independent bookstore near you, visit IndieBound.org. HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver 2. Lessons in Chemistry: Bonnie Garmus 3. A World of Curiosities: Louise Penny…
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TORONTO — The pregame warmup cost them one forward, Max Jones, and a mere 11 seconds into the game, the Ducks lost another forward when Adam Henrique took a puck in the face and had to leave for repairs, but he would return for the start of the second period. Naturally, there was more to…
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