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| Happy Friday. Today we have a column about overdose prevention sites and how they have the potential to save lives. We also have a column about political disinformation on popular social media sites. Enjoy your weekend! |
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| By Dr. Bonnie Milas, Larry Krasner and Miriam Aroni Krinsky |
| Like many criminal justice reform advocates, all three of us believe in providing a place where individuals struggling with addiction can use their drug, be rescued should they overdose and get recovery treatment. But only one of us, Dr. Bonnie Milas, has had firsthand experience in the nightmare of addiction that proves why overdose prevention sites – which have worked throughout Canada and Europe – are vital to saving lives. |
| In the space of only 14 months, I lost both of my adult sons, to drug overdoses. I had experiences no parent should have. I tore drugs from my sons' hands so they wouldn't inject them. I resuscitated one of my sons after multiple overdoses. I stopped a son from jumping through a second-story window after he was revived from an overdose with Narcan. |
| Yet drug overdoses took my children from me anyway. |
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| By Jesse Littlewood |
| Since the 2020 election season, the disinformation tracking network for Common Cause – a grassroots group that promotes democracy – has noted and documented a dangerous trend as social media giants Facebook and Twitter appear to have dropped the ball on their commitments to police election disinformation. This week on Capitol Hill, former Facebook product manager and whistleblower Frances Haugen revealed the extent to which her former employer fails in its commitment to prevent the spread of disinformation about elections, confirming what we've been documenting. |
| Change is needed to protect the millions of voters who will go to the polls on Nov. 2 for gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey. Election disinformation is already creeping into these contests, just as it did in California, where it eventually grew to a flood when the recall voting began. Much of the "new" disinformation is recycled directly from the lies around the 2020 election. The lies spread by former President Donald Trump and his allies on some conservative media outlets about the 2020 elections are only growing in volume. |
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| This column was compiled by Jaden Amos. |
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