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Social media act to stop Trump's false election claims

As many predicted, Trump has cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election process while votes are still being counted, writing on Twitter and Facebook that "We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election." Both platforms labeled the message as misleading.

Uber and Lyft drivers will not become employees

Proposition 22, the initiative in California to keep drivers as independent contractors, passed comprehensively, meaning drivers will remain ineligible for healthcare and other benefits. The decision gives gig economy companies the opportunity to change labour laws across the US.

Pokemon Go earns another billion dollars

This makes 2020 the mobile game's most successful year – it earned $832 million in its launch year of 2016. The pandemic seems not to have slowed the phenomenon's success – Niantic has introduced measures to make the game easier to play at home.

Twitter bans David Icke

The conspiracy theorist, who believes that the coronavirus is a hoax designed to force the public into taking a harmful vaccine, had about 382,000 followers on Twitter. Icke claimed he was banned for criticising the decision to institute city-wide testing in Liverpool.

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The gears of the immune response that come apart in Covid-19 were discovered slowly, in a blundering way, as though science itself were recapitulating evolution. In a sense, there are several immune systems. In health, they coördinate with and balance each other. But a machine with so many moving parts is, inevitably, vulnerable.

The New Yorker reveals how SARS-CoV-2 uses our defenses against us.

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