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theguardian.com wrote:During tonight’s debate, Mike Pence and Kamala Harris will be positioned 12 feet apart, separated by plexiglass barriers – which scientists say are woefully ineffective.

Pence and his aides had initially protested the plexiglass but eventually acquiesced. Although the barriers would block any spit that the candidates spray as they speak, it wouldn’t stop the virus from being carried in the air. As the CDC acknowledged this week, coronavirus can be carried by aerosols – tiny airborne droplets – that can move over and around a sheet of plexiglass.

Although Pence has cited multiple negative tests – and has been cleared by the White House physician to participate in the debates. But tests for Covid-19 can come up negative up too 14 days after exposure to the virus. Though the CDC has said Pence has not been in close contact with anyone suspected of being infected, Pence himself said he’d met with Donald Trump – who has been infected.

theguardian.com wrote:Facebook has announced significant changes to its advertising and misinformation policies, saying it will stop running political ads in the United States after polls close on 3 November for an undetermined period of time.

The changes, announced Wednesday, come in an effort to “protect the integrity” of the upcoming election “by fighting foreign interference, misinformation and voter suppression”, the company said in a blog post.

Facebook’s chief executive, officer Mark Zuckerberg, had previously defended the controversial decision not to fact check political advertising on the platform, but in recent weeks Facebook has begun to remove political ads that feature dangerous and misleading claims.

In early September, the company pledged to stop running new political ads one week before 3 November, the day of the United States elections, to prevent last-minute misinformation. Now it will disallow political advertising entirely following election day “to reduce opportunities for confusion or abuse”. The company did not say whether the previous ban on new ads remains, or give a timeline for if and when political advertising could return.

StaLinkola wrote: ↑

08 Oct 2020, 04:14

Pensselisedän ja Harrisin väittely alkoi. On SELVÄSTI sivistyneempi sävy kuin pressaehdokkaiden väittelyssä. Koronasta aloitetaan.

StaLinkola wrote: ↑

08 Oct 2020, 04:20

Pence väistelee kokeneen ammattipoliitikon tavoin.

I’d say Pence’s strategy might just be trying to gaslight people into projecting some sense of normalcy, which might work for 90 minutes but won’t work when Trump goes on some 47-tweet tangent 2 minutes after the debate ends.

Jussin villapaita wrote: ↑

08 Oct 2020, 04:29

StaLinkola wrote: ↑

08 Oct 2020, 04:20

Pence väistelee kokeneen ammattipoliitikon tavoin.

Harris vetelee kyllä välillä myös aika hyvin kysymysten vierestä Just äsken tuli CV kun piti vastata kysymykseen ootteko Bidenin kanssa sopinu kuviot selväks, jos presidentti syystä tai toisesta sairastuu tms.

Hirveetä paskaa noi Pencen koronavastaukset oli, mutta Harris ei ihan kunnolla jostain syystä iskeny vastapalloon. Se "respect people by being honest" -aloitus esim. oli hyvä, mutta sitä ois pitäny jatkaa jollain muulla kuin sillä jo aikasemmassa puheenvuorossa käytetyllä pointilla tammikuun tapahtumista. Tuoda esiim. esim. rumpsin fantasiat taianomaisesti katoavasta viruksesta, yleisestä ristiriitaisesta ja kansaa polarisoivasta viestinnästä jne.