Alyssa Fisher
By Alyssa Fisher
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Fast Forward Soros Cites Nazis To Warn World About Peril Of Artificial Intelligence In China
Billionaire financier George Soros blasted China for its progress on artificial intelligence, hoping to “warn the world” of the threat it imposes, BuzzFeed News reported. Soros directed his speech at world leaders on Thursday at his annual dinner during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which criticized China’s development of an automated “social credit…
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Fast Forward American Soldiers In Israel Get The Help They Really Need On ‘Errands Day’
Lone Soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces were helped out and shown appreciation on Thursday for “Yom Siddurim,” or Personal Errands Day. Nefesh B’Nefesh and Friends of the Israel Defense Forces hosted the sixth annual event, in which several agencies help lone soldiers, someone without immediate family in Israel who enlists in the IDF, check…
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Fast Forward Did China Just Says Yes To Ivanka-Brand Child Care Centers?
The Chinese government has granted Ivanka Trump’s company preliminary approval for another five trademarks, Fortune reported. The applications were filed in 2016 and 2017. Four trademarks were approved Sunday, including child care centers, sunglasses and wedding dresses. The first was approved January 6 and covers brokerage, charitable fundraising and art valuation services, according to online…
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Fast Forward Twitter CEO: Nazis Flourish On Twitter Because Users Let Them
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted in a few interviews that there is no real plan to handle the neo-Nazis trolling the social media platform, according to Vanity Fair. In an interview for Rolling Stone, published Wednesday, Dorsey was asked about barrage of tweets he gets a day, calling to “get the Nazis off Twitter.” He…
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Fast Forward Trump Is Threatening Michael Cohen’s Father-In-Law With Investigation
The threats that are keeping Michael Cohen from testifying in front of Congress next month are being directed at this father-in-law, The New York Times reported. Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, postponed his February testimony on Wednesday. His lawyer, Lanny Davis, said Trump has been threatening Cohen, as well as suggesting that one…
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Fast Forward Ben Shapiro’s Advertisers Pull Out Over ‘Baby Hitler’ Remarks
Three companies have ceased advertising on Ben Shapiro’s podcast after the conservative commentator said that “no pro-life person on earth would kill baby Hitler,” reasoning that “baby Hitler was a baby,” The Wrap reported. Saucy, a Los Angeles-based alcohol-delivery company, was the latest company to say it would no longer advertise on the popular podcast,…
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Fast Forward Swastika Graffitti Up 76% Since Trump Election, Says NYC Police
Since the 2016 presidential election, swastikas have been more prevalent in New York and New Jersey, Gothamist reported. From 2016 to 2018, swastika vandalism rose 76 percent, according to the New York City Police Department. It also noted there was a notable increase after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in October. The hate symbols have been…
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Fast Forward Ilhan Omar Admits ‘Israel Hypnotizes The World’ Tweet Was ‘Ugly’
Representative Ilhan Omar has apologized for a tweet she wrote in 2012, in which she said that “Israel has hypnotized the world” during the war with Gaza. The Minnesota congresswoman acknowledged Monday that she prioritized putting her tweet into context rather than condemning the offensive language. “In all sincerity, it was after my CNN interview…
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