Coronavirus Disinformation May Have Contributed To Market Drop

Financial markets are particularly susceptible to disinformation driven manipulation
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynerash/2020/02/24/coronavirus-disinformation-may-have-contributed-to-market-drop/#3ec4618625a7?source=Snapzu

How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw

China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country.
Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coronavirus-and-blindness-authoritarianism/606922/?source=Snapzu

Farming gave us salmonella, ancient DNA suggests

But pigs didn’t give humans typhoid
Read more: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/farming-gave-us-salmonella-ancient-dna-suggests?source=Snapzu

Harvey Weinstein found guilty of rape at New York trial

Film mogul found guilty of a criminal sex act in the first degree and rape in the third degree, and acquitted on three further charges
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/24/harvey-weinstein-guilty-trial-charges-verdict?source=Snapzu

Greta Thunberg’s mother reveals teenager’s troubled childhood

Swedish opera singer Malena Ernman gives emotional account of daughter’s battles with autism and an eating disorder
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/22/greta-thunberg-mother-she-stopped-talking-and-eating?source=Snapzu

Coronavirus: Wuhan to quarantine all cured patients after some test positive

The authorities in Wuhan on Saturday introduced 14 days’ mandatory quarantine for recovered coronavirus patients, after some discharged patients again tested positive. From Saturday, all patients who had recovered and been discharged had to be sent to designated places for two weeks of quarantine and medical observation, the city’s coronavirus treatment and control command centre said on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter.
Read more: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3051966/coronavirus-wuhan-quarantine-all-cured-patients-14-days-after?source=Snapzu

Assange was meeting his lawyer. He didn't know there were microphones in the room

Julian Assange's conversations, including legally privileged meetings with Australian lawyers, were secretly recorded inside his London embassy home.
Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-23/surveillance-of-julian-assange-captured-lawyers-conversations/11985872?source=Snapzu