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Instagram’s Selective Blurring Of Nudity Falls Woefully Short Of Protecting Kids

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Instagram is finally taking action against sexual exploitation on its platform, just one day after being called out in the National Center on Sexual Exploitation’s (NCOSE) Dirty Dozen List. Instagram, which is owned by Meta, will use artificial intelligence to automatically blur images of nudity in the direct messages (DMs) of users under 18 years old. 

While the new policy may seem like a welcome step in the right direction, it’s far from enough. Minors may still click “view image anyway” and easily surpass the blurring on an explicit direct message. Many children will want to click on the blurred image to see what it is. In fact, the change is little different than Instagram’s existing policy banning the posting of nude images, which is easily circumvented or overridden by users. 

“Why is Meta even putting the burden on children to make the choice about seeing sexually explicit content when their own policies expressly prohibit it?” asked Tori Rousay, corporate advocacy manager and analyst at NCOSE.

Even TikTok simply disables all direct messaging for users aged 13 to 15, understanding that this private venue for communication opens up children to victimization of various forms, even without the sharing of explicit imagery. Disabling DMs for children under 18 would be an obvious next step for Meta to take in combating sexual exploitation on its platforms. 

“Disabling direct messaging for minors, like TikTok does … would be a significant step and something the National Center on Sexual Exploitation has also been asking Meta to do,” Rousay said. “Further, prohibiting

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To Be Happy, Women Must Do The Opposite Of Everything Secular Western Culture Tells Them

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Everyone wants to talk about what’s wrong with men, whether it’s “toxic masculinity,” “men without work,” “the end of men,” the longhouse, or the need for men to “clean their rooms.” Not so many people, however, want to talk about what’s wrong with women. Even the longhouse complaint is that women are too successful:

As of 2022, women held 52 percent of professional-managerial roles in the U.S. Women earn more than 57 percent of bachelor degrees, 61 percent of master’s degrees, and 54 percent of doctoral degrees. And because they are overrepresented in professions, such as human resource management (73 percent) and compliance officers (57 percent), that determine workplace behavioral norms, they have an outsized influence on professional culture, which itself has an outsized influence on American culture more generally.

The bureaucracy that controls Western life is feminized, the longhouse argument goes; implying that women have won. But is that true? Is it “winning” for women to wield power at the expense of their sexual counterparts, the other half of humanity, without which there is no humanity? Are women happier ostensibly being in charge? It seems obvious the answer to that is a resounding no.

Our society offers very few generally accepted successful strategies for helping both men and women achieve happiness through maturity. The women might look better on their resumes, but they’re also a skyrocketing majority of antidepressant and other pharmaceutical users. And it sure doesn’t satisfy women that they can kick tail in the office if their apartments are

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Kristen Clarke Allegedly Knifed Her Ex And Lied About It — But It’s Not The Worst Thing She’s Done

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According to The Daily Signal, there is a strong indication that Kristen Clarke, who now leads the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, lied during her confirmation process in 2021. In written questions, Sen. Tom Cotton had asked Clarke: “Since becoming a legal adult, have you ever been arrested for or accused of committing a violent crime against any person.” Her answer was “No.”

Clarke, who was arrested in July 2006, allegedly attacked her husband with a knife, “deeply slicing his finger to the bone.” Her pedantic argument is that her record was expunged. But the incident meets all the criteria of being “accused” of a “violent crime.”

Listen, we have no clue how the knife incident went down. It’s a personal matter. Clarke says it happened after years of domestic abuse. Maybe her then-husband had it coming. Maybe not. She still lied to the Senate. And it’s not the only thing she lied about.

Clarke, recall, was ahead of the curve in spreading the racist pseudoscientific quackery that has popularized on modern campuses. As president of the Black Student Association at Harvard in the 1990s, she authored a wild letter to the Crimson, arguing that the structure of the black person’s brain made them superior to other races. Chemicals in the brain, Clarke went on, imbued the black race with “superior physical and mental abilities” and “spiritual abilities,” and “[m]elanin endows Blacks with greater mental, physical and spiritual abilities — something which cannot be measured based on Eurocentric standards.” 

For context, Farrakhanites were gaining entry

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5 Takeaways From Peter Daszak’s Testimony On U.S.-Funded Coronavirus Research

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EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Wednesday about his organization’s role in conducting gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in the years leading up to the 2020 Covid outbreak.

Daszak’s testimony came hours after the GOP members of the subcommittee released a damning report highlighting alleged wrongdoing by EcoHealth throughout its coronavirus research, several details of which conflict with Daszak’s statements from a closed-door interview with House members in November. The report recommended the NIH and Department of Health and Human Services “immediately commence suspension and debarment proceedings against both EcoHealth and Dr. Daszak” and the Justice Department to “evaluate if Dr. Daszak violated any federal laws.”

“These revelations undermine your credibility as well as every factual assertion you made during your transcribed interview,” the committee chairs wrote ahead of Wednesday’s hearing. “The Committees have a right and an obligation to protect the integrity of their investigations, including the accuracy of testimony during a transcribed interview.”

As Helen Raleigh previously reported at The Federalist, EcoHealth Alliance is a nongovernmental organization that from 2014-2020, sent “more than half a million dollars’ worth of U.S. government grants, including those from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with Anthony Fauci’s approval, to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to conduct gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses.” While the Trump administration axed government funds for EcoHealth Alliance in 2020, the group has received federal grants since Joe Biden was sworn into office. A White

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