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Asia Today: 623 virus cases linked to South Korea church | Latest News | greensboro.com

South Korean health workers have found more than 600 coronavirus infections linked to a Seoul church led by a vocal opponent of the country’s president as officials began restricting gatherings in the greater capital area amid fears that transmissions are getting out of control.

Vice Health Minister Kim Gang-lip said Wednesday that health authorities are also seeking location data provided by cellphone carriers while trying to track thousands who participated in an anti-government protest on Saturday, which worsened the virus’s spread. The march was attended by members of the Sarang Jeil Church and its ultra-right pastor, Jun Kwang-hun, who has been hospitalized since Monday after testing positive.

 

Source: Asia Today: 623 virus cases linked to South Korea church | Latest News | greensboro.com

Reports: Facebook Fires Employee Who Shared Proof of Right Wing Favoritism – CBS San Francisco

Facebook fired a senior engineer this week who collected evidence showing the social media company giving preferential treatment to right wing accounts, according to a report from Buzzfeed News. The engineer, who Buzzfeed did not name, recently posted internal information on Workplace showing that “Facebook was giving preferential treatment to prominent conservative accounts to help them remove fact-checks from their content.” Facebook later deleted the post and on Wednesday, the company fired the poster. The firing comes after Facebook employees confronted CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg over preferential treatment for right wing sites during an all-hands meeting last Friday. The employees pushed Zuckerberg on how “Breitbart News could remain a Facebook News partner after sharing a video that promoted unproven treatments and said masks were unnecessary to combat the novel coronavirus,” according to Buzzfeed.

Source: Reports: Facebook Fires Employee Who Shared Proof of Right Wing Favoritism – CBS San Francisco

Election 2020: Mail backing up amid postal service funding battle as fears grow over absentee voting in November

In May and June, the USPS pulled the plug on eight mail processing machines in Cincinnati, accounting for 19% of the processing center’s capacity, according to Sizemore. While the machines are no longer in operations, most remain in the facility in Queensgate, he said, scheduled for removal on Sept. 1. He received a call from a mechanic on Tuesday saying the postal service has started to dismantle some of the machines.

Source: Election 2020: Mail backing up amid postal service funding battle as fears grow over absentee voting in November

(Active GOP attempt to take power from states in violation of the Constitution) To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit an election official from transmitting a ballot to an individual by mail for an election for Federal office unless the official certifies to the chief State election official that the individual is eligible to vote in the election. (H.R. 8072) – GovTrack.us

Jason Smith

Representative for Missouri’s 8th congressional district

Republican

Source: To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit an election official from transmitting a ballot to an individual by mail for an election for Federal office unless the official certifies to the chief State election official that the individual is eligible to vote in the election. (H.R. 8072) – GovTrack.us