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Facebook VP Nick Clegg On New Climate Change Information Hub

  "We are hopeful this climate science information center will be very effective," says Facebook Vice President of Global Affairs and Communications Nick Clegg. "It provides a simple, easy-to-find repository for authoritative information about what is happening to our climate, how it's changing. And our experience with the COVID information hub is that there is a real appetite for people to find out more for themselves." Clegg talked with NPR's Audie Cornish on All Things Considered about misinformation on Facebook. Here are selected excerpts of that interview: Is there anything that Facebook can do https://www.wikipedia.org/ https://www.youtube.com/ https://www.yahoo.com/ https://www.google.com/ https://courses-ecornell.instructure.com/eportfolios/2304/Home/300560_Exam https://courses-ecornell.instructure.com/eportfolios/2304/Home/500920_Exam https://courses-ecornell.instructure.com/eportfolios/2304/Home/820445_Exam https://courses-ecornell.instructure.com/...

Plucky" is one of those words that doesn't get out and about much anymore.

  Something about it feels off, a bit — regressive, condescending, even vaguely sexist, as it's usually only seen in the company of the word "heroine" these days. But I'm gonna dust it off and use it here, because there's just no getting around it — "plucky," after all, means "spirited, determined and courageous, especially when things are looking grim" and 16-year-old Enola Holmes (as played by Millie Bobby Brown, who's also — tellingly, I think — one of  The bright, breezy Netflix film Enola Holmes, which is based on a series of YA novels by Nancy Springer, benefits hugely from Brown's lively, intelligent and charming performance. She's so good here that even the character's tendency to turn to the camera and address the audience — which she does a great deal (seriously, this film has more asides than an adodecahedron) — never gets wearying. You even start to find yourself looking forward to them, if you can imagine. https://w...