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Feds agree to pay $6.1M to create database for Capitol riot prosecutions

Deloitte will assemble videos, photos, social media posts and documents for use by attorneys in a slew of criminal cases.

The still-incomplete database has sharply slowed down efforts by prosecutors and defense attorneys to hammer out plea deals for dozens, if not hundreds, of alleged rioters. Prosecutors have repeatedly emphasized that the massive trove of evidence grows daily, as they recover phones, hard drives and other devices from newly arrested defendants, many of whom filmed their own actions at the Capitol and captured the movements of others in the crowd. Several defendants have sought quick resolution of their cases only to be told by prosecutors that they must wait until the database is established.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/09/doj-database-capitol-riot-prosecutions-498911
 
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Rupert Murdoch’s answer to Google News is dead after only 18 months

In August of 2019, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp announced that it was developing Knwez, its own "conservative friendly" alternative to Google News. Knewz went live without much fanfare in January of 2020, and officially died today, less than eighteen months later.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...-to-google-news-is-dead-after-only-18-months/

If you don’t Knewz, you don’t know.
 
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Whether Republicans Get Vaccinated Has A Lot To Do With If They Watch Fox News … Or OANN

OANN and Newsmax still make up just a small sliver of Americans’ overall media diet, and there’s, of course, a lot of overlap in viewership between those two networks and Fox News. But there are some signs that OANN and Newsmax are replacing Fox News as the primary news sources for at least some Republicans. I’m the research director at the Public Religion Research Institute, and in a March survey we conducted with Interfaith Youth Core on COVID-19 and conspiracy beliefs, we found that Fox News had fallen in popularity among Republicans, with just 27 percent saying it was their go-to news source versus 40 percent last September. What’s more, 7 percent of Republicans listed a far-right news network they preferred instead. That means they took the time to type in an “other” response in our text-box field, as it was not provided as a choice.1 Only a handful did this in September 2020.

This underscores just how central the “Big Lie” and baseless allegations of election fraud are to Republicans’ political identity. While media diets explain some differences that Republicans have, there is still an overlap between those who trust far-right news outlets versus Fox News — especially where Trump is concerned. That said, we did find differences in how strongly Republicans believed the election had been stolen from Trump based on their media preferences: Forty-six percent of Fox News Republicans completely agreed that the election was stolen (whereas 40 percent mostly agreed), but among far-right news Republicans, 74 percent completely agreed (22 percent mostly agreed).

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-extremes-of-the-gop-have-moved-beyond-fox-news/
 
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