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Daily dispatch
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The latest from The Economist
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Thursday | April 4th 2019
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Facebook
Algorithmic prejudice
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The Department of Housing and Urban
Development is suing Facebook for allowing advertisers to exclude whole
categories of people—couples with children, non-Americans, disabled people,
for example—from seeing ads for housing. A new paper appears to add weight
to HUD’s claim. The research team, led by computer scientists from
Northeastern University, concludes that Facebook’s own systems are
influenced by users’ race and gender when presenting them with ads
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Hong Kong
Back to the mainland
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Yesterday a draft bill was presented to Hong
Kong’s legislature that would allow the extradition of criminal
suspects from the territory to China’s mainland. Its approval is all but
certain because, by China’s design, pro-establishment lawmakers have a
majority in the legislature. Some Hong Kongers worry that their government
might use the bill to hand over dissidents and other political
troublemakers at the central government’s request
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Brexit
Come together
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Theresa May is negotiating with Jeremy Corbyn,
the Labour Party leader, about alternatives to her Brexit deal that could
win a majority in Parliament. The prime minister will surely have to soften
some of her “red lines”, so the outcome should be a softer
Brexit. This is likely to start with acceptance of a permanent customs
union. And Ms May has finally come out firmly against a no-deal Brexit. Now
she needs to convince the EU to give her more time
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The end of the dinosaurs
Out with a bang
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Almost 40 years ago two scientists made public
their theory that the dinosaurs were killed off by a massive asteroid
strike. It surprised many palaeontologists who believed dinosaurs had
gradually died out for other reasons. The missing piece of the puzzle was
evidence of what actually happened when the asteroid struck. Now, though,
an American fossil bed is revealing details of the conditions that followed
just minutes after the asteroid impact, and eventually drove the dinosaurs to extinction
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