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Meta shutters tool used to fight disinformation, despite outcry to keep CrowdTangle going
The social media company discontinues its CrowdTangle tool, which researchers have used to track misinformation. Amid fears of election interference, lawmakers have urged Meta to keep it running.
How arrests in armed robbery of $1 million watch led to a handgun registered to Christopher Dorner
Federal prosecutors announced charges Tuesday against two men from South America and said they recovered a handgun registered to Dorner, a former LAPD officer who killed four people and led authorities on a wild pursuit in 2013.
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