After riot at US Capitol, NC students turn to teachers for answers, assurance, comfort Martha Quillin, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Jan. 8 Rioters takeover of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday prompted unplanned civics lessons in classes across the area on Thursday as students and teachers tried to process what they had witnessed.
In online forums such as the North Carolina Teachers United Facebook group, educators shared ideas on how and whether to talk with students about events that played out for hours on television news broadcasts and live streams.
Some who posted online said teachers should leave all discussions about the assault on the Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump to parents, saying teachers couldn t discuss the events without injecting personal political biases.
Fake Reviews and Brushing on Amazon
January 8, 2021
On Amazon as anywhere consumers buy online, people often look first for the customer reviews section, for the most part assuming their veracity and relying on it as they weigh a purchasing decision. But as we all know, appearances can be deceiving.
Amazon has had a problem for a while with the practice of “brushing” on its 3P marketplace, where unscrupulous sellers boost their star rankings from customers by loading up the listing with irrelevant reviews for other, often scame products. This recently surfaced again in an article in Ars Technica, where the author described buying a defective drone for one of his children, where the listing was loaded with positive reviews for, of all things, honey. And in 2020, it was the Chinese seeds controversy.