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Silicon Valley Ditches News, Shaking an Unstable Industry
Campbell Brown, Facebook’s top news executive, said this month that she was leaving the company. Twitter, now known as X, removed headlines from the platform days later. The head of Instagram’s Threads app, an X competitor, reiterated that his social network would not amplify news. Even Google — the strongest partner to news organizations over the past 10 years — has become less dependable, making
Opinion | Why MAGA Wants to Betray Ukraine
So the federal government wasn’t shut down over the weekend, although we may have to go through this whole drama again in six weeks. Kevin McCarthy, the speaker of the House, ended up doing the obvious: bringing a funding bill to the floor that could pass only with Democratic votes, because the hard-liners in his own party wouldn’t agree to anything feasible. And the bill didn’t include any of the
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His pronouncements could hardly sound more drastic. In interviews and public appearances, Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor of economics at Yale, has taken on the question of how to deal with the burdens of Japan’s rapidly aging society. “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” he said during one online news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of
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This month, I chose to leave my position leading trust and safety at Elon Musk’s Twitter. My teams were responsible for drafting Twitter’s rules and figuring out how to apply them consistently to hundreds of millions of tweets per day. In my more than seven years at the company, we exposed government-backed troll farms meddling in elections, introduced tools for contextualizing dangerous misinform
New Evidence Shows How Russian Soldiers Executed Men in Bucha
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Bucha’s Month of Terror (Published 2022)
The following images depict graphic violence. ‘They shot my son. I was next to him. It would be better if it had been me.’ Leer en español As the Russian advance on Kyiv stalled, a campaign of terror and revenge against civilians nearby in Bucha began, survivors and investigators say. BUCHA, Ukraine — A mother killed by a sniper while walking with her family to fetch a thermos of tea. A woman held
A Memorable Olympics, but for the Right Reasons? (Published 2021)
TOKYO — The kaleidoscopic stands of Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium — a disordered mosaic of white and green and reddish-brown seats — were designed to evoke the sun-dappled floor of a Japanese forest. Over the past three weeks, though, they have had another, useful effect: Squint your eyes, blur them just so, and it almost appears as if spectators are arrayed around the sweeping structure, as if the 68,0
Tokyo Olympics Chief Apologizes for Remarks Demeaning Women (Published 2021)
TOKYO — Organizers of the Tokyo Olympics, already facing rising costs and significant public opposition to this summer’s Games, faced a new furor on Wednesday after the president of the Tokyo organizing committee suggested women talk too much in meetings. The president, Yoshiro Mori, stoked a social media backlash after news reports emerged of his comments demeaning women during an executive meeti
Designed to Deceive: Do These People Look Real to You? (Published 2020)
The creation of these types of fake images only became possible in recent years thanks to a new type of artificial intelligence called a generative adversarial network. In essence, you feed a computer program a bunch of photos of real people. It studies them and tries to come up with its own photos of people, while another part of the system tries to detect which of those photos are fake. The back
死者の声を運ぶ小舟 (Published 2020)
広島の原爆の日は８月６日。長崎は８月９日。そして終戦の日が８月１５日。日本にとって８月は、死者を思う季節である。 本当なら今年、７５年めの原爆の日を、私たちは東京オリンピックの期間中に迎えるはずだった。しかし、新型コロナウイルスの蔓延によりオリンピックは延期され、思いがけない静けさの中で人々は、死者のために黙祷を捧げることになった。 １９６４年の東京オリンピック大会で聖火の最終ランナーを務めたのは、１９歳の、無名の陸上選手だった。その青年は、原爆投下の当日、広島で生を受けていた。真っ白いランニングシャツと短パンを身に着け、聖火台に続く長い階段を駆け上がる彼の姿は、実に清潔で、均整がとれ、全身に若々しさが満ちあふれていた。この映像を目にするたび、敗戦からわずか１９年で、世界中の人々が集まるスポーツの祭典が日本で催された、という現実に驚かされる。人類が経験したことのない徹底的な破壊の中から誕生
Opinion | How Long Will a Vaccine Really Take? (Published 2020)
A vaccine would be the ultimate weapon against the coronavirus and the best route back to normal life. Officials like Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the top infectious disease expert on the Trump administration’s coronavirus task force, estimate a vaccine could arrive in at least 12 to 18 months. The grim truth behind this rosy forecast is that a vaccine probably won’t arrive any time soon. Clinical trials
日本のワーキングマザー 妻の過大な負担・夫の過少な支援 (Published 2019)
東京 — ニシマサヨシコさんの書類作業は、いくらやっても終らない。 彼女は、毎日こと細かに記録をつけなければならず、それ以外にも注意深くチェックし、押印しなくてはならない書類をたくさん抱えている。日々の会話、行動、食事の内容までもすべて記録するのだ。 これらの作業のうち、マーケティングのプロである彼女の仕事のためのものはひとつもない。すべて、子供たちの保育園に必要な書類で、彼女が出社前に片付けるものなのだ。 38歳のニシマサさんは、日本のほかの多くのワーキングマザーと同様に、仕事とは無関係の、しかし骨の折れる事務的作業を山ほど抱えている。このような作業は、彼女の働く機会を制限している。今、日本は、彼女のような女性にもっと働いてもらう必要があると、唱えているのにも関わらず、だ。 安倍晋三首相は、「ウィメノミクス」というキャッチフレーズの女性活躍推進戦略を提唱し、停滞する日本経済を活性化させ
Aretha Franklin, Indomitable ‘Queen of Soul,’ Dies at 76 (Published 2018)
transcript Remembering Aretha FranklinIn a musical career of more than five decades, Aretha Franklin had more than 100 singles on the Billboard charts. But more important, says Jon Pareles, chief popular music critic for The New York Times, she freed other singers to let their voices fly. “Testing, can you hear me?” [playing piano] “I don’t want nobody.” The simple thing about Aretha Franklin is s
Text of President Obama’s Speech in Hiroshima, Japan (Published 2016)
President Obama spoke after a wreath-laying ceremony with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on Friday.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times The following is a transcript of President Obama’s speech in Hiroshima, Japan, as recorded by The New York Times. Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash
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