Madrid Storm, Union Strikes, 200 Million Subscribers

January 20, 2021

Yesterday’s Newsletter / January 20, 2021

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Spain declares disaster-zone status for Madrid and other storm-hit regions
—Reuters

Germany extends COVID lockdown until February 14
—Deutsche Welle

Unions strike over job cuts at French vaccine maker Sanofi
—The Associated Press

US says China’s repression of Uighurs is “genocide”
—The New York Times

Netflix surpasses 200 million global subscribers
—The Verge

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Oil and gas companies are struggling through some difficult, immediate realities related to the global pandemic, but are also staring down the barrel of a post-Peak Oil world in which their products will be increasingly frowned upon and far less in demand. The automobile industry is just one of many such industries that show this shift away from fossil fuel consumption, and it clearly illustrates the upward, market-claiming trajectory of alternative energy sources. —The Wall Street Journal

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Decrease in misinformation tracked on Twitter and other major social networks after outgoing US President Trump was banned from those platforms in the aftermath of the January 6 attack on the US Capitol building.

Important to note that a slew of other purveyors for misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation were also banned from these sites within the same period of just a few days, so that drop is the consequence of the new banning policies and practices in general, not just the banning of that one account.

—The Washington Post

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Yesterday’s Newsletter is published by analytic journalist and host of the Let’s Know Things podcast, Colin Wright.