PrendeTV, Farm Laws, Walmart

January 13, 2021

Yesterday’s Newsletter / January 13, 2021

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News

Malaysia's election-delaying lockdown is not a coup, Prime Minister says
—NPR News

Univision enters the streaming race with free, Spanish-only PrendeTV
—The Verge

Billion-dollar disasters shattered US record in 2020
—Scientific American

India’s top court suspends implementation of new farm laws
—The Associated Press

Deutsche Bank and Signature Bank cutting ties with Trump after riots
also: Walmart suspends contributions to politicians who opposed Biden certification
also: Talk-radio owner orders conservative hosts to temper election fraud rhetoric
—Bloomberg, Reuters, The Washington Post

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Visual

Due in part to supply chain disruptions, in part to market uncertainty, and in part to a weak US Dollar, food prices worldwide have been increasing for about seven months. The duration and amount of the increase varies based on where you are in the world, but this inflation is widespread and expected to continue until things stabilize economically and politically. —Axios

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70 terabytes

Approximate amount of data scraped by security researchers from the Twitter-clone social network, Parler, before it was taken offline by its host, Amazon Web Services, a few days ago.

Over the past few days it’s become evident that the site doesn’t seem to have been built particularly well, especially in terms of privacy for its users—which is how the researchers who scraped this data were able to get it so easily, and why there’s so much of it.

—Cybernews

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