A Conversation: Richard Flanagan with Claire Messud (video)
Australia’s leading novelist, Richard Flanagan, makes his first U.S. appearance since his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a harrowing account of his father’s time in a… More
PEN World Voices Festival: Richard Flanagan on Confronting “the Darkness” of Communal Trauma
Richard Flanagan on how his father's traumatic internment at a Japanese POW camp during World War II informed the writing of his Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road… More
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The European Union has threatened to ban Twitter unless @elonmusk abides by its strict rules on content moderation, setting up a regulatory battle over the future of the social media platform, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-warns-musk-that-twitter-faces-ban-over-content-moderation-ft-2022-11-30/
Remarkably, local conservative parents have come out to these FL board mtgs to say they have been duped, did not vote for the ousting of their superintendents. But to little avail. The new playbook of total ideological control is in full swing. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/30/desantis-school-board-covid-00071305
Nobel Peace Prize winner @mariaressa says social media has “come in and used free speech to stifle free speech.”
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