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Join PEN America and the Coalition Against #OnlineViolence to demand concrete, actionable changes on social media platforms to #FightOnlineAbuseNow. Sign our petition today: https://bit.ly/2YPEUMU.

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Hong Kong has warned the Wall Street Journal that it may have broken electoral law by "scaremongering" in a recent editorial about the upcoming vote for the city's legislative council. https://cnn.it/3ouNL0X

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