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• Where terror struck, New Yorkers model resilience amid diversity
• New York’s response to a truck terrorist
• Congress drills down on Russian infiltration of social media
• Russia's independent media cite intimidation as the new censorship

Where terror struck, New Yorkers model resilience amid diversity Posted: 01 Nov 2017 02:10 PM PDT The stretch of pedestrian paths, bikeways, and newly landscaped parks that extend along the Hudson River on Manhattan's west side is a place where local residents, students, and visitors from around the world have mixed together to experience the sights and sounds of New York City. "It has 134 nationalities and ethnicities.

New York’s response to a truck terrorist Posted: 01 Nov 2017 12:50 PM PDT In defiance of the fear-based approach to terrorist acts by most news media, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced after the Oct. 31 truck attack in Manhattan that the killing spree by one young man "did not instill terror" among New Yorkers. The Islamic State (ISIS) appears worried that an attitude of calm and aplomb is prevailing.

Congress drills down on Russian infiltration of social media Posted: 01 Nov 2017 12:21 PM PDT On Tuesday and Wednesday, executives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google were on Capitol Hill answering questions about Russian infiltration of their platforms, what they are doing about it, and why it took them so long to acknowledge the problem and its scope. The recent revelation that the Hillary Clinton campaign funded a salacious dossier on then-candidate Donald Trump that relied on information from Russia has sent House and Senate committees looking into Russian election interference on two different tracks.

Russia's independent media cite intimidation as the new censorship Posted: 01 Nov 2017 10:28 AM PDT Russia's dwindling band of liberal-minded opposition journalists is shrinking fast in the face of a spate of terror attacks. The Kremlin insists it has nothing to do with the violence. "The level of neurosis and hysteria is growing, with official attempts to find scapegoats to blame," says Dmitry Muratov, the editor of one of the few remaining opposition newspapers, Novaya Gazeta.

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