| Facebook’s search for local virtues Posted: 19 Jul 2018 01:28 PM PDT ![Facebook's search for local virtues]( "Facebook's search for local virtues") The world's biggest social media network is thinking rather small these days. On July 18, Facebook announced that it will start removing misinformation on its digital platforms that could spark violence. While the goal is global, the company will act on what it hopes are local community standards, relying on "local context and local partners" to help it in making decisions to ban language and images that might incite physical harm.
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| For some military vets, deep concern over Trump’s summit with Putin Posted: 19 Jul 2018 01:13 PM PDT ![For some military vets, deep concern over Trump's summit with Putin]( "For some military vets, deep concern over Trump's summit with Putin") Kristofer Goldsmith served in the military during the presidency of George W. Bush, and while he came to regard the Iraq War as unnecessary, he respected then-President Bush's loyalty to the armed forces and the intelligence community. "I never once felt that he didn't have the best interests of the United States at the forefront of his mind," says Mr. Goldsmith.
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| For stressed African migrants in Israel, collective farms offer a refuge Posted: 19 Jul 2018 09:07 AM PDT ![For stressed African migrants in Israel, collective farms offer a refuge]( "For stressed African migrants in Israel, collective farms offer a refuge") Under a canopy of jacaranda and eucalyptus trees, Rowha Dabrazion, an Eritrean asylum seeker, pushes her one-year-old daughter in a crib on wheels, a fixture of kibbutz life. It's been a week since she arrived here to this lush cooperative community along the shores of the Mediterranean, midway between Tel Aviv and Haifa. Just one month ago her husband left her and the children.
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| Why ancient farming practices have resurged in a storied part of Mexico City Posted: 19 Jul 2018 08:56 AM PDT ![Why ancient farming practices have resurged in a storied part of Mexico City]( "Why ancient farming practices have resurged in a storied part of Mexico City") Lucio Usobiaga has childhood memories of going to Xochimilco, a network of ancient, man-made canals and floating islands in southern Mexico City. Today, the area is still known for its crowds of tourists and brightly painted party boats, but Mr. Usobiaga's associations with Xochimilco have changed. "Farming organically is the best way to preserve the chinampas," Usobiaga says of the islands created in the Valley of Mexico that were incorporated into a larger network of waterways by the Aztecs and later the Spanish.
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