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We
start today with the
continuing government shutdown and an inside look at how Facebook monitors its users’ posts.
And it’s Friday, so there’s also a
new news quiz.
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Sunrise
at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. Parts of the federal government remain
dark. Al Drago for The New York Times
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Government shutdown will extend into 2019
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The
spending impasse over President Trump’s border wall will await Democrats as
soon as they assume control of the House next week, after hopes for
resolving the partial government shutdown by the new year ended on
Thursday.
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The
Democrats and their likely speaker, Representative Nancy Pelosi, are
considering three options to end the shutdown, which has affected about a
quarter of the federal government. None of those options include the $5
billion that Mr. Trump has demanded for the wall.
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What’s
next: About 800,000 federal workers have been furloughed or are
working without pay, and the effects of the shutdown, which have been
muted by the holidays, will grow.
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U.S. withdrawals defer a debate on
military goals
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Military
analysts, former officials and diplomats say there are arguments for
withdrawing from both conflicts. But the abrupt announcement “seemed
unlikely to provoke a serious debate over difficult questions like how
best to combat terrorist threats in distant lands or the proper limits of
America’s role as a global guarantor of security.”
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Another
angle: Mr. Trump’s jabs at Democrats during a surprise visit
with U.S. troops abroad this week were criticized as politicizing the
military. One Fox News contributor said the president used the
visit “as a campaign rally.”
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Yesterday: Iraqi
politicians also criticized Mr. Trump’s visit,
with some calling for a parliamentary debate on whether American forces
should leave.
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An inside look at Facebook’s deletion
rules
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The
social network says it’s doing everything it can to get rid of posts that
sow division and violence, but it’s also determined to keep growing
worldwide.
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There
are billions of posts a day on Facebook, in more than 100 languages. To
monitor them, the company has a network of moderators who use PowerPoint
slides detailing what’s forbidden. Those rules make Facebook a far more
powerful arbiter of speech than has been publicly recognized or
acknowledged by the company, a Times investigation has found.
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The
details: Our review of the company’s rule books revealed gaps,
biases and outright errors, allowing extremist language to flourish in
some countries while censoring mainstream speech in others. Here are five takeaways from our investigation.
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How we
know: The Times received more than 1,400 pages from the rule
books from an employee who said he feared the company had too much power,
with too little oversight, and was making too many mistakes.
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Visitors
at a Christmas market in Halle, Germany, hosted by Generation Identity, a
far-right group. Lena Mucha for
The New York Times
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Germany’s far right rebrands
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Better
dressed, better educated and less angry than the skinheads of old, the
“new right” has sought to distance itself from the “old right,” which in
Germany means neo-Nazis.
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Although
the number of committed Generation Identity followers is estimated at
only 400 to 500, officials say the number of sympathizers is far greater.
There are worries that the group could act as a conduit between
conservatism and extremism.
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Voices: “The
utopia of multiculturalism was an experiment, but it has failed,” said
Martin Sellner, the 29-year-old Austrian leader of the movement. “Like
communism, cosmopolitanism has failed.”
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Shake-up
in Saudi Arabia: King Salman has named new ministers and security
chiefs to the kingdom’s cabinet but kept the levers of power
in the hands of his son and designated heir, Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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Snapshot:
Above, the sky over New York City turned an otherworldly blue Thursday
night after an electrical transformer exploded in Queens. “No
injuries, no fire, no evidence of extraterrestrial activity,” the New
York Police Department reported on Twitter.
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The lives
they lived: In an annual remembrance, we
look back at some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost this
year.
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News
quiz: Did you follow the headlines this week? Test yourself.
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Late-night
comedy: The hosts are either off or in reruns this week. Our
roundup will return.
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Now,
a break from the news
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Michael
Kraus for The New York Times
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Cook: Polenta with mushrooms.
The recipe, from the founding editor of NYT Cooking, features a pleasing
mix of butter and soy sauce.
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Smarter
Living: One of our reporters combined two popular methods — from
the books “The Bullet Journal Method” and “Getting Things Done” — to organize her to-do list.
She ended up keeping several sublists, and breaking down projects into
tasks to add to groupings like “Calls” or “Errands.”
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And
now for the Back Story on …
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Understanding anonymous sources in The
Times
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We
often hear from readers asking why we use unidentified sources.
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The
reason is straightforward: Some people in sensitive positions will speak
candidly only if their names aren’t published.
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But we
know our credibility is on the line. So we make sure to get the story
right.
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“Under
our guidelines, anonymous sources should be used only for information
that we think is newsworthy and credible, and that we are not able to
report any other way,” our standards editor, Phil Corbett, explains in
our series Understanding The Times.
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“We
have to be skeptical,” he adds. “How does the source know this
information? Can we corroborate it? What’s the source’s motivation for
telling us?”
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And
the reporter must tell an editor who the source is.
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“Use
of anonymous sourcing in any story must be approved by a high-ranking
editor, usually a department head,” Mr. Corbett writes. “When it’s
central to the story, it generally must be approved by an even
higher-ranking editor.”
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That’s
it for this briefing. Have a good weekend.
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Thank you
To Aisha Harris for the cultural highlights, and Alan Henry and Kenneth
R. Rosen for the tips on Smarter Living. Jennifer Krauss, from the Times
Insider team, helped with today’s Back Story. You can reach us at briefing@nytimes.com.
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P.S.
• We’re listening to “The Daily.” Today’s
episode revisits a mother who asked her sons about their reactions to the
accusations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
• Here’s today’s mini crossword puzzle, and
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