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The Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies quietly resumed coordinating with the major social media companies earlier this year to fight what government officials warned was a coming onslaught of foreign disinformation and influence operations leading up to the presidential election in November. In at least two instances in recent weeks, the companies have taken action to remove malign content, according to the Biden administration and company officials.

Contacts between F. B. I. investigators and the companies — including Facebook, X and YouTube — ground to a halt last year as a legal challenge that accused the Biden administration of censorship wound its way to the U. S. Supreme Court.

When President Biden came to office, however, the Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana went to court, saying such coordination was part of a sweeping government conspiracy to stifle critical conservative voices online.

After a lower court judge ruled in July 2023 that the accusations at the heart of the case reflected “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history,” the Biden administration suspended virtually all contact with the social media platforms as the appeals process unfolded.

In February, the Department of Justice rewrote its standard operating procedures to clarify when its officials could communicate with social media companies, even before the Supreme Court’s decision, according to the department’s official response to an inspector general report. It posted an outline of the guidelines without fanfare on the F. B. I.’s website on Aug. 1.

The new procedures emphasize that the bureau’s agents cannot exert any pressure on the platforms, leaving it to the companies to decide what to do with information about malign foreign influence operations online. The goal was to deflect the core accusation of the legal challenge: that the government had effectively coerced the platforms to act with threats of retaliation.

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they seem very popular online.

Skirts seem to be getting shorter all the time, and women seem to like showing off their legs.

Okay Guys... do you like looking at a woman's legs?

Six in 10 voters say Joe Biden should step down as president now - www.dailymail.co.uk/.../...ite-house-poll-age.html

New polls say 57% want Biden to resign now, Kamala will become president before Election Day - https://youtu.be/ctDvXnhmLXU?si=Mrl5x-aWETZk8jaD

Can you match these four countries with their appropriate information below?

Category is World Geography.

Countries: A=Austria, B=Botswana, C=China, D=Denmark

Items:

1 = This country has the world's oldest continuously operating restaurant
2 = This country has the world's shortest land border with another country
3 = A city in this country is approximately in the center of its continent
4 = The Faroe Islands belong to this country

Please select your answer in the poll, matching up each country with its information, by electing the desired sequence of letters. For example, if 1=D, 2=C, 3=B, 4=A , the poll choice would be DCBA (that may or may not be the right answer).