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In a statement posted to Facebook late Friday afternoon, Mark Zuckerberg offered up an explanation of why his company did not contextualize or remove posts from the accounts associated with President Donald Trump that appeared to incite violence against American citizens. n “We looked very closely at the post that discussed the protests in Minnesota to evaluate whether it violated our policies,” Zuckerberg wrote. “Our policy around incitement of violence allows discussion around state use of force, although I think today's situation raises important questions about what potential limits of that discussion should be.” n Facebook's position stands in sharp contrast to recent decisions made by Twitter, with the approval of its chief executive, Jack Dorsey, to screen a tweet from the President on Thursday night using a “public interest notice” that indicated the tweet violated its rules glorifying violence. The public interest notice replaces the substance of what Trump wrote, meaning a user has to actively click through to view the offending tweet.

n n Critics excoriated Facebook and its CEO for its decision to take a hands off approach to the dissemination of misinformation and potential incitements to violence published by accounts associated with the President and the White House. Some of the criticism has even come from among the company's employees. n u201cI have to say I am finding the contortions we have to go through incredibly hard to stomach,u201d one employee, quoted by The Verge, wrote in a comment on Facebook's internal message board. u201cAll this points to a very high risk of a violent escalation and civil unrest in November and if we fail the test case here, history will not judge us kindly.u201d n Zuckerberg defended Facebook's position saying that it would not take any action on the posts from the President because “we think people need to know if the government is planning to deploy force.” n Facebook's chief executive also drew a sharp contrast between Facebook's response to the controversy and that of Twitter, which has provided a fact check for one of the President's tweets and hidden Thursday's tweet behind a warning label for violating its policies on violence. n “Unlike Twitter, we do not have a policy of putting a warning in front of posts that may incite violence because we believe that if a post incites violence, it should be removed regardless of whether it is newsworthy, even if it comes from a politician,” wrote Zuckerberg. n Twitter explained its decision in a statement.u00a0u201cThis Tweet violates our policies regarding the glorification of violence based on the historical context of the last line, its connection to violence, and the risk it could inspire similar actions today,u201d the company said. n

n u201cWeu2019ve taken action in the interest of preventing others from being inspired to commit violent acts, but have kept the Tweet on Twitter because it is important that the public still be able to see the Tweet given its relevance to ongoing matters of public importance,u201d the Twitter statement continued. n Perhaps, as Zuckerberg suggests, Facebook will have an opportunity to provide some answers to the questions around what the limits should be around allowing the state discussion of incitements to violence. For now, the company's response only begs more questions. n A link to the full post from Zuckerberg follows below: n

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ВАШИНГТОН, округ Колумбия - 21 мая: Президент США Трамп говорит с прессой на южной лужайке Белого дома до отбытия на морской пехоты 21 мая 2020 г. в Вашингтоне, округ Колумбия. Президент Трамп планирует посетить завод Ford, который в настоящее время производит вентиляторы в Мичигане. (Фото Алекса Вонга / Getty Images)

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После нанесения проверочной этикетки u00a0вторник на вводящий в заблуждение твит с голосованием по почте, сделанный президентом США Дональдом Трампом, Twitter находится в списке и пометил еще один твит президента - на этот раз экранируя его слова со случайного взгляда с помощью так называемого «уведомления об общественных интересах», в котором говорится о твите Нарушил свои правила о прославлении насилия. u00a0

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Вот как выглядит твит без дальнейшего взаимодействия (второй твит на скриншоте ниже):

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Уведомление об общественных интересах заменяет содержание того, что написал Трамп, означая, что пользователь должен активно переходить по ссылке, чтобы просмотреть оскорбительный твит.

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В результате этот ярлык также ограничивает возможности взаимодействия, то есть пользователи могут только ретвитнуть оскорбительный твит с комментарием; им это не может нравиться, отвечать на него или ванильно ретвитнуть.

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TwitterДалее в уведомлении объясняется, почему он не полностью удалил оскорбительный твит - и именно здесь в действие вступает элемент общественных интересов политики - компания пишет: «Twitter определила, что это может быть в интересах общественности, чтобы Tweet оставался доступным ». u00a0

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Twitter кажется, игнорирует решение президента вчерашний день подписать распоряжение о правовом щите, на которое полагаются интернет-компании, чтобы защитить их от ответственности за контент, созданный пользователями, что удвоило недовольство Трампа, который, как правило, обвинял платформы социальных сетей в намеренном подавлении консервативных взглядов, несмотря на много доказательств что алгоритмы платформы таргетинга рекламы действительно стимулируют содержание и представления, вызывающие возмущение, что, наоборот, способствует усилению консервативных точек зрения.

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В последнем столкновении Трамп написал в Твиттере о насильственных демонстрациях, происходящих в Миннеаполисе, вызванных убийством темнокожего мужчины, Джордж ФлойдБелым полицейским - с заявлением президента, что «Бандиты позорят память Джорджа Флойда» перед угрозой отправки в «Военные».

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«Любая сложность, и мы возьмем на себя управление, но, когда начнется грабеж, начнется стрельба. Спасибо!" Трамп добавил - создавая лысую угрозу применения военной силы против мирных жителей.

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Twitter боролся с проблемой того, как обращаться с мировыми лидерами, которые годами нарушают его правила содержания. Чаще всего в результате Трампа, который обычно использует свою платформу для запугивания всевозможных целей - от конкурирующих политиков до ненавистных журналистов, непослушных бизнес-лидеров и даже актеров, которые ему не нравятся, а также для устранения прямых и иногда насильственных угроз.

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После избрания Трамп также использовал TwitterГлобальная платформа как внешнеполитическое оружие, запускающее военные угрозы в адрес Северной Кореи и Ирана в виде твитов.

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Например, в 2018 году он дразнил северокорейского лидера Ким Чен Уна ядерным уничтожением нажатием кнопки (см. Ниже твит) - прежде чем перейти к «влюблятьсяС диктатором, когда он встретил его лично.

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TwitterОбвинение в том, что в прошлом президент США не нарушал твиты Трампа, заключалось в том, что, как президент США, сущность того, что этот человек пишет - каким бы безумным, плохим и опасным он ни был, - по сути своей заслуживает освещения в печати.

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Однако совсем недавно компания создала инструмент политики, который позволяет ей вмешиваться - определяя условия прошлым летом вокруг «общественного интереса» контента на Twitter,

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Тогда он предупредил (почти год назад, в июне 2019 года), что он мощь разместите уведомление об общественных интересах на твитах, которые в противном случае нарушали бы его правила (и, следовательно, заслуживали бы удаления) - для того, чтобы «обеспечить дополнительный контекст и ясность», а не удалять оскорбительный твит.

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Перенесемся на год вперед, и технический гигант начал наносить ярлыки на твиты Трампа - начиная с ярлыка с проверкой фактов в начале этой недели, связанного с предстоящими выборами в США, и заканчивая сейчас публичным уведомлением об интересе, связанном с Трампом, прославляющим насилие.

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Итак, наконец, технический гигант, похоже, стремится приблизить границу вокруг Трампа почти в реальном времени.

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Объясняя свое решение придать знак угрозе президента США приказать военным стрелять в мародеров в Миннеаполисе, компания пишет: «Этот твит нарушает нашу политику в отношении прославления насилия, основанную на историческом контексте последней линии, ее связи с насилием, и риск, который это может вдохновить на подобные действия сегодня ».

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«Мы предприняли действия, направленные на то, чтобы другие не вдохновлялись на совершение насильственных действий, но сохранили твит Twitter поскольку важно, чтобы публика все еще могла видеть твит, учитывая его актуальность для текущих вопросов общественной важности ». Twitter продолжается.

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Это также ссылки на его политика против твитов, которые прославляют насилие - который утверждает однозначно [in bold]: «Вы не можете угрожать насилием против человека или группы людей«.

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В июне, когда Twitter объявил лейбл «оскорбительного поведения», а также предупредил, что твиты, которые проверяются с уведомлением общественности, не выиграют от какого-либо алгоритмического ускорения, написав: «Мы также предпримем шаги, чтобы убедиться, что твит не алгоритмически повышен в нашем сервисе, чтобы найти правильный баланс между предоставлением свободы выражения мнений, усилением ответственности и уменьшением потенциального вреда, причиненного этими твитами».

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Однако достойна TwitterРешение наконец применить свои собственные правила в отношении Трампа обеспечит множество неалгоритмических усилений (и нет маленькой иронии).

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Мы обратились к компании с вопросами о ее решении применить экран общественного интереса к последнему твиту Трампа, но на момент написания он не ответил.

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На В среду вечером, Twitter CEO и соучредитель Джек Дорси опубликовал серию твитов, в которых отстаивало свое решение применить ярлык для проверки фактов к ранее вводящим в заблуждение твиттам Трампа о голосовании по почте.

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«Это не делает нас« арбитром истины », - писал Дорси. «Мы намерены соединить точки противоречивых утверждений и показать спорную информацию, чтобы люди могли судить сами. Для нас важна большая прозрачность, чтобы люди могли ясно видеть причину наших действий ».

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Замечания Дорси последовали за резкими комментариями facebook CEO Марк Цукерберг из Fox News, стремясь противопоставить заявленный «нейтралитет» Facebook, контролируя свою платформу Twitterполитика принятия решения по таким вопросам, как политическая реклама (который Twitter не позволяет).

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«Я просто твердо верю, что Facebook не должен быть арбитром правды всего, что люди говорят онлайн», - заявил Цукерберг консервативной новостной станции. Частные компании, особенно эти платформенные компании, не должны этого делать.

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Примечательно, что Дорси использовал точную фразу Цукерберга - «обманщик истины» - чтобы отклонить атаку Facebook на TwitterПолитика как аргумент соломенного человека.

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Обновление I, Трамп реагирует: В начале реакции на TwitterТеперь администрация Трампа цитирует и ретвитит оскорбительный твит из официального Белого дома Twitter аккаунт - усиление президентской насильственной угрозы.

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Трамп также повторил свою угрозу регулирования социальных сетей, отозвав раздел 230 Закона о приличии в сфере коммуникаций в новой серии твитов этим утром - обвиняя Twitter игнорировать «ложь и пропаганду, разносимую Китаем или Радикальной левой демократической партией».

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Обновление II, Whack-a-mole: Twitter в настоящее время просмотрел цитированную в твиттере копию твита Трампа, которую администрация отправила из Белого дома Twitter Счет.

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Welcome back to Thisu00a0Weeku00a0in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.

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The app industry is as hot as ever, withu00a0a recordu00a0204 billion downloads and $120 billion in consumer spending in 2019. People are nowu00a0расходыu00a0three hours and 40 minutes per day using apps, rivaling TV. Apps arenu2019t just a way to pass idle hours u2014 theyu2019re a big business. In 2019, mobile-first companies had au00a0combinedu00a0$544 billion valuation, 6.5x higher than those without a mobile focus.

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In this Extra Crunch series, we help you keep up with the latest news from the world of apps, delivered on a weekly basis.

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This week weu2019re continuing to look at how the coronavirus outbreak is impacting the world of mobile applications, with fresh data from App Annie about trends playing out across app categories benefiting from the pandemic, lockdowns and societal changes. We're also keeping up with the COVID-19 contact-tracing apps making headlines, and delving into the week's other news.

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We saw a few notable new apps launch this week, including HBO's new streaming service HBO Max, plus three new app experiments from Facebook's R&D group. Android Studio 4.0 also launched this week. Instagram is getting better AR tools and IGTV is getting ads. TikTok got spammed in India.

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Meanwhile, what is going on with app review? A shady app rises to the top of the iPhone App Store. Google cracks down on conspiracy theory-spreading apps. And a TikTok clone uses a pyramid scheme-powered invite system to rise up the charts.

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COVID-19 contact-tracing apps in the newsu00a0

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• Латвия: Reuters this week reported that Latvia aims to become one of the first countries to launch a smartphone app, Stop Covid, using the new toolkit created by Apple and Alphabetu2019s Google to help trace coronavirus infections.

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• Австралия: The role of the country's Covidsafe app in the recovery appears to be marginal, The Guardian reports, In the month since its launch, only one person has been reported to have been identified using data from it. A survey even found that Australians were more supportive of using telecommunications metadata to track close contacts (79%) than they were of downloading an app (69.8%). In a second survey, their support for the app dropped to 64%. The app has been maligned by the public debate over it and technical issues.

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• Франция: The country's data protection watchdog, CNIL, reviewed its contact-tracing app StopCovid, finding there were no major issues with the technical implementation and legal framework around StopCovid, with some caveats. France isn't using Google and Apple's contact-tracing API, but instead uses a controversial centralized contact-tracing protocol called ROBERT. This relies on a central server to assign a permanent ID and generate ephemeral IDs attached to this permanent ID. CNIL says the app will eventually be open-sourced and it will create a bug bounty. On Wednesday, the app passed its first vote in favor of its release.

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• Qatar: Serious security vulnerabilities in Qataru2019s mandatory contact-tracing app were uncovered by Amnesty International. An investigation by Amnestyu2019s Security Lab discovered a critical weakness in the configuration of Qataru2019s EHTERAZ contact-tracing app. Now fixed, the vulnerability would have allowed cyberattackers to access highly sensitive personal information, including the name, national ID, health status and location data of more than one million users.

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• Индия: India's contact-tracing app, Aarogya Setu, is going open-source, according to Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney on Tuesday. The code is being published on GitHub. Nearly 98% of the app's more than 114 million users are on Android. The government will also offer a cash bounty of $1,325 to security experts who find bugs or vulnerabilities.

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• Switzerland: Several thousand people are now testing a pilot version of Switzerland's contact-tracing app, SwissCovid. Like Lativia, the app is one of the first to use Apple and Google's contact-tracing API. Employees at EPFL, ETH Zurich, the Army and select hospitals and government agencies will be the first to test the Swiss app before its public launch planned for mid-June.

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• Китай: Chinau2019s health-tracking QR codes, embedded in popular WeChat and Alipay smartphone apps, are raising privacy concerns, Reuters reports. To walk around freely, people must have a green rating. They also now have to present their health QR codes to gain entry into restaurants, parks and other venues. These efforts have been met with little resistance. But the eastern city of Hangzhou has since proposed that users are given a color-coded health badge based on their medical records and lifestyle habits, including how much they exercised, their eating and drinking habits, whether they smoked and how much they slept the night before. This suggestion set off a storm of criticism on China's Weibo, a Twitter-like platform.

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As tech companies подобно Twitter а также facebook gear up for longer-term remote work solutions, the future of work is becoming one of the more exciting opportunities in venture capital, Charles River Ventures general partner Saar Gur told TechCrunch.

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And as loneliness mounts with shelter-in-place orders implemented in various forms across the world, investors are looking for products and services that foster true connection among a distributed workforce, as well as a distributed society.

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But the future of work doesn't just entail spinning up home offices. It also involves gig workers, freelancers, hiring tools, tools for workplace organizing and automation. The last couple of years have particularly brought tech organizing to the forefront. Whether it was the Google walkout in 2018 or gig workers' ongoing actions against companies like Uber, Lyft and Instacart for better pay and protections, there are many opportunities to help workers better organize and achieve their goals.

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Below, we've gathered insights from:

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• Saar Gur, general partner at Charles River Ventures

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• Roy Bahat, head of Bloomberg Beta

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• James Cham, partner at Bloomberg Beta

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• Karin Klein, partner at Bloomberg Beta

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• Ann Miura-Ko, co-founding partner at Floodgate

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• Quentin Clark, managing director at General Catalyst

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Saar Gur, Charles River Venturesu00a0

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What are you most excited about in the future of work?

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Future of work is one of the most exciting opportunities in venture.u00a0u00a0

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Pre-COVID, few tech companies were fully remote. While it seems obvious in retrospect, the building blocks for fully remote technology companies now exist (e.g. high-speed internet, SaaS and the cloud, reliable video streaming, real-time documents, etc.). And while SIP may be temporary, we feel the TAM of fully remote companies will grow significantly and produce a number of exciting investment opportunities.

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I donu2019t think we have fully grokked what it means to run a company digitally. Today, most processes like interviewing, meetings and performance/activity tracking still live in the world of atoms versus bits. As an example, imagine every meeting is recorded, transcribed and searchable — how would that transform how we work?u00a0u00a0u00a0

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There is an opportunity to re-imagine how we work. And we are excited about products that solve meaningful problems in the areas of productivity, brainstorming, communication tools, workflows and more. We also see a lot of potential in infrastructure required to facilitate remote and global teams.

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We are also excited by companies that are enabling new types of work. Companies like Etsy (founded 2005), Shopify (2004), TaskTabbit (2008), Uber (2009), DoorDash (2013) and Patreon (2013) have helped create a new workforce of entrepreneurs. But many of these companies are over a decade old and we fully expect a new wave of companies that give more power to the individual.

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Avoid the common u2018unreachabilityu2019 frustration

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The global spread of COVID-19 and resulting orders to shelter in place have hit retailers hard.

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As the pandemic drags on, temporary halts are becoming permanent closures, whether itu2019s the coffee shop next door, a historic bar или a well-known lifestyle brand,

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But while the present is largely bleak, preparing for the future has retailers adopting technologies faster than ever. Their resilience and innovation means retail will look and fee different when the world reopens.

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We gathered four views on the future of retail from the TechCrunch team:

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• Natasha Mascarenhas says retailers will need to find new ways to sell aspirational products u2014 and what was once cringe-worthy might now be considered innovative.

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• Devin Coldewey sees businesses adopting a slew of creative digital services to prepare for the future and empower them without Amazonu2019s platform.

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• Greg Kumparak thinks the delivery and curbside pickup trends will move from pandemic-essentials to everyday occurrences. He thinks that retailers will need to find new ways to appeal to consumers in a u201cshopping-by-proxyu201d world.

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• Lucas Matney views a revitalized interest in technology around the checkout process, as retailers look for ways to make the purchasing experience more seamless (and less high-touch).

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Alexa, how do I look?

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Natasha Mascarenhas

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