On the Daily Dot:
The Facebook pages of Richard Spencer, the alt-right leader who was famously punched in the face last year, have been suspended.
The pages for the National Policy Institute, a lobbying group of sorts for white nationalists, and Spencer's online magazine "altright.com," vanished on Friday after Vice sent the social network an inquiry about hate groups. They had a combined following of almost 15,000 followers.
The action was taken just days after Mark Zuckerberg emphasized during his testimony before Congress that Facebook does not allow hate speech. But it wasn't until Vice flagged the accounts that Facebook suspended them. The social network said in a statement that it identifies violating pages using human monitors, algorithms, and partnerships with organizations.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday April 16 2018, @11:35PM
The links address that. For example, from the link [voxeu.org] showing a huge improvement in the well-being of all humanity. First, they define "real income":
Then view figures 1 and 2.
So collectively - after correcting for inflation and differences in price levels, the world got a lot wealthier over the period 1988-2008 with around two thirds of the entire human population seeing large improvements over that time period. I'm oversimplifying the interpretation a bit, but it's showing the best improvement ever in humanity to date rather than some spurious artifact. Who received what depends on the country. China did a lot better than India, for example. And some did worse such as the lower classes of Japan.
At this point, it's looking pretty good with several decades track record, and looking to get better. Sure, we could embrace radical doubt [soylentnews.org] and assert without evidence that the presence of some confounding factor, like an all-powerful evil deity, is throwing off our economic numbers. But what would be the point?