The New York Times - USA (2020-08-06)

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According to a 2017 survey from the

Pew Research Center, more than 40

percent of Americans have

experienced some form of online

harassment, and of those, more than

three-quarters reported being

harassed on Facebook.

Officials Urge Zuckerberg and Co.
To Better Police Hate B

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About one-fourth of schools in Kenya

are private — supported by private

entrepreneurs, religious

organizations and nonprofit

organizations.

In Kenya, Safety Plan Is to Cancel School YearA

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Charlie Chaplin was so incensed by

the ritual humiliations he had to

endure at the hands of immigration

authorities that after leaving the

United States for a European tour he

decided not to return.

Your Tired? Your Poor? Forget About ItC

About 80 percent of India is Hindu,

14 percent Muslim.

India’s Leader Dedicates a Hindu Temple

On the Ruins of a MosqueA

The Bronx is home to the largest

urban zoological garden in America,

a park system nearly 10 times the

size of Manhattan’s Central Park —

and New York City’s last remaining

patch of old growth forest.

Before Yankees Strode the BronxC

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Nearly 90 percent of Germany’s

population of 83 million is covered

by public insurance.

Traveling to Germany?

A Free Covid Test Awaits A

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With the notable exception of kente

cloth, many recognizable African

prints today are based on Indonesian

batiks. Known as African wax block

prints, or Dutch wax prints, they

were introduced to West Africa by

Dutch merchants in the mid-1800s.

African Prints Find a Bigger MarketD

Of Interest

NOTEWORTHY FACTS FROM TODAY’S PAPER

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“This is as bad as Sept. 11. For us, it is like that.”

DR. RAJA ASHOU,head of radiology at Saint George Hospital University Medical Center in Beirut,

Lebanon. Four of the hospital’s nurses and at least 13 patients were killed in an explosion on Tuesday.

Quote of the Day

LEBANON KNEW OF DANGER
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He Predicted Trump’s Win in

2016. Now He’s Ready to Call


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The historian Allan Lichtman has
a system for predicting the out-
come of presidential elections,
and he has been right every four
years since 1984. In this Opinion
article, which was Wednesday’s
most read and came with an
accompanying video, Mr. Licht-
man walks through his 13 keys
that predict an election, and ap-
plies them to 2020.

Deadly Explosions Shatter
Beirut, Lebanon

A global audience read The Times
reporting from Lebanon the day
after two explosions in the city of
Beirut destroyed the port there,
killed scores and were felt 150
miles away.

I Was Bloodied and Dazed.

Beirut Strangers Treated Me
Like a Friend.

The Times’s Vivian Yee, an inter-
national correspondent based in
Beirut, wrote a first-person ac-
count after the blasts went off.

Could My Symptoms Be
Covid-19?

Well, which focuses on health and
lifestyle, has an interactive article
where readers can scroll through
the common and not-so-common
symptoms of the disease caused
by the coronavirus.

The Conversation

FOUR OF THE MOST READ,
SHARED AND DISCUSSED POSTS
FROM ACROSS NYTIMES.COM

Kevin Roose, a tech columnist for The Times, maintains @FacebooksTop10, a Twitter

account that posts the sources of the 10 top-performing link posts by U.S. Facebook pages

every day, ranked by total interactions. Occasionally, Mr. Roose posts some analysis of

the Facebook rankings, as he did Tuesday when several of the top 10 stories involved the

same topic. A selection of his tweets follows.

Spotlight

ADDITIONAL REPORTAGE AND REPARTEE

FROM OUR JOURNALISTS

Now, normally, you’d be surprised that a

$35 million grant by an obscure federal

agency would be the highest-performing

story on Facebook. But people who follow

this stuff know that stories about human

trafficking, *especially* stories involving

Trump, are a QAnon bat signal.

Sometimes, these lists speak for them-

selves. But I want to dig a little deeper into

today’s list, because I think it illustrates

something that isn’t immediately obvious.

And sure enough, if you check which

pages shared these stories, you’ll see

plenty of QAnon pages like “Follow the

White Rabbit” and “The Great Awakening.”

They’re using the story as more evidence

that Trump is breaking up a child-

trafficking cabal run by Democrats.

This is why looking at top-performing links

(which Facebook has recently suggested

is more accurate than looking at the

posts that contain those links) can be

misleading. After all, this is an AP story!

What’s the matter with the AP? But the

way it’s being used is dangerous.

Kevin Roose @kevinroose

Facebook’s Top 10 @FacebooksTop

Today, 8/4, the top-performing

Facebook link posts by U.S. pages

are from:

1. Donald J. Trump


2. Franklin Graham


3. Ben Shapiro


4. Ivanka Trump


5. Fox News


6. Ben Shapiro


7. The Other 98%


8. Ben Shapiro


9. Ben Shapiro


10. Fox News

The #1, #4, and #10 posts on this list

— representing more than 700,

combined interactions — all link to

versions of the same news story: a report

about a $35 million grant from a DOJ

program to organizations that house

survivors of human trafficking.

Parenting a picky eater can stress out

even the most laid-back among us. You’re

tired of begging, threatening and bargain-

ing with your child to get her to just try it,

take two bites, eat something green. Here

are two tricks to try. DEESHA PHILYAW

Reframe the picky eating as a positive.

“What we call ‘picky eating,’ I encourage

parents to recognize as brave eating,” said

Dr. Deborah Gilboa, family physician and

associate clinical professor of family medi-

cine at the University of Pittsburgh School

of Medicine. “I’ve never been a brave

eater because I’ve never encountered a

food I didn’t like. But kids who have a

narrow palate — those who are hesitant to

try new things and have a short list of

foods they find acceptable — these kids

encounter dozens of foods they don’t like.

But every time they try something they

haven’t liked in the past or think they

won’t like, they’re being quite brave.”

Find out what’s driving the picky eating.

It’s important to tease out what the under-

lying cause of the pickiness is in children

with typical development, said Dr. Ena

Andrews, a pediatric neurologist in

Tampa, Fla. “With neurotypical kids, it’s

common for pickiness to be their way of

saying they want autonomy and to be in

charge of what they’re eating,” she said. In

these cases, Dr. Andrews encourages

parents to offer choices and involve their

children in meal planning and preparation.

Other picky eaters are simply being

oppositional. “It’s a power struggle,” Dr.

Andrews said. “They’re going to be

against whatever their parents are trying

to get them to do; eating isn’t the only

area where this is an issue. So I advise

parents to just back off, downplay it and

don’t offer rewards or negotiate. These

kids eventually just get bored or hungry.”

For kids who are on the autism spec-

trum and others who have sensory issues,

picky eating may be driven by different

factors. “Sensory-defensive kids don’t

want certain textures or colors. For exam-

ple, a child might eat only yellow foods, or

only soft and mushy foods. Serve those

foods. Meet them where they are.”

Less common among all children is

anxiety or obsessive compulsive disorder

manifesting as picky eating. “These kids

want to eat but can’t,” Dr. Andrews said.

“The condition may present itself as an

eating disorder, but it’s actually O.C.D. and

requires cognitive behavioral therapy.”

For more tips on dealing with picky eaters, visit

nytimes.com/parenting.

Here to Help

PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO HANDLING PICKY EATERS

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