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October 22nd 2020

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Big tech and free speech

Social media’s struggle with self-censorship

Tech giants are removing more content, but are they making the right choices?

Gold in them hills

Mining for votes in Montana

How to spend $150m on campaigning in a state of 1m people

Free to read | Chaguan

China calls its “heroic” handling of covid-19 proof of its wisdom

A lopsided global recovery amid Chinese bragging could sharpen divisions between China and the West

Daily chart

Migration has plummeted during the pandemic

Some countries, such as Japan, have stopped welcoming immigrants entirely

The generation game

Wall Street will soon have to take millennial investors seriously

There is more to young investors than Robinhood and TikTok

Liberty’s foot-soldier

Samuel Paty was killed on October 16th

The French schoolteacher, beheaded for instructing children in French secular values, was 47

The bird of freedom

Mohammad Reza Shajarian died on October 8th

The singer who captured Iran’s soul and gave voice to its longings was 80

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This week we speak to Brené Brown, an American professor, author and podcaster

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