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Bizarre tweet, weird explanation

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Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 1.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | politics, Twitter
Summary | President Trump's latest Tweet seems to be interrupted mid-sentence featuring a mistyped word: "covfefe". The news media have been reporting about covfefe for hours with millions of people cracking jokes about it on Twitter and other social media. This alleged mistake (which was taken down after five hours) managed to dominate the political discourse in the US rather than any actual pressing issues like the Presidents possible ties to Russia.
Image Description | Sean Spicer at a press conference and Donald Trumps Twitter feed.
Image Tags | male(s), Twitter

Chinese social media sites lit up with grief for dissident Liu Xiaobo, but not for long

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Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 15.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, politics, social media
Summary | Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace laureate, just died. Many Chinese people expressed their sympathy and grief online, but the government tried to censor those comments. Most Chinese citizens don't know the dissident's name. On Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, the government deleted pictures of Liu and his wife.
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