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A flood of political content has been found that is being sent to voters in swing states through more than 2,500 computers owned by a politically-diverse group of registered voters showing concerning election interference. Independent media is reporting on the story while the corporate media is ignoring the emerging information. “We are aggregating and analyzing search results on the Google and Bing search engines, messages displayed on Google’s home page, autoplay videos suggested on YouTube, tweets sent to users by the Twitter company (as opposed to tweets sent by other users), email suppression on Gmail, and more,” The Daily Caller...

Former Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones was arrested on a charge that she hacked into the state’s emergency response system — and later learned she tested positive for COVID-19. Jones — who said she was fired from the state’s Department of Health in May for refusing to alter coronavirus data — turned herself in late Sunday, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Her attorney, Steve Dobson, said Jones, 31, was tested for COVID-19 after being booked into the Leon County Detention Facility, and learned she was positive on Monday.

The following information is provided via an anonymous data scientist and another anonymous individual who wrote a script to scrape the national ballot counting time series data of off the @nytimes website. This is based on their proprietary "Edison" data source which would ordinarily be impossible to access for people outside the press. *** The graphs and charts are at the link. Details analysis and a bit over my head. Thought folks would want to see and it points to the need to audit the election results.

As companies try to understand consumer behavior, data scientists are in high demand. Boasting a median base salary of $110,000 and a job-satisfaction score of 4.4 out of 5, data scientist was ranked No. 1 on Glassdoor’s “Best Jobs in America” list in 2016, 2017 and 2018. The report released this week is based on the number of job openings, salary and overall job satisfaction. It was followed by devops engineers ($110,000 a year), which combines development, testing and operations. Nearly 40% of people, including 56% of millennials, are job hunting it added. But data scientists have competition. A separate...