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Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly considering adding warning labels to Facebook posts penned by government leaders if they incite violence - less than a week after he criticized Twitter for doing the exact same thing. Vox obtained access to a video conference call between Zuckerberg and several of his Facebook employees Tuesday, during which he revealed he was toying with the idea. According to the publication, Zuckerberg also predicted that the United States could be entering a 'prolonged period of civil unrest', meaning that the company may 'alter its policies on what kind of announcements government leaders can make about state...

The newspaper serving Lincoln, Neb., will no longer call the Washington Redskins by their official name. "Out of respect for native people," the newspaper wrote on Tuesday, "we'll call that team 'Washington.'" Kathleen Rutledge, the editor of the Lincoln Journal Star, told readers Tuesday, "We will no longer use "Redskins" or "Skins" because it is a racial slur. It derives from an old, genocidal practice in this country of scalping Indians to earn a bounty. A bounty hunter could prove he had killed an Indian by turning in a scalp." Rutledge said the newspaper also has stopped printing Native American...