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- More than 30 companies including Apple, AT&T, Google parent Alphabet, Verizon and Comcast have banded together to kill off automated calls under the nom de guerre "Robocall Strike Force." [CNet]
- The San Francisco Public Press has released a three-part package on the misleading nature of 2015 election TV ads, which it claims worked all too well, even ranking the ones that were the most misleading. [SF Public Press]
- Widely shared video shows a Fresno cop putting an unarmed, black high school student into chokehold on the first day of school over jaywalking. [Fresno Bee]
- Lyft will be shutting down its five-month-old carpool commuting option (not to be confused with Lyft Line) after demand and drivers were limited. [Forbes]
- One week after a large tree branch fell onto a woman in Washington Square Park, doctors have told her family that she will never walk again. [CBS5]
