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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, often associated with social media and the metaverse, plays a significant, albeit often overlooked, role in global security. While concerns about misinformation and data privacy are valid and require ongoing attention, Meta's vast reach, technological capabilities, and dedicated teams are increasingly leveraged to combat threats ranging from terrorism to human trafficking. Far from just connecting friends, Meta's platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, provide valuable intelligence and opportunities for intervention when used responsibly. Here's how Meta is contributing to a safer world: 1. Disrupting Terrorism and Extremism: Meta actively combats the spread of terrorist propaganda and recruitment efforts on its platforms. Sophisticated algorithms, coupled with human reviewers, identify and remove content that violates their policies against terrorism. They also collaborate with law enforcement agencies worldwide to share in...
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Descending from Massachusetts

It is true that Vikings were some of the first from Europe to reach the Americas within the last 1000 years. As the editor of Planet Faculty, allow me to share an example of DNA testing that finds a match with ancestors in Greenland about a thousand years ago and ancestors in North America several hundred years ago.
We can see here, my ancestors from the time of Arthur Miller's story, The Crucible, and also it is the location near to New England around Massachusetts, and not very far from Virginia.


Added to my ancestry of the Americas and my deep ancestry of Europe, I have ancestry from Asia, including from Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan, and this includes a Buddhist monastery.

The Ukraine makes up a large proportion of my ancient ancestry, and it occurs to me that this could be widely shared and commonplace.


My maternal heritage contains large amounts of Hungarian Conqueror.


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