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Lindsey Meeks

@lmeeks.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Dept. of Communication Studies at TCU. I examine how gender, race, and partisanship intersect and affect candidate communication, especially social media strategies, as well as electoral news coverage.

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's the end of an era. The Social Media Collective is shutting down. Thanks to everyone who was a part of this crazy endeavor, but especially @nancybaym.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, and @marylgray.bsky.social. I adore you all! socialmediacollective.org/2026/09/23/s...
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The Social Media Collective Comes to a Close
It is with both celebration and sadness that we announce that the Social Media Collective, our research team of critical, humanistic social sciences at Microsoft Research’s New England lab, is comi…
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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Apply for @snfagora.bsky.social 's Postdoctoral Fellowship by November 5. See details here! snfagora.jhu.edu/fellowships-...
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Postdoctoral Fellows Program
Postdoctoral Fellows Program SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AOC "knows broaching the roles of race and gender in politics can be unpopular...'If you’re asking me about the things that I weigh, of course, that’s part of what I weigh...It’s funny because it’s kind of like, everyone else is allowed to talk about it, but I’m not?' www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
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Will Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Run for President in 2028? Here’s What She Said.
In a wide-ranging interview, the New York congresswoman offered her most detailed insight yet into how she is thinking about a possible presidential run.
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Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When I first wrote about the First Amendment and the White House press pool for the textbook about a decade ago, it was only a few grafs. Now it's a much longer passage. Here's an excerpt with my comments about the CNN/Politico/MS Now ban and lawsuit. medialawprof.medium.com/press-pools-...
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Press Pools, the First Amendment, and “rogue, mooning journalists”
For our textbook “The Law of Public Communication” — 14th edition coming in 2027! — I’ve authored the “Access to Information” chapter for…
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you graduated between Dec. 2022 and May 2026 in journalism or a related field and currently work or have previously worked full time for a news organization in Oklahoma for at least six months, please consider taking part in this study and passing it on to folks who may qualify!
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The first Latina elected to U.S. Senate was just 10 years ago.
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
PhD students (& new PhDs): I'm hiring a postdoc at Cornell (Ithaca) to conduct a novel study at the intersection of political economy and tech. Applications are due Oct 16. There are a LOT more details in the job ad so make sure to read it thoroughly: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Every time I teach Media Literacy, I ask students what they think are the top 3-5 news stories since 2000. I usually have the top 10 but this year it is only 9 because of so little consensus. And yes, for 9, they wrote "prez elections," not any in particular, so I wasn't forcing it to be a catchall.
Screenshot of lecture slide with students top news stories since 2000, with 9/11 and COVID as the top two.
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Research participants reported experiencing sexism from their colleagues and sources that manifested in condescending attitudes, pseudo-protectionism and hostile sexism hindering women journalists’ ability to participate in the public debate and perform professional practices.”
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Naval aviators are repeatedly exposed to body-crushing forces as they catapult off aircraft carriers and pull high G-force turns in training. The Navy has never studied how those forces over time affect the human brain..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
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Navy Failed to Protect Pilots From Brain Injury, House Report Says
A scathing report issued by the House Oversight Committee blamed the Navy for repeatedly failing to act, and recommended that Congress pass legislation to study and treat aviators.
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.
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UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
PhD candidates/new grads: Postdoc opportunity with me focused on political economy and tech. See details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32502
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Cornell University, Department of Communication
Job #AJO32502, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Asked my undergraduate Media Literacy class if they had heard of the Meta settlement. Nope. They were pretty cynical about it resulting in much.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
When political parties use AI images they need to label them, according to the EU AI Act. More fundamentally they should ask themselves if they really want to contribute to the authenticity blur. I comment on a recent case in Danish politics here @ddc-sdu.bsky.social www.dr.dk/nyheder/poli...
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De to unge mænd ser virkelige ud på Danmarksdemokraternes billede - problemet er, at det er de ikke
Det burde fremgå af billedet, at det er skabt af kunstig intelligens, vurderer to eksperter.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When I was a kid visiting my dad's family in Mississippi, they asked who was favorite singer was. I said, "Polly Darton," and they all laughed while I had no clue of my little slip up. Rest in power and all the good you did for this world, Dolly.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/08/2026
We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Patients should never feel they need to hide their emotions in order to appear agreeable, minimize their symptoms in order to be taken seriously or apologize for their pain." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...
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Opinion | This Is Why Women Are Scared to Tell Their Doctors the Truth
Is it OK to raise this issue? I don’t want to be a bother.
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
NYT lede: "Giorgia Meloni, daughter of the extreme right..." There's a lot in this article but I am just pausing hard on the "daughter" part. She's not the mother of it, as in wasn't the architect, but what does it mean to be the daughter of it? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...
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Giorgia Meloni Cuts the Hard Right a Path to Power
In a rare interview, the onetime political outcast reflects on her route from “the uncomfortable side of history” to the threshold of leading Italy’s most durable postwar government.
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"...colleges should redouble their efforts to reach young people, educate them and assist them as they navigate the registration and voting process. They should not just teach students about their democratic rights; they should help students realize them." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/o...
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Opinion | What Does the Trump Administration Have Against the 26th Amendment?
American democracy and American higher education are inextricable.
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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Working on a dissertation in American political behavior and need money for survey research? Apply for a grant worth up to $15,000 from the Rapoport Family Foundation. They’re planning on awarding up to 15 grants this cycle. Deadline Oct. 21. www.rapoportfamilyfoundation.com/phdgrant
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Rapoport Doctoral Dissertation Grants
Supporting projects for PhD students doing political science research, democracy and social justice.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 14/08/2026
The aircraft carrier has been deployed for nearly nine months.
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Trump Says USS Lincoln Hasn’t Been Deployed ‘Nearly Long Enough’—Denies Families’ Concerns
The aircraft carrier has been deployed for nearly nine months.
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Talia Stroud @handle.invalid · 14/08/2026
We have an AI news site in Austin and you might have one too … thanks to Maggie Quinlan with @austinchronicle.bsky.social for covering this and for going “down the rabbit hole” with me … www.austinchronicle.com/news/ai-news...
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AI News Lurks in Austin. Who’s Behind It? • The Austin Chronicle
AI News Lurks in Austin. Who’s Behind It?
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Given everything going on in Texas around education, glad to hear @kera.org brought on an early education reporter in July. www.keranews.org/sujata-dand-3
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
@kera.org loss $2.8M in fed funding, had a huge surge in public donations after fed cuts and ended the 25-26FY with operating budget surplus. They are operating as though fed funding will not come back and are using the surplus to ride out potential ebbs in public donations in years 2/3 post cuts.
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Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I wanna make sure everyone understands what this means: when you pull TikTok data for the same hashtag at the same time using the official API and a scraping tool, you'll get two completely different datasets.
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Deen Freelon @dfreelon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We got new research out today y'all--if you study TikTok, buckle up because we found something wilddddd... arxiv.org/abs/2608.09917 (accepted @ ICWSM 2027)
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WhichTok? Comparing Three TikTok Data Acquisition Tools
TikTok's global growth has made it a prime platform for both entertainment and political discourse, prompting increased social science research. However, this rapidly evolving research field faces a f...
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Looking forward to joining the @kera.org State of the Station virtual conversion today. It will cover where KERA stands one year after losing federal funding and what lies ahead. #SupportPublicMedia #SupportLocalMedia
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
What swag do you actually like and/use?
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...
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There’s a Blue-Collar Hollywood—and the Paramount Merger Will Kill It
Hollywood isn’t all glamour. It’s thousands of line workers. And a Paramount takeover of Warner will make their lives even more precarious.
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🚨Job Alert!🚨 Assistant/Associate Professor of Human Communication and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Come join us here in Silicorn Valley! Deadline Sept. 15. #AcademicSky #AcademicJobs illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Assistant/Associate Professor- Communication, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Duties & Responsibilities
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Exclusive: RFK Jr. will host a new cooking show with celebrity chefs
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in an exclusive interview, says he will be 'reintroducing' Americans to cooking again in a new series.
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Among other documented gender-based biases and issues, AI is also intensifying violence against women and girls in digital spaces. www.unwomen.org/en/news-stor...
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AI is already rewriting reality for billions of people. It is getting women wrong. | UN Women – Headquarters
Ahead of the United Nations Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance from 6 – 7 July and AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland from 7-10 July, UN Women sets out what is at stak...
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Really enjoyed this @99pi.org episode on CanCon and the MAPL test. Dear future Media Literacy students, be ready for this to be on your playlist...I mean reading list. The briefest of mentions of MuchMusic at the end sent me into full-blown nostalgia. 99percentinvisible.org/article/mapl...
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MAPLaylist: Tune in for Some of the Greatest CanCon Hits - 99% Invisible
To accompany our recent episode about Canadian content policy, producer Max Collins made a playlist of every artist that came up during the reporting process. You can find the full playlist on Spotify...
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I would like to amend the quote about war being how Americans learn geography. Sub "World Cup" in for "war." We have pulled the globe out at the dining table multiple times already for the kiddos (and ourselves).
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Really interesting. Liable for content! The court treated the AI overviews as Google's own content and rejected Google's argument that users were responsible for fact-checking the results themselves the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...
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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ...
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I remember this as one of the first times my fanship became very political.
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I know our quest for an "authentic politician" is never-ending and confounding but as dubious as it is, it always cuts harder for women: "I think one of the broader challenges is that we do not have a definition of authentic or compelling that includes women." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/o...
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Opinion | The Bipartisan Hatred of All Things Feminine
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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
In the end we were just his latest casino and whatnot.
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
“Beyond the first few weeks after delivery, no single clinician owns accountability for the mother’s recovery…Her baby will see a pediatrician 7+ times in the first year of life. Whether the mother sees a doctor will depend largely on whether something goes wrong” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/o...
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Opinion | Nine Months of Medical Attention. Then Almost Nothing.
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Rosie Jahng et al. (Wayne St) found that Republicans who are high in media literacy favor fake news regulation and those low in media literacy favor protecting data privacy. Regardless of media literacy levels, Democrats favor fake news regulation. #MPSA2026
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Fang theorizes this Conservative trend isn’t because TikTok has shifted right but because Conservatives are more homogeneous as a group and quicker to engage on social media, creating a cleaner signal to algorithms. #MPSA2026
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Jun Fang (UMich) finds that when TikTok influencers promote the same product on the same day and give partisan cues versus no partisan cues, they receive more attention and more sales. This effect is mostly driven by conservative influencers. #MPSA2026
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 22/04/2026
Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed Here are the key take-aways 🧵 Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!
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Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization | Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
I lament overly-long movies so this post and all its illustrious data makes me the sad: Are two-hour movies the new normal? "In the 1980s, around 14% of wide releases ran over two hours. In the 2020s, it’s 32%." stephenfollows.com/p/1ee5f18b-2...
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StephenFollows.com - Using data to explain the film industry
I use data to understand how the film industry works and then share that to help filmmakers get their films funded, shot and seen. Click to read StephenFollows.com - Using data to explain the film ind...
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Lindsey Meeks @lmeeks.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
New edited book out: "Second in Command: Reevaluating the Role of Vice Presidents and Running Mates in Modern American Politics" It is #openaccess! doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
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Second in Command: Reevaluating the Role of Vice Presidents and Running Mates in Modern American Politics
<P>In recent years, the office of the vice president has become a focal point of presidential politics and governance. From the emergence of the modern vice presidency under Walter Mondale to Mike Pen...
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
FIRE is doing a call for papers on the historical roots of the actual malice doctrine in New York Times v. Sullivan, a case the Supreme Court might revisit in some future term.
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Call for Papers: Historical Arguments for Sullivan's Actual Malice Test
FIRE invites paper proposals for a research workshop examining historical frameworks for modern First Amendment jurisprudence, and specifically the “actual malice” test outlined by the Supreme Court i...
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