Pollution And Solution

TikTok on Wednesday acknowledged it had erred in penalizing a 17-year-old who had posted witty but incisive political videos, promising it would restore her ability to access her account on her personal device. The company’s apology — coupled with a new pledge to reevaluate its policies — still failed to satisfy the teen, Feroza Aziz, who again raised concerns that she had been the victim of censorship by the fast-growing, Chinese-owned social media app. “TikTok is trying to cover up this whole mess,” she told The Washington Post. “I won’t let them get away with this.” The saga started earlier this week, when Aziz tweeted that her profile had been temporarily suspended. She attributed the penalty to the fact she had recently shared a satirical video that urged viewers to research the harrowing conditions facing Muslims in China’s detention camps. Her comment quickly garnered widespread attention because TikTok is owned by a China-based tech conglomerate, Bytedance, thou...

Move over, Medicare-for-all. Paid family leave enjoyed a moment in the spotlight at last night’s Democratic presidential debate. But unlike the issue of expanding health insurance – where there will be sharp fault lines between President Trump and the eventual Democratic nominee -- family leave may be less helpful in distinguishing the two candidates. That’s because Trump has also called in the past for paid leave. It took five Democratic debates – and an all-female panel of moderators – for the issue to get any airtime, even though paid family leave is popular among voters including Republicans. All the Democratic candidates on the stage have said they’d seek at least 12 weeks of guaranteed paid leave for workers caring for a newborn child, and some have gone further, saying new parents should get a minimum of six months off (check out The Post’s tracker to see where the candidates stand). My colleague Carol Leonnig, noting the leave question was asked by The Post's ...