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| By Mike Allen ·Oct 26, 2021 |
| Happy Tuesday. Smart Brevity™ count: 1,173 words ... 4½ minutes. Edited by Zachary Basu. 🎒Please join Axios' Erica Pandey tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. ET for a half-hour virtual event on what's next for career readiness. Register here. |
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| 1 big thing: Worship under attack |
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| Woven Stars of David hang along the fence at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2019, on the 1st anniversary of the mass shooting at the synagogue. Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images |
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| Houses of worship — across faiths, including Jewish synagogues, Buddhist temples and Catholic churches — are experiencing rising vandalism, arson and other property damage. - 2021 is on track to exceed last year's spike in hate crimes in the U.S., many of them linked to religious bigotry, report "Axios Today" podcast host Niala Boodhoo and Axios' Russell Contreras.
- The number of hate crimes reported in FY 2020 was the highest since 2001, when a wave of Islamophobia followed the 9/11 attacks, according to updated FBI data released yesterday. (Go deeper.)
Politics and crises across the world are driving hate incidents: - New York City experienced almost as many anti-Semitic hate crimes during a three-week period in May as in the whole first quarter of the year, said Brian Levin, who directs the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University.
- That spike coincided with heightened tensions between Israel and Palestine.
- African American churches experienced property damage in retaliation for Black Lives Matter protests, and a Buddhist temple in Los Angeles was set on fire as a result of anti-Asian hate.
It's not just property damage: Tomorrow is the third anniversary of one of Pennsylvania's worst mass shootings, when a white supremacist killed 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018. - Attorney General Merrick Garland told Congress Monday that the DoJ's Civil Rights Division is expediting review of federal hate crimes.
🎧 Listen here for an "Axios Today" interview with Brian Levin, who directs the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino. |
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| 2. Facebook chases fountain of youth |
 Data: Piper Sandler, "Taking Stock With Teens." Chart: Axios Visuals Mark Zuckerberg said yesterday that Facebook is pivoting its strategy to focus on young adults, following reports that teens have fled its apps, Axios Media Trends author Sara Fischer writes. - The shift to lure back young adults, Zuckerberg says, "will take years, not months."
Why it matters: A series of stories based on leaked whistleblower documents suggest the company sees the aging of its user base as an existential threat to its business. On an earnings call with investors, Zuckerberg said Facebook will be "retooling" its team to make "serving the young adults their north star, rather than optimizing for the larger number of older people." - Zuckerberg called TikTok "one of the most effective competitors that we have ever faced."
Data from the leaked whistleblower documents suggests that teens on Facebook's main app "were projected to drop 45 percent over the next two years," per The Verge. - The number of new teen signups has also declined, according to Bloomberg reporting based on the leaked documents. Young people are "taking much longer to join Facebook than they had in the past."
Facebook has adopted new features that mimic rival apps. Last summer, Facebook launched its TikTok rival, called "Reels," on Instagram. - Zuckerberg says that today, Reels are the "primary driver of engagement growth on Instagram."
- COO Sheryl Sandberg said that more than 60% of video revenue now comes from "mobile-first" video, or videos less than 15 seconds or shot vertically.
Share this story ... The Facebook Papers. |
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| 3. Tech rivals' new message |
| Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testifies before a Parliament committee in London yesterday. Photo: Annabel Moeller/U.K. Parliament via AP TikTok, YouTube and Snapchat will appear on Capitol Hill today with a unified message: We're not Facebook. - Why it matters: The companies are trying to dodge the crossfire as lawmakers mull legislation to rein in Facebook, Axios' Margaret Harding McGill writes.
At the hearing before the Senate Commerce consumer protection subcommittee, representatives of TikTok, YouTube and Snap will focus on measures they've put in place to protect children. |
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| A message from Facebook |
| Why Facebook supports updated internet regulations |
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| Jack is one of 40,000 people working on safety and security issues at Facebook. Hear more from Jack on why Facebook supports updating regulations on the internet's most pressing challenges, including reforming Section 230 to set clear guidelines for all large tech companies. |
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| 4. Axios-Ipsos: Recovery confidence dips |
 Data: Axios/Ipsos poll. Chart: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Confidence in President Biden's ability to rescue the economy from COVID has dropped, even as Americans' faith rises in his ability to make the vaccine widely accessible, Axios managing editor Margaret Talev writes from the Axios/Ipsos Coronavirus Index. - Democrats and independents are driving the declining economic confidence — from 52% of U.S. adults at the start of his presidency to 44% now.
- Barely two in 10 Americans are confident Biden can convince vaccine skeptics to take the shots.
Between the lines: Biden's messaging is "focused on the wrong problem," said Cliff Young, president of Ipsos U.S. Public Affairs. - "The problem is not the unvaccinated," Young said. "The problem is convincing ... those who've been vaccinated that they can live a normal life again."
- "People are confused," Young said. "There's no sense of what the endgame is."
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| 5. Biden's twin realities |
| President Biden visits a pre-K class at East End Elementary School in North Plainfield, N.J., yesterday. Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters President Biden to pre-kindergartners in a classroom in North Plainfield, N.J., yesterday: Y'know, when you're president — ya see all these people here? [Gestures to press pool in back.] They're with you all the time. They get to ask you all kinds of questions. And you try to figure out how you can avoid answering 'em, sometimes. [Video]Biden to Anderson Cooper during CNN's town hall in Baltimore last week: When you're ... you're president of the United States and you have 50 Democrats [in the Senate], every one is a president. [Laughter.] Every single one. So, you got to work things out. |
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| 6. Mapped: Startup-land |
 Data: Heartland Forward. Chart: Will Chase/Axios Heartland Forward — a think tank in Bentonville, Ark. — built an index of America's fertile ground for young companies, including percentage of people with bachelor's degrees, and households with computers. - The heartland badly lags the coasts, Worth Sparkman writes for Axios Northwest Arkansas.
- Arkansas — known for entrepreneurs Sam Walton, John Tyson and J.B. Hunt — ranks 46th.
💡 Solutions ... Steps states can take to boost entrepreneurship, according to the researchers: - Fund entrepreneurial support organizations, including chambers of commerce and business networks.
- Earmark state funding for young firms.
- Improve access to high-speed internet.
- Invest in higher education: There's a direct correlation between entrepreneurship and percentage of residents with college degrees.
- Teach entrepreneurial thinking in K–12.
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| 7. 🔥 Axios Local: "Hottest Launch" |
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| The Axios Local Food Truck delivered smart, efficient breakfast in D.C. on Thursday. Photo: Axios |
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| Axios Local, now with journalists in 14 cities around the country, was named "Hottest Launch" on Adweek's 2021 Hot List. - "If local news is dead, somebody forgot to tell Axios," Adweek says.
- It sure isn't: We're adding more cities soon.
Photo: Axios Sign up here for any of our 14 Axios Local editions, or get notified about new cities. |
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| 8. 📷 Parting shot |
| Photo: Hannah Reyes Morales/The New York Times. Licensed by Axios This photo on the front page of yesterday's New York Times sure got my attention. It turns out these are sharks you can swim with. - The photo shows a fisherman feeding whale sharks last month in the waters around Tan-Awan, a small town in the Philippines.
And therein lies the story: The chance to swim with the world's biggest fish draws tourists to the town. But conservation groups denounce the hand-feeding for keeping the creatures around instead of migrating, Hannah Reyes Morales writes for The Times. - Reality check: "[W]hale sharks are gentle giants. Their mouths are gargantuan, but they are filter feeders. Their hundreds of vestigial teeth are tiny, and they can't bite."
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