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Hello fellow web crawlers! Andrew here. Welcome to today's edition of web_crawlr.
Today's top stories are a little different. All of them will be political, for obvious reasons. I promise that in the future we will try and find joy in the upcoming struggle, but things are too serious to include that kind of content today.
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So today we've got top stories about: How an old Biden tweet perfectly summed up the internet's reaction to the election, why liberals are trying to cancel viral sensation Moo Deng, MAGA's delusional claims that bomb threats to U.S. polling sites were a hoax, and why some people think Kamala Harris not appearing on a podcast cost her the election.
After that, our Senior Politics Editor David has a "Deplatformed" column for you.
See you tomorrow.
— A.W.
An old tweet from Biden has summed up the internet's mood after the election.
Right-wingers are dismissing reports of bomb threats originating from Russia and targeting polling sites in the U.S. as a Democrat “hoax.”
Complaints are rolling in that the decision by Vice President Kamala Harris to not appear on Joe Rogan’s podcast may have cost her the presidential election.
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