Deutsche Welle: German regulator probes whether Musk’s tweets were boosted. “A US tech blog alleged that the Twitter CEO ordered engineers to increase the visibility of his tweets. Bavaria’s media regulator will check whether the social media giant violated a law to protect against media bias.”
Phys.org: Deconstructing Chile’s colonization: Digital re-edition of Indigenous language textbook. “At first glance, it is merely a printed textbook for religious education in a foreign language. But the genesis of the 1903 edition of ‘Kurze biblische Geschichte für die unteren Schuljahre der katholischen Volksschule’ (short biblical history for the lower years of Catholic elementary school), published in the language of the Indigenous Mapuche, provides special insights into the time of missionary work by the Bavarian Capuchins in Chile.”
Deutsche Welle: COVID in Germany: Bavaria cancels Christmas markets. “Bavaria announced on Friday that it’s canceling all Christmas markets in the state because of soaring coronavirus infections. The state government has also imposed a lockdown on all districts that have a seven-day COVID incidence rate of over 1,000 per 100,000 people. In those places, bars, clubs and restaurants, as well as cultural and sport venues will be closed, said state Premier Markus Söder after a meeting of his Cabinet in Munich.”
Google Blog: Bavarian State Library and Google celebrate 10 years of partnership. “Ten years ago the venerable Bavarian State Library from Munich (BSB) and the comparatively young Google started their joint adventure: the digitization of hundreds of thousands of historical writings from the archives of the BSB and its Bavarian regional libraries. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of our collaboration, we’ve published a digital exhibition on Google Arts & Culture.”
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