The City of New York has refused to make public the complete data about its wastewater surveillance programme. As a result, the public is unable to prepare for the detection of viral outbreaks, including new variants of the Coronavirus. The limited data released to Progress New York is the subject of this report. Data Analysis by @CestVraiApp.

New York City promises wastewater surveillance data to academic researchers, depriving the public of Coronavirus pandemic infection signals

New York City pledges its Coronavirus wastewater variant surveillance data to academics. Is that why the Government won’t publicly release the data ?

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Dr. Dave Chokshi, the chief New York City health minister, oversees the publication of data about the Coronavirus pandemic. Mayor Bill de Blasio refuses to explain the plunge in sample sizes used for the weekly variant sequencing studies, raising questions about the unknown breakdown of COVID-19 variants in the major sources of Coronavirus testing. NYC Mayor's Office (YouTube/Fair Use)

Letter From New York : Drop in weekly New York City COIVD-19 sequencing sample sizes prompts questions about the reliability of the weekly studies

Data analysis by Progress New York reveals that New York City appears to be undersampling COVID-19 specimens for its variant sequencing reports.

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AOC rallies supporters to engage in coördinated campaign to flag Twitter and Facebook critics for censorship

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY 14) solicited assistance from her political supporters to engage in a coördinated campaign to flag her critics on the Twitter social media platform for censorship.

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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, denying allegations that the social media giant was engaged in on-going censorship, an assertion that was disputed by the New York Post and Progress New York. C-Span (Screen Shot) (Fair Use)

Twitter and other social media honchos testified before a U.S. Senate committee, as separate acts of censorship continue against the New York Post and the C’est Vrai app

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, answering questions about the censorship of The New York Post as Republicans escalate scrutiny over social media giants. CEO’s of Facebook and Google also testified.

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Twitter censored the C’est Vrai app after the social media giant made an extortious demand to control tweet content

Twitter censored the C’est Vrai app’s programming privileges after Progress New York refused to allow the social media giant to control tweet content. C’est Vrai is a Web application that provides computer-assisted research services to Progress New York. The tweet content that was the subject of controversy represented public service journalism delivered over social media.

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C'est Vrai is the computer-assisted Web application that forms a cornerstone of the Progress New York news Web site. The use of the C'est Vrai App has been extended to include a new function that shares on the Twitter social media platform heat and water outages self-reported by the New York City Housing Authority. Progress New York

C’est Vrai computer-assisted reporting Web app extended to report NYCHA heat and water outages

Progress New York has added a social media function to the C’est Vrai computer-assisted Web reporting app to report heat, water, and hot water outages at the New York City Housing Authority.

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