Look back at the 2020 election and you might get a clue about where the hang-ups will be tonight. I suppose they are not really hang-ups; they are regular processes that take longer to count.  But the New York Times produced a useful graphic to remind you that Wisconsin didn’t declare a winner on election night but did the next day. Nevada and Pennsylvania took four days, Alaska took more than a week, North Carolina 10 days and Georgia’s race was not settled for a couple of weeks.

I went to Ukraine in October to give some hope to dear friends who live in the capital of Kyiv and to myself, and I can say that I found healing and resolve — as well as pain.

Readers of the Ames Tribune may know I've been writing about Russia's war against its neighbor and our community's response to help since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24.

Conflict began eight years ago with Russia's condemned annexation of Crimea — as told by the death dates and photos of its first victims I saw pictured on the "Memory Wall of Fallen Defenders of Ukraine in Russian-Ukrainian War" on Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv less than three weeks ago.

If Friday brought massive layoffs to Twitter, Monday brought fresh evidence that the company will never be the same. Musk has discussed putting the entire site behind a paywall, Platformer has learned.

Twitter is struggling to respond to political misinformation and other harmful posts on the social media platform after Elon Musk fired roughly half of its workforce just days before the U.S. midterm elections, according to employees who survived the cuts and an outside voting rights group.

The recent mass layoffs spared many of the people whose job it is to keep hate and misinformation off the social-media platform. Musk cut just 15% of those frontline content-moderation workers, compared to roughly 50% job cuts companywide, an executive said last week.

But in preparation for the layoffs, employees said the company also sharply reduced how many employees can look into a specific account’s digital history and behavior — a practice necessary to investigate if it’s been used maliciously and take action to suspend it. The company said it froze access to those tools to reduce “insider risk” at a time of transition.