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The live video platform 2Way, led by journalist Mark Halperin, is expanding is programming slate with the launch of three new shows.

Real America with Bridget Phetasy will feature the comedian spotlighting the lives of everyday people and “exploring the nuanced middle ground where most Americans reside.” The show, premiering 7 p.m. Et on Wednesday, will air each week on 2Way and the Real America YouTube Channel.

The Group Chat is a political panel moderated by Batya Ungar-Sargon and featuring Nina Turner, Robby Soave, Emma-Jo Morris and Dan Turrentine. The show will feature conversations on the week’s biggest political stories and will include live audience participation. The debut will be on Thursday at 6 p.m. Et as a special edition of 2Way Tonight, then return on May 29 at 4 p.m. Et for new episodes each Thursday.

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Sacha Baron Cohen has turned his Silicon Valley ire from Facebook to Google, with the comedian ripping the company’s two co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, for stepping down from the tech giant’s parent company earlier this week.

In a tweet posted on Wednesday, Baron Cohen slammed their exit from Alphabet, saying they did little to curb “white supremacy [and] conspiracies” on Google and YouTube.

“Larry and Sergey, first you drop your ‘Don’t Be Evil’ mantra, now you ‘drop out’?” Cohen tweeted, referencing the company’s decision to remove its famous motto from its code of conduct last year.

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Brin and Page “still control 51% of voting shares,” Baron Cohen said, before imploring them to stop racism and misinformation from spreading.

Larry and Sergey, first you drop your “Don’t Be Evil” mantra,...

Nathan Phillips, the Native American tribal elder who was involved in a tense standoff with Covington Catholic High School students on Friday, said he wasn’t a fan of Nicholas Sandmann’s statements or his “Today” show interview, telling the program that it all appeared fake.

Sandmann and Phillips were the central players in a standoff at the Lincoln Memorial, video of which sent much of social media into a fury over the weekend.

“What did you think about [Sandmann’s] words … and his version of this encounter?” host Savannah Guthrie asked Phillips.

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“Coached and written up for him, insincerity, lack of responsibility, those are the words I came up with — but then I went to go pray about it and then I woke up, woke up with this forgiving heart, I forgive him.” Phillips said.

Elsewhere in the interview he said,...

Students from Covington Catholic High School say they have been the victims of online hate mobs and have received graphic personal threats and wishes of violence.

“I’ve never heard such cruel things wished upon another human being,” student Grant Hillman said on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday. It “ranged from getting locked inside a building and getting burned alive to sexually assaulted by the clergy members. It’s just awful.”

Hillman also said that his personal information had been released online so far on three separate occasions. The act, colloquially known as doxxing, is broadly frowned upon and is a violation of Twitter’s terms of service.

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The students got a mostly sympathetic ear from co-host Steve Doocy, who stated on air his belief that longer video of the incident had broadly “exonerated” the students.

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Covington Catholic student Nicholas Sandmann spoke out for the first time on Wednesday, defending himself after video of him seemingly taunting Native American tribal elder Nathan Phillips went viral over the weekend.

“As far as standing there, I had every right to do so. My position is that I was not disrespectful to Mr. Phillips. I respect him. I’d like to talk to him,â€. Sandmann told “Todayâ€. host Savannah Guthrie. “But I can’t say that I’m sorry for listening to him and standing there.â€.

Sandmann also denied that he or his classmates had said racist things, noting that such talk would have been forbidden by his school.

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“We’re a Catholic school, and it’s not tolerated. They don’t tolerate racism, and none of my classmates are racist people,â€. he said,...

The National Review offered an apology to the students of Covington Catholic High School on Tuesday after deputy managing editor Nick Frankovich wrote that their behavior toward Omaha tribal elder Nathan Phillips had been comparable to spitting on the cross.

“In this business, all we can do is own up to mistakes when they happen. We apologize to our readers and especially to the Covington students, who didn’t need us piling on,” the magazine’s editors wrote in a piece titled “The Covington Affair.”

“Nick was operating off the best version of events he had on Saturday night, and writing as a faithful Catholic and pro-lifer who has the highest expectations of his compatriots, not as a social-justice activist,” they continued. “As soon as better evidence emerged, we deleted the post.”

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President Trump said Tuesday that the students from Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School had become symbols of the fake news media in the United States and “how evil it can be.”

“Nick Sandmann and the students of Covington have become symbols of Fake News and how evil it can be,” the president wrote to his more than 57 million followers on Twitter. “They have captivated the attention of the world, and I know they will use it for the good — maybe even to bring people together. It started off unpleasant, but can end in a dream!”

It was Trump’s second foray into an issue that dominated social media all weekend. On Monday evening, the president tweeted approvingly of Tucker Carlson’s monologue on Covington students, calling out the mainstream media.

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The National Review pulled down an article on Sunday attacking the students at Covington Catholic High School, which said their behavior toward Native American elder Nathan Phillips was comparable to spitting on the cross.

“They mock a serious, frail-looking older man and gloat in their momentary role as Roman soldiers to his Christ. “‘Bullying’ is a worn-out word and doesn’t convey the full extent of the evil on display here,” National Review Deputy Managing Editor Nicholas Frankovich said in the original piece. “As for the putatively Catholic students from Covington, they might as well have just spit on the cross and got it over with.”

You can read an archived version here.

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The piece was pulled down after that narrative around the story began to change as more video footage became available. Frankovich...