Snoop-phone cameras "adjust" all photos by default to make them more visually attractive. This falsifies everyone thus photographed.

I think that this contributes one more factor that would lead people to prefer to interact through phones rather than in physical presence.

Migrants from Mauritania in the US fear being deported back there to live under a form of apartheid system with slavery.

A father writes that he told his children the truth about Christmas presents, rather than the usual Santa Claus lie, so they won't feel judged if some year he can't afford to get them any presents.

I think that is a good reason. But I still feel that telling the usual lie is wrong as well. And when parents bully me into speaking to their children as if Santa Claus existed, it puts me in a painful moral dilemma: either butt in and cause a family crisis, or join in lying. I don't want to do either.

US citizens of foreign origin have been terrorized by the deportation thugs' violence, and their rush to deport people without allowing time for justice or even fact-checking. Many now carry their passports all the time, hoping the thugs will check those before brutalizing or jailing them.

*60 Minutes episode on brutal El Salvador prison, pulled from air by CBS, appears online.* This article summarizes much of its description of the torture in the Cecot prison. It is clearly meant to destroy the prisoners' bodies and minds, though not quickly.