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In the wake of Sunday’s shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, which left 26 dead, the media is once again debating the need for stronger gun control laws.

But for one guest on Fox News, there is no debatebecause new gun control laws, he feels, wouldn’t help. “You can’t necessarily keep guns out of the hands of people who are going to violate the law,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Tea Party Republican, declared on Sunday during Fox News’ breaking coverage of the massacre. “If someone is willing to kill someone, they’re also going to be willing to violate a gun law.”

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ICYMI, a brief (1,020-word) but important read: “Do social media threaten democracy?” (subhead: “Facebook, Google and Twitter were supposed to save politics as good information drove out prejudice and falsehood. Something has gone very wrong”), an essay that serves as the cover story of the current issue of The Economist.

The unbylined (per usual Economist style) piece reads, in part,

Not long ago social media held out the promise of a more enlightened politics, as accurate information and effortless communication helped good people drive out corruption, bigotry and lies. Yet Facebook acknowledged that before and after last year’s American election, between January 2015 and August this year, 146m users may have seen Russian misinformation on its platform. Google’s YouTube admitted to 1,108 Russian-linked videos and Twitter to 36,746 accounts. Far from bringing enlightenment, social media have been spreading poison.

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Barbarian welcomed Leo Leone as executive creative director.

“Leo is a Barbarian. His passion for creativity, story-telling and technology is what we’re all about,” Barbarian CEO Cathy Butler said in a statement. “He’s an exceptional creative visionary and I’m confident that bringing him onboard means continued momentum of more great work and even more client wins.”

“Barbarian’s work, attitude and aspiration have the same wide-eyed enthusiasm that drove me to work in digital in the first place,” Leone added. “I’m stoked to be part of the team that will define what’s next for the agency and the industry.”

Leone joins the agency from Edelman Digital, where he served as senior vice president, executive creative director for nearly two years, working on Samsung and the Hawaii Visitors Convention Bureau. Before that he spent over two years at MRY as group creative director and then executive creative director. Prior to that he spent a little over a year as a group creative director for Digitas LBi. Over the course of his career he has worked with brands including Adobe, Coca-Cola and AT&T.