Seems Spoopy. Bodies Rising? Secrets coming to Light?

Bloated carcasses of the mink culled by Denmark to stop the spread of a COVID-19 strain are surfacing from their mass graves

The carcasses of Danish mink culled to prevent the spread of a mutated strain of COVID-19 have swollen up and risen to the surface of their mass graves, according to local media.

Gas bloating has caused the bodies of some of the country's culled mink to rise up and emerge from three feet under the ground at a military burial site at Holstebro, West Jutland, and some other sites, public broadcaster DR reported.

A cull of 17 million mink — the country's entire population of the creature — began in November after the discovery of a new strain of COVID-19 at some farms.

The sheer size of the cull meant that rendering plants — which normally handle carcasses — were overwhelmed. Instead, many animals were incinerated, or drenched in disinfectant and lime, and buried three feet deep.

The burials are presenting a grisly problem at some sites, according to DR.

Thomas Kristensen, press officer for the Danish National Police, told the outlet: "In connection with the decay, some gases can be formed, which causes the whole thing to expand a little, and then in that way, in the worst case, they get pushed out of the ground."

The national police force, which is overseeing the burial operation, also told DR that it had seen similar instances before it came to light in Holstebro on Monday, but did not specify where.

Kristensen explained that the sandy soil of the West Jutland area is too light to hold them down, and added that the police are addressing the problem by adding more soil. Some future burials will be more than eight feet deep, DR reported him as saying.

The new strain that was found in the mink is transmissible to humans. However, experts told Business Insider's Aylin Woodward that the danger it presents may be limited, and on November 20 authorities said the strain is now "most likely" extinct.

Kristensen said that the risk of COVID-19 transmission to humans from the newly-arisen mink is low, though bacteria may remain on their fur.

"Mink, which have been infected with corona, are transmitted primarily through breathing, so in this way dead mink infects less than live mink," he told DR. "But there may still be bacteria in the fur on them."

"But having said that, it is never healthy to get close to dead animals," he added.

He also said he could not guarantee it would not happen again.

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Roiled by Election, Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth

The change was part of the“break glass”plans Facebook had spent months developing for the aftermath of a contested election. It resulted in a spike in visibility for big, mainstream publishers like CNN, The New York Times and NPR, while posts from highly engaged hyperpartisan pages, such as Breitbart and Occupy Democrats, became less visible, the employees said.

It was a vision of what a calmer, less divisive Facebook might look like. Some employees argued the change should become permanent, even if it was unclear how that might affect the amount of time people spent on Facebook. In an employee meeting the week after the election, workers asked whether the “nicer news feed” could stay, said two people who attended.

Guy Rosen, a Facebook executive who oversees the integrity division that is in charge of cleaning up the platform, said on a call with reporters last week that the changes were always meant to be temporary. “There has never been a plan to make these permanent,” he said. John Hegeman, who oversees the news feed, said in an interview that while Facebook might roll back these experiments, it would study and learn from them.

The news feed debate illustrates a central tension that some inside Facebook are feeling acutely these days: that the company’s aspirations of improving the world are often at odds with its desire for dominance.

In the past several months, as Facebook has come under more scrutiny for its role in amplifying false and divisive information, its employees have clashed over the company’s future. On one side are idealists, including many rank-and-file workers and some executives, who want to do more to limit misinformation and polarizing content. On the other side are pragmatists who fear those measures could hurt Facebook’s growth, or provoke a political backlash that leads to painful regulation.

“There are tensions in virtually every product decision we make and we’ve developed a companywide framework called ‘Better Decisions’ to ensure we make our decisions accurately, and that our goals are directly connected to delivering the best possible experiences for people,” said Joe Osborne, a Facebook spokesperson.

These battles have taken a toll on morale. In an employee survey this month, Facebook workers reported feeling less pride in the company compared to previous years. About half felt that Facebook was having a positive impact on the world, down from roughly three-quarters earlier this year, according to a copy of the survey, known as Pulse, which was reviewed by The New York Times. Employees’ “intent to stay” also dropped, as did confidence in leadership.

BuzzFeed News previously reported on the survey results.

Even as Election Day and its aftermath have passed with few incidents, some disillusioned employees have quit, saying they could no longer stomach working for a company whose products they considered harmful. Others have stayed, reasoning they can make more of a difference on the inside. Still others have made the moral calculation that even with its flaws, Facebook is, on balance, doing more good than harm.

“Facebook salaries are among the highest in tech right now, and when you’re walking home with a giant paycheck every two weeks, you have to tell yourself that it’s for a good cause,” said Gregor Hochmuth, a former engineer with Instagram, which Facebook owns, who left in 2014. “Otherwise, your job is truly no different from other industries that wreck the planet and pay their employees exorbitantly to help them forget.”

With most employees working remotely during the pandemic, much of the soul-searching has taken place on Facebook’s internal Workplace network.

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