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America is in a very angry moment. Social media is a showcase of that anger. Sunday, Bill Whitaker speaks with leading voices in academia and tech who say platforms like Facebook and Twitter are helping to create polarization in American society. cbsn.ws/3WrjI9j

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“The audience isn’t wrong, right? You can’t convince somebody that something is funny. Either they laughed at it or they didn’t… And the audience is telling you all of that. And so it’s my job to listen to them,” David Sedaris tells Jon Wertheim. cbsn.ws/3Wg1B6d

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“It just seemed like everyone was listening to the radio that day… I went from somebody with no opportunities to someone having to weed them out,” David Sedaris describes to Jon Wertheim what it was like when “The Santaland Diaries” went viral. cbsn.ws/3DIrCUv

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“[Our mom would] work the story, which is where he gets it from,” Amy Sedaris, David Sedaris’ sister, tells Jon Wertheim. cbsn.ws/3SSbT9H

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“Every night, I am on stage, and I look out and I see people and I want to say, ‘Why are you here?’... The thing is, I’m nobody. You know what I mean? Maybe what happens in the theatre is just a celebration of our shared ordinariness,” David Sedaris says. cbsn.ws/3gWgDOk

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“I’m in show business, and I love the show business life. I really do. It’s the laziest form of show business there is, but I think of it as show business. I do,” David Sedaris explains to Jon Wertheim. cbsn.ws/3fncylR

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David Sedaris, along with his sister Amy, tells Jon Wertheim about his difficult relationship with his father, his unlikely big break, and why he can sometimes still feel like an imposter. cbsn.ws/3DpPECf

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“We make sure we get each individual [gorilla] in the group [so] that we can do a visual assessment, looking for signs of illness or injury,” says Amy Bond of the international conservation group Gorilla Doctors. cbsn.ws/3DlBW3s

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To learn what viruses baboons are carrying, Tierra Smiley Evans pioneered a simple but groundbreaking method to collect saliva samples: the stealth banana. cbsn.ws/3fnn7W8

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“There are probably more pathogens that we don’t know about than ones that we do know about,” UC Davis epidemiologist and wildlife vet Tierra Smiley Evans tells Bill Whitaker. cbsn.ws/3UdcZ0D

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Politicians who say the 2020 election was stolen are on the ballot this midterm election for key statewide positions. Scott Pelley reports from Arizona on a key midterm issue that has split the GOP and America. Streaming tonight at 8p ET on CBS News.

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Impenetrable Forest park ranger Wilbur Tumwesigye tells Bill Whitaker that humans have identified 14 different sounds mountain gorillas make—and he has mastered many of those sounds. cbsn.ws/3zwFcrG

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Asked if collecting samples from bats harms the animal, Christine Johnson says, “No, it doesn’t hurt the bat. We get the right size swab so that we’re just doing an oral sample. It might be a little uncomfortable.” cbsn.ws/3Fv20fd

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“People have moved into areas they never [have lived in] before. That shrinkage of the buffer, the habitat, between the people and wildlife, has become so narrow, so that increases the contact,” says Bernard Ssebide, a top wildlife vet in Uganda. cbsn.ws/3fhCBL8

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“I would say another pandemic is guaranteed,” wildlife epidemiologist Christine Johnson tells Bill Whitaker. cbsn.ws/3sG1LpY

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⚡️ Arizona's Republican Attorney General has called denialism a 'giant grift,' but some Republican nominees still claim the 2020 election was stolen. twitter.com/i/events/15871…

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'There was information contained in there, and we took it seriously, and we went through and we systematically looked at sometimes thousands of instances of alleged dead people voting. And I think we might have found one or two cases.' Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich says.

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