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Tampa, FL, Nov. 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NewMediaWire -- B2Digital Incorporated (the Company or B2Digital) (OTCMKTS:BTDG), the premier development league for mixed martial arts (MMA), is excited to announce that the B2 Fighting Series is heading into its biggest weekend ever, with two major MMA pay-per-view events, each primed to drive record PPV ticket sales on continued expansion in the Companys B2InstaStore marketing platform.

First, on Friday, November 6, HRMMA 116 is set to rock Elizabethtown, Kentucky, as Contender Series veteran, Lance The Tornado Lawrence, puts his 5-1 Pro record on the line versus Adli Sunshine Edwards, who brings his 7-1 Pro record into the B2 Fighting Series cage for a highly anticipated war celebrating the 12-year anniversary of HRMMA.

Then, on Saturday, November 7, B2 heads to the Faucett Brothers Activity Center in Northport, Alabama for explosive MMA action at Strikehard 57, where the Main Event will pit another Contender Series veteran, No Way Jose Johnson (11-6 Pro) against Tyler Wilson (7-3 Pro), one of the top unsigned pro fighters from Canada.

Greg P. Bell, Chairman & CEO of B2Digital, commented, With another packed weekend of high-level fights ahead, we look forward to another B2 Fighting Series success as we continue to develop our fighters for the big leagues. Pre-event PPV ticket sales for these two events have had the highest pre event PPV ticket sales to date. This weekend could set a new Company record for PPV sales on its own. Come join us over live streaming coverage, Amazon Fire TV, or Apple TV and see what the excitement is all about!

Management notes that the Companys B2InstaStore platform has now generated nearly 300 storefronts as B2 Fighting Series fans, followers, and fighters help drive PPV ticket sales with growing impact.

Limited in-person seating for this weekends events are nearly sold out, but interested fans can stream it live on Pay-Per-ViewHERE, or enjoy it live over the B2 Fighting Series app on Amazon Fire TVHEREor Apple TVHERE.

For more information about B2Digital, visit the Companys website atwww.b2digitalotc.com.

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About B2Digital Inc.

With extensive background in entertainment, television, video, and technology, B2Digital (OTC: BTDG) is now forging ahead and becoming a full-service live event sports company. Capitalizing on the combination of B2Digital CEO Greg P. Bells expertise and involvement with more than 40,000 live events over his career for major sports leagues and entertainment venues, B2Digital is in the process of developing and acquiring MMA and sports-related companies to build an integrated Premier Development League, Expand the B2 Official Training Facility Program Network and Continue the growth of the B2 Social Media Network for the multibillion-dollar mixed martial arts (MMA) industry.

B2Digital intends to create and develop league champions that will move on to the MMA major leagues from the Companys B2 Fighting Series brand. Each year, the top fighters will be invited to the annual B2 Fighting Series National Championship live event.

B2Digital has developed and deployed the systems and technologies for the operation of the B2 Fighting Series, B2FS. This includes social media marketing, event management, digital ticketing sales, digital video distribution, digital marketing, PPV, FTV (Free to View), merchandise sales, brand management and financial control systems. B2Digital owns all rights for TV, internet, social media, media, merchandising and trademarks, and branding for the B2Digital companies.

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Somerset County, long a Republican stronghold in New Jersey, is on the verge of the unthinkable just a few years ago being under complete Democrat leadership at the county level.

As of Thursday afternoon, county freeholder candidates Doug Singleterry of North Plainfield and Paul Drake, a former Hillsborough committeeman, are in the lead over their Republican opponents by more than 15,000 votes, with about 80% of votes counted.

In the race for county surrogate, Democrat Tina Jalloh has the lead over Republican opponent Frank Bruno, 75,720 votes to Brunos 59,551 votes.

And although the countys board of elections is still counting ballots, the Republican candidates are aware the race is essentially finished.

Theres no path to victory for the county-level Republican candidates in Somerset County, said Tim Howes, chairman of the countys GOP. We have conceded the election.

All three wins would mean Democrats are in control of every elected office in Somerset County. Before 2017, no Democrat had won a county office since 1979, and before 2019, there were no Democrats on the freeholder board.

Four years ago when Steve Peter won the clerks office, we made it a goal to expand our contributions to the county government and represent the growing diversity that is Somerset County, Peg Schaffer, the countys Democratic chair, said in a release.

Tina, Doug and Paul join an already great team who will lead our county through this century and beyond, she said.

This political shift represents a tide turn in Somerset County politics.

Since the 2004 presidential election, fewer Somerset County residents have voted for the Republican nominee in each consecutive election, according to data from the states division of elections.

In the 2004 race between John Kerry and former president George W. Bush, 72,508 residents in the county voted for Bush. The number of votes for the Republican nominee has consistently decreased in the county, with a most recent total of 65,505 votes for Donald Trump in 2016.

As of Thursday, with all the votes not yet counted and certified, only 51,400 county residents have voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

But despite the Republican losses at the county level, Howes said he believes there is a path forward for the GOP.

Our county-level candidates did significantly outperform President Trump in Somerset County, Howes said. So despite the loss, it does appear there are thousands of Somerset County residents who remember what these Republican candidates have done for Somerset County.

He noted the countys GOP is still watching the local races across Somerset County, which they believe the Republicans will continue to hold their leads in some municipalities.

Former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican who served two terms on the Somerset County freeholder board in the 1980s, said the recent political shift in Somerset mirrors a national trend.

Republicans have been losing ground across the country as the party has moved continuously to the right," Whitman said.

Somerset County has had Democratic freeholders before, in my first race my teammate and I ran against one, so that is not a total game changer, she added. "Until Republicans become a more open and welcoming party, however, they will continue to lose ground.

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NJ Advance Media staff writer Kelly Heyboer contributed to this report. Brianna Kudisch may be reached at bkudisch@njadvancemedia.com.

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The state of Georgia is playing an unusual power-broker role in the knife-edge balance-of-power struggle playing out between Democrats and Republicans over the US Senate following Tuesday's elections. Georgia's two Senate seats, unusually, were both up for election this year, and both races are headed for run-off elections on January 5 after no candidate in either race managed to win a majority of the votes.

As election results stand as of Friday, the Democrats and the Republicans will each hold 48 seats in the 100-member Senate. Two other races in addition to Georgia are still outstanding, but both are widely expected to be won by Republicans.

With the Georgia runoff set for January 5, that will leave the question of which party will control the Senate unanswered until after the rest of the new Congress is sworn in on January 3.

Republican Senator David Perdue was up for re-election, according to the regular six-year Senate cycle. He was first elected in 2014 and is now in a tight contest against Democrat Jon Ossoff, an investigative journalist and media executive.

Each fell short of the 50%-plus-one-vote threshold, with Perdue getting 49.8 per cent of the vote and Ossoff 47.9 per cent, and they will face each other in a run-off, according to Edison Research on Friday.

Georgia's other senator, Republican Kelly Loeffler, was appointed in 2019 to succeed Johnny Isakson, who retired. Her seat was up for grabs in a special election that drew 21 candidates, including Republican US Representative Doug Collins.

Democrat Raphael Warnock emerged with the greatest share of the vote, at 32.7 per cent, with Loeffler drawing 26 per cent and Collins 20.1 per cent. The winner of the runoff election in that race will serve only two years, filling out the remainder of the six-year term that Isakson had been elected to in 2016.

Several US states including Georgia require runoff elections for primary contests that produce no clear winner.

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But Georgia became one of the few states to apply runoffs to general elections, after a gubernatorial race in 1966 failed to produce a clear winner and a state legislature dominated by Democrats chose their own candidate over a Republican who had won a slightly larger plurality of voters.

Democrats failed to generate the "blue wave" of voters they hoped for on November 3 but won enough Senate races to pick up a 48th seat in the 100-member Senate. Republicans look likely to keep 50 seats before the Georgia runoffs, if Republicans are re-elected in the races in North Carolina and Alaska that have not yet been called. The Republican candidates are leading in the vote counts in both of those states.

Democrats would face long odds in winning both Senate seats in traditionally Republican-leaning Georgia, but if they do succeed and Joe Biden wins the White House, that would give a Vice President Kamala Harris a 51st tie-breaking vote.

That would be a huge prize for Democrats, because otherwise a Republican-controlled Senate would have the power to block most of Biden's policy priorities. It sets the stage for an intense two months of campaigning as money, political operatives and the news media pour into Georgia.

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Research shows U.S. adversaries like Russia are pedaling fake health propaganda on sites like Twitter and Facebook.

By Julian Cardillo 14Nov. 3, 2020

Disinformation about vaccines is on the rise on social media and leading to decreases in vaccination rates over time, according to a new study co-authored by Brandeis politics professor Steven Wilson. Now, hes calling on countries like the U.S. to step up the fight against bogus health-related propaganda showing up online.

The study, titled Social media and vaccine hesitancy, which Wilson compiled with global health professor Charles Wiysonge of Stellenbosch University in South Africa, says much of the vaccine talk on sites like Twitter and Facebook consists of fake information pedaled by bots and promulgated by foreign adversaries like Russia.

The situation is leading to an increase in vaccine hesitancy, which the study notes is not only on the World Health Organizations list of top 10 threats to global health overall, but also promises to be a major factor as governments roll out a COVID-19 vaccine.

Wilson, an expert on Russia and digital politics, said his involvement in this research project began in February after the WHO started bringing together scholars to study connections between health and democracy.

We were honestly surprised at what we found, Wilson said. Normally, with findings this statistically significant, we start to wonder if there were variables we forgot to control forresults are never this cut and dry.

Wilson and Wiysonge surveyed social media data and vaccination rates globally. Next, they tabulated their findings on a five-point scale.

Their findings show that mean vaccination rates drop 12 percent per decade with every one-point upward shift on the disinformation scale.

They also modeled the connection between foreign disinformation and negative social media activity about vaccinations. Wilson and Wiysonges surveys showed a 15 percent increase in negative vaccine tweets for the median country based on the substantive effect of foreign disinformation.

Wilson said the study sheds light on foreign disinformation about vaccines generally, and does not exclusively blame Russia. However, the study cites other research that states Russian bots and troll farms are pushing anti-vaccination messages on a large scale on Western social media in conjunction with Russias foreign broadcast network.

Someone needs to be doing something about Russia, Wilson said. There is ample research that Russia is pushing anti-vaccinationpropaganda in various places around the world, and that disinformation is affecting health outcomes consistently.

Another approach to stopping the anti-vaccination talk online is for governments to hold social media companies accountable by mandating them to remove false anti-vaccination content, regardless of whether its from genuine domestic actors or a foreign propaganda operation.

Though he doesnt agree with the argument, Wilson acknowledges there may not be the political will to take that step out of fear of infringing on freedom of speech.

Its not censorship if what youre doing is removing lies, Wilson said. Its not censorship when youre not allowing people to yell FIRE! in a crowded theater.

Youre perfectly free to make a health decision even when its to your detriment, but its not always about you, he added. If a significant population is making the wrong choices, its not so cut and dry. You want people making these determinations with correct information in the first place.

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US Presidential Election results 2020: Joseph R Biden Jr has won the US Presidential race by beating incumbent Donald Trump. Biden will be the 46th US President. The projections by the US media -- NYT, CNN, BBC and FOX News -- came after Biden took an unassailable lead in Pennsylvania, a key state with 20 electoral votes. Now, Biden looks set to win 306 electoral votes, exactly as many as Trump had won in 2016 and way more than the 270 required for US Presidency. Prior to the projection, Trump tweeted that he'd won the polls by a big margin. A few hours ago, Biden, in an address to the nation, reached out to the Republicans and said, "We may be opponents, but we're not enemies.""We have to remember the purpose of our politics isnt totally unrelenting warfare," he added. His statement comes in stark contrast with that of the incumbent President Donald Trump who has been warning Biden not to claim presidency 'wrongfully' and has accused him of 'stealing election'.

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