Good morning. 
Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 46. Sunrise is 7:02 AM and sunset 7:03 PM, for 12h 00m 41s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 8.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Alcohol Licensing Commission meets via audiovisual conferencing at 5:45 PM, and the Whitewater Common Council meets via audiovisual conferencing at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1935, Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
Recommended for reading in full —
Elizabeth Dwoskin reports Massive Facebook study on users’ doubt in vaccines finds a small group appears to play a big role in pushing the skepticism (‘Internal study finds a QAnon connection and that content that doesn’t break the rules may be causing ‘substantial’ harm’):
While Facebook has banned outright false and misleading statements about coronavirus vaccines since December, a huge realm of expression about vaccines sits in a gray area. One example could be comments by someone expressing concern about side effects that are more severe than expected. Those comments could be both important for fostering meaningful conversation and potentially bubbling up unknown information to health authorities — but at the same time they may contribute to vaccine hesitancy by playing upon people’s fears.
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The company’s data scientists divided the company’s U.S. users, groups and pages into 638 population segments to explore which types of groups hold vaccine hesitant beliefs. The document did not identify how Facebook defined a segment or grouped communities, but noted that the segments could be at least 3 million people.
Some of the early findings are notable: Just 10 out of the 638 population segments contained 50 percent of all vaccine hesitancy content on the platform. And in the population segment with the most vaccine hesitancy, just 111 users contributed half of all vaccine hesitant content.
Miranda Bryant and Martin Pengelly report FBI arrests two men for ‘bear spray’ assault on Capitol officer who later died:
Julian Elie Khater, 32, of Pennsylvania and George Pierre Tanios, 39, from West Virginia, were arrested by the FBI on Sunday and expected to appear in federal court on Monday.
They were charged with assaulting Sicknick with a “toxic spray”, thought to be bear spray, which Khater was allegedly seen discharging into the officer’s face in footage of the riot. It is not yet known if it caused Sicknick’s death.
Sicknick, 42, was one of five people to die as a direct result of the assault, which Donald Trump incited when he told supporters to “fight like hell” in his cause. The officer died in hospital on 7 January. A police statement said he “was injured while physically engaging with protesters” and “returned to his division office and collapsed”.
Mitchell Schmidt reports Republican mailer for state Senate candidate implies nonexistent State Journal endorsement:
A Republican Party campaign mailer for a state Senate candidate includes altered versions of statements the Republican made to the Wisconsin State Journal, making it seem as if the candidate were endorsed by the newspaper.
The mailer supporting Rep. John Jagler, R-Watertown, includes two of Jagler’s responses to a candidate questionnaire that was published last month ahead of the Feb. 16 primary. The statements in the mailer appear under the State Journal logo, but change personal pronouns “I” and “We” to Jagler’s name, making the quotes seem like they came from the newspaper, rather than from Jagler himself.