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Private security groups regularly sent Minnesota police misinformation about protestors | MIT Technology Review
When US marshals shot and killed a 32-year-old Black man named Winston Boogie Smith Jr. in a parking garage in…
Meet the fact-checkers decoding Sri Lanka’s meltdown | Rest of World
On the evening of May 3, the atmosphere at Galle Face Green, an esplanade along the coastline of Sri Lanka’s…
How Journalists Work With Hacktivists | Motherboard
On May 24, several news outlets reported on the internal workings of a Chinese run Uyghur internment camp in Xinjiang.…
The Tower and the Park: Structural Misalignments of Social Media | Berkman Klein Center
RSVP for this virtual event by Monday, May 16, 3:00 PM ET. Zuccotti Park, the site of Occupy Wall Street,…
Maria Ressa: How Disinformation Manipulates Elections | The Atlantic
In the Philippines, we’re 33 days before our presidential elections. Filipinos are going to the poll and we are choosing…
How Native Americans Are Trying to Debug A.I.’s Biases | The New York Times
This article is part of a limited series on artificial intelligence’s potential to solve everyday problems. In September 2021, Native…
Ukraine’s Defense—and Hacktivists—Have Raised Over $4M in Cryptocurrency | WIRED
This story was originally published on on February 8, and has been updated to include events following Russia’s February 24…
After pulling songs, Neil Young is telling Spotify employees to quit their jobs | The Verge
Neil Young has told Spotify workers that the company’s CEO — not Joe Rogan — is the real problem, and…
Speaker Series Session 1: Conceptual Frameworks for Networked Feminism Tickets, Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 11:00 AM | Eventbrite
Speaker Series Session 1: Conceptual Frameworks for Networked Feminism Join us for our Networked Feminisms: Activist Assemblies and Digital Practices…