A former president of the United States has their pick of big problems to tackle once they leave office. Jimmy…
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Who has the right to be anonymous? | New Statesman
WASHINGTON — On Tuesday (19 April) the Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz published an article that confirmed the name of…
Prominent peddler of COVID misinfo pleads guilty to joining Capitol riot | Ars Technica
Dr. Simone Gold, a prominent anti-vaccine doctor who founded a group notorious for widely peddling COVID-19 misinformation, pleaded guilty on…
How Facebook twisted Canada’s trucker convoy into an international movement | The Verge
After more than two weeks of chaotic protest, this week, the Canadian government pushed back. On Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin…
Project Veritas pokes at the New York Times but loses a legal battle | Columbia Journalism Review
Project Veritas, the right-wing website that often publishes surreptitiously recorded and selectively edited videos to embarrass liberals and mainstream media…
America’s Frontline Doctors Team Up With Project Veritas | The Intercept
The anti-vaccine propaganda group America’s Frontline Doctors has partnered with Project Veritas, the far-right group known for deceptively editing videos…
Facebook Has a Superuser-Supremacy Problem | The Atlantic
If you want to understand why Facebook too often is a cesspool of hate and disinformation, a good place to…
Disinformation, Radicalization, and Algorithmic Amplification: What Steps Can Congress Take? | Just Security
Design features of social media platforms are exploited to promote extremism. The platforms’ after the fact, whack-a-mole approach to content…
National Butterfly Center in Texas shuts down amid right-wing harassment | NPR
The butterflies will fly no more — or not in public view, anyway. The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas,…
Ted Cruz Is Fundraising Off a Debunked 1/6 Conspiracy Theory | Mother Jones
In the spring of 2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) exploded when Donald Trump cited a baseless conspiracy theory that claimed…