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Who has the right to be anonymous? | New Statesman
by Emily Tamkin
April 21, 2022
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
by Beth Mole
March 7, 2022
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
by Ryan Broderick
February 22, 2022
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
by Caleb Pershan
February 16, 2022
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
by Micah Lee
February 15, 2022
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
by Matthew Hindman, Nathaniel Lubin, and Trevor Davis
February 11, 2022
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
by Karen Kornbluh
February 9, 2022
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
by Sharon Pruitt-Young
February 3, 2022
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
by David Corn
January 31, 2022
In the spring of 2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) exploded when Donald Trump cited a baseless conspiracy theory that claimed…