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Climate Scientists Raise a Middle Finger to Trump’s Censorship Efforts

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Researchers across the United States and the world who raced to protect climate data, public reports and other information from the Trump administration’s budget cuts, firings, and scrubbing of federal websites are launching their own climate information portals. […]

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Digital Literacy and Civics Education are Essential Tools in Era of Disinformation and Surveillance Capitalism

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Heidi Boghosian delivers a powerful and meticulously researched call to arms for a digitally overwhelmed society grappling with declining civic engagement and the manipulation of truth in the digital age in her new book Cyber Citizens: Saving Demo…

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Anti-Vax Groups Struggle to Explain How Tylenol Fits In With Their Whole Thing

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Since President Trump’s rambling Monday announcement about the supposed cause of autism and a purported new treatment, anti-vaccine groups have grappled with what the administration’s latest revelations mean for their movement. While some MAHA activists appeared to be overjoyed that the president had brought their cause to a national stage, others were frustrated that it […]

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CovertAction Bulletin: Dems Pay Influencers to Pretend They Are Grassroots

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According to recent reporting by Taylor Lorenz in Wired, a secretive dark money group is funding influencers to post pro-Democratic Party messaging on social media services—paying them up to $8,000 per month…
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Trump’s Federal Guidelines for AI May Turbocharge Climate Denial and Racist Bias

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AI is already racist and sexist. Trump’s plan aims to embed bias and lies even deeper into the systems reshaping the US.

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As Students Go Back to School, What Pivotal Aspects of U.S. History—Including CIA History—Will Not Be Taught?

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The conservative right has been on a crusade to purge the teaching of critical race theory and aspects of U.S. history that reflect negatively on the country’s past and, hence, might encourage critical thinking about the present. Most academic historia…

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What Is a Far-Right Ideologue Going to Do With the U.S. Institute of Peace? 

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In February, President Trump included the U.S. Institute of Peace in an executive order targeting federal entities he deemed “unnecessary” and which he planned to cut as much as he legally could. In March, the USIP’s Washington D.C. offices were invaded by armed private security as part of a brute force takeover by Elon Musk’s […]

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Is AI Pushing Us Closer to Nuclear Disaster?

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Earlier this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that it was moving the hands of the Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds before midnight, a symbolic hour signifying global catastrophe. The hands have been moved only 25 times since the clock’s creation in 1947, and they’re now the closest they’ve pointed to worldwide destruction. […]

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RFK Jr.’s Answer to US Health Crisis Is Citations Made Up by AI

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The report contained numerous fake citations and markers indicating that it had been compiled using OpenAI.

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Trump’s New Surgeon General Pick Wants to “Raise the Vibration of Humanity”

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On Wednesday, following controversy about inconsistencies in her résumé, President Trump withdrew his nomination of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat to become Surgeon General, and gave the nod to alternative medicine practitioner and author Dr. Casey Means. “Her academic achievements, together with her life’s work, are absolutely outstanding,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “Dr. […]

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Government Cancels Disinformation Grants in Disinformation-Filled Statement

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Lisa Fazio expected her National Science Foundation grant to be cancelled. The associate professor of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt University had watched, with apprehension, the GOP targeting disinformation in a series of legislative attacks. She only grew more certain when, on April 18, the National Science Foundation (NSF) put out a statement on […]

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Pandemic Truthers Take Over HHS Covid Site

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As of Friday, Covid.gov, the Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 resource launched in 2022, is no longer providing information and resources about Covid—and Covidtests.gov, the website used to order free Covid tests from the government, isn’t, either. Both now redirect to a White House page promoting the “lab leak theory,” which contends that […]

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