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How a News Desert in South Texas Allows Misinformation to Flourish

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Karen Gleason, a veteran reporter, lit a cigarette as she steps out of her white sports car into the sweltering dry heat of the South Texas summer. It took her a few minutes to reach the border wall then recently expanded by Gov. Greg Abbott to deter migrants from Central America. The wall, despite having […]

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I Asked the Pentagon About Pete Hegseth’s Mentor. Then the Threats Started.

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Six weeks ago, Jack Posobiec asked me to comment on whether I have a “creepy fetish for Asian women.” That was one of several false and wildly personal allegations that the far-right pundit and newly minted member of the Pentagon press corps said that he planned to include in “a story that I’m writing about you.” […]

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Twitter’s Foreign Influence Problem Is Nothing New

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Late last week, the X social media platform rolled out a new “location indicator” tool, plans for which had first been announced in October. Suddenly, it became much easier to get information on where in the world the site’s users are actually posting from, theoretically helping to illuminate inauthentic behavior, including attempted foreign influence. “It […]

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“Embarrassing” and “Horrifying”: CDC Workers Describe the New Vaccines and Autism Page

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Earlier this week, a new page titled “Vaccines and Autism” appeared on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Contrary to previous CDC guidance, the page alleged, “The claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism,” adding that […]

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Border Patrol Won’t Say Why It Used a Michael Jackson Song With Antisemitic Lyrics 

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Two months ago, U.S. Border Patrol posted a hype video on Facebook and Instagram showing agents picking up guns and trawling the desert in trucks and off-road vehicles. “Gear up. Lock in. The mission doesn’t wait,” the video’s caption proclaimed. The soundtrack, however, said something quite different; it featured the so-called “banned” version of Michael […]

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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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