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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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Trump’s Proposed Missile Defense System Is a Weapon of Mass Insecurity

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The “Golden Dome” will enrich arms contractors, yet it’s likely to be ineffective while worsening the nuclear arms race.

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As Winter Knocks, and the Shutdown Drags on, Poor Families May Have to Ration Heat

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Millions of Americans face having to ration heating this winter as the US federal government shutdown and mass layoffs by the Trump administration cause unprecedented delays in getting energy assistance aid to low-income households, a group that helps people pay energy bills has […]

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The Race to Stop AI’s Threats to Democracy

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OpenAI became the world’s most valuable private company last week after a stock deal pushed the value of the artificial intelligence developer to $500 billion. The company and its remarkable chatbot ChatGPT have single-handedly accelerated AI’s boom and threatened to upend much of how we work, create, learn, and communicate in the process. But when […]

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Utah Loves Trump. It Didn’t Stop Him From Taking a Chainsaw to One of Its Largest Employers.

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If you’ve ever lived west of the Mississippi, you’ve probably mailed a tax return to the IRS service center in Ogden, Utah. Inside a sprawling campus near the city’s historic downtown, workers process millions of tax returns a year, plus nonprofit paperwork and enforcement actions. Before President Donald Trump took office in January, the IRS […]

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Elon Musk Urges Brits to “Fight Back” Against Their Political Enemies

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Just days after the killing of Charlie Kirk, Elon Musk joined other right-wingers in ratcheting up his rhetoric. In a bizarre, downright dystopian, and often factually inaccurate virtual speech to a massive far-right anti-immigrant rally in London on Saturday, Musk urged attendees to “fight back” against their political enemies. Despite American officials’ bipartisan condemnations of […]

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Farage’s Visit to DC Underscores Alliance Between Far Right and Tech Titans

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Silicon Valley is bankrolling the far right’s attacks on global democracy and getting anti-regulatory allies in return.

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