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An Uber Millionaire Wants You to Vote on the Internet — Despite the Inherent Vulnerabilities
In the fall of 2010, the District of Columbia was preparing to do something bold: allow overseas voters to cast their ballots online. A few weeks ahead of the November general election, it conducted a mock internet election and invited… Read More ›
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Accident With 1918 Pandemic Virus Raises Questions About Pathogen Research
At the moment that the ferret bit him, the researcher was smack in the middle of Manhattan, in a lab one block from Central Park’s East Meadow. It was the Friday afternoon before Labor Day in 2011, and people were… Read More ›
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Student Infected With Debilitating Virus in Undisclosed Biolab Accident
The graduate student was alone in the lab on a Saturday, handling a mouse infected with a debilitating virus, when the needle slipped. She wore two gowns, two pairs of shoe covers, a hair net, a face mask, and two… Read More ›
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Leaked Documents Outline DHS’s Plans to Police Disinformation
The Department of Homeland Security is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as… Read More ›
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By Buying Twitter, Elon Musk Has Created His Own Hilarious Nightmare
Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Stavanger, Norway, on Aug. 29, 2022. Photo: NTB/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk (and his consortium of much smaller investors) now owns Twitter. We need to take seriously the possibility that this will end up… Read More ›
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Hacked Documents: How Iran Can Track and Control Protesters’ Phones
Read this story in Persian As furious anti-government protests swept Iran, the authorities retaliated with both brute force and digital repression. Iranian mobile and internet users reported rolling network blackouts, mobile app restrictions, and other disruptions. Many expressed fears that the… Read More ›
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Bizarre Republican Ad Blames Biden for Anti-Asian Violence Incited by Trump
Citizens for Sanity, a shadowy nonprofit run by three former Trump administration officials, has purchased $33 million worth of air time this month to flood airwaves with violent, misleading ads that claim that Democrats are exclusively to blame for a… Read More ›
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Did a Woke Mob Cancel the “Jihad Rehab” Doc? Here’s the Real Story.
The documentary “Jihad Rehab” opens with a series of testimonies from former Guantánamo Bay prisoners. One former detainee, wearing a red headdress and seated on a living room sofa, says, “The American government did bad, bad, bad things against us,… Read More ›
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Crime of Aggression
Earlier this week, Russia launched a new drone bombing spree in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. This followed last week’s attack, when Russian missiles struck the capital and other parts of the country. This week on Intercepted: reporter Alice Speri breaks down the… Read More ›
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Oakland Cops Hope to Arm Robots With Lethal Shotguns
In a series of little noted Zoom meetings this fall, the city of Oakland, California, grappled with a question whose consequences could shape the future of American policing: Should cops be able to kill people with shotgun-armed robots? The back-and-forth… Read More ›
