In the days before his arrest, Stewart Rhodes could feel the authorities circling. He met me on a chilly Dallas evening in January in a room I’d booked at a chain hotel not far from where he lived, the neon… Read More ›
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Big Tech’s Kafkaesque Approach to Censorship Is Driven by an Abiding Contempt for Its Audience
Ryan Grim, left, and Robby Soave, right, host The Hill’s morning politics show “Rising,” in a screenshot from a YouTube broadcast in March 2022. Photo: The Hill The politics morning show “Rising,” produced by The Hill and which I currently… Read More ›
Emails Point to Oversight Problems With NIH Bat Coronavirus Grant
Congressional Republicans have accused the National Institutes of Health and Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, of funding dangerous research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, China. The NIH has shot back that none of the… Read More ›
The Unspeakable Cruelty of Targeting Trans Kids to Score Campaign Points
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a campaign event in Houston, Tex., on Feb. 23, 2022. Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images This week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, following the lead of state Attorney General Ken Paxton, officially backed the terrorizing of trans… Read More ›
Saudi-Russia Collusion Is Driving Up Gas Prices — and Worsening Ukraine Crisis
As Russia ordered troops into Ukraine on Monday, gas prices soared to their highest levels in over seven years. While the media focuses on the conflict in Ukraine, a major cause of the gas price spike has gone overlooked: Moscow’s… Read More ›
IRS, Department of Homeland Security Contracted Firm That Sells Location Data Harvested From Dating Apps
In January, The Markup revealed a list of apps that have sold location data to X-Mode, a controversial data broker that claims to cover “25%+ of the Adult U.S. population monthly.” The data broker, which has faced intense criticism from… Read More ›
Oath Keepers, Anti-Democracy Activists, and Others on the Far Right Are Funding Canada's "Freedom Convoy"
Like many other major websites used by the far right, the self-described Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo, which was used by Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” protest movement against public health measures to raise millions of dollars, has been hacked very badly, exposing… Read More ›
“A Pure Sideshow”: Now More Than Ever, the Stock Market Doesn’t Matter
The stock price of Meta (i.e., Facebook) plunged 27 percent in one day last week! The S&P 500 is veering into correction territory! The ballyhooed ARK Innovation ETF, made up of dozens of tech stocks, has plummeted 50 percent in the… Read More ›
Poll Shows Silicon Valley Rep. Zoe Lofgren At Odds With Her District Over Big Tech Reforms
A new poll by Data for Progress shows that Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a key opponent of tech antitrust reforms, is wildly out of step with constituents in her Silicon Valley district. The poll, which was provided exclusively to The… Read More ›
Rep. Pramila Jayapal to Force Vote on Biden’s Strangling of Afghan Economy
Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., has secured a vote today on President Joe Biden’s refusal to release to the Afghan central bank $9.4 billion of its own foreign reserves, The Intercept has learned. It will mark the first-ever… Read More ›