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Poll: Quarter of UK Population Believe COVID was a Hoax

Comer Cancels Wray Contempt Vote After FBI Agrees to Share Document

Australia to Ban Nazi Symbols in Bid to Curb Far Right

Snowden: 2013 Surveillance ‘Child's Play’ Compared to Today

As campus protests return, schools must do better on press rights

Freedom Press6 hrs

Facebook Fails Again to Detect Hate Speech in Ads

SnopesJul 07, 2023

Court to California: Try a Privacy Law, Not Online Censorship

Electronic Frontier Foundation1 day

Brazil blocks Musk’s X after company refuses to name local representative amid feud with judge

Associated PressOct 24

Australia: Indigenous Senator Censured Over Royal Protest

Australia: Judge Rules Senator Violated Racial Discrimination Law

Brazil Lifts Ban on X

SCOTUS Rejects X's Appeal in Trump Data Case

Texas AG opens investigation into advertising group that Elon Musk sued for ‘boycotting’ X

TechCrunch6 days

Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media

New ScientistNov 20

[Peter Singer] A lesson from Trump’s campaign

Korea HeraldNov 18

Profiteers Are Exploiting US Election Conspiracies and Hate to Make Millions

Why changes to the block on Elon Musk’s X are driving users away

TechCrunchNov 07

Independent US Govt. Panel Calls for Secret Service Overhaul

Employees at Meta, OpenAI, Google Sign Letter in Support of California AI Bill

California Passes AI Regulation Bill

OpenAI Whistleblowers Allege NDAs Prevent Airing of Safety Concerns

Divide and Conquer: Political Riptides Threaten to Overwhelm the Nation

CounterPunch2 hrs

Kash Patel Could Reportedly Get Key Trump FBI Or DOJ Role—Here’s Why Critics Are Worried

Trump's Director of National Intelligence Appointee Tulsi Gabbard Is on Terror Watchlist?

Lincare Made Billions While Repeatedly Defrauding Medicare. Feds Did Little To Rein It In.

ProPublicaNov 14

FEMA Director Denies, Denies, Denies

Sutherland Springs Shooting Victims, DOJ Reach $144M Settlement

North Carolina Democrat Flips Parties, Gives Republicans Supermajority in State House

Spain Approves Teen Abortion, Menstrual Leave, and Trans Laws

J.K. Rowling and Nancy Mace are right: Women deserve their own safe spaces | Opinion

No topic or opinion off limits at new Texas college – a place where students, professors won't get "canceled"

The Surgeon General Issues a Parenting Advisory

Psychology Today18 hrs

University of Austin weeds out DEI, replaces it with merit-based initiatives: VP

We can't share Thanksgiving. You voted to deport people who look like me. | Opinion

UATX launches, touting ideological openness, debate and— for now—free tuition

Navalny's Widow to Run for President in Post-Putin Russia

Jailed Cuban Dissident Leader Wins Annual Human Rights Award

Russian Warships to Arrive in Cuba Next Week

China: Imprisoned Citizen Journalist's Sentence Concludes

11_Imprisoned Belarus activist resurfaces after 20 months

Korea HeraldNov 14

British mother of Egyptian political prisoner to press Lammy to take action

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, in prison for speaking up against human rights violations, has been a voice for women for almost two decades

The Conversation21 hrs

‘Always on and watching’: A former Xinjiang prisoner describes life inside China’s detention camps – TechCrunch

TechCrunchNov 29, 2022

Britain Must Call for Release of British-Egyptian Activist and Coder Alaa Abd El Fattah

Electronic Frontier Foundation12 hrs