Category: media
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Inside Trump’s Chaotic, Desperate Reelection Campaign
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The Chaotic, Desperate, Last-Minute Trump 2020 Reboot Inside the most disorganized, unscrupulous, self-sabotaging presidential campaign since the last one. via Intelligencer: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-reelection-campaign-2020.html It was a sign of impending doom, to some, when earlier this summer Parscale began coming in more often just as the target on his back swelled to carnival proportions. The polls? Trump…
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The Race to Investigate a Coronavirus Outbreak at a Georgia Prep School | The New Yorker
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The Race to Investigate a Coronavirus Outbreak at a Georgia Prep School Georgia reopened early, and the graduating seniors of the Lovett School celebrated at parties large and small. Then came the positive COVID-19 tests, the media coverage, and the refusals to speak to contact tracers. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/the-race-to-investigate-a-coronavirus-outbreak-at-a-georgia-prep-school By Monday, Lovett was…
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What Can America Learn from Europe About Regulating Big Tech? | The New Yorker
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What Can America Learn from Europe About Regulating Big Tech? When the Dutch politician Marietje Schaake arrived in Silicon Valley, she realized just how bizarre American thinking about the industry had become. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/what-can-america-learn-from-europe-about-regulating-big-tech Schaake proceeded to answer her own question with a long wish list. “A.I. development should promote fairness and…
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How U.S. Policy Turned the Sonoran Desert Into a Graveyard for Migrants – The New York Times
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How U.S. Policy Turned the Sonoran Desert Into a Graveyard for Migrants (Published 2020) Roberto Primero Luis set out across the U.S.-Mexico border last year as previous Guatemalan migrants had. But the crossing has changed. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/magazine/border-crossing.html “Prevention through deterrence” worked. Apprehensions increased, reaching a peak of nearly 1.7 million in 2000. So did deaths.…
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How Jared Kushner Became Trump’s Most Dangerous Enabler – The Atlantic
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The Good Son Polished, soft-spoken, and a self-styled moderate, Jared Kushner has become his father-in-law’s most dangerous enabler. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/how-jared-kushner-became-trumps-most-dangerous-enabler/615169/ Polished, soft-spoken, and a self-styled moderate, Jared Kushner has become his father-in-law’s most dangerous enabler.
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How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime
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How Police Secretly Took Over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots. Link: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3aza95/how-police-took-over-encrochat-hacked Unbeknownst to Mark, or the tens of thousands of other alleged Encrochat users, their messages weren’t really…
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A Church. A Viral Video. A Campaign To Discredit Black Lives Matter.
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Viral Video Seemed To Show BLM Storming A Church. The Real Story Is Much Darker. “What people need to know is we’re not protesting churches. We’re protesting this church.” via BuzzFeed News: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/viral-video-seemed-to-show-blm-storming-a-church-the-real The day of the video, the church was hosting its second AR-15 “raffle” in two days: In the middle of a neighborhood…
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“We Were Locked Up in One Country and Released Into Another”: Horror and Hope as Protests in Belarus Continue | The New Yorker
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“We Were Locked Up in One Country and Released Into Another”: Horror and Hope as Protests in Belarus Continue The brutality of the state’s response not only failed to scare people into staying home but united them against Alexander Lukashenka’s regime. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/we-were-locked-up-in-one-country-and-released-into-another-horror-and-hope-as-protests-in-belarus-continue The following day was marked by absences. There was…
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How Suffering Farmers May Determine Trump’s Fate | The New Yorker
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How Suffering Farmers May Determine Trump’s Fate As rural Wisconsin’s fortunes have declined, its political importance has grown. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/17/how-suffering-farmers-may-determine-trumps-fate State agencies issued protocols for dumping milk, which can pollute groundwater and decimate fish populations. Though Volenec has not had to dump any of his milk, he’s been worrying about the environmental…
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A Heist on Time and a Half: Inside The Most Corrupt Police Squad In The Nation | CrimeReads
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A Heist on Time and a Half: Inside The Most Corrupt Police Squad In The Nation Baltimore almost had a revolution. On an April morning in 2015, Baltimore Police officers tackled a young black man named Freddie Gray and pulled him screaming into a van where his spine was brok… via CrimeReads: https://crimereads.com/a-heist-on-time-and-a-half-inside-the-most-corrupt-police-squad-in-the-nation/ Ward…
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The Inside Story of Pepsi’s Philippines Bottle Contest Fiasco – Bloomberg
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Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-08-04/the-inside-story-of-pepsi-s-philippines-bottle-contest-fiasco Within a year, a violent consumer uprising would be under way, with riots and grenade attacks leaving dozens injured and five dead.
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The Bellingcat Podcast Season 2 – The Executions – bellingcat
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The Bellingcat Podcast Season 2 – The Executions – bellingcat Bellingcat is pleased to launch season two of the Bellingcat Podcast in partnership with premium audio storytellers, Novel. Narrated by Bellingcat founder, Eliot Higgins, the two-part series tells the story of a gruesome video that captured the world’s at via bellingcat: https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/podcasts/2020/07/21/the-bellingcat-podcast-season-2-the-executions/ Narrated by Bellingcat…
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Unwanted Truths: Inside Trump’s Battles With U.S. Intelligence Agencies – The New York Times
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Unwanted Truths: Inside Trump’s Battles With U.S. Intelligence Agencies (Published 2020) Last year, intelligence officials gathered to write a classified report on Russia’s interest in the 2020 election. An investigation from the magazine uncovered what happened next. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/08/magazine/us-russia-intelligence.html Under Trump, intelligence officials have been placed in the unusual position of being pressured to justify…
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How Vulnerable Is G.P.S.? | The New Yorker
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How Vulnerable Is G.P.S.? An engineering professor has proved—and exploited—its vulnerabilities. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-vulnerable-is-gps Once they had logged where and when the spoofing incidents occurred, researchers cross-referenced this information with the travel schedule of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. On a fall afternoon in 2017, six minutes before Putin gave a speech in…
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Sarah Schulman’s Good Conflict
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Sarah Schulman’s Good Conflict The world is consumed by violent fights and hostile disagreements. The author and activist sees a way out of them. via The Cut: https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/sarah-schulman-conflict-is-not-abuse.html Schulman describes this episode in a book she wrote some years later, Conflict Is Not Abuse. The book’s central insight is that people experiencing the inevitable discomfort…
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The Endgame of the Olympics
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The Endgame of the Olympics – Longreads What if the Olympic Games never come back? via Longreads: https://longreads.com/2020/08/07/the-endgame-of-the-olympics/ That even a stripped-down version of the 2021 Games will happen is hardly a foregone conclusion. The pandemic may not be under control by then. Even if it is, and even if an effective vaccine against the…
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China’s Artificial Intelligence Surveillance State Goes Global – The Atlantic
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The Panopticon Is Already Here Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/china-ai-surveillance/614197/ By 2030, AI supremacy might be within range for China. The country will likely have the world’s largest economy, and new money to spend on…
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How a Coalition of New York Activists Revealed Police-Department Secrets | The New Yorker
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How a Coalition of New York Activists Revealed Police-Department Secrets The widespread protests over George Floyd’s death helped prompt legislators to repeal a law known as Section 50-A, which kept police disciplinary records from public view. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/how-a-coalition-of-new-york-activists-revealed-police-department-secrets In March, 2018, BuzzFeed began publishing a series of articles based on the records…
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Inside Jimmy Lai’s Apple Daily During Hong Kong’s Media Crackdown – The New York Times
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‘We Will Persevere’: A Newspaper Faces the Weight of Hong Kong’s Crackdown (Published 2020) Apple Daily, a pro-democracy paper known for celebrity gossip and hard-hitting investigations, has become a target in Beijing’s new national security law in Hong Kong. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/world/asia/hong-kong-apple-daily-jimmy-lai.html?ref=oembed Apple Daily, a pro-democracy paper known for celebrity gossip and hard-hitting investigations, has become…
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Inside the Iraqi Kleptocracy – The New York Times
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Inside the Iraqi Kleptocracy (Published 2020) Corruption, as much as violence, makes Iraq unlivable. It helped fuel the rise of ISIS. And America provides the cash to sustain it, at least $10 billion a year in hard currency. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/29/magazine/iraq-corruption.html?ref=oembed Early last October, while working in his office in Baghdad, a businessman named Hussein Laqees…