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The never-ending battle over content moderation is only intensifying as we get closer to the 2020 elections and…
Tom McKay
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"... An upperclassman who had been researching terrorist groups online." - Washington Post
Sep 18
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The Trump administration has barely even bothered to back up its case that its use of emergency powers to strong-arm…
Sep 17
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Facebook employees have recently been wondering if perhaps Facebook—which lets politicians lie in ads, festers with…
Sep 17
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This week, a team of researchers announced they have discovered traces of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus—a gas…
Sep 16
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The Trump administration’s efforts to strong-arm Beijing-based ByteDance into selling its U.S. subsidiary TikTok to…
Sep 16
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Ready for Amazon to get even more ubiquitous in your day to day life? The e-commerce giant is planning on opening…
Sep 15
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A Chinese intelligence firm’s database on 2.4 million people—including some 50,000 Americans—was recently leaked,…
Sep 15
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For the entire year Donald Trump’s shady former attorney, Michael Cohen, spent in federal prison for campaign…
Sep 14
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Microsoft’s underwater Northern Isles data center has risen again from the ocean depth, the company announced on…
Sep 14
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Facebook has royally screwed up its response to political misinformation, conspiracy theories, and organized…
Sep 11
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, the QAnon conspiracy theorist endorsed by Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for…
Sep 11
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Three executives from the mining company that detonated a 46,000-year-old Indigenous Australian heritage site to…
Sep 10
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Mankind’s quest to really fuck up the Moon is taking another step. NASA has filed a “request for quotations” for any…
Sep 10
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The city of Charleston, South Carolina filed a lawsuit against two dozen of the largest pipeline and oil…
Sep 9
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It’s not exactly a secret that Donald Trump’s race-baiting, fascistic administration has turned a blind eye to…
Sep 8
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Republicans in the Senate unveiled the party’s latest piece of political theater attacking Section 230 of the…
Sep 8
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On Monday, an Airbnb user named Frederick Joseph tweeted out his experience with his Labor Day weekend…
Sep 4
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The never-ending battle over content moderation is only intensifying as we get closer to the 2020 elections and…
Sep 4
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In response to BuzzFeed News’s statement that it will now primarily refer to QAnon as a “collective delusion” instead of a “conspiracy theory,” the Gizmodo Copy Desk is making the decision to call QAnon “the future of the GOP.”
Sep 4
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A drone over Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square dropped hundreds of bags of weed on Thursday, setting off a mad scramble by…