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Who Would Volunteer to Fact-Check Twitter?I learned about the pilot test of Twitter’s new crowdsourced misinformation-labeling program the same way I learn about most news events that are...
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Texas Failed Because It Did Not PlanHow could this have happened? For four days, millions of people in Texas—the so-called energy capital of the world—shivered in the dark, unable...
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America’s Summer of Viral MeltdownsThe sign outside the Panera Bread in Chico, California, clearly informed customers that they must wear a mask in order to enter. But inside, one...
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The Women Making Conspiracy Theories BeautifulIllustrations by Charlotte Fos A blush-colored square filled with the all-caps advice SHOW UP EVERY DAY FOR SOMETHING YOU BELIEVE...
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The Wikipedia War That Shows How Ugly This Election Will BeAt 4:14 p.m. Delaware time Tuesday, Joe Biden’s campaign sent out a mass text message announcing the presumptive Democratic nominee’s choice...
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The Return of AnonymousAt the end of May , as protests against the police killing of George Floyd got under way, reports started to circulate that the shadowy hacker...
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For Whom the Tok TiksUpdated at 11:15 p.m. ET on August 6, 2020. What is TikTok though? It’s an app for creating and sharing short videos, but that...
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The End of the Fictional CopPhotographs by Devin Yalkin D etective Elliot Stabler walks into an empty interrogation room with purpose. He’ll soon be questioning a perp...
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China Is What Orwell FearedN orthwest of Beijing’s Forbidden City, outside the Third Ring Road, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has spent seven decades building a campus...
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The App of the Summer Is Just a Random-Number GeneratorIt took me a week to find a plastic water bottle full of what could only be pee. That was after the abandoned house taped off with gas leak...
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The Struggle for the Urban SoundscapeVideos by Erin Brethauer and Tim Hussin I remember a night of insomnia a few weeks after the pandemic began. As I lay in bed early that...
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Defund Facial RecognitionAhmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. George Floyd. Rayshard Brooks. Oluwatoyin Salau. Robert Forbes . As each story has emerged of a...
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The Boogaloo Tipping PointOn May 29, two federal security officers guarding a courthouse in Oakland, California, were ambushed by machine-gun fire as elsewhere in the city...
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Reddit Is Done Pretending The Donald Is FineReddit is banning one of its most notorious communities today, the subreddit—or forum—dedicated to discussion of President Donald Trump. The...
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Twitter’s Least-Bad Option for Dealing With Donald TrumpOn Tuesday, President Donald Trump began his day as he usually does—by tweeting. In this case, Trump fired off a threat of using “serious...
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The Boom in Fireworks Conspiracy TheoriesUpdated at 4:48 p.m. ET on June 24, 2020. For the past few weeks, I’ve been able to watch several hours of a free nightly fireworks show...
