UK law firm files letter of claim on behalf of Madagascar villagers over contamination allegedly from Rio Tinto mine ~enviro pollution Article 7843 words 7 votes
After the Honduran president repealed a law granting unfettered authority to outside investors, investors took the dispute to a World Bank arbitration court ~finance cryptocurrency Article 1864 words, published Mar 19 2024 13 votes
Coverage of Gaza War in the New York Times and other major newspapers heavily favored Israel, analysis shows ~news israel palestine journalism Article 1866 words 35 votes
How meltdowns brought professional advocacy groups to a standstill at a critical moment (2022) ~life work Article 9965 words, published Jun 13 2022 19 votes
New York residents say a hazardous waste incinerator’s emissions violate their new constitutional right to a “healthful environment.” ~enviro pollution.air Article 2087 words, published Nov 9 2023 14 votes
A pro-Putin Facebook network is pumping French-language propaganda into Africa. The pages promote Russia’s line on the war in Ukraine to more than four million followers... ~tech social media facebook Article 2050 words, published Aug 3 2023 40 votes
California grad students won a historic strike. UC San Diego is striking back with misconduct allegations and arrests. ~life education.higher work Article 2284 words 23 votes
The US FBI groomed a sixteen-year-old with "brain development issues" to become a terrorist ~life Article 2203 words 22 votes
Fruity Pebbles and Lucky Charms threaten to block “healthy” food labelling guidelines in court ~health Article 1143 words 9 votes
Leaked documents outline US Department of Homeland Security's plans to police disinformation ~tech social media Article 5033 words 4 votes
The CIA just invested in woolly mammoth resurrection technology ~science biology Article 1406 words, published Sep 28 2022 8 votes
Coinbase is selling US Immigration and Customs Enforcement a suite of features used to track and identify cryptocurrency users ~tech privacy Article 734 words 11 votes
American phone-tracking firm demo’d surveillance powers by spying on Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency ~tech Article 3469 words 11 votes
He declined the FBI’s offer to become an informant. Then his life was ruined. ~life Article 6396 words 22 votes
Little-known Federal software can trigger revocation of citizenship ~tech amazon Article 3260 words 9 votes
US cable news military experts are on the defense industry dole ~tv Article 1614 words, published Aug 19 2021 3 votes
Scientific American retracted pro-Palestine article without any factual errors ~news journalism palestine israel politics Article 1509 words, published Jul 1 2021 12 votes
US documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and even defecate en route, despite company denial ~finance business Article 1115 words 24 votes
Hiding COVID-19: How Donald Trump Administration guidance suppresses photography of the US pandemic ~health Article 3099 words 6 votes
Is the traditional ACLU view of free speech still viable? Ira Glasser speaks out. ~humanities Article 1483 words 12 votes
Unredacted FBI document sheds new light on white supremacist infiltration of law enforcement ~news usa Article 1089 words 15 votes
Internal TikTok policies instructed moderators to suppress videos featuring unattractive, disabled, or poor people so they wouldn't scare off new users, as well as to remove specific types of content ~tech social media Article 2653 words 21 votes
After a TikTok user in Brazil live-streamed his suicide, TikTok took over an hour to notice and then spent three more hours figuring out a PR strategy before informing police ~tech social media Article 1827 words 16 votes
The US pesticide industry's playbook for avoiding neonicotinoid bans ~enviro Article 9045 words 10 votes
A top US financier of Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell is a driving force behind Amazon deforestation ~enviro Article 2213 words, published Aug 27 2019 9 votes
The tragic story of Jimmy Aldaoud, deported from the streets of Detroit to his death in Iraq ~news iraq usa.mi.detroit Article 3542 words, published Aug 9 2019 7 votes
How the plastics industry is fighting to keep polluting the world ~enviro climate change recycling plastics pollution Article 7674 words, published Jul 20 2019 12 votes
How US tech giants are helping to build China’s surveillance state ~tech google Article 1935 words, published Jul 11 2019 8 votes
Middle East dictators buy spy tech from company linked to IBM and Google ~tech google Article 1019 words 8 votes
Rainforest on fire: On the front lines of Bolsonaro’s war on the Amazon, Brazil’s forest communities fight against climate catastrophe ~enviro climate change Article 6800 words 6 votes
Conservatives are nudging the Supreme Court to dismantle affordable housing policies ~news usa politics.usa Article 1707 words, published Jun 25 2019 8 votes
A vast archive exposed the secret history of kidnapping and assassination in Guatemala. Now it’s under threat ~news guatemala politics Article 3208 words 5 votes
Powered by the people: A genuine populist is running for West Virginia governor ~news usa.wv politics.usa Article 2531 words 9 votes
Peter Thiel's Palantir was used to bust relatives of migrant children, new documents show ~tech Article 977 words, published May 2 2019 7 votes
Bad evidence: Ten years after a landmark study blew the whistle on junk science, the fight over forensics rages on ~science Article 6536 words, published May 5 2019 7 votes
How the media launders fossil fuel propaganda through branded content ~enviro climate change Article 1542 words, published Apr 3 2019 10 votes
Secret report reveals Saudi incompetence and widespread use of [NATO] weapons in Yemen ~news yemen saudi arabia usa france politics.usa Article 2253 words 6 votes
Silicon Valley-funded privacy think tanks fight in DC to unravel state-level consumer privacy protections ~tech privacy Article 1381 words 5 votes
How Lachlan Murdoch went from studying philosophy at Princeton to exploiting white nationalism at Fox News ~tv Article 5448 words 5 votes
Google employees uncover ongoing work on censored China search ~tech google Article 1273 words 9 votes
For owners of Amazon’s Ring security cameras, strangers may have been watching too ~tech privacy amazon security.home Article 1460 words 10 votes
The infiltrator: A former Marine working for the private security firm TigerSwan infiltrated an array of anti-Dakota Access pipeline groups at Standing Rock and beyond ~enviro Article 7548 words, published Dec 30 2018 12 votes
A Texas elementary school speech pathologist refused to sign a pro-Israel oath, so she lost her job ~life education work Article 3395 words 18 votes
Google’s secret China project “effectively ended” after internal confrontation ~tech google privacy Article 1105 words 12 votes
Google shut out privacy and security teams from secret China project ~tech google Article 2335 words 22 votes
The government wants airlines to delay your flight so they can scan your face ~tech privacy Article 522 words 15 votes
Google China prototype links searches to phone numbers ~tech google privacy Article 600 words 10 votes