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7 votes
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Huge record cache details how Jeffrey Epstein, madam lured girls into depraved world
9 votes -
Meet Thomas Cullen, the Trump-appointed US Attorney who's putting white supremacists in jail using an anti-riot statute passed in the 1960s to rein in leftist Vietnam War protesters
10 votes -
India tells 'alarmist' Pakistan Kashmir is an 'internal affair'
3 votes -
Days after El Paso and Dayton mass shootings, Amnesty International issues travel warning to US
8 votes -
As Nevada clears way for ex-felons to vote, most other states still require restitution and fee payments for eligibility
12 votes -
NY Times public editor: The readers versus the masthead
11 votes -
Police believe they have found the bodies of fugitives Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky in northern Manitoba, ending a cross-Canada search for the men suspected of killing three people in BC
6 votes -
Pacific Standard is shutting down, effective next Friday
10 votes -
Dayton shooter had history of 'violence towards women,' an ex-girlfriend says
4 votes -
“Be Water!”: Seven tactics that are winning Hong Kong’s democracy revolution
33 votes -
What actual resistance looks like: Glenn Greenwald, David Miranda, and Brazilian journalists are standing up to a hateful fascistic government
10 votes -
USA Today's Virginia HQ was evacuated amid a heavy police response due to a mistaken report of a person with a weapon
6 votes -
Blast hits tax office in Copenhagen in attack late on Tuesday in what police said was a deliberate attack
9 votes -
Former public servant Michaela Banerji loses High Court free speech case
7 votes -
“We are essentially the ships that the Navy forgot”: As tensions heat up in the Persian Gulf, the US Navy’s minesweeping fleet may be too old and broken to do their job
9 votes -
Nine dead and twenty-six injured in mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio
39 votes -
Trump speaks following El Paso and Dayton shootings
14 votes -
Former FBI agent says agency is “hamstrung” by Trump in investigating white supremacist movements
14 votes -
Cesar Sayoc, who mailed explosive devices to Trump’s critics, sentenced to 20 years in prison
12 votes -
India rescinds Kashmir’s autonomous status. Troop surge and media blackout in effect
27 votes -
Twenty-two killed, twenty-five wounded in El Paso, Texas mass shooting
34 votes -
In the last eight years, at least sixteen high-profile attacks have been motivated by white nationalist conspiracy theories, killing 175 people worldwide
15 votes -
Dominic Cummings tells MPs: You've missed your chance to stop no-deal Brexit
Here's the source article in the Daily Telegraph: Dominic Cummings tells MPs: you've missed your chance to stop no-deal Brexit However, that's locked behind a hard paywall. So, here's the Reuters...
Here's the source article in the Daily Telegraph: Dominic Cummings tells MPs: you've missed your chance to stop no-deal Brexit
However, that's locked behind a hard paywall. So, here's the Reuters article reporting what the Telegraph said: Johnson's top aide says lawmakers can't stop no-deal Brexit - Sunday Telegraph
12 votes -
A Texas police officer trying to shoot a loose dog killed a woman instead
18 votes -
US formally withdraws from 1987 nuclear pact with Russia that banned short and medium-range land-based missiles
15 votes -
North Carolina gun shop billboard calls congresswomen ‘The 4 Horsemen’ in what anti-gun violence advocates call an incitement to violence
6 votes -
Donald Trump to be given official state visit to Denmark
4 votes -
The US Navy’s new $13 billion aircraft carrier has only two of its eleven munitions elevators installed, despite a 2017 deadline
17 votes -
YouTube's 'King of Random' Grant Thompson dead at 38, paragliding accident
8 votes -
‘I think it’s a cap gun,’ the police officer said. He opened fire on an eighth-grader moments later. The district attorney decided not to file charges.
8 votes -
German officials are using the concept of universal jurisdiction to argue they can try anyone for war crimes committed anywhere
7 votes -
Journalists often withhold details of mass shooters and suicides to discourage copycats. Should that “strategic silence” be extended to extremist speech, misinformation, and propaganda, too?
10 votes -
Malaysian court sides with forced labour victims over unpaid wages
4 votes -
The Voter Suppression Chronicles: When the Roberts Court all but nullified the Voting Rights Act, it said the pre-1965 practices were long gone. New hearings by the House make clear: They’re back.
11 votes -
Multiple victims reported in shooting at Gilroy Garlic Festival
20 votes -
Do you live in a media bubble? Do you use Google News? I recommend using it signed-out at least 50% of the time
I recently started jumping around various browsers and machines. I sometimes keep instinctually going to Google News in all of these environments. I am often signed-out in these other browsers....
I recently started jumping around various browsers and machines. I sometimes keep instinctually going to Google News in all of these environments. I am often signed-out in these other browsers. This has been an eye-opening experience for me.
Many years ago I had blocked Fox, RT, and other crap out of my GNews feed. I was living in a bubble of my own making. I actually prefer that bubble, as there is more factual information in it, but it comes at a cost. I had lost a lot of my situational awareness of the political and media climate.
I am not trying to be centrist here, I just think that one should know the entire battlefield, not just the news given from their comfortable sources. For one thing, I had no idea of the dominance which Fox News had in Google News, also that RT was so prevalent, also that there was so many other sources of utter right-wing propaganda that had been normalized. How can I fight disinformation if I am unaware of its origins?
What do you think about this? Would you take me up on my challenge of reading the uncustomised news? Do you ever try to get out of your comfort zone in the news? Does it help inform you?
edit: Just FYI, to easily use Google News, or any other news site signed-out, first open a "private window" in your browser.
14 votes -
Native Hawaiians on coverage of Mauna Kea resistance
8 votes -
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission appeals against Kimberly-Clark flushable wipes court decision
5 votes -
Deadly blast targets Afghan president's running mate
5 votes -
Almost 1,400 people detained in Moscow in the largest crackdown on protesters in this decade
17 votes -
Trump says Daniel Coats, director of national intelligence, to step down
8 votes -
In Lebanon, Palestinians protest new employment restrictions
6 votes -
Twelve people shot at Brooklyn event
10 votes -
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has criticized Finland at a political event in Romania
7 votes -
Denmark in favour of coalition presence in Strait of Hormuz
4 votes -
Pro-Donald Trump Republican aiming to unseat Ilhan Omar charged with felony theft
18 votes -
How to cover 11,250 elections at once: Here’s how The Washington Post’s new computational journalism lab will tackle 2020
9 votes -
Meet the man who created the fake presidential seal — a former Republican fed up with Trump
7 votes -
Juul spent more than $200,000 sponsoring programs in schools meant to "convey its messaging directly to teenage children" and marketed to teens by recruiting online influencers.
16 votes