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corruption Foxconn wants Wisconsin to keep paying it billions, but it won't disclose what kind of factory it will build Cory Doctorow

twitter Twitter wants to develop an open, decentralized, federated social media standard…and then join it Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism NYC paid McKinsey $27.5m to reduce violence at Riker's, producing useless recommendations backed by junk evidence Cory Doctorow

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News Trump's son Don Jr. promotes false smear linking Jamal Khashoggi to Osama bin Laden and terrorism Xeni Jardin

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