gambling Professional sports bettors are desperate to capitalize on coronavirus, too Thom Dunn

Games 3D printed chess set where each piece holds a tiny plant Andrea James

facebook Facebook's new Fact-Checking policies have carved out an exemption for climate deniers Thom Dunn

News Leaked Twitter demo shows red banners to indicate lies and disinformation under tweets Xeni Jardin

vision Eye exams in the United States are a scam Mark Frauenfelder

crappy design Weekly roast of garbage product design Mark Frauenfelder

garbage companies Facebook will remove advertisements that are visually misleading, but not advertisements containing false statements John Struan

History At military parade, Trump celebrates rebels' occupation of airports during American Revolution Rob Beschizza

LGBTQ Kickstarter outlines the ambitious plans of Andrea James' Transphobia project Ken Snider

politics Jabba the Hutt, Bruce Wayne, John Cleese among interns praised in Trump's Economic Report of the President Xeni Jardin

picks 'He has learned nothing,' Zuckerberg considers crowdsourcing news fact-checks for Facebook Xeni Jardin

Business LA Times demands that reporters sign away rights to books, movies and other works they create while working at the paper Cory Doctorow

Business Mark Zuckerberg's 15-year Facebook anniversary post dunks on journalism, omits Myanmar Xeni Jardin

Business Snopes ends their 'debunking false stuff' partnership with Facebook. Here's why. Xeni Jardin

uspoli Matt Taibbi on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs the US political establishment Cory Doctorow

facebook The journalists Facebook installed as fact-checkers say the company is using them as window-dressing Cory Doctorow

cops Receipt checkers aren't there to catch shoplifters Rob Beschizza

Technology EU Parliament demands Facebook audit after breach hits 87 million users Xeni Jardin

fast food Way too many burger chains still pump antibiotics into their meat Seamus Bellamy

fake news Michael Jackson is alive, Hillary is boozing, and a Buckingham Palace Sex Ring, in this week’s fact-challenged tabloids Peter Sheridan