finance AOC grills Equifax CEO: the Congressional record now contains the obvious, infuriating truth that everyone else already knew Cory Doctorow
Business Facebook may lose seal of approval that gives ad buyers confidence they get what they buy in advertising, WSJ reports Xeni Jardin
COVID-19 Man dead, wife in hospital after ingesting what they thought was a drug touted by Trump Gareth Branwyn
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
911 Smart 911 operator realizes a caller asking for a pizza is reporting domestic abuse Mark Frauenfelder
Copyfight Minnesota Public Radio sent us one of the weirdest legal threats we've ever received (and they won't explain it) Cory Doctorow
elections Bernie Sanders promises to zero out all US medical debt and end medical bankruptcies Cory Doctorow
corruption Facebook's alleged growth is largely coming from countries where Facebook says it has a fake account problem Cory Doctorow
media theory The reporter on the NYT's Bernie Sanders beat consistently fails to identify her sources as corporate lobbyists Cory Doctorow
youtube YouTube pushes children's videos to pedophiles through content recommendation engine Xeni Jardin
Copyfight The EU hired a company that had been lobbying for the Copyright Directive to make a (completely batshit) video to sell the Copyright Directive Cory Doctorow
picks 'He has learned nothing,' Zuckerberg considers crowdsourcing news fact-checks for Facebook Xeni Jardin
trumpism Predatory lender found to have swindled veterans' pensions for eight years, so Trump's CFPB fined him $1 Cory Doctorow
