politics Google spent ~$150 million on US lobbying over last decade, followed by Facebook at ~$81M, Amazon almost $80M: Federal filings Xeni Jardin
Business Biden says Section 230 tech liability shield should end for Facebook, Zuckerberg should be subject to civil liability Xeni Jardin
elections Bernie Sanders is the most popular candidate among young people, who could determine the outcome of the 2020 election Cory Doctorow
elections Massive Cambridge Analytica leak reveals global election manipulation: Malaysia, Kenya and Brazil Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Michael Moore just launched a new podcast and it's great, full of hope and anger Cory Doctorow
elections Meet Jackie Fielder, the recently homeless indigenous woman who's primarying a San Francisco Democrat in a state senate race Cory Doctorow
elections A vast network of shadowy news sites promote conservative talking points mixed with floods of algorithmically generated "news" Cory Doctorow
elections Bernie Sanders is the only leading Democrat who hasn't taken money from billionaires Cory Doctorow
corruption Citing the Panama Papers, Elizabeth Warren proposes sweeping anti-financial-secrecy rules Cory Doctorow
elections Pete Buttigieg's prizewinning high-school essay praising Bernie Sanders: "the power to win back the faith of a voting public weary and wary of political opportunism" Cory Doctorow
uk US pharma and biotech lobbyists' documents reveal their plan to gouge Britons in any post-Brexit trade-deal Cory Doctorow
elections One upside of the Bernie Blackout: Sanders is not facing a frontrunner's backlash Cory Doctorow
security 95% of America's largest voting districts' mailservers lack basic anti-phishing protection Cory Doctorow
uk Opendemocracy: the Libdems tried to censor our article about their sale of voter data, then used a forged email to intimidate us Cory Doctorow
uk A quick trip through the ghastly, racist, sexist, eugenicist, authoritarian things that Boris Johnson has said in recent years Cory Doctorow
