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
authoritarianism Cops and spooks all over the world rely on a junk-science "walking polygraph" method to steer their investigation Cory Doctorow
politics Twitter censures UK Tory Party for changing its blue-check account name to "FactCheckUK" during the prime ministerial debates Cory Doctorow
facebook Leaked internal docs show that Facebook shuts down access to user data to kill competitors, but claims it is protecting users Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Kindness and Wonder: Mr Rogers biography is a study in empathy and a deep, genuine love for children Cory Doctorow
security Propublica finds millions of Americans' medical images and data sitting on unprotected, publicly accessible servers Cory Doctorow
tabloids Scientology Sex Scandal, Kennedy conspiracy, and Royal bombshells in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
Business Facebook has filed a laughable patent-application for the well-known practice of "shadow banning" Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Make the internet better by empowering users, not by demanding that platforms implement automated filters Cory Doctorow
privacy Facebook's $5B FTC fine was so laughable its stock price went UP after the announcement Cory Doctorow
john oliver John Oliver tackles the Sacklers: the litigious, secretive billionaires whose family business engineered the opioid crisis Cory Doctorow
health Ontario's low-budget Trump-alike wants to eliminate sedation for people getting colonoscopies Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism UPDATE: New York State goes after the Sackler family's opioid fortune, claims they funneled their Oxy millions through offshore laundries Cory Doctorow
law Deposition of opioid profiteer Richard Sackler reveals his bizarre defense: definitional games and insistence that words mean their opposite Cory Doctorow
