public shaming John Oliver looks at public shaming on the internet Mark Frauenfelder

weed Watch: Dad finds son's weed and makes youtube video flushing it down the toilet Carla Sinclair

free speech Why Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" is dumb Mark Frauenfelder

trump Why tabloid reporters are like Donald Trump Peter Sheridan

Business Twitter bans posts that 'dehumanize' people for diseases like coronavirus Xeni Jardin

canada Alberta's tax-funded climate denial "war room" ripped off its logo from a US tech company Cory Doctorow

corruption Citing the Panama Papers, Elizabeth Warren proposes sweeping anti-financial-secrecy rules Cory Doctorow

scholarship Facebook promised to provide academics data to study disinformation, but their foot-dragging has endangered the whole project Cory Doctorow

education NJ school district bans indebted students from prom and field trips, refuses offer to pay off lunch debt Cory Doctorow

tabloids Princess Diana’s killer found (yet again) and Epstein scandal blackmail, in this week’s dubious tabloids. Peter Sheridan

tabloids Celebrity grave-digging, flesh-eating bacteria and alien abductions in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

disease Ebola outbreak declared a public health emergency of international concern Seamus Bellamy

late stage capitalism Congressional shaming prompts notorious Pentagon price-gouger to refund $16.1m Cory Doctorow

Working with Trump destroys your reputation, but who cares? Rob Beschizza

user interfaces This gallery of mute buttons shows why voice chat apps should be push-to-talk Mark Frauenfelder

guns Sting operation: the NRA explains to white nationalist Australian political party how to deflect gun control calls after a massacre Cory Doctorow

designer humans Could we accidentally bestow human-style awareness into a pig? Arwen Elys Dayton

china Chinese AI traffic cam mistook a bus ad for a human and publicly shamed the CEO it depicted for jaywalking Cory Doctorow

health Why were people thinner in the 1970s? Mark Frauenfelder

china China's pervasive "social credit" scheme is still in development, but already profoundly shaping public behavior Cory Doctorow