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
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late stage capitalism Congressional shaming prompts notorious Pentagon price-gouger to refund $16.1m Cory Doctorow
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
china Chinese AI traffic cam mistook a bus ad for a human and publicly shamed the CEO it depicted for jaywalking Cory Doctorow
china China's pervasive "social credit" scheme is still in development, but already profoundly shaping public behavior Cory Doctorow