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A Race to Bridge the Analog Divide in US Politics
“While I see and understand the power of social media and how you can communicate messages and engage in some…
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Inside the ‘Election Integrity App’ Built to Purge US Voter Rolls
Ten days before Georgia’s Senate runoff election in 2021, Gamaliel Warren Turner Sr., a 69-year-old veteran, found out that someone…
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The Secret Ballot Is US Democracy’s Last Line of Defense
Though foreign Disinformation campaigns have targeted the 2022 United States midterm elections to a degree, most of the pressure on…
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The Quiet Insurrection the January 6 Committee Missed
“Thousands of documents are great, but millions of lines of data are better. And so when you look at call…
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Bogus Fears of Censorship Could Spell the End of Content Moderation
Hi, everyone. Glad to hear from Joe Biden that the pandemic is over. But who’s going to tell the coronavirus?…
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The Fallout From Apple’s Bizarre, Dogged Union-Busting Campaign
At a roundtable that Bowles attended in May, a meeting leader said they were going to answer “questions from the…
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How Limits on CDC Studies Shaped the New Federal Gun Law
“Yeah, I think that was,” Republican senator Thom Tillis says of Cornyn’s unscientific news clipping. JFK’s Legacy For Tillis, what…
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The 2022 US Midterm Elections’ Top Security Issue: Death Threats
In the lead-up to the 2018 midterm elections in the United States, law enforcement, intelligence, and election officials were on…
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Have Pollsters Cleaned Up Their Act in Time for the Midterms?
The other important thing I’ll say is, if the Comey quote is true, then actually he needed to listen to…
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Big Tech Has Become a Creature of the Swamp
Last October, on the day whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before her committee, Senator Amy Klobuchar gave a candid, if depressing,…
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