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Mother Knows Best

From a lawsuit filed by Devin Nunes, a U.S. representative from California, against the Twitter user Devin Nunes’ Mom, whose identity is unknown. Nunes has denied the claims made by…

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A Game of Chance

Shirley Jackson’s devastating 1948 short story “The Lottery” takes place in what might be a provincial corner of America in which an annual, compulsory lottery lends a degree of adventure…

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Reality Check

On the morning of May 26, Donald Trump posted a pair of tweets about voting by mail. “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than…

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Machine Politics

Rather than creating a more equal society, the internet has given rise to a new age of authoritarianism

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Machine Politics

The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

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Office of Misinformation

From a list of accounts purged by Facebook for spam and “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” released by the company in October. Wake The Fuck UpNation in DistressViral Alternative NewsRight-Wing NewsAnti-MediaExposing the…

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Empty Suits

Defamation law and the price of dissent

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The Other Whisper Network

How Twitter feminism is bad for women

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Raise the Red Pen

From a list of prohibitions for online media, including video-streaming sites, circulated in June by the China Netcasting Services Association, a state-controlled body that oversees more than 600 media companies.…

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