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Why Did the CDC Bury Its Latest Measles Forecast?
The CDC planned to announce a new risk assessment that stressed the need for MMR vaccinations. Last week, it reversed course.
Read more...How Worker-Owned News Outlets Are Changing the Media Industry
For growing numbers of media companies, employee ownership offers journalistic freedom and job stability.
Read more...Explosive New Book Argues Facebook Is a Global Engine of Harm and Corruption. Is Reform Possible?
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A new expose on Facebook confirms some known abuses while also describing malign influence in unexpected corners of the world
Russia-US Negotiations: Trump Criticism Follows the Bad Sign of the Lack of a Joint Statement After Last Round and the Iran Angle
Having barely started, the US-Russia negotiaions are already going a bit pear shaped.
Read more...Digital imperialism: How US Social Media Firms Are Using American Law to Challenge Global Tech Regulation
An update on the hard-fought battle between foreign states trying to regulate social media platforms and the broligarchs.
Read more...More IDF Depravity: Use of Palestinians as Human Shields
More systematic war crimes by the IDF, covered up as supposedly just a few outlier cases.
Read more...Book Review: How Our Digital Infatuation Undermines Discourse
A new take on the costs and dangers of digital device overuse and dependence.
Read more...Charlie Krauss: What the Enron Egg Says About AI’s Nuclear Courtship
How nuclear small modular reactors (SMR) hype, with a boost from AI, has reached absurd, as in satire-suitable, levels.
Read more...“COL. Douglas Macgregor : Why Is Trump Arming Ukraine?”
Trump says US citizens working in Ukraine on his minerals deal will be a deterrent, as in serve as a tripwire. Bye bye Russia peace pact?
Read more...COVID-19 in Context: A Retrospective View
A look at the state of knowledge when Covid-19 started its spread, and some of the questionable choices made despite that.
Read more...After We Amplified Warnings of Wildly Overvalued Unicorns, They Crash and Burn
“We Must Fund Oppositions Properly to Save Democracy”
The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf, like quite a few others, looks for ways to save democracy from itself, as in rule by voters.
Read more...Hoisted from Comments: A Discussion of China’s Faltering Growth
An example of the comments section at work, here on China, with both some very informative reader content and some sour notes.
Read more...Interview: How Elon Musk Blurs the Lines of Free Speech
Billionaire Elon Musk’s new job raises tricky First Amendment questions, with implications for public health.
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