DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State
The creation of a huge government database of personal information about U.S. residents is dangerous and very likely against the...
The Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality
In an excerpt from his new book, The End of Reality, the author warns about the curses of AI and...
The Media Pipeline
Hint: It's Dangerously Corroded
RSF creates “mirror” of leading Russian exile news site blocked by Kremlin
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has used the mirror site technology of its Collateral Freedom operation to unblock access to Meduza, the most popular Russian independent news website.
Entry: Denied
The “intolerable risk to press freedom” posed by device searches at the border.
The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI
Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
Memo: ‘Capture of U.S. Critical Infrastructure by Neoreactionaries’
Memo details how Elon Musk has orchestrated a stunning takeover of the U.S. government
Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
Shattered by a perfect storm: How Trump’s cuts are crippling journalism beyond the United States
Before Trump’s inauguration, the US government supported independent journalism in more than 30 countries. Most of this funding was channelled through USAID. According to a USAID factsheet recently mentioned by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and now taken offline, the agency funded training and support for 6,200 journalists and assisted 707 outlets.
Liberals Are Left Out in the Cold as Social Media Veers Right
Hundreds of thousands of posts lauding Mr. Trump’s victory filled Truth Social, the social platform that the president-elect owns. Speculation about what the new administration would accomplish ran rampant on X, which is owned by Elon Musk. Gab, Parler and other right-wing social media sites were flooded with thousands of memes glorifying Mr. Trump.
How a great nonprofit news organization would cover national politics
Unlike commercial news organizations, it would be accessible, explanatory, committed to fighting disinformation, and crusading.
