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US billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk said the new website needed to be bot-proof, but also capable of seeking and unmasking anyone operating an “army” of disinformation bots. He explained that the problem with existing media was that journalists were under…
Twitter users from Bulgaria are being blocked by the social media’s system tasked with fighting “Russian bots.” Apparently, Twitter is unaware of other nations writing in Cyrillic. When Internet services blow the dust off the banhammer, it’s always an endless source…
There have also been several high-profile police killings since 2014 involving black suspects. In Baltimore, Freddie Gray died while in police custody, leading to protests and riots. In North Charleston, South Carolina, Michael Slager shot Walter Scott, who was fleeing…
Part of The Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal Notice all those notifications you’re suddenly getting about privacy policy updates from Facebook, Google, and multiple other companies? You can thank Europe for that. On May 25, the European Union is enacting the…
On Wednesday, I published the latest story in my year-long series on emergency room billing. You can read it here — or if you’re looking for a shorter version, Atlantic writer Annie Lowrey did an excellent job summarizing it on…
Last week, a county in western Nebraska tried something new. With permission from Secretary of State John Gale, Garden County conducted its May 15 primary election entirely by mail. A ballot was mailed to every registered voter, to be returned,…
