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DARE: Bipartisan Senate Group Wants to Formally Blame Saudi Crown Prince for Journalist’s Killing
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DARE: Federal Employees Are Warned Not to Discuss Trump ‘Resistance’ at Work
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DARE: Democrats Capture Control of House; G.O.P. Holds Senate
With unusually high turnout for a midterm election, Democrats gain the majority in the House and Republicans retain control of the Senate. Voters bring... More
DARE: How Twitter Bots and Trump Fans Made #ReleaseTheMemo Go Viral
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DARE: Twitter plans to make political ads more transparent amid Russia revelations
Twitter promises greater transparency and stricter rules for political ads following revelations that social media networks were used to spread falsehoods and Russian propaganda during the 2016 election. DOJ… More
DARE: Here Are All The Hoaxes Being Spread About The Las Vegas Shooting
The mass slaying in Las Vegas renews debate on the language of terrorism and immediately unleashes purveyors of fraudulent news, seeding false narratives that are amplified on social media… More
DARE: Presidential tweet accuses Facebook of being “anti-Trump”
Presidential tweet accuses Facebook of being "anti-Trump"; social network counters that it is pro-truth and pro-democracy, citing a broad series of measures it took to during this week's German… More
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"The collapse of local news is a significant reason why an uninformed citizenry has lately been disrupting democratic governance." In this piece for @Monthly, @stevenwaldman argues that local news is our best defense against COVID misinformation. https://bit.ly/3zJnQ8G
In the wake of the #Pegasus revelations, we at PEN America joined dozens of partners and experts in calling for an immediate moratorium on the sale, transfer and use of surveillance technology. Read more here. https://bit.ly/3zEruAu
The first person to be tried under Hong Kong’s sweeping national security law was found guilty of secessionism and terrorism. https://apnews.com/article/hong-kong-laws-de500d4fce1ad5d160f7619e7a95e29e
