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DARE: Border Agents Confiscated Lawmakers’ Phones. Joaquin Castro Captured Photo and Video Anyway.

News DigestJuly 3, 2019

Photos emerge from government immigrant detention centers closed to public view. Trump administration abandons adding citizenship question to the 2020... More

DARE: Press Freedoms and the Case Against Julian Assange, Explained

News DigestApril 12, 2019

Assange's arrest and the charge he faces (conspiracy to hack a government computer) generate debate about and divisions over the implications for press... More

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DARE: Facebook and Google to Be Quizzed on White Nationalism and Political Bias as Congress Pushes Dueling Reasons for Regulation

News DigestApril 9, 2019

Lawmakers to question representatives from Facebook and Google, focusing in particular on white nationalist and hateful content and prospects for regulation. Rep. David Nunes (R-Calif.) sues the McClatchy newspaper… More

DARE: After Mueller Report Findings, Republican National Committee Plans to ‘Slam and Shame the Media’

News DigestMarch 25, 2019

Following the release of the Mueller report, Republican National Committee slams media as 'obsessed with the Democrat lie.' Senate Republicans push two... More

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DARE: Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter Struggle to Deal with New Zealand Shooting Video

News DigestMarch 15, 2019

Social media platforms struggle with managing spread of gruesome video of New Zealand shooting, while police urge people to stop sharing the video. More

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DARE: 3 Saudi Women Activists Receive PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award

News DigestMarch 14, 2019

PEN America announces 2019 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award honorees: Saudi Writer-Activists and Women's Rights Champions Nouf Abdulaziz, Loujain... More

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DARE: On Amazon, a QAnon Conspiracy Book Climbs the Charts—with an Algorithmic Push

News DigestMarch 5, 2019

Amazon's algorithms push “QAnon: An Invitation to the Great Awakening,” a book supportive of the QAnon conspiracy to the top of its best seller list. More

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DARE: Jeff Bezos Accuses National Enquirer of ‘Extortion and Blackmail’

News DigestFebruary 8, 2019

Jeff Bezos accuses American Media Inc., the company behind The National Enquirer, of extortion and blackmail, setting off speculation of ties between... More

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DARE: Donald Trump’s Allies Are Going after Sherrod Brown’s Journalist Wife

News DigestJanuary 15, 2019

America Rising, a leading Republican opposition research group, found to be requesting access to record pertaining to journalist and journalism professor... More

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DARE: Trump Wants the Networks to Carry His Speech Live. They Should Look at These Charts of His Lies.

News DigestJanuary 8, 2019

President Trump prepares to make a speech this evening about the southern U.S. border, a subject on which his falsehoods and dishonesty have escalated... More

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kumbushodawson Kumbusho Dawson Kagine @kumbushodawson ·
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Free expression organization @PENamerica released a letter signed by more than a dozen other civil liberties organizations opposing federal legislation and proposals that seek to impose a wholesale ban on social media platform TikTok in US .

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3ddb/restrict-act-insanely-broad-ban-tiktok-vpns

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jodipicoult Jodi Picoult @jodipicoult ·
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The superintendent says this ban of NINETEEN MINUTES and 13 other books not a ban. Explain to me how permanently REMOVING a book from a library shelf is not a ban? https://twitter.com/PENamerica/status/1641517467976474641

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jonfreadom Jonathan Friedman 📚 @jonfreadom ·
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Yes. ND gov: "The teaching profession is challenging enough without the heavy hand of state government forcing teachers to take on the role of pronoun police." https://thehill.com/homenews/3926656-north-dakota-governor-vetoes-bill-restricting-transgender-students-pronouns/

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