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DARE: Security Reports Reveal How Assange Turned an Embassy into a Command Post for Election Meddling

News DigestJuly 16, 2019

CNN investigation reveals how Julian Assange received both deliveries of potentially hacked material related to the 2016 U.S. election and visits from... More

DARE: Google Workers Can Listen to What People Say to its AI Home Devices

News DigestJuly 12, 2019

Google admits that its contractors can listen to recordings from the company's home AI devices, including audio that was captured accidentally. Memphis Noticias reporter Manuel Duran Ortega released from… More

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DARE: Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke about Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes

News DigestJuly 2, 2019

Want to receive this digest in your inbox? To subscribe, simply click here and choose DARE: Daily Alert on Rights and Expression from the list. Following a ProPublica report, Customs and Border Patrol officials… More

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DARE: Opinion: ‘Accusing the New York Times of “Treason,” Trump Crosses a Line’

News DigestJune 20, 2019

Wall Street Journal takes unusual step of printing op-ed by the publisher of the rival New York Times following President Trump's accusation of 'treason'... More

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DARE: Facebook Lets Deepfake Zuckerberg Video Stay on Instagram

News DigestJune 12, 2019

A ‘deepfake’ video of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg emerges—and is left up on Instagram—as Congress prepares for its first hearing on the potential... More

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DARE: Alabama Governor Signs Campus Free Speech Bill into Law

News DigestJune 10, 2019

Alabama governor signs bill removing 'free speech zones' from public universities, prompting concerns about First Amendment implications. See PEN America... More

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DARE: State Department to Launch New Human Rights Panel Stressing ‘Natural Law’

News DigestMay 31, 2019

State Department will launch new panel stressing human rights "natural law," feared by some as an attempt to narrow protections for women and members of the LGBTQ community. More

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DARE: Freelance Reporter Wants Police to Return Seized Property

News DigestMay 21, 2019

San Francisco Superior Court hears two motions on the confiscation of freelance journalist Bryan Carmody's electronics in a police raid widely condemned... More

DARE: Fighting Viral Hoaxes during the 2020 Election

News DigestMay 20, 2019

Large-scale disinformation attacks on candidates set to be a feature of 2020 election. (See PEN America's report analyzing effect of disinformation and... More

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DARE: Books a Target of New China Tariffs

News DigestMay 16, 2019

Books imported from China to the United States face 25 percent tariff as part of the Trump Administration's trade war. White House launches campaign to... More

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The vagueness is the point. @ThePlumLineGS gets it right. Lawmakers had many chances to make the Don't Say Gay law clearer; they kept it vague. State guidance has also gone further than the original law, w/ worse penalties. Results are #Chilling #EdScare
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I am honored to be one of the judges for this year's PEN/ROBERT J. DAU SHORT STORY PRIZE FOR EMERGING WRITERS @PENamerica

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