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Kim Masters

The PEN Pod: A Reckoning in Hollywood with Kim Masters

InterviewJuly 22, 2020

“True power—defined as the ability to get something made because you feel like it, because you think it’s a good idea—is in very few hands.” More

Pete Buttigieg

DARE: How Far-Right Websites Spread a Fake Story about Pete Buttigieg

News DigestMay 6, 2019

Attempted smear campaign against presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg exposed by news media as misinformation, seen as 'small victory for truth.'... More

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DARE: Most Americans Think That Local News Is Doing Well Financially, and Not Many Pay for It

News DigestMarch 27, 2019

As local news coverage shrinks precipitously, study shows only 14 percent of surveyed news consumers have paid for or given money to local news of any... More

2019 PEN Courage Award honoree Anita Hill

PEN America to Honor Trailblazing Truthteller Anita Hill with 2019 PEN Courage Award

Press ReleaseMarch 21, 2019

“As a Yale Law School graduate pursuing a promising career as a legal scholar and lawyer, Anita Hill stepped alone into the glare of the public spotlight to call… More

DARE: State of the Union Will Not Take Place Tuesday, Pelosi Aide Says

News DigestJanuary 28, 2019

Following the government reopening, Pelosi aid says the president's State of the Union will not take place Tuesday. Iowa House denies press credentials... More

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How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance? The Challenges of #MeToo and the Morally Compromised Artist

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 | 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
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DARE: As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants

News DigestDecember 19, 2018

New York Times investigation shows the new breadth of Facebook user 'data-sharing,' including reading of private massages, phone numbers, and calendars... More

DARE: Pentagon Wants to Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance

News DigestNovember 2, 2018

Investigation finds that the Pentagon is accelerating efforts to predict and preempt anti-Trump and anti-government protests using social media surveilla... More

DARE: CNN: Time Warner Building Evacuated Due to Suspicious Package

News DigestOctober 24, 2018

CNN office in New York is evacuated after receiving a suspicious package (see PEN America statement on the incident here.) As President Trump calls the killing of Washington-based Saudi… More

DARE: Brett Kavanaugh’s Fox News Interview Transcript, Annotated

News DigestSeptember 25, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh and his wife do televised interviews with Fox News, pushing back hard against allegations of sexual misconduct in his past. Meeting set for Thursday between President Trump… More

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🧵Today @RamyEssam released the song "Fiskooti Mooti" with lyrics written by imprisoned Egyptian poet Galal El-Behairy. Watch here: https://youtu.be/GMGcbQdKaH0

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"Fear is not freedom. Fear is not liberty. Fear is control," says 100-year-old Grace Linn at @MCSDFlorida meeting.

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20-year-old Olesya Krivtsova has fled Russia after she was accused of “justifying terrorism” and “discrediting the Russian armed forces,” placed under house arrest, and forbidden from using the phone or internet following an Instagram post about #Ukraine https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/world/europe/russia-ukraine-social-media-crackdown.html

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