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Read the Facebook Papers for Yourself

Does Texas' Idiot Attorney General Have a Point About Incognito Mode?

Twitter Admits It Hid Tweets About HBO's QAnon Docuseries [Updated]

The Government Made This Fake News Broadcast About a Nuclear Attack on Indianapolis

The Daily Beast

Cuomo ‘Livid’ After Shock Firing by CNN

White Supremacists Stage Bizarro Rally in Downtown D.C., Find Themselves Stranded

Exclusive: ‘To Catch a Predator’ Host Says the Warrant for His Arrest Was ‘the Silliest Thing’

Anti-Vax Radio Host Who Called Fauci a ‘Power Tripping Lying Freak’ Dies of COVID

‘Redneck Rave’ Descends Into Throat Slashing, Impalements, and Mass Arrests

‘Avenge Her Murder’: The Grisly Killing of an Ex-Diplomat’s Daughter Ignites a Wave of Fury Worldwide

SOPHIE’s Beautiful Music Hoped for a World Freed From Gender

Being Sick Made Them Famous—and a Target of Trolls

Scoop: Woke Butler Service Faces Worker Rage Over Coronavirus

Scoop: ‘Warzone’: MIT Students Enraged by Coronavirus Banishment

Breathalyzer Giant Accused of Fraud Won’t Come Clean About Booze Tests

Scoop: California Class-Action Lawsuit Accuses TikTok of Illegally Harvesting Data and Sending It to China

Google and Twitter Approved Our BS Anti-Vaxx Ads

Facebook Axed Pro-Vaccine Ads, Let Anti-Vaxxer Conspiracies Slip Through

New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez requested and received a briefing from Facebook on anti-vaccine ads as a result of my reporting.

Scoop: Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Ban of Pro-Hong Kong Gamer

Scoop: ICE Has a New $30M Contract With Israeli Phone Cracking Company Cellebrite

Facial Recognition Bans: Coming to a City Near You

How a Cooling Vest Invented by a Furry Made Its Way Into the U.S. Military

Crime Scene Cleanup Specialists Are Making It Big On Instagram

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Freelance

The New York Times: We Live In Packs

The Atlantic: The Amazon Publishing Juggernaut

Them.US: Empire Actor Jussie Smollett Allegedly Suffers a Racist, Homophobic Attack

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BuzzFeed News

When A Blogger Died From Silicone Genital Injections, His Fans Blamed His Partner

I was arrested and jailed while seeking comment from the subject of this story. No charges were filed, and the associated restraining orders were dismissed.

Porn Stars Are Now Making Content Just For You — For A Price

here's what really happened in charlottesville

How white nationalists lost at the second Unite The Right rally

A White Supremacist Has Been Found Guilty Of Murder For Killing A Unite The Right Counterprotester

For two weeks in December 2018, I covered the trial of James Alex Fields, who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at the "Unite The Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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EdSurge

Scoop: Noodle Slashes Editorial, Marketing Divisions Amid Slow Growth

An Exercise in Empathy: When Principals Shadow Students

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