How do we at Project Censored identify and evaluate independent news stories, and how do we know that the Top 25 stories that we bring forward each year are not only relevant and significant but also trustworthy? The answer is that every candidate news story undergoes rigorous review, which takes…
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Laws that criminalize HIV transmission—many enacted in the 1980s, when HIV was poorly understood—have not been changed to reflect scientific advances in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. In January 2023, Truthout reported that twenty-five states have HIV-specific laws, and nine states have sentence enhancements that apply to HIV+ people. Black men…
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The “Twitter Files”—a trove of internal communications relating to Twitter’s content moderation practices, made available to select journalists by the platform’s owner, Elon Musk—reveal how pressure from US government agencies has shaped political content on the popular social networking service. Twitter has banned selected political voices, supported covert government operations,…
Across the United States, students with disabilities are being sent home from school because of behavioral issues in the classroom. In an October 2022 article for the Hechinger Report and the Associated Press, Meredith Kolodner and Annie Ma reported that, under a policy of “informal removal,” students across the country…
Beef suppliers for major fast food and supermarket chains are sourcing meat from US farms that use antibiotics linked to the spread of “superbugs,” bacteria strains that are resistant to antibiotics, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Guardian reported in November 2022. The joint investigation examined US Department of…
Contrary to popular belief, many people who experience homelessness are employed, Julia Pagaduan reported for the National Alliance to End Homelessness in September 2022. Drawing on a study produced by the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago, Pagaduan reported that 53 percent of the sheltered unhoused…
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After a Norfolk Southern train filled with hazardous chemicals derailed outside the town of East Palestine, Ohio, on February 3, 2023, causing a toxic inferno and a mass evacuation, corporate news media provided around-the-clock coverage. TV correspondents dutifully interviewed displaced residents, attended press briefings about the disaster, and interviewed irate…
Gun violence costs Americans an astounding $557 billion per year in direct, indirect, and long-term costs, according to a July 2022 study by gun-control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety, reported on by NPR. Everytown’s study, “The Economic Cost of Gun Violence,” firmly stated, “America cannot afford gun violence.” As…
The world’s poorest countries will pay 35 percent more in debt interest bills in 2023 than they did in 2022 due to costs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and a dramatic increase in the price of imported food, as reported by the World Bank. Seventy-five impoverished nations, most in sub-Saharan…
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A series of leaks have exposed plans by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ramp up censorship of dangerous speech online. According to an October 2022 report from the Intercept, DHS announced a new “Disinformation Governance Board” in early 2022 [Note: On DHS’s Disinformation Governance Board, see also Andy…
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