The “Twitter Files” disclose how US government agencies pressured Twitter’s content moderation practices over the last few years, resulting in widespread censorship of COVID-19 topics and activists, the banning of selected political voices, support of covert government operations, and more. Significant questions are now being raised about Twitter’s handling of…
Phyllis Santistevan-Sullivan, a former vice president of finance at TransDigm, filed a lawsuit against the aerospace and defense company in February 2023 for firing her when she called out accounting irregularities. According to David Dayen, writing in the American Prospect, TransDigm was accused by Santistevan-Sullivan of adjusting sales numbers and…
While most countries dealt with the COVID pandemic by mandating strict regulations to minimize the spread of the virus, Sweden chose a different approach. Its response emphasized the development of natural (post-infection) immunity in an open society. The nation’s public health officials refused strict lockdowns, kept the country’s businesses and…
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In December 2022, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News reported on a recent study by the Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing that revealed an “alarming link between family violence and suicide” in Western Australia. The research was conducted by Ombudsman Chris Field and showed more than half of all West…
Over the past year, “stalkerware” has become a significant threat to people seeking abortions, according to an article published by Slate in July 2022. According to author Danielle Keats Citron, anyone who has a cyberstalking app can access anything on another person’s phone so long as they have the companion…
Rural students are suffering as a result of an ongoing teacher shortage, preventing them from getting the education and advice they need to succeed in higher education and beyond. In September of 2022, the Hechinger Report highlighted how rural areas, like Campo, Colorado, struggled to provide students with the education…
In February 2023, an 83-second video surfaced online of a teen boy in Burkina Faso being murdered by men in military fatigues. One man is seen bashing the boy’s head with a rock in what seems to be a military compound, with six apparently dead bodies also in view. Very…
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Last December, President Biden signed a bill into law that allows federal judges to extrajudicially censor information on the internet, according to a recent article by the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The bill, named the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act, has already allowed over 1,000 judges to…
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Juvenile prisons hold the lowest populations of incarcerated children ever, as of 2020. Juvenile incarcerations declined “as juvenile arrests have also dropped for most crimes except murder,” as reported by the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange on January 10, 2023. This comes at the same time as the media is exposing…
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Globally, more than 160 million women are unable to access contraception, according to a July 2022 article by the Guardian that cited the largest study of its kind. Of that number, roughly half live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, according to the Global Burden of Diseases study based at…
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