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Your Handy Field Guide to the Many Factions of the Far Right, From the Proud Boys to Identity Evropa

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Your Handy Field Guide to the Many Factions of the Far Right, From the Proud Boys to Identity Evropa

Emma Grey Ellis

Twitter and Tear Gas: How Social Media Changed Protest Forever

In Depth

Twitter and Tear Gas: How Social Media Changed Protest Forever

Zeynep Tufekci

Swedish prosecutors drop Julian Assange rape investigation after all options are 'exhausted'

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Swedish prosecutors drop Julian Assange rape investigation after all options are 'exhausted'

Alexandra Simon-Lewis

Facebook fined €110m after 'misleading' European officials over WhatsApp takeover

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Facebook fined €110m after 'misleading' European officials over WhatsApp takeover

Matt Burgess

One Candidate's Plan to Resist Trump by Teaching Kids to Code

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One Candidate's Plan to Resist Trump by Teaching Kids to Code

Issie Lapowsky

Silicon Valley Rebrands Itself as Good for the Rest of America

Business

Silicon Valley Rebrands Itself as Good for the Rest of America

Nitasha Tiku

Internet Democracy Is Great … in Theory. Just Ask the FCC

Net Neutrality

Internet Democracy Is Great … in Theory. Just Ask the FCC

Klint Finley

The Alt-Right's Newest Ploy? Trolling With False Symbols

Internet Culture

The Alt-Right's Newest Ploy? Trolling With False Symbols

Emma Grey Ellis

The NSA Confirms It: Russia Hacked French Election ‘Infrastructure’

Hacks

The NSA Confirms It: Russia Hacked French Election ‘Infrastructure’

Andy Greenberg

The Emmanuel Macron email hack warns us fake news is an ever-evolving beast

Hacking

The Emmanuel Macron email hack warns us fake news is an ever-evolving beast

Matt Burgess

Facebook needs to stop relying on us to police its content. It's time its AI took responsibility

Facebook

Facebook needs to stop relying on us to police its content. It's time its AI took responsibility

Liat Clark

The UK's Espionage Act is a 'threat to free speech'

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The UK's Espionage Act is a 'threat to free speech'

Matt Burgess

Gerrymandering Has a Solution After All. It's Called Math

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Gerrymandering Has a Solution After All. It's Called Math

Clive Thompson

TED Day One: Elite Idealists Push Back Against Politics

TED

TED Day One: Elite Idealists Push Back Against Politics

Davey Alba

Last month we gave Yameen Rasheed a prize for his social startup. On Sunday he was killed

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Last month we gave Yameen Rasheed a prize for his social startup. On Sunday he was killed

Rowland Manthorpe

Scientists Actually Did Some Science at the March for Science

National Affairs

Scientists Actually Did Some Science at the March for Science

Eric Niiler

Makers of war: the ordinary men turned bomb technicians in Syria

Politics

Makers of war: the ordinary men turned bomb technicians in Syria

Matthieu Aikins

Marching Brought Scientists Together—But What Do They Do Now?

National Affairs

Marching Brought Scientists Together—But What Do They Do Now?

Adam Rogers

Why Memphis Has Two Marches for Science

Science

Why Memphis Has Two Marches for Science

Anna Vlasits

The Real Reason the Online Uprising Against Bill O’Reilly Worked

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The Real Reason the Online Uprising Against Bill O’Reilly Worked

Issie Lapowsky