surveillance Mozilla's Internet Health Report: discriminatory AI, surveilling smart cities, ad-tech Cory Doctorow
politics Media Matters publishes useful guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda that "represents a threat to democracy, civil rights, the climate, and more" Jennifer Sandlin
tabloids Scientology doomed, Royal family doomed, and Island of the Damned in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
No room in the drug culture for amateurs Kambo: the new age frog poison killing people and the rainforest Jason Weisberger
activism Read about the activists who helped bring down bleach-peddling, wellness-grifting Grenon family Jennifer Sandlin
covid Florida con artist and his three sons convicted after selling bleach as a cure for Covid, AIDS, autism and cancer Rob Beschizza
books "Who Would Believe a Prisoner?" chronicles America's first separate prison for women Elías Villoro
media "Fact checkers" attacked a 10-year-old rape victim's abortion story, and the rest is conservative history Rob Beschizza
fearmongering The bogus Satanic Panic is returning. Here's a look at the original purveyors of myth — Chick Tracts Jennifer Sandlin
queen elizabeth Queen of England "has entered a new phase," will re-emerge next year, MSN reports Thom Dunn
facebook 19 of the top 20 Facebook page for American Christians are run by Eastern European troll farms Mark Frauenfelder
facebook Facebook suspends you for quoting Dune, promotes you for spreading COVID and vaccine lies Mark Frauenfelder