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trump Trump's new social media platform infiltrated and pranked within hours of its reveal David Pescovitz
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elections "Free market" conservatives, aghast at Big Tech's hostility, become overnight Roosevelt-style trustbusters Cory Doctorow
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picks MSNBC's Joy Reid says anti-gay posts on her old blog were 'fabricated', Internet Archive responds Xeni Jardin
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