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climate change Republicans get billions of dollars in public funding to fight climate change by pretending that it isn't real Thom Dunn

fake news The New Deal was partly motivated by a desire to kill the fake news epidemic of the Gilded Age Cory Doctorow

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Business Thomas Cook travel collapsed and stranded 150,000 passengers, but still had millions for the execs who tanked it Cory Doctorow

Business Chinese environment ministry finds widespread pollution coverups and corruption at the local government level Cory Doctorow

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telcoms Cable industry attains the impossible: makes Americans hate it even more Cory Doctorow

facebook The problem isn't that Facebook is creepy, it's that it's creepy AND HUGE Cory Doctorow

politics Research report explains how adtech supercharges political deceit, allowing even bumblers to be master propagandists Cory Doctorow

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