fraudsters Pharma bro Shkreli and Fyre Festival fraudster McFarland both receive early release from prison Mark Frauenfelder
media Amanda Knox, acquitted in murder of Meredith Kircher, assails movie that fictionalizes a hand in her killing Rob Beschizza
tabloids An Epstein tell-all, a vengeful Queen wannabe, and Harry & Meghan's final insult, in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan
weapons of math destruction Airbnb has software that searches social media to identify creeps and psychopaths Mark Frauenfelder
facebook Apparently Facebook did approve ads saying Republicans support the Green New Deal Jason Weisberger
china Human Rights Watch reverse-engineered the app that the Chinese state uses to spy on people in Xinjiang Cory Doctorow
labor The Big Lie: how polygraph companies convinced the US government to use pseudoscience on job applicants Cory Doctorow
corporatism The £7 billion Carillion collapse has the UK government talking about breaking up the Big Four accounting firms Cory Doctorow
ukpoli UK government will deputise newsagents to collect and retain identity documents from the nation's pornography viewers Cory Doctorow