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Jamal Khashoggi.

Is the Media Covering Up ‘the Real Story’ About Jamal Khashoggi?

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A hideous story unspooled before the international media in October 2018, when Saudi Arabian journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi — who had been living in Washington, D.C. after fleeing his home country a year before due to persistent death threats in response to his criticism of its government — abruptly vanished. On Monday, sources told CNN …

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Foreign Influence Operations Infiltrated, Polarized Online Communities

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The ongoing scandals over data privacy, in which social media giants were found to be (among other things) flooding selected readers with hypertargeted and corrosive political advertising, is still unfolding — and it will continue to evolve for some time as new pieces of evidence and data are unearthed and put together to get a …

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Brazil Holds Election Amid Disinformation, Propaganda Crisis

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Imagine, if you will: A presidential election in which even the most basic facts are riddled with confusing disinformation, a far-right candidate appealing to authoritarians and repulsing many women with misogynistic comments, and connections to political aspirants such as Marine Le Pen and Steve Bannon. This is Brazil in 2018, and the person who was …

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Old-model cellular phones lined up on a table.

Do Mobile Phones and Other 4G Devices Contain an ‘E911 Chip’?

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Testing for a new cellular phone alert system (the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, also known as IPAWS) began on October 3rd, 2018, with a tone and a message sent across mobile networks. The grumbling began almost immediately, as startled or irritated Americans reacted to the unsolicited (but anticipated) test, but the griping turned …

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Bots, Trolls Propelled Faux ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Controversy

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The “Star Wars” franchise was not immune from the sort of controversy that has seeped into every tiny nook and cranny of the American public discourse, thanks to the ubiquity of social media and those who wish to exploit conflicts in order to create chaos. In that vein, the film Star Wars: The Last Jedi was …

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Identifying Fake News Series: Fake News Generators

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For the last several years, we have been hearing about foreign governments subverting United States elections using sophisticated teams that create fake stories and circulate them on social media. While foreign governments and large teams are most certainly a major source of disinformation, there are also tools available online that make it easy for anyone …

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Viktor Yanukovych (painted portrait on a wall.)

Was CRC Public Relations Registered as a Foreign Agent?

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The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court was already a topic of controversy well before multiple women came forward with credible claims that he had sexually harassed and victimized them during the summer of 2018. Before Kavanaugh himself had even had a chance to respond to the charges publicly, others swooped …

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The Canada-United States Relationship, According to a Florida Judge

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Much of the United States’ economic policy agenda in 2018 has revolved around instituting higher tariffs, protectionism, and mitigating perceived or real trade deficits. This has extended to the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA for short, which U.S. president Donald Trump has called “the worst trade deal ever.” We are in the NAFTA (worst …

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Designed by George Bernard Shaw and created by Caroline Townshend in 1910 as a commemoration of the Fabian Society. It shows Shaw with Sidney Webb and ER Pease, among others, helping to build a new world: 'Remould it nearer to the heart's desire'. Currently housed in the Shaw Library at the London School of Economics (founded by Sidney and Beatrice Webb and Shaw).

What Is the Fabian Society?

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As the political fervor roiled around sexual assault accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in September 2018, a number of explanations and excuses for his purported behavior appeared even before the details of the reports were widely known. Some of these excuses bordered on the mystical; others ignored the border and just went straight …

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