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  • How the Left is Winning the Social Media Wars

    How the Left is Winning the Social Media Wars0

    In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. elections, numerous accounts surfaced of nefarious content creators profiting by posting fake content on social media. The most successful engaged in “anti-Clinton fervor,” promoted Donald Trump’s candidacy and spread right wing news, all for profit. Buzzfeed editor Craig Silverman described how “teens in the Balkans” earned up to

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  • How the Jury Broke the Deadlock in Philando Castile Shooting Death Case

    How the Jury Broke the Deadlock in Philando Castile Shooting Death Case0

    In the last several years, our country has become familiar with names such as Trayvon Martin, Alton Sterling, and Philando Castile. Each man suffered an unfortunate death at the hands of both police and private security, precipitating mass protest and national media coverage. The memory of these men came to the forefront once again with

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  • How the Islamic State is Using Schools to Indoctrinate Children

    How the Islamic State is Using Schools to Indoctrinate Children0

    The idea of children being indoctrinated through education is repugnant to most Americans. But in the Islamic State, it’s a normal part of life in schools, as a new report from The Quilliam Foundation shows. Entitled The Children of Islamic State, the report studied the use of children in Islamic propaganda between August 2015 and

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  • How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Live

    How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Live0

    Timothy Garton Ash, Oxford professor of Professor of European Studies, recently published a magisterial book, Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World. We hear many diatribes for free speech (and some against); Ash supplies background knowledge about how the internet changes the speech issues we face and what we can do to protect free speech in

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  • How the Internet Fuels America’s Underground Sex Trade

    How the Internet Fuels America’s Underground Sex Trade0

    America has always had an underground sex trade, and for decades most pimps followed the same general script: they’d recruit sex workers on the street, in bars and in strip clubs. But over the past 20 years, the internet has become the major marketplace for the sex trade, with online advertisements and recruitment through social

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  • How the Heir of the White Nationalist Movement Learned to Let Go of Hatred

    How the Heir of the White Nationalist Movement Learned to Let Go of Hatred0

    In his book Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, Eli Saslow explores Derek Roland Black’s journey from darkness to light. Black was the “rightful heir to America’s white nationalist movement—the son of Don Black, who founded the internet’s largest hate site, Stormfront.org [and who led the KKK for a decade]; and

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