A new book on the Malmedy massacre offers a timely study of the process of historical mythmaking—how false and distorted accounts come to constitute their own durable reality. Source: Malmedy Massacre: How a Nazi War […]
Widespread ignorance bordering on idiocy is our new national goal. It’s no use pretending otherwise and telling us, as Thomas Friedman did in the Times a few days ago, that educated people are the nation’s […]
Source: Who is hacking Brexit? And why we need our own Robert Mueller inquiry
Dominic Cummings seemed the perfect man to lead Vote Leave’s strategic team. Where did he discover his passion for data? Source: Vote Leave donations: the dark ads, the mystery ‘letter’ – and Brexit’s online guru
The Catalan independence referendum was the most dangerous outcome of a populist nationalism aimed at breaking Europe apart. Source: Opinion | Who’s a Spaniard These Days?
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The Russian disinformation threat went uncontested as it metastasized. Source: Kremlin trolls burned across the Internet as Washington debated options
In the wake of Trump’s victory, I built a bot to expose bigots. Then Twitter suspended it — and kept the bigots. Source: Opinion | Confessions of a Digital Nazi Hunter
The Republican party’s leader is no anomaly, he’s a voice for its deep-seated radicalised base who suddenly find themselves in the mainstream, writes the academic and author Cas Mudde Source: ‘Trumpism’ is ingrained in white […]
Social media moguls’ disregard for facts may have facilitated Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. But Russia’s success in peddling bogus news via Twitter and Facebook exposed more fundamental problems: a poorly educated […]
It’s about housing, transport, benefits, pay, and the culture of work. Source: The real reasons why British workers won’t pick fruit
“Dark Money” argues that the Koch brothers and a small number of allied plutocrats have essentially hijacked American democracy. Source: ‘Dark Money,’ by Jane Mayer – The New York Times
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