A group of more than 80 prominent fact-checking organizations around the world is pressing YouTube to take action against COVID misinformation, which still prevails on the platform now two years into the pandemic. “As an international network of fact-checking organizations, we monitor how lies spread online — and every day, we see that YouTube is […]
CBT, chronic pain, and ableism
The article reads as self-congratulatory, biased, and anti-opioid, going so far as to say that therapists are providing a “powerful salve for suffering” despite later admitting that most research only shows one-third of participants experience signific…
Poison in the Air
ProPublica undertook an analysis that has never been done before. Using advanced data processing software and a modeling tool developed by the Environmental Protection Agency, we mapped the spread of cancer-causing chemicals from thousands of sources o…
people with little power or authority at work or when acting as citizens
I want a prominent media home that reflects our size and heterogeneity. I want stories about wealth as opposed to income inequality and its effect on intergenerational and social mobility. I want stories that aren’t just about our problems, but that ar…
The Nobel Peace Prize goes to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov
“for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.” The award celebrated Ressa and Muratov’s years of work in the Philippines and Russia, respectively. The Nobel Committee added that this yea…
Inside the CIA’s secret war plans against WikiLeaks
In the long form “Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out”, Yahoo! news journalists Zach Dorfman, Sean D. Naylor and Michael Isikoff retrace the history of WikiLeaks [previously 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12], from Obama to Trump’s adm…