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Forget a Ban — Why Are Journalists Using TikTok in the First Place?

I’m a security researcher working in the journalism field, and I’m here to rain on your dangerous, dumb parade.

Deconstructed

No to Biden, No to Trump: Insights From Swing-State Voters

Analyzing double-haters’ criticisms of both presidential candidates with campaign adviser Anat Shenker-Osorio.

Israel’s War on Gaza

Google Won’t Say Anything About Israel Using Its Photo Software to Create Gaza “Hit List”

Google prohibits using its tech for “immediate harm,” but Israel is harnessing its facial recognition to set up a dragnet of Palestinians.

Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Mich., speaks during a House Republicans' news conference in the Capitol on Wednesday, December 6, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

The Vicious Things Republicans Have Said About Palestinians Since October 7

Patients, infertility doctors and advocates of IVF attend a rally outside the Alabama State House on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024 in Montgomery, Ala. The rally was organized at the Alabama State Capitol to decry the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos are considered children, which led to the suspension of IVF treatments in the state. (Stew Milne/AP Images for RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association)

Voices

Pro-Lifers Are Up Against a Real-Life Crisis

In this June 2, 2016, file photo, a woman holds hats to get them autographed by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a rally in San Jose, Calif.

A MAGA Troll’s Memes Were Blatant Disinformation. But Were They a Crime?

QUEENS, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 10: Views of the New York City jails on Rikers Island, as seen from a departing flight from Laguardia Airport on December 10, 2022 in Queens, New York. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

NYC Jails Flagrantly Deny Young People’s Legal Right to Education

Podcasts

Deconstructed

No to Biden, No to Trump: Insights From Swing-State Voters

Deconstructed

How the Gaza War Is Reshaping Social Media

Voices

MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA - MARCH 20: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during a news conference on March 20, 2024 in Miami Beach, Fla., where he signed a state law addressing homelessness.(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Voices

How the Right Is Taking Over State Courts With Judicial Gerrymandering

Jill Habig, Jonathan Miller

GAZA CITY, GAZA - FEBRUARY 19: Palestinians receive bags of flour as they wait for aid supplies carried by trucks to enter from the border in Gaza Strip on February 19, 2024. The Israeli war on Gaza has pushed 85% of the territory's population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the enclave's infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN. (Photo by Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Voices

Organizing Aid to Gaza Led Me to a Harsh Truth: Biden Is on Board for Ethnic Cleansing

Politics

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - NOVEMBER 08: Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks during a press conference in Oakland, Calif., in on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2023. Price discussed the case of Maurice Monk, who died in Santa Rita Jail in 2021 after spending 34 days behind bars, unable to post bond. (Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)

“Crime Has Been a Euphemism for Race”: Alameda County’s Reform DA Rejects Recall Narrative

NEW YORK, USA - MARCH 22: State troopers are seen at the Grand Central Terminal in New York City, United States on March 22, 2020. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Congress Has a Chance to Rein In Police Use of Surveillance Tech

Demonstrators in support of Palestinians gather near the Wisconsin coordinated campaign headquarters where President Joe Biden is speaking in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on March 13, 2024. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

1 in 5 Wisconsin Democrats Said Gaza War Will Impact Their Primary Vote

(Photo by Kevin Hagen/Getty Images)

Fox Used to Hate Disinformation Experts. Now It’s Hiring One.

Ken Klippenstein

Justice

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 20: People gather to protest the banning of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) at Columbia University on November 20, 2023 in New York City. Students, alumni of both schools, some dressed in caps and gowns, and supporters held a "Denouncement Ceremony" and pledged not to donate money to the schools after the banning of the student groups for holding a nonviolent but unsanctioned protest demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. More than 20 progressive elected officials have sent a letter to the university calling for the reinstatement of the groups. Calls for a ceasefire in Gaza continue as the death toll from Israel’s invasion of Gaza has increased in the weeks since the October 7 Hamas attack. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Pro-Israel Advocates Are Weaponizing “Safety” on College Campuses

Natasha Lennard

WASHINGTON - MARCH 26: Activisists protest at the U.S. Supreme Court as the court hears oral arguments in the Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine case in Washington on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. The case looks at access to mifepristone, the drug used in medication abortions. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The End of Roe

Anti-Abortion Doctors Struggle to Explain Mifepristone Harms Before Supreme Court

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, center, provides an explanation to members of the press regarding the State Patrol killing of Ricky Cobb II at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. (Kerem Yücel/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

Prosecute a Cop? You’ll Face Removal From Office

Willie Pye during a family visit at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison in 2001.

After Four Years Without an Execution, Georgia Prepares to Kill Willie Pye

National Security

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Jameson Dudley, left, crew master with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 252 (VMGR-252), and U.S. Army Sgt. Nijoku Odom, right, intelligence analyst with 303rd psychological operations company (303rd POCO), throw leaflets from a KC-130 Super Hercules over southern Afghanistan, Aug. 28, 2013. Leaflets were dropped in support of operations to defeat insurgency influence in the area. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Demetrius Munnerlyn/Released)

New Report Reveals Dirty Secret of Army Psychological Operations

Daniel Boguslaw

MCLEAN, VA - SEPTEMBER 24: The agency seal on the floor of the lobby at the CIA, in Mclean, VA. (Photo by Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Spy Agencies Skewed Intel to Please Trump, and Obama Too

Ken Klippenstein, Daniel Boguslaw

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to the media after she and the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention met with families whose loved ones were murdered during the 2018 mass shooting that took the lives of 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on March 23, 2024.

Kamala Harris Touts Secret Service Program Encouraging High School Spying

Daniel Boguslaw

UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 29: Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is seen as Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin testifies during the House Armed Services Committee hearing about his recent hospitalization and the communication issues with President Joe Biden, in Rayburn Building on Thursday, February 29, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

Pentagon Ignores Law Calling for Report on How It Trained So Many African Coup Leaders

World

Razafihanta Flogone, 38, poses for a portrait inside her home in Ambinanibe in Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar, on July 11, 2023. Her husband Randriamanjaka Zeze used to fish where the port built by QMM is now located. They had to find new places to fish and she took on weaving to help support her family.

Rio Tinto’s Madagascar Mine Promised Prosperity. It Tainted a Community.

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 03: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) questions U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as he testifies at a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on the Fed's "Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress," on Capitol Hill on March 3, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Meta Refuses to Answer Questions on Gaza Censorship, Say Sens. Warren and Sanders

Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo arrives for the One Forest Summit at the Presidential Palace in Libreville on March 2, 2023. (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Squeezed by African Coups, Biden Cozies Up to the World’s Worst Dictator

A 6-year-old Palestinian girl after an eye removal operation at European Hospital near Khan Younis, Gaza. Shrapnel and a 2- to 3-inch stone hit her left eye after the bombing of a building next to the makeshift shelter she was living in with her family. According to Dr. Yasser Khan, her father died and her mother was injured in an Israeli attack.

Intercepted

“Man-Made Hell On Earth”: A Canadian Doctor on His Medical Mission to Gaza

Technology

IT specialist Mario Haustein works on a computer with the operating system Linux at the computer center of the Technical University in Chemnitz, Germany, 8'March 2017. Many software applications of the TU'run on Linux-based systems. Thousands of guests from all over Europe are expected at the 19th Chemnitz Linux Days (11 - 12 March). Photo by: Jan Woitas/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

The Other Players Who Helped (Almost) Make the World’s Biggest Backdoor Hack

BLETCHLEY, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 1: Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and X gestures as he attends the AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park, on November 1, 2023 in Bletchley, England. The UK Government are hosting the AI Safety Summit bringing together international governments, leading AI companies, civil society groups and experts in research to consider the risks of AI, especially at the frontier of development, and discuss how they can be mitigated through internationally coordinated action. (Photo by Toby Melville - Pool/Getty Images)

Elon Musk Fought Government Surveillance — While Profiting Off Government Surveillance

Tech Official Pushing TikTok Ban Could Reap Windfall From U.S.–China Cold War

Biometrics Giant Accenture Quietly Took Over LA Residents’ Jail Reform Plan

Environment

The entrance to Miami Seaquarium is seen, Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Miami. An unlikely coalition of a theme park owner, animal rights group and NFL owner-philanthropist announced Thursday that a plan is in place to return Lolita, an orca that has lived at the Miami Seaquarium for more than 50 years, to her home waters in the Pacific Northwest. (Alie Skowronski/Miami Herald via AP)

Federal Probes, Sick Animals, and Fed-Up Vets: The Miami Seaquarium Is on the Brink of Collapse

FILE - Cleanup of a creek is underway in the aftermath of a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, March 8, 2023. The Biden administration is initiating a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following a fiery train derailment earlier this year in eastern Ohio. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Vinyl Chloride Industry Keeps Expanding Despite East Palestine Disaster

Schuyler Mitchell

Gov. Jeff Landry speaks during the start of the special session in the House Chamber on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, in Baton Rouge, La. Landry called for the special session only a few hours after taking office. (Michael Johnson/The Advocate via AP, Pool)

“Certainly Intimidation”: Louisiana Sues EPA for Emails With Journalists and Cancer Alley Residents

Delaney Nolan, Oliver Laughland

The Denka, formerly DuPont, factory in Reserve, Louisiana, on August 12, 2021. - Silos, smokestacks and brown pools of water line the banks of the Mississippi River in Louisiana, where scores of refineries and petrochemical plants have metastasized over a few decades. Welcome to "Cancer Alley." Industrial pollution on this ribbon of land between New Orleans and Baton Rouge puts the mostly African-American residents at nearly 50 times the risk of developing cancer than the national average, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (Photo by Emily Kask / AFP) (Photo by EMILY KASK/AFP via Getty Images)

The EPA Is Backing Down From Environmental Justice Cases Nationwide