In a Texas congressional race, Valenzuela, a local school board member, is climbing in the polls against former Air Force Col. Kim Olson.
Artificial intelligence firm Dataminr is making questionable use of its Twitter firehose privileges — and not for the first time.
Through deceptive editing, two Trump campaign ads falsely portray law-abiding Black Lives Matter protesters who acted to prevent violence as dangerous thugs.
The boy was wounded and still booked into jail. “They had me believing my child was shot in the street by someone and not an officer,” his mother said.
Even before the police moved in to dismantle CHOP and take back Seattle's East Precinct, the Occupy-style protest was collapsing under its own weight.
The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office threatened to arrest all protesters in the city of Graham, where a statue of Confederate soldier stands.
For six days the city was plunged into a state of exception, giving law enforcement carte blanche to attack New Yorkers and interrogate demonstrators.
“The people in power remain in power. ... They’ll let us protest because they know that eventually, the people will get tired of protesting.”
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We must defund the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Violent Extremism programs that target Black Muslim communities.
Recent contracts with Dataminr and Venntel show a growing focus on harnessing the latest private sector tools for mass surveillance.
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