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Reporter seeking asylum

samedi 30 décembre 2017 à 01:00

A Mexican reporter, afraid of being shot by gangsters, tried to ask for asylum in the US. He was imprisoned for 100 days and treated like a criminal. Told he'd probably be held in prison for a year, he went back to Mexico even though he still feared being shot.

Pro-fracking politicians

samedi 30 décembre 2017 à 01:00

UK pro-fracking politicians go to great lengths to sabotage protests.

Lomustine drug

samedi 30 décembre 2017 à 01:00

The cancer drug Lomustine costs 15 times as much as it did 4 years ago.

Redefining environmentalism

samedi 30 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Saboteur Pruitt has redefined environmentalism to mean extracting as much as possible and ignoring effects on the environment.

Twitter bot

samedi 30 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Twitter banned a bot that was very effective at identifying impersonator trolls (who make false-flag racist verbal attacks), because the right-wing lie movement started reporting it for "abuse."

Any sort of crowdsourcing of information or judgment is vulnerable to manipulation by a sufficiently large dishonest movement.