Glenn Greenwald: CNN published an incorrect story about an email that apparently indicated Wikileaks secretly offered DNC leaks to the bully's campaign. It appeared that way because CNN had the wrong date for the email.

Greenwald says that CNN should publish who told it about the email and gave it the wrong date, and reports that several news reports criticizing Russia or Putin appear to have been planted and false.

I saw some of those stories, and didn't know they were false — I have no practical way to check that — but I felt they were drawing big conclusions from small evidence, or exaggerating the significance of what was known. So I did not post about them.

Section 702 massive surveillance gives the FBI tons of evidence to go fishing for excuses to prosecute US citizens.

Six other ways that massive personal data harms society.

African hospitals often imprison patients that can't pay their bills. Many of them are women that came to give birth.

Aside from the injustice of what the hospitals do, we should notice that parents who can't pay for hospital care for the birth surely also can't pay to raise a child properly. It is irresponsible for them to have children.

Argentina claims that deportation of journalists and activists who were authorized to participate in the WTO is for the sake of "security".

I must wonder what sort of "security" issue this concerns. Securing ever-tightening plutocratic control over the whole world, perhaps?

I Was Banned From The WTO [based on lies] For Defending People’s Rights.

The WTO must be eliminated, because of the power that it gives to the plutocrats over supposedly-democratic states.

Even reputable, and partly reputable, scientific journals accept some articles that are glaring pseudoscience.

A journal that accepts 90% of the offered papers, and is willing to retract one, is not in the lowest category. The truly predatory journals accept around 100% of the articles offered to them, and I doubt they ever think about retracting one.