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Big Tech is Failing. The Future of Democracy Depends on What Happens Next
After Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter for $44bn, many people fear for its survival. The world’s richest man has laid off more than half the social media platform’s total staff, botched the rollout of...
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America Needs Gigi Sohn at the FCC Now—Democrats Must Get It Done
You’ve probably never heard of Gigi Sohn, but America needs her and we need her now. This is a call to immediate action to restore Net Neutrality and stop a tiny slice of corporate America from spying...
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On Establishing an Online Democratic Platform for the General Public
Preface to essay It is quite fitting that the publication of this essay is happening in a time when social media corporations are under increasing scrutiny about the way they operate and present...
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Can the Left Disagree Without Being Disagreeable?
I have been a reporter for thirty years. During this period, I have been to many former war zones and to active war zones, including in Iraq, Libya, and Syria. I have seen things that I wish I had not...
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Twitter Aided The Pentagon In Its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign
TWITTER EXECUTIVES HAVE claimed for years that the company makes concerted efforts to detect and thwart government-backed covert propaganda campaigns on its platform. Behind the scenes, however, the...
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Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Edward Snowden, Jill Stein & Greenwald on the...
This video compiles excerpts from interviews we published on our channel about the Julian Assange case. To see the full interviews Watch the full interviews: Chris Hedges: https://youtu.be/SwdPQm1IEBI...
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Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal
The so-called Twitter Files, which started being released at the start of December, have so far generated a lot more discussion of the metacontroversies surrounding their release than of what’s...
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Could Julian Assange Be Released In Two Months?
This article was funded by paid subscribers of The Dissenter Newsletter. Become a monthly paid subscriber to help us continue our analysis and coverage. As the new year began, ABC Global Affairs Editor...
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Under Musk, Twitter Continues to Promote US Propaganda Networks
Twitter’s “state-affiliated media” policy has an unwritten exemption for US government-funded and -controlled news media accounts. Twitter even boosts these accounts as “authoritative” sources for news...
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Teenage iPhone Rebellion in Brooklyn
Every Sunday about a dozen high school teenagers gather without their iPhones on a little hill in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, USA. They form a circle and quietly start to read serious books (Dostoevsky,...
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Gaslighting, Oligarchy, and Other Media Forecasts
“Gaslighting” was Merriam-Webster’s 2022 word of the year, a selection based on the frequency of searches in their online dictionary. The term makes good sense on cultural grounds as well, given the...
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How Social Networks Became a ‘Subsidiary’ of the FBI and CIA
The Twitter Files have lifted the lid on a secret alliance between Silicon Valley, intelligence agencies and the political establishment The US Congress last tried to grapple with what the country’s...
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Congress Might Want a TikTok Ban, but Their Questions Suggest Going Even Further
What if the United States government banned every single social media app? Not just TikTok. All of them. Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter–sayonara. It may sound ludicrous, but if you apply the logic behind...
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Snowden Warns Today’s Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like ‘Child’s...
With this week marking 10 years since whistleblower Edward Snowden disclosed information to journalists about widespread government spying by United States and British agencies, the former National...
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To Build a Movement For Democracy, We Have To Win the Internet
Looking towards the 2024 presidential election, we must face the real possibility that we may be headed into an electoral autocracy. For those of us who have experienced repression and violence at the...
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The Censors Down Under: The ACMA Gambit on Misinformation and Disinformation
In January 2010, the then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, doing what she does best, grasped a platitude and ran with it in launching, of all things, an institution called the Newseum....
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Meet The Left Youtubers Blowing Up the Alt-Right Pipeline
If you are worried about whether the kids are alright, you should be. The Right has inundated social media with accessible misinformation, to put it charitably — and social media is exactly where teens...
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To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation
“If you’ve never tried to organize a movement without the internet, I’m here to tell you, it’s really hard. We need to seize the means of computation, because while the internet isn’t the most...
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The Refusal
“Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible.” — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man.1 Internet sobriety is what I...
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In the Shadow of Silicon Valley
Seeing cars with no human inside move through San Francisco’s streets is eerie enough as a pedestrian, but when I’m on my bicycle I often find myself riding alongside them, and from that vantage point...
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How to Take Back the Internet
Platforms that once represented a promise of freedom are now monopolies based on data extraction and surveillance. Users who joined social media to stay in touch with their friends find themselves...
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AI Chatbots: Hype Meets Reality
Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere. Companies use powerful AI chatbots on their webpages or phone systems to handle customer questions. Newsrooms and magazines use them to write...
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Vermin United: Biden, Trump, BlueLeaks and the Repression of Left Protests
“Dissent must never lead to disorder.” – Joe Biden, 5/2/24, Remarks on recent events on college campuses[1] “We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left...
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A TikTok Revolution?
Something truly remarkable happened in Nairobi on June 18. For the first time since Kenya’s independence, a people-driven movement, ignited largely by Gen Z (those born after 1997, also known as the...
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The Case for a Socialized Internet
During an episode of his program in 2015, the late right wing talk radio demagogue Rush Limbaugh devoted part of a segment to attacking Bill Gates for an interview the latter had recently given to The...
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Big Tech Consolidation Amplified the CrowdStrike Outage
A little more than a year before Microsoft’s systems crashed on Friday, creating global chaos in the banking, airline, and emergency service industries, the company pushed back against regulators...
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Liberal Democracy’s Had A Good Run
One thing that all past human societies and civilizations have in common is that they all eventually collapsed. While each of us may be aware of this in the abstract, we don’t necessarily follow the...
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Queer Youth Are Derailing the Controversial Kids Online Safety Act
As millennials become parents and Gen Z grows up glued to smartphones, Congress has come under massive pressure to do something, anything, to protect children and teens from online harm and hold...
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How US Big Tech Monopolies Colonized the World: Welcome to Neo-Feudalism
US Big Tech corporations have essentially colonized the world. In almost every country on Earth, the digital infrastructure upon which the modern economy is based is owned and controlled by a small...
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Google Has Been Convicted of Monopolization. Will It Matter?
For years, Google has been synonymous with its main search product. Generations have grown up relying on the company’s flagship service to search the web, answer questions, and cheat on exams prepared...
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