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Redaktionen efter skjutningen: ”Vi delar ut en jävla tidning i morgon”
Dagen efter skjutningen på The Capital Gazette, är tidningen tryckt och distribuerad som vanligt. På framsidan finns bilder av de fem dödade redaktionsmedlemmarna. ”Ett står klart: vi delar ut en jävla tidningen i morgon”, twittrar reportern Chase Cook. ”Fem skjutna...
Aftonbladet DEBATT: Övergrepp kan inte stoppas med en app
På söndag träder samtyckeslagen i kraft. Det är nu viktigare än någonsin att alla har rätt kunskap om vad samtycke innebär. Samtidigt sprids nyheten om försvarsadvokaten Baharak Vaziris app Libra där en kan fylla i att en samtycker till sex. Syftet är att underlätta...
The NSA’s Hidden Spy Hubs in Eight U.S. Cities
THE SECRETS ARE hidden behind fortified walls in cities across the United States, inside towering, windowless skyscrapers and fortress-like concrete structures that were built to withstand earthquakes and even nuclear attack. Thousands of people pass by the buildings...
Gaming addiction: Are we asking the right questions?
The World Health Organization (WHO) has decided to include "gaming disorders" in its 11th revision of internationally recognised diseases. This addiction is described by the WHO as "a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour" that may become so...
The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger
Andrew Orchard lives near the northeastern coast of Tasmania, in the same ramshackle farmhouse that his great-grandparents, the first generation of his English family to be born on the Australian island, built in 1906. When I visited Orchard there, in March, he...
PO kritiserar flera medier efter metoo-rapportering
Pressens opinionsnämnd har granskat några av höstens metoo-relaterade publiceringar i svenska medier. Nämnden kommer fram till att tio av publiceringarna har inneburit att tidningarna har brutit – i ett fall grovt – mot god publicistisk sed. Pressens...
An Abused Woman Came to the U.S. Seeking Asylum. The Government Took Her 5-Year-Old Son. This Is How She Got Him Back.
A Guatemalan woman whose child was taken from her last month by immigration authorities in Texas after coming to the U.S. seeking asylum was released after 38 days in detention last week. Immediately after being freed, she went to the federally funded facility that...
A Reckoning After Trump’s Border Separation Policy: What Kind of Country Are We?
Presidents have many jobs, and one is telling us who we are. For the first 240 years of U.S. history, at least, our most revered chief executives reliably articulated a set of high-minded, humanist values that bound together a diverse nation by naming what we aspired...
American media keeps falling for Russian trolls
Russian trolls posing as an American college student tweeted about divisive social, political and cultural issues using an account that amassed thousands of followers -- and appeared in dozens of news stories published by major media outlets -- as recently as March....
Försvarsexpert: Så enkelt kan man hyra ett botnätverk
Den politiska diskussionen på Twitter drivs delvis av misstänkta botar. Tekniken är i dag tillgänglig för i princip vem som helst och Försvarshögskolans expert, Björn Palmertz, manar nu till stor vaksamhet. Botar är i grunden automatiserade konton som används för att...
Hands off my data! 15 more default privacy settings you should change on your TV, cellphone plan, LinkedIn and more.
Default privacy settings often aren’t very private. Our tech columnist is back with round two of his clickable guide to improving your privacy on all sorts of devices and online services. It’s not just Google and Facebook that are spying on you. Your TV, your...
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People come to Twitter to see and discuss what matters to them — from breaking news to the day’s events and memes. This is because whatever is happening in the world, is happening on Twitter — with real-time conversation. There’s no better example than...