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Federal contract materials outline the Georgia Army National Guard’s plans to use phone location tracking technology to target recruitment ads to phones within a one-mile boundary of 67 public high schools. Critics say the use of geolocation data is an inherently invasive act. Read more at the link in our bio. #surveillance #news #military #greenscreen
In March, Marcus Silva filed an unprecedented lawsuit accusing three women of wrongful death, alleging they “conspired” to help his ex-wife obtain medication to terminate her pregnancy with a self-managed abortion. It’s the first lawsuit of its kind since the fall of Roe v. Wade last year. Read more at the link in our bio. #roevwade #texas #news #abortionrights
“Instead of pouring more money into militarized forces that brutalize, terrorize, and even murder, we should fund libraries, after-school programs, good jobs, and other investments proven to keep us safe,” Working Families Party National Director Maurice Mitchell said in a statement to The Intercept. #tyrenichols #memphispolice #news
The Intercept’s Director of Information Security Micah Lee was suspended from Twitter last week. He’s one of at least eight journalists who were casualties of Elon Musk’s “Thursday Night Massacre,” after the billionaire went on a power-hungry suspension spree. Twitter didn’t explain what rules he allegedly broke — but that’s to be expected under the new management, whose transparency has mostly consisted of Musk personally replying to tweets explaining his decision-making. The suspensions made clear that, with the self-styled “free speech absolutist” at the helm, Twitter users are now subject to arbitrary censorship based on the whims of a petty billionaire. #ElonMusk #Twitter #freespeech #censorship #antifascism #news #fyp
ChatGPT, the internet’s new favorite AI, has a dark side. The latest artificial intelligence novelty act, is easily the most impressive text-generating demo to date. Just think twice before asking it about counterterrorism. When Intercept tech reporter Sam Biddle asked the AI software to write a program that would determine “whether a person should be tortured,” OpenAI’s answer is simple: If they they’re from North Korea, Syria, or Iran, the answer is yes. #bigtech #islamophobie #racism #surveillance #waronterror #chatgpt #fyp #news
The biggest race for the Senate is also the dumbest. The U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania was expected to be a bellwether for the country. In recent months, it’s devolved into a war of memes while Democratic candidate John Fetterman’s lead over Republican Dr. Oz has shrunk by half since August. What happens when substance is a liability, and the base is everything? #politics #pennsylvania #midterms #election2022 #journalism #fyp
This may sound counterintuitive, but the wealth of the bottom 50 percent of Americans actually doubled during the pandemic. One reason is that inflation doesn’t actually hurt the middle class as much as we tend to think it does. The federal government also provided a ton of financial support to low-income people during the hardest years of the pandemic, but those programs have mostly ended — with devastating consequences. #socialism #anticapitalism #universalbasicincome #caresact #inflation #midterms #journalism #news #fyp
Two white men in Kansas shot into a car of Latino teenagers they accused of stealing a Trump sign from a neighbor’s lawn. Three of the boys were shot and one spent 10 days in the ICU with a bullet in his back. Almost two years later, neither shooter is in custody. #racialjustice #criminaljustice #journalism #news #fyp
We uncovered hundreds of internal documents that lay out exactly how police create fake social media accounts. The documents also show how police can take over informants’ social media accounts and pose as them online. Here are three clues you can use to help spot the cop. #police #undercovercop #policeaccountability #blacklivesmatter #journalism #news #fyp
Part two: We have new body camera footage from the moments after Chicago Police killed a 37-year-old black man that shows exactly what a police cover up looks like in real time. The footage shows that after killing neighborhood barber Harith Augustus, the question for Chicago Police was not: What happened? It was: How do we justify what happened? #police #policeviolence #policeaccountability #blacklivesmatter #journalism #news #fyp
Part one: We have new body camera footage from the moments after Chicago Police killed a 37-year-old black man that shows exactly what a police cover up looks like in real time. The footage shows that after killing neighborhood barber Harith Augustus, the question for Chicago Police was not: What happened? It was: How do we justify what happened? #police #policeviolence #policeaccountability #blacklivesmatter #journalism #news #fyp
An increasing number of ambulance providers have started offering subscription programs, where you pay a monthly or annual fee, and in return you are protected from any ambulance bills not covered by your insurance. So, along with your Netflix and Spotify, you can also get ... protection against going into medical debt in the event of an emergency? Ah, America! #ambulance #healthcare #ems #capitalism #medicareforall #debt #medicaldebt #journalism #news #fyp
