Astroturfing

PISA scores were recently released, and results of the international test revealed that only 14 percent of U.S. students were able to reliably distinguish between fact and opinion. This is particularly alarming because we live in an era when, according to P…

This interview first appeared in The Drum's print edition in October 2019. You can still pick up a copy of that issue here, and you can subscribe to The Drum magazine here. Rankin: One of the weirdest things about the last three years is that your story wasn…

A century ago, after the hardships of World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic, the Roaring 1920s ushered in economic prosperity and social progress. The decade saw the expansion of the automobile, telephone, radio, electrification and consumer appliances.…

Since October 2019, Snopes has been following the activities of a digital media outlet called The BL short for The Beauty of Life which has an explicitly pro-Trump editorial strategy. In several ways, as we have shown in multipleinvestigations, this outlet fl…

By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Today is Friday the 13th. Look both ways before you cross the street! –lambert Trade “Trade war: US and China said to agree on phase one’ deal, with new US tariffs set aside” . “In the absence of l…

Illustration by Katherine StreeterDuring the Democratic debates on June 27, Senator Kamala Harris had a standout moment. Former vice president Joe Biden, the front-runner, had recently made news for defending his work in the seventies with senators who advoca…

How to fight lies, tricks, and chaos online A few months ago, I got angry about something on Twitter. Somebody had tweeted a photo of a paper sign in an apartment building, informing tenants that using the elevator would soon cost $35 a month. It was sur…

Elisa D’Amico ’06 was featured in an article for Law.com’s Daily Business Review, highlighting her career achievements that blend her skills in marketing and technology with her passion for law.K&L Gates partner Elisa DAmico loves marketing. She is fascin…

Posted in Free/Libre Software at 12:52 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Another guest post by Jagadees.S. Summary: How “Free Water” and “Free/Libre Software” (nowadays rebranded “OSS” or “FOSS”) relate to one another HIS is a guest post by Jagadees. He focuses on…

Posted in GNU/Linux, Kernel, Microsoft at 5:38 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Recent: The Linux Foundation’s New Vice Chair, Wim Coekaerts, Worked for Microsoft Summary: Microsoft entryism, aided by misleading media (the whole “loves Linux” canard), has been spe…