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03/20/2017 / By Thomas Dishaw

FBI arrests man for sending journalist seizure-causing GIF

A Maryland man has been arrested after sending a journalist a seizure-inducing GIF. The 29-year-old named John Rayne Rivello used the screen name “Ari Goldstein” and the Twitter handle @jew_goldstein to send a strobing light message saying, “you deserve a seizure.” The account no longer exists. Kurt Eichenwald is a senior writer for Newsweek. His […]

03/12/2017 / By Thomas Dishaw

Facebook’s “fake news” crackdown is a deliberate attempt to destroy the independent media

In an attempt to fulfill their promise made back in December to crack down on so-called “fake news,” Facebook has begun to mark content they deem unsubstantiated as “disputed.” Tech new website Recode reports that these stories will now contain a message saying that the selected article has been disputed by its fact checkers, and […]

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