theintercept.com > Sam Biddle
The Future Dystopic Hellscape Is Upon Us: The Rise and Fall of the Ultimate Doomsday Prepper
5 jul. 2021 - Novelist Brad Thor thought he had found his doomsday-prepping soulmate, but then the End Times went bad.
 · not-read · prepping

theintercept.com > Natasha Lennard
“Woke” CIA Ad Is No Reason to Throw Out the Language of Liberation
4 may. 2021 - Opponents of “wokeness” want to declare anti-racist struggle dead, but co-optation doesn’t determine the radical usefulness of a concept.
 · black-struggle · cia · co-optation · language

theintercept.com > Lee Fang
Hollywood Lobbyists Intervene Against Proposal to Share Vaccine Technology
27 apr. 2021 - Industries that rely on copyright enforcement want to limit the scope of the World Trade Organization waiver.
 · copyright · covid-19 · mpa · patents · riaa · vaccination

theintercept.com > Sam Biddle
Research Says Facebook's Ad Algorithm Perpetuates Gender Bias
9 apr. 2021 - A University of Southern California study provides still more evidence that the company’s ad targeting illegally discriminates.
 · advertising · facebook · feminism · gender · project-hva · recruitment · targeting

theintercept.com > Lee Fang
Howard Dean Pushes Biden to Oppose Generic Covid-19 Vaccines for Developing Countries
8 apr. 2021 - The former progressive champion, who now works on behalf of corporate interests, joins the drug industry in arguing against sharing the intellectual property for low-cost vaccines.
 · covid-19 · united-states · vaccination

theintercept.com > Ken Klippenstein
Amazon’s Twitter Army Was Handpicked for
30 mar. 2021 - Amazon ambassadors were trained to defend Jeff Bezos and clap back at Bernie Sanders under a program codenamed “Veritas.”
 · amazon · propaganda · social-media · twitter · unions

theintercept.com > Lee Fang
Biden’s Inner Circle Maintains Close Ties to Vaccine Makers, Disclosures Reveal
24 mar. 2021 - As concerns grow about a global “vaccine apartheid,” watchdogs worry that the Biden administration is primed to favor profits over people.
 · covid-19 · intellectual-property · united-states · vaccination

theintercept.com > Mara Hvistendahl
How Oracle Sells Repression in China
18 feb. 2021 - In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent data from being passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software for their surveillance work.
 · china · not-read · oracle

theintercept.com > Sam Biddle
LAPD Sought Ring Home Security Video Related to Black Lives Matter Protests
16 feb. 2021 - Emails show that the LAPD repeatedly asked camera owners for footage during the demonstrations, raising First Amendment concerns.
 · amazon · black-struggle · consent · law-enforcement · platforms · police-overreach · racist-technology · ring-doorbell · united-states

theintercept.com > Mara Hvistendahl
How the LAPD and Palantir Use Data to Justify Racist Policing
30 jan. 2021 - In a new book, a sociologist who spent months embedded with the LAPD details how data-driven policing techwashes bias.
 · black-struggle · ethnic-profiling · false-positives · lapd · law-enforcement · palantir · police-overreach · predictive-policing · predpol · racist-technology · united-states

theintercept.com > Nikita Mazurov
What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting
18 jan. 2021 - At least one leaker has already been exposed. Here’s how to protect yourself or your sources.
 · whistleblowing · zoom

theintercept.com > Mike Giglio
A Mob Attacked the Capitol for Trump. Now What?
10 jan. 2021 - Wednesday’s riot was the next blind step toward an outcome no one wants, driven by people who can’t understand their own endgame.
 · coups · politics · united-states

theintercept.com > Sharon Lerner
World Faces Covid-19 “Vaccine Apartheid”
31 dec. 2020 - Even countries that hosted vaccine trials — like Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, and Turkey — will not receive adequate supplies.
 · covid-19 · ethics · inequality · vaccination

theintercept.com > Sam Biddle
Facebook Managers Trash Their Own Ad Targeting in Unsealed Remarks
24 dec. 2020 - The internal documents suggest that Facebook should stop positioning itself as a champion of small business.
 · advertising · facebook

theintercept.com > Alleen Brown
Caribbean Islanders: “Environmentalist” Billionaire Building Resort on Protected Wetlands
9 dec. 2020 - Patrón Tequila co-founder John Paul DeJoria is being accused of a land grab with high stakes for Barbuda’s environment.
 · barbuda · commons · disaster-capitalism

theintercept.com > Sam Biddle
Dataminr Targets Communities of Color for Police
21 oct. 2020 - Insiders say Dataminr’s “algorithmic” Twitter search involves human staffers perpetuating confirmation biases.
 · artificial-intelligence · black-struggle · dataminr · ethnic-profiling · fauxtomation · feedback-loops · gangs · location · police · predictive-policing · racist-technology · surveillance · twitter · united-states

theintercept.com > Glenn Greenwald
Is the Traditional ACLU View of Free Speech Still Viable? Ira Glasser Speaks Out.
20 oct. 2020 - One of the 20th century’s key civil libertarians insists — in a new film and interview — that free speech must endure.
 · aclu · freedom-of-speech · hate-speech

theintercept.com > Charles Glass
The Unprecedented and Illegal Campaign to Eliminate Julian Assange
6 oct. 2020 - Assange would never receive a fair trial in the U.S., but he’s not receiving one in Britain either.
 · due-process · julian-assange · wikileaks

theintercept.com > Naomi Klein
A Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair
1 oct. 2020 - Can we imagine a better future? If we stop talking about what winning actually looks like, isn’t that the same as giving up?
 · black-struggle · climate-change · decolonization · feminism · futurism · us-2020-elections

theintercept.com > James Risen
Senate Report Shows What Mueller Missed About Trump and Russia
3 sep. 2020 - The final Senate report provides damning evidence of the counterintelligence threat posed by Russia in Trump’s 2016 campaign.
 · russia · united-states · wikileaks

theintercept.com > Sam Biddle
Doorbell Cameras Like Ring Give Early Warning of Police Searches, FBI Warned
31 aug. 2020 - Two leaked documents show how a monitoring tool used by police has been turned against them.
 · police · ring-doorbell

theintercept.com > Deepak Bhargava and Frances Fox Piven
What If Trump Won’t Leave?
11 aug. 2020 - Trump is prepared to do whatever it takes to keep power. Can he be stopped?
 · us-2020-elections

theintercept.com > Sam Biddle
The Filthy Hypocrisy of America’s “Clean” China-Free Internet
6 aug. 2020 - The Trump administration wants to keep other countries from weaponizing technology the way the U.S. and its allies already have.
 · china · nsa · surveillance · tiktok · united-states

theintercept.com > Glenn Greenwald
How “Cancel Culture” Repeatedly Emerged in My Attempt to Make a Film About Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova
14 jul. 2020 - The experiences of three pioneering LGBT women as part of the same film reveal much about the current moment.
 · cancel-culture · gay-rights · tennis · transphobia

theintercept.com > Bryce Covert
A Bail Reform Tool Intended to Curb Mass Incarceration Has Only Replicated Biases in the Criminal Justice System
12 jul. 2020 - Kentucky was an early adopter of risk assessments in an effort to release more people without bail. But the algorithms are reproducing systemic inequities.
 · algorithmic-bias · due-process · justice