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Updated | I am Sidney Blumenthal. At least, that is what Vladimir Putin—and, somehow, Donald Trump—seem to believe. And that should raise concerns about not only Moscow’s attempts to manipulate this election but also how Trump came to push Russian disinformation to American voters. An email from Blumenthal—a confidant of Hillary Clinton and a man, second…
(Kacper Pempel/Reuters) A powerful surveillance program that police used for tracking racially charged protests in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., relied on special feeds of user data provided by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, according to an ACLU blog post published Tuesday. The companies reportedly provided the data — often including the locations of users — to…
Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Oct 11, 2016 Luke Cage reimagined as a 90s sitcom. I made this video entirely out of clips from the Netflix show Luke Cage and the song from the Family Matters intro song…
“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” — “Me and Bobby McGee” What did Donald Trump have left to lose Sunday night? His dignity? Please. His campaign’s theme? His Cleveland convention was a mini-Nuremberg rally for Republicans whose three-word recipe for making America great again was the shriek “Lock her up!” This presaged…
At a pivotal moment when Asian Americans are fighting for visibility and facing gross misrepresentation in mainstream media, New York City’s Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) is seeking funding for its first-ever cultural exhibition, Chow: The Making of Chinese American Cuisine, which explores the history of a cuisine 170 years in the making as…
Hillary Clinton seemed smug, so there’s no way she can persuade undecided voters. This thought, a knee-jerk reaction rooted in my own subconscious sexism, immediately came to mind after I watched both U.S. presidential debates. It’s sexist to think a woman who’s worked in public service for 40 years, and answers every question with almost…
cxenseparse_start Melania Trump is speaking out almost 24 hours after audio of a lewd conversation between her husband Donald Trump and Billy Bush was made public. USA TODAY Almost 24 hours after the initial video that showed Donald Trump talking about being able to grope woman because of his celebrity status, his wife, Melania Trump, sent…
Begin: WordPress Article Content There are certain kinds of photos users of dating apps tend to loathe, and the suggestive mirror selfie tends to be at the top of that list, somewhere near photos of guys holding a fish and gym selfies. That’s why today, the dating app Bumble has taken action to ban selfies of users posing…
.entry-header START: DIV 1 Perfect Pixel Player Embed Code END: DIV 1 Player Embed Code Muneeb Ali speaks at TEDxNewYork 2016 – Down the Rabbit Hole, September 10, 2016, at the SVA Theatre. A lot of weird stuff has been happening to data inside the internet’s walled gardens. It has been getting shut down by…
When Vice started working on a nightly news show for HBO, the guy who would run it — Executive Vice President Josh Tyrangiel — was blunt about its place in the media landscape. “When we first started talking about this as an opportunity, the very first thing I said to [Vice CEO] Shane Smith and…