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Experts say the public deserves to see the list, a clear embodiment of U.S. foreign policy priorities that could disproportionately censor marginalized groups.

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The just-leaked Facebook list of ‘dangerous individuals and organizations’ has over 4,000 entries. Among them are entities sanctioned by the US as terrorists, historical villains, cartels, militia groups, as well as dissidents.

  BIG TECH TRIO:  President Biden plans to appoint lawyer Jonathan Kanter as the head of the Department of Justices (DOJ) antitrust division, the White House announced Tuesday, another sign of the administration’s intention to take on Big Tech.  Kanter has been a favorite pick of progressive organizations pushing for the DOJ and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to do more to crack down on anti-competitive conduct, especially in the tech industry. Kanter, who started his own law firm last yea...

Me showing Melinda Gates that its Command + C on a Mac pic.twitter.com/CFOW8LXVeD tfw its springtime and youre back on the market! pic.twitter.com/qwRX8xugre Seattle is now officially the capital of billionaire divorces. Kiss Phase 3 goodbye: Tomorrow, Gov. Jay Inslee is expected to announce more counties in Washington that will have to move from Phase 3 of reopening to Phase 2. As of last week, King, Kitsap, Lewis, Pacific, Skagit, and Snohomish counties were failing the two metrics Inslee out...

The Cybersecurity 202: The Biden administration will prioritize cybersecurity in the distribution of $1 billion in federal IT funding Tonya Riley with Aaron Schaffer Cybersecurity defenses will take top priority in the spending of  $1 billion in tech modernization funding passed by Congress earlier this year, according to plans shared first with The Cybersecurity 202. The Office of Management and Budget and General Services Administration will also prioritize projects add...

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January 20 2021, 11:01 a.m. Photo illustration: Elise Swain/The Intercept, Getty Images (2)Photo illustration: Elise Swain/The Intercept, Getty Images (2) Now that Donald Trump is gone from office, what’s next? This week on Intercepted: There are a slew of unanswered questions about the siege of the Capitol. Americans are being asked to believe that the national security apparatus — the same one that charged nearly 200 people en masse, including journalists and observers, with felo...

Effective as preventing votes from being cast in the first place. >> if you could wave a magic wand, what would you do here? >> i would have a giant national public/private partnership where we took the threat seriously where we used the 2016 model and extrapolate all of those little probe scans and attempts are part of a large scale foreign adversary active measure. and then we would attack it directly. >> sam biddle and malcolm e, thanks for joining us. up next, the trump world defense of sc...

Objection to samantha bee using it, and i think shes acknowledged that. by the way, let me just say, that is a word that donald trump is alleged to have used -- >> oh, yeah. >> -- three times that we know of. once again sally yates, once against a reporter who was reporting on his financial dealings, and then once according to the woman who came forward and said that he groped her on a plane many years ago, when he saw her later at a party he said oh, youre that c word from the plane. right? so ...