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Economy, finance, and budgets Even before Twitter banned Donald Trump and Amazon stopped hosting the social media site Parler on its web services, free-speech controversies had been regularly erupting at newspapers, magazines, websites, and book publishers. Notable recent cases involved high-profile journalists decamping from their established media homes to independent platforms where they could express themselves freely. The departures, under pressure, of Matt Yglesias last November from the website Vox, which he cofounded, and Andrew Sullivan in July from New York, where he was one of the...

Photographs courtesy Stephen Gutowski. Most reporting on guns has problems, Stephen Gutowski says. Mainstream outlets understand the politics involved with firearms, but their reporters rarely understand guns or gun policy. Pro-gun outlets understand firearms and gun owners, but they tend not to understand how Washington, DC, works. “I have the ability to bridge both of those worlds,” Gutowski says.  That’s why the Washington Free Beacon reporter is putting his livelihood on the line—his last day at the conservative outlet was Friday. As of today, he’s started the Reload, an ind...

Tech Companies, Scientists Profit From Surveilling Uyghurs Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Dec 17, 2020 Alibaba’s website for its cloud computing business showed how clients could use its software to detect the faces of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities within images and videos, according to pages on the site that were discovered by the surveillance industry publication IPVM and shared with The New York Times. The feature was built into Alibaba software that helps web platforms monitor digital content for material related to terrorism, pornography and other red-flag categories, the website sai...