Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Disinformation • Technology
A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy
Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson
The New York Times
Content generated by AI has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters and discrediting the democratic process.
Published On: 06/27/2025
Featured • Journalism • Original • Press Freedom • Resistance • Social Media • Technology
Technology: The Frontline of the Battle for Press Freedom
Ron Williams
Resistance Media
Essential to maintaining a resistance media capacity will be the ability to successfully wage a running battle with those entities that would seek to surveil, disrupt, censor and destroy opposition voices.
Published On: 06/18/2025
Economy • Global • Technology
Why Climate Action is Unstoppable
Al Gore
Ted Talks
In this urgent and hard-hitting talk, Nobel Laureate Al Gore thoroughly dismantles the fossil fuel industry’s narrative of "climate realism," contrasting their misleading claims with the remarkable advancements in renewable energy.
Published On: 06/04/2025
Technology
The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI
LUKE O’BRIEN
Mother Jones
Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
Published On: 04/10/2025
Technology
Meet the Tech Billionaire Just as Dangerous as Elon Musk
TAYLOR LORENZ
zeteo.com
As CEO of Palantir, which he co-founded with Thiel more than two decades ago, Alex Karp is part of a new breed of Valley billionaires integrating their businesses with America's military-industrial complex.
Published On: 04/01/2025
Economy • Technology
The Tesla Secret That Exposes Elon Musk’s Whole Game
J. Dylan Sandifer
The New Republic
Musk loves to sneer at working-class people who rely on food stamps or unemployment benefits, claiming they’re lazy or entitled. But what’s more entitled than using regulatory credits to boost your company’s stock price and then leveraging that stock for loans to keep your cash flow steady?
Published On: 03/21/2025
Democracy • Technology
Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’
BY MAKENA KELLY, DAVID GILBERT, VITTORIA ELLIOTT, KATE KNIBBS, DHRUV MEHROTRA, DELL CAMERON, TIM MARCHMAN, LEAH FEIGER, AND ZOË SCHIFFER
wired.com
Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.
Published On: 03/13/2025
Technology • Threat Management
Hegseth halts cyber operations against Russia, adding to an ugly pattern
Steve Benen
Maddow Blog
Late last week, a publication called The Record, which focuses on news related to cybersecurity, published a report that seemed hard to believe. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the outlet reported, “ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.”
Published On: 03/10/2025