Tarek Mansour, co-founder of Kalshi, during a joint SEC-CFTC roundtable at SEC headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 29, 2025. Photo: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images How many people will the Trump administration deport this year? Will Gaza suffer from mass famine? These are serious questions with lives at stake. They’re also betting propositions that…
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Asia Pacific, Global Security News, Technology, Voices
Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Will Now Control What TikTok Users See
TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance has signed binding agreements with U.S. and global investors to operate its business in America, it told employees on Dec. 18, 2025. Photo: Qin Zihang/VCG via Getty Images The TikTok deal announced on Thursday poses a fundamental threat to free and honest discourse about Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Under…
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The Netflix–Warner Bros. Merger Is a Broadside Attack on Workers
A Netflix sign atop a building in Los Angeles on Dec. 18, 2025, with the Hollywood sign in the distance. Photo: Jae C. Hong/AP Following the announcement that Netflix would buy the film and streaming businesses of Warner Bros for $72 billion, it has been difficult to find anyone who views this development as positive, with…
Global Security News, Technology, Voices
Elon Musk Had Grok Rewrite Wikipedia. It Calls Hitler “The Führer.”
The Grokipedia encyclopedia logo appears on a smartphone screen reflecting an abstract illustration. Photo: Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto via Getty Images In late October, Elon Musk released a Wikipedia alternative, with pages written by his AI chatbot Grok. Unlike its nearly quarter-century-old namesake, Musk said Grokipedia would strip out the “woke” from Wikipedia, which he previously described as…
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Videos of Charlie Kirk’s Murder Are Still on Social Media — and That’s No Accident
Charlie Kirk hands out hats before he was shot and killed during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10, 2025. Photo: Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP After Charlie Kirk was murdered at Utah Valley University, graphic videos of the right-wing provocateur’s assassination went viral on every major social media…
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Videos of Charlie Kirk’s Murder Are Still on Social Media — and That’s No Accident
Charlie Kirk hands out hats before he was shot and killed during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10, 2025. Photo: Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP After Charlie Kirk was murdered at Utah Valley University, graphic videos of the right-wing provocateur’s assassination went viral on every major social media…
Global Security News, Technology, Voices
Videos of Charlie Kirk’s Murder Are Still on Social Media — and That’s No Accident
Charlie Kirk hands out hats before he was shot and killed during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10, 2025. Photo: Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP After Charlie Kirk was murdered at Utah Valley University, graphic videos of the right-wing provocateur’s assassination went viral on every major social media…
Global Security News, Technology, Voices
Videos of Charlie Kirk’s Murder Are Still on Social Media — and That’s No Accident
Charlie Kirk hands out hats before he was shot and killed during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10, 2025. Photo: Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP After Charlie Kirk was murdered at Utah Valley University, graphic videos of the right-wing provocateur’s assassination went viral on every major social media…
Global Security News, Technology, Voices
Videos of Charlie Kirk’s Murder Are Still on Social Media — and That’s No Accident
Charlie Kirk hands out hats before he was shot and killed during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10, 2025. Photo: Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP After Charlie Kirk was murdered at Utah Valley University, graphic videos of the right-wing provocateur’s assassination went viral on every major social media…
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U.S. Companies Honed Their Surveillance Tech in Israel. Now It’s Coming Home.
Illustration: The Intercept In partnership with Rita Murad, a 21-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel and student at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, was arrested by Israeli authorities in November 2023 after sharing three Instagram stories on the morning of October 7. The images included a picture of a bulldozer breaking through the border fence in Gaza…
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My Ban From X Is About One Simple Thing: Elon Musk Controlling the Flow of Information
Elon Musk takes the stage during a campaign rally for Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden on Oct. 27, 2024, in New York City. Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Elon Musk banned me from X for my journalism. No one should be surprised about it in this era, when the prevailing view in Silicon Valley…