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What The New JFK Assassination Documents Reveal About The National Security State Today
This week, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) released a tranche of several thousand formerly redacted secrets about the Kennedy…
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Marc Ambinder

April 2021

A Big Breach; A Big Meh
On the futility of breach notifications in an indifferent world.
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Marc Ambinder
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March 2021

The Rosacea Diaries: Misinformation In Microcosm
An Approach to Countering Misinformation On Chat Apps
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Marc Ambinder

February 2021

A national counter-disinformation strategy, revisited
On reality czars, rebuilding our capacity, and plain language.
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Marc Ambinder

January 2021

When Radicals Take To Violence
And two viral threads
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Marc Ambinder
Social Ethics Online After The Great Deplatforming
Twitter has deplatformed Donald Trump, and that’s not even the most important digital news story of the cycle. Even more consequential, I think: the…
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October 2020

How to bear witness to the next week without going absolutely bonkers
Ten tips for digital sanity and community responsibility
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Marc Ambinder

September 2020

How TV News Should Cover A President Who Threatens Voting Integrity
Poltics Is Not Partisan
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Marc Ambinder

August 2020

On Election Day, A Sophisticated Disinfo Op Tells Voters That A Candidate Dropped Out -- He Didn't
Byron Donalds, a Republican running in Florida's 19th Congressional District, is scrambling to tell voters that he's still in the race
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Marc Ambinder

June 2020

Six Months Of Misinformation: Is Reality Making A Comeback?
A short assessment of how the information distribution ecosystem has changed since COVID-19 and the death of George Floyd
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Marc Ambinder

May 2020

Google-Apple contact-tracing partnership could help us create a shared sensibility about privacy
On April 10, when Apple and Google announced an unprecedented partnership to build a contact tracing protocol, some privacy advocates reacted with alarm…
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Marc Ambinder
Truth, Reality and the NSA
What I See When I l LookThrough Bart Gellman's Dark Mirror
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Marc Ambinder
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