Archive - Tradecraft: a newsletter by Marc Ambinder

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…

Dec 19, 2021 •

April 2021

A Big Breach; A Big Meh

On the futility of breach notifications in an indifferent world.

Apr 7, 2021 •

March 2021

The Rosacea Diaries: Misinformation In Microcosm

An Approach to Countering Misinformation On Chat Apps

Mar 19, 2021 •

February 2021

A national counter-disinformation strategy, revisited

On reality czars, rebuilding our capacity, and plain language.

Feb 4, 2021 •

January 2021

When Radicals Take To Violence

And two viral threads

Jan 16, 2021 •

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.

Jan 9, 2021 •

October 2020

How to bear witness to the next week without going absolutely bonkers

Ten tips for digital sanity and community responsibility

Oct 26, 2020 •

September 2020

How TV News Should Cover A President Who Threatens Voting Integrity

Poltics Is Not Partisan

Sep 28, 2020 •

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

Aug 18, 2020 •

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

Jun 11, 2020 •

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…

May 28, 2020 •

Truth, Reality and the NSA

What I See When I l LookThrough Bart Gellman's Dark Mirror

May 20, 2020 •

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