Too arrogant? Senator Dianne Feinstein responds to young green activists
by Sunrise Movement says California senator reacted with ‘smugness and disrespect’ to their campaigning for New Green Deal
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Environment / News / Politics
US poised to allow more mining on land Trump removed from monuments
Officials plan to sell some of the land that once belonged to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, despite pledge not to
Culture / Featured Stories / News / Politics
Facebook employs psychologist whose firm sold data to Cambridge Analytica
- Joseph Chancellor was co-director of GSR with Alexsandr Kogan
- Data harvesting scheme called ‘scam’ and ‘fraud’ by Facebook
US tribe fights use of treated sewage to make snow on holy peaks
The Hopi tribe is taking on an Arizona ski resort over its use of artificial snow: ‘People compare it to baptizing a baby with reclaimed water’
US government drops effort to unmask anti-Trump Twitter account
Attempt to reveal identity behind an account criticizing Trump’s immigration policy sparked an outcry from free speech advocates and a lawsuit from Twitter
WEB Du Bois: retracing his attempt to challenge racism with data
The civil rights pioneer and scholar is most famous for his book The Souls of Black Folk, but his use of data to show inequality is still profound today
Environment / Justice / News / Peace
US Border Patrol uses desert as ‘weapon’ to kill thousands of migrants, report says
Arizona advocacy group says agents chase border crossers from Mexico into hostile terrain in a strategy that leaves many injured, dead or lost
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Why it’s dangerous to outsource our critical thinking to computers
It is crucial for a resilient democracy that we better understand how Google and Facebook are changing the way we think, interact and behave
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Standing Rock: US denies key permit for Dakota Access pipeline, a win for tribe
Army Corps of Engineers will not grant the permit for the Dakota Access pipeline to drill under the Missouri river, handing a major win to environmental activists
How to solve Facebook’s fake news problem: experts pitch their ideas
A cadre of technologists, academics and media experts are thinking up solutions, from hiring human editors, to crowdsourcing or creating algorithms