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Russia’s Favored Outlet Is an Online News Giant. YouTube Helped. RT was early to embrace the video site. Now that relationship is drawing scrutiny as investigators look into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Read More…
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The Cost of Being ‘Savage’ in a Supposedly Civilized World Even in its new incarnation as a boast, it can’t shed its dehumanizing past. Read More…
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YouTube’s Rapid Response Partisans Game the News of Tragedy A community of internet talking heads gets their fact-challenged messages across by working fast after events like the church massacre in Texas. Read More…
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