Totally non-cyborg, absolutely human Mark Zuckerberg was recorded calling Elizabeth Warren’s campaign an “existential” threat to Facebook. Zuckerberg also met with Donald Trump, after which Facebook announced it would no longer fact check or otherwise censor political content. Coincidence? Warren doesn’t think so. In a series of tweets, she called out Facebook for its political …

Hong Kong officials tried to stop the ongoing protests by banning face masks, which the protestors use to maintain anonymity. It absolutely did not work––Hong Kong protestors took to the streets this weekend, expressing their frustration by still wearing masks and protesting more vigorously than ever. The protests led to widespread violence around Hong Kong, …

Two South Carolina Republicans are suing the state’s Republican Party for canceling its primary. The lawsuit says that cancelling the primary is illegal and violates both party rules and state laws. The lawsuit claims that “the State Executive Committee has chosen which candidate to support by fiat, and in doing so, excluded Republican voters from …

Bill Weld, a Republican Party primary challenger, accused Donald Trump of treason for urging Ukraine to meddle in the 2020 elections. “Talk about pressuring a foreign country to interfere with and control a U.S. election,” Weld said, “It couldn’t be clearer, and that’s not just undermining democratic institutions. That is treason. It’s treason, pure and …

A video, posted anonymously on both Twitter and YouTube, shows blindfolded and shackled prisoners in a largely Muslim region of China. This adds to the evidence that China is attempting to wipe out, one way or another, its Muslim population. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGYoeJ5U7cQ As part of its efforts to Sinicize its Muslim population, the Chinese government has …

A recently-released protest song, released on YouTube a few weeks ago, is quickly becoming an unofficial national anthem in Hong Kong. The song speaks of freedom, liberty, and democracy. And, as you can hear below, it’s pretty rousing––so rousing, in fact, that people are spontaneously singing it in public places, risking the wrath of Beijing. …

Richard Stallman, a renowned computer scientist at MIT, has jeopardized his reputation by defending Jeffrey Epstein. A leaked email shows that Stallman said at least one of Epstein’s victims was “entirely willing.” It shouldn’t be much of a surprise that Stallman would say something like this––his personal website looks like the work of a madman, …

After the Christchurch shooting, the New Zealand government initiated a gun buyback, including the newly-illegal military-style semi-automatic weapons. Within a month, the government bought back 10,000 weapons, for which they were lauded. But here’s the rub: only ten-percent of the banned weapons have been returned. That’s not great, considering the program is halfway done. The Christchurch …

As Hurricane Dorian threatened a huge swath of the Atlantic seaboard, and as news reports covered in agonizing detail the exact places that might be hit by the hurricane, Donald Trump insisted that Alabama was at risk of being hit by the hurricane. It wasn’t, and the Alabama National Weather Service corrected him. White House …

California county prosecutors can now erase or reduce some 220,000 pot convictions enacted since 2016, when the state legalized the drug. A new technology, made by a tech non-profit called Code for America, is making this possible. In erasing these convictions, California joins Illinois, which signed into a law a bill making marijuana legal for …

In its latest privacy scandal, Facebook has announced 419 million users’ phone numbers were exposed. The phone numbers were stored on a database that was not password protected. The FTC has fined Facebook five billion dollars over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. To put it in perspective, that amount represents 9% of Facebook’s 2018 revenue. The fine is …

It’s no secret that most authors on this blog deem Donald Trump unfit for duty as Commander in Chief of the United States military and chief diplomat for the country. His latest gaffe, which naturally happened on Twitter, proves our point. Earlier this week, President Donald Trump tweeted an image of a failed rocket launch in …