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human trafficking

Inside a Massive Anti-Trafficking Charity's Blundering Overseas Missions
Operation Underground Railroad claims to save child sex slaves. People on the ground describe disturbingly amateurish operations that could endanger those they're meant to help.
Anna Merlan
Tim Marchman
3.8.21
Food

Burger King Is Already the Worst Brand on Twitter This Week
The brand was trying to announce a new scholarship for female employees, but the info was buried under a bad tweet about women.
Jelisa Castrodale
3.8.21
tech-science

Scientists Received a Radio Signal From the Furthest Reaches of Space Yet
The radio emissions traveled 13 billion light years to Earth and are the most distant ever detected.
Becky Ferreira
3.8.21
LGBT+

A Gender Identity Clinic Saw Just Two New Patients in the Whole of 2020
A Freedom of Information request to the Laurels Gender Identity Clinic in Exeter reveals only two new patients were seen last year, despite a waiting list of over 2,500.
Ruby Lott-Lavigna
3.8.21
News

Canadian Facebook Groups Spreading Anti-Vax Conspiracies Jumped by Almost 50%: Study
A study from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found that influencers using Facebook in a “coordinated manner” have resulted in a large jump in vaccine misinformation in Canada.
Mack Lamoureux
3.8.21
NFT

Azealia Banks Sold a Sex Tape with Ryder Ripps on the Blockchain for $17K
A 24 minute audio recording of Banks and boyfriend Ryder Ripps sold as an NFT.
Samantha Cole
3.8.21
Hacking

Ransomware Gang Fully Doxes Bank Employees in Extortion Attempt
Hackers posted the alleged names, social security numbers, and home addresses of several Flagstar Bank workers.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
3.8.21
Tech

Ultra Sophisticated Computer Vision Defeated By Pen and Paper
OpenAI’s CLIP can recognize both images and text and therein lies its weakness.
Matthew Gault
3.8.21
Politics

Josh Hawley Is Raking In Cash After Trying to Undermine the Election
Many thought that Sen. Hawley would suffer terrible fundraising consequences. They were wrong.
Paul Blest
3.8.21
women's rights

‘An Attempt at Genocide’: Roma Women Still Being Unlawfully Sterilised
A joint investigation by VICE World News and Denik N shows that Roma women in the Czech Republic continued to be coercively sterilised years beyond what was supposed to be the final officially recognised case.
Anna Koslerova
Jana Ustohalová
3.8.21
tech-science

Here’s a Slug That Can Sever Its Own Head and Grow a New Body
Scientists were baffled after they observed the severed heads heal and begin to eat before growing new bodies.
Becky Ferreira
3.8.21
police

Met Police Sued for Telling Journalist He Was 'Killing People' During Lockdown Walk
The journalist felt an officer's spittle on his face after police surrounded him and threatened him with a fine under coronavirus legislation.
Simon Childs
3.8.21
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