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land ownership

You Can Buy Land. But Here's Why You'll Never Really Own It.

VICE News’ “Complexify” series takes you down the rabbit hole, to show you why just about everything is more convoluted than you think.
James Hamilton
Justin Silverman
Oliver Noble
Michael Kalenderian
8.10.20
uber

Uber CEO Promises Workers Scraps While Fighting Their Basic Rights

Facing new laws and legal challenges, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi wrote in the New York Times that Uber would create a benefits fund to preserve drivers' status as 'independent contractors'—but only with a law that forces other companies to do the same.
Edward Ongweso Jr
8.10.20
music news

Carole Baskin Is Mad at the 'WAP' Video for Exploiting Big Cats, or Something

This is the second time this year the 'Tiger King' star and Cardi B have publicly beefed.
Jelisa Castrodale
8.10.20
COVID-19

This City Handed Out Mask Exemption Cards During Coronavirus

While we’ve seen mask exemption cards before, this is the first time they come from a major municipality and not conspiracy theorists.
Mack Lamoureux
8.10.20
The War On Drugs
6:59

The War on Drugs Show: PMA and the great MDMA Drought

When huge quantities of the safrole oil required to make MDMA went up in smoke in the late 2000s, the global ecstasy deficit was filled with a deadly replacement: PMA.
internet freedom

Belarus Is Trying to Block Parts of the Internet Amid Historic Protests

Twitter, local journalists, and internet freedom organizations report that there are widespread internet blocks in Belarus.
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
8.10.20
McDonald's

McDonald's Says It Found NSFW Photos Proving Ex-CEO Lied About Employee Relationships

The mega-chain's lawsuit against Steve Easterbrook also says he allegedly approved hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of shares to an employee with whom he'd had a sexual encounter.
Carter Sherman
8.10.20
Coronavirus

Georgia High School That Suspended Kids After Posting Photos at School Has 9 Cases of Coronavirus

It’s temporarily shutting down to disinfect, and administrators will soon decide whether to resume in-person classes.
Emma Ockerman
8.10.20
2020 election

A QAnon Supporter Could Actually Win Her Republican Primary in Georgia

She’s called QAnon a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out.”
Paul Blest
8.10.20
Belarus

Protesters Met with State Violence as 'The Last Dictator in Europe' Re-Elected

Belarusian protesters took to the streets to oppose President Alexander Lukashenko winning what many see as a rigged election.
VICE News
8.10.20
the mail

USPS Workers Don’t Know What to Make of So-Called ‘Friday Night Massacre’

It’s a massive, agency-wide reorganization announced suddenly that’s not supposed to impact employees. What gives?
Aaron Gordon
8.10.20
TikTok

'TwikTwok' Turns Twitter Into TikTok

The browser-based app is a feed of Twitter's top videos, and it's oddly soothing to scroll through. 
Samantha Cole
8.10.20
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