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Migrants Think Biden’s Border Rule Change Is ‘Too Good to Be True’

And they're right.
Emily Green
4.4.22
shopping-home

I Bought the Viral Sunset Lamp Just to Feel Something

Is the Instagram clout lamp worth the hype? We tested it.
Mary Frances "Francky" Knapp
4.4.22
VWN Investigators
17:13

How I was Catfished by Someone I Knew

Over sixty characters, thousands of messages and eight years of lies - this could be one of the world’s most sophisticated catfishing scams.
Ukraine

Photos of Mass Graves in Bucha Spark Global Outrage

“We can’t become numb to this,” said US secretary of state Anthony Blinken after hundreds of bodies were found in a Ukrainian town previously occupied by Russian troops.
Dipo Faloyin
4.4.22
Russian disinformation

The Kremlin Is Already Calling Evidence of War Crimes in Bucha a False Flag

It’s the Kremlin’s go-to propaganda line in the wake of obvious atrocities: “Don’t believe your eyes.”
David Gilbert
4.4.22
Life

We Asked People Who Hoard Useless Things: Why?

“I’ve kept every gadget I ever owned since 2002.”
Shamani Joshi
4.4.22
The Big Steal
7:44

How Suharto Stole Billions from Indonesia

Indonesian President, Suharto, allegedly amassed the largest ill-gotten fortune in all of Asia. A $35 billion theft, most of which was never recovered.
On the Clock

The Amazon Labor Union Took On America’s Most Powerful Company—and Won

In 2020 Chris Smalls was fired for organizing a walkout in protest of Amazon’s COVID safety procedures. Now he’s the president of the first Amazon union in the country.
Lauren Kaori Gurley
4.4.22
axie infinity

The Metaverse Has Bosses Too. Meet the ‘Managers’ of Axie Infinity

Managers in play-to-earn game Axie Infinity employ large teams of “scholars” who can’t afford their own NFTs even as the game’s economy spirals.
Edward Ongweso Jr
4.4.22
ivermectin

The Ivermectin Guys’ Whole Thing Has Really Fallen Apart

Meanwhile, they’re still pretending the drug is viable as a treatment for COVID.
Anna Merlan
4.4.22
tech-science

Archaeologists Discover Dozens of Mysterious Giant Stone Jars in India

The giant jars were made by unknown people for a mysterious purpose, and the new find adds four new jar sites to our knowledge, for a total of 11.
Audrey Carleton
4.4.22
YouTube

Wtch This: Unravelling the Mystery Behind a Secret YouTube URL

Go and replace “watch” in any YouTube video URL with “wtch” and see what happens. I set out to find why.
Joseph Cox
4.4.22
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