The Dilemma of Picking Winners
Industrial policy will often require picking winners: if there were already many domestic firms capable of producing the desired output, there would be no compelling…
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The Businessman Who Helped Peter Thiel Kill Gawker Wanted to Save Journalism. Then His Site Went Dark.
Aron D’Souza sees the media as in peril. His solution is an AI-powered tribunal to adjudicate the facts of reporting.
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Preserving the First Draft of History: Reflections from the National Summit on Local News Preservation
Local news is disappearing. Since 2005, the United States has lost nearly 3,500 newspapers. 213 counties have no local news outlet at all and another…
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of The Week – 06/29/2026
Every week we take a close look at the most pirated movies on torrent sites. What are pirates downloading? ‘Masters of the Universe’ tops the…
Online Age Verification Law Could Kill Whistleblowing
A House bill ostensibly aimed at protecting children will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.
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Feds Seize Domain Names of Nearly 400 Pirate Sports Streaming Sites
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the seizure of nearly 400 pirate streaming domain names that offered access to FIFA World Cup matches. This enforcement…
Pluralistic: Zuckerberg’s increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers (27 Jun 2026)
Today’s links Zuckerberg’s increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers: Under no circumstances should you rush out and read the book that prompted Mark Zuckerberg to demand…
EU-Backed DNS Resolver Collects Pirate Site Blocklist, Which It Doesn’t Use
DNS4EU is a relatively young DNS provider that launched last year with European Commission funding. The company is pitched as a privacy-first alternative to Google…
EFF to Grindr: This Pride Month, Put Safety and Privacy Over Profits
This Pride month, we’re calling on the dating app Grindr to prioritize LGBTQ+ user safety by making privacy the default across its platform. That means…
Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For
Poke your head into just about any online social network—or any general conversations about internet culture—and you’ll likely find a boogieman: the algorithm. Since at…