Why Are People in the US Becoming Radicalized?
Extremist movements can make people feel significant, give them a sense of purpose, and provide them a narrative that explains why everything […]
Tag: Business / National Affairs
Why the US Is Primed for Radicalization
“What you find is people are most vulnerable to authoritarianism and extremist impulses when they don’t know what they’re supposed to do,” […]
Inside the ‘Election Integrity App’ Built to Purge US Voter Rolls
Ten days before Georgia’s Senate runoff election in 2021, Gamaliel Warren Turner Sr., a 69-year-old veteran, found out that someone in his […]
The Secret Ballot Is US Democracy’s Last Line of Defense
Though foreign Disinformation campaigns have targeted the 2022 United States midterm elections to a degree, most of the pressure on US voting […]
When Your Neighbor Turns You In
There’s a knock at the door. Local authorities have received a tip that you’ve broken the moral code—a new set of laws […]
The Quiet Insurrection the January 6 Committee Missed
“Thousands of documents are great, but millions of lines of data are better. And so when you look at call detail records […]
The $1 Billion Alex Jones Effect
Anyone could have seen the blow coming. What the world didn’t expect was quite how much Alex Jones would have to pay […]
How to Protect Yourself If Your School Uses Surveillance Tech
Pfefferkorn also encourages asking your school to perform an audit of its monitoring software, which could reveal what kind of content the […]
The Twitter Whistleblower’s Testimony Has Senators Out for Blood
Many of Silicon Valley’s fiercest watchdogs on Capitol Hill are now snarling. Yesterday’s arresting testimony by Twitter’s former security chief, Peiter “Mudge” […]
How Whistleblowers Navigate a Security Minefield
Initial contact is just the start. Beyond this—once Whistleblower Aid has signed on clients—it recommends using Signal for most messaging. “A lot […]