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High court to weigh whether disability activists can sue hotels after online searches (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 10/03/2023 - 06:23Landmark Texas, Florida social media cases added to Supreme Court term (Washington Post)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Fri, 09/29/2023 - 10:42What Hollywood gets right — and wrong — about real-life AI (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 09/29/2023 - 06:35It’s not your imagination: Shopping on Amazon has gotten worse (Everything on Amazon is becoming an ad) (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 09/27/2023 - 06:28Under India’s pressure, Facebook let propaganda and hate speech thrive (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 09/27/2023 - 06:28He live-streamed his attacks on Indian Muslims. YouTube gave him an award. (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 09/27/2023 - 06:27Inside the vast digital campaign by Hindu nationalists to inflame India (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 09/27/2023 - 06:27David Ignatius | In fight over satellite array, tiny Liechtenstein roars back at China (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 09/27/2023 - 06:26Another campaign, another outrage over ‘free phones’
Former President Donald Trump questioned who was paying for the phones of illegal aliens, suggesting that the federal government is handing out high-quality cellphones to migrants as part of its purported efforts to flood the country with immigrants. This is the latest iteration of the political right’s frustration with the idea that the government (and, particularly, an incumbent Democratic president) is spending money on frivolous giveaways (in their estimation) to poor people of color. The government does have a program in which people seeking asylum are given mobile devices.