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Francois Lenoir / Reuters Can Sacrificing Privacy Stomp Out Disinformation Online?
One way to ward off bad actors could be more information sharing between social-media platforms, researchers, and governments.
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Courtesy of Robhat Labs A Web Tool That Lets People Choose Their Own ‘Sources of Truth’
Two 21-year-olds believe they have a way to bring consumers of unreliable news closer to objectivity.
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Horacio Villalobos / Corbis / Getty Reddit's Case for Anonymity on the Internet
The site’s head claims that the policy of not collecting personal information allows people to be “more true to themselves.”
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Tibrina Hobson / Getty Will Probiotics Ever Live Up to the Hype?
Changing your microbiome takes more than just swallowing a pill full of bacteria.
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Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP / Getty A Linguist Explains Why 'Laurel' Sounds Like 'Yanny'
It’s the audio version of The Dress.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The 13 Strangest Moments From the Zuckerberg Hearing
The first day of the Facebook CEO's congressional testimony featured a snubbed chicken chain, an aspiring teen Instagram star, and plenty of confused dialogue.
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Rachel Gutman / Katie Martin / The Atlantic A Grandpa's-Eye View of the March for Our Lives
He hadn't been to a demonstration since the early '60s, but the energy of the post-Parkland movement drove him to go.
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Julio Cortez / AP Who Is Weev, and Why Did He Derail a Journalist's Career?
A newly hired opinion writer for The New York Times called weev "a terrible person, and an old friend of mine." The rest of the world calls him a Nazi.
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Reuters 'America First' Is Straining Bill Gates's Optimism
The philanthropist still thinks the world is getting better. But he says pulling foreign aid from global-health measures would reverse that trend.
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Stephen Lovekin / Getty The Origins of Diversity Data in Tech
Tracy Chou’s call to action in 2013 preceded an industry-wide release of numbers.
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Noam Galai / Getty From Crack Addict to America's Most Celebrated Chef
Michael Solomonov was planting the seeds of a restaurant empire even as he was spiraling into addiction.
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Courtesy of Butterball The Butterball Turkey Talk-Line Is Ready for the Future
The most wholesome of help hotlines has embraced the digital age.
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Insung Jeon / Getty The Connected Vocabularies of Six-Month-Olds
Babies might understand language better than scientists thought.
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Larry Crowe / AP The Great Pumpkin-Pie Conspiracy
What counts as a pumpkin? A scientific investigation.
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Reuters Will Climate Change Make Rockslides Worse?
How a warming world could affect rockfalls like Yosemite's
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Chris Hondros / Getty The Real Difference Between Warm and Cool Colors
Languages have more words to describe reds than blues.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Roadblocks and Rifts
The ongoing impact of Harvey, where Trump is clashing with Tillerson, why North Korea sent a missile over Japan, and more
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Sandy Huffaker / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Back to Backlash
Trump's inflammatory speech in Phoenix, ESPN's blunder over a name, Mattis's meeting in Turkey, and more
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Clashes and Backlash
Why Trump dissolved two advisory councils, how white supremacists are radicalized, a timely message from Frederick Douglass, and more
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: The Fallout of Fire and Fury
The risks of threatening North Korea, the raid on Paul Manafort's home, the cultural power of porn, and more
