Lucas Graves, a PhD candidate at Columbia working on a thesis about fact checking, shared data at the New America event about the number of articles that are labeled as fact checks. Here's a summary by MIT's Ethan Zuckerman: How big is the fact ...

Wendy Seltzer, a fellow at Yale Law School and former intellectual property litigator who is a member of the Tor Project's board of directors, says she's worried about how the DOJ would wield this language. The Tor Project develops software to preserve ...

Sean McLaughlin, executive director of media nonprofit Access Humboldt, had applauded the department efforts in August. ”Consumer advocates, media access proponents and other public interest groups across the nation have documented past mergers and ...

In 2006, Mexico’s newly elected president, Felipe Calderón, declared war on his country’s drug cartels. He militarized and intensified a conflict that had been managed by his predecessors through an opaque strategy of accommodation, payoffs, assigned trafficking routes, and periodic takedowns of uncoöperative capos.