QAnon went from being a fringe conspiracy theory to being ubiquitous everywhere. This piece explains how QAnon slithered into the yoga world.
One thing QAnon devotees maintain is that there is a "deep state" composed of democrats who traffic children. They've popularized "Save the Children" as a hashtag on Twitter, which I've been following for two months or so now. Twitter basically shut down that hashtag a few weeks ago, if you’d run a search of the hashtag, nothing would come up. That was until Ivanka Trump tweeted out something with the hashtag. Twitter then let the hashtag run wild again.
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The U.S. has been spending billions to train and arm security forces in West Africa for almost two decades now. And yet, the countries experience less and less actual security. Violent Islamist groups are more of a threat than ever. What exactly is at play here? Nick Turse investigates for Vice. Turse carried out a lot of reporting on the ground in Burkina Faso, and also relied on these two GAO reports.
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Last month the NYT's Hiroko Tabuchi came out with a great investigation into a company called FTI Consulting, a group that tries to influence public opinion in favor of fossil fuels industries. They try to obscure their work, making it look like their campaigns are coming from the grassroots. The company runs two propaganda outlets that it staffs with their employees: Energy In Depth and Western Wire.
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The U.S. is still in a devastating PPE crisis, and regular people are trying to ameliorate it.
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Here's a cool documentary about doing investigative work in Italy: https://stream.tcij.org/