"Popular Information has uncovered a network of 14 large Facebook pages that exclusively promote content from The Daily Wire. None of the pages reveal their connection to The Daily Wire, and many purport to be independent media outlets." popular.info/p/facebook-all…

A thread: Getty fire: Housekeepers, gardener go to work despite the flames - Los Angeles Times latimes.com/california/sto…

This story is one of the most disturbing I've read in recent memory. Excellent work from Sophia Jones The Fuller Project on the horrors of "virginity testing," which is rarely acknowledged publicly in the U.S. marieclaire.com/health-fitness…

i wrote the most thorough review of an airbnb host ever vice.com/en_us/article/…

NEW: Tulsi Gabbard is pledging to reveal “all the info” about 9/11, hinting at a conspiracy. The 28 pages have been out for 3 years. But disingenuous or no, the ploy reflects a plan: keep trying to merge lefties with conspiracy theorists, Islamophobes & co huffpost.com/entry/tulsi-ga…

In the past year, there have been 596 media mentions of Pete Buttigieg being a Rhodes scholar. But Cory Booker is also a Rhodes scholar. Why has his scholarship been mentioned only 79 times? huffpost.com/entry/buttigie…

As president, Pete Buttigieg wants to give 25 percent of federal contracts to minorities. As mayor, he gave 3 percent. interc.pt/332zieO by Akela Lacy

NEW: We obtained video inside the Border Patrol holding cell where 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez died last May. The video does not match the Border Patrol's account of his death.

This week's The New Yorker has an excerpt from my forthcoming book "Between Two Fires"--a profile of Konstantin Ernst, head of Channel One, a complicated and multisided figure, who combines "cosmopolitan savviness with ultimate subservience to the state." newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

The I.R.S. accidentally conducted an experiment on 3.9 million Americans — and, in the process, provided the best evidence yet that health insurance saves lives. nytimes.com/2019/12/10/ups…

In the aftermath of his lung-cancer diagnosis, Peter Schjeldahl assumed the persona of the Dying Man, which he found to be a handy mask. nyer.cm/lAYHZkW

A few years ago, Gabriel started sending me polite but insistent emails suggesting that maybe, *maybe* I had a lot of unquestioned colonial assumptions underlying my thinking. Finally asked him to just do it in essay form. vice.com/en_us/article/…

This is a beautiful, thoughtful piece that I hope helps a lot of folks feel less alone & some other folks do a bit more reflection: buzzfeednews.com/article/scaach… via @scaachi

New: Huge federal review of facial-recognition systems finds that white people get more accurate searches than everyone else. With some algorithms, Asian and African American people were *up to 100 times* more likely to be falsely identified than white men wapo.st/2tCGkuN

Christopher Allen reported from some of the most dangerous places in the world. Who was looking out for him? bit.ly/2tDtfRP

Everyone with an interest in ethical journalism should read this exceptional, heartbreaking HuffPost piece by Charlotte Alfred on the tragic death of freelancer Chris Allen, and what it illustrates about a dangerously broken system of the media industry. huffpost.com/feature/chris-…

Trump has used his veto 6 times. 4 of those were to protect Saudi Arabia. Congress could've made him again choose between an embarrassing veto or letting MBS face consequences. Republican+Democratic political calculations & Jared Kushner got in the way. huffpost.com/entry/saudi-de…

This is such a sad story – an extreme case, but the truth is the trade is full of freelancers with no proper training and no idea what they are doing m.huffpost.com/us/feature/chr…

At the end of 2018, @mattbooshell quit a cushy 9-to-5 job that he had been at for two years. Here's what happened next: huffpost.com/entry/matt-bue… via HuffPost Politics