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Everything Is the ‘Twitter Files’ Now
For the Twitter Files’ target audience, the archives and their broader contexts were of secondary importance. What mattered ...
A Witch Hunt at the State Department
That’s not actually how Acting Undersecretary of State Darren Beattie communicated his request for information to a small ...
MIT Technology Review2d
The Download: foreign disinformation intel, and gene-edited pork
A few years ago, a British company called Genus set out to design pigs immune to this germ using CRISPR gene editing. Not ...
County Durham local election results 2025 in full
An election for Durham County Council's parish and town councils took place on 1 May 2025 as part of the 2025 UK local ...
Rubio’s Team Launches ‘Witch Hunt’ for Staff Who Criticized Alex Jones
A senior State Department official reportedly wanted records of correspondence that mentioned keywords like “Black Lives ...
AlterNet on MSN3d
'Soviet-style political policing': Top Trump staffer creating an official 'enemies list'
Acting Undersecretary of State Darren Beattie is looking to assemble a “Twitter files”-style document trove to “build a ...
MIT Technology Review3d
Senior State Department official sought internal communications with journalists, European officials, and Trump critics
Trump appointee Darren Beattie requested records regarding a large list of high-profile names, organizations, and right-wing ...
Nieman Journalism Lab3d
U.S. office that counters foreign disinformation is being eliminated
In shutting the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference, the department’s controversial acting undersecretary, Darren Beattie, is delivering a major win to conservative critics who ...