The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois

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How Kentucky Gambled for Hundreds of Millions of Dollars From a Broadband Program It Didn't Qualify for

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How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon

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Sting Catches Another Ransomware Firm — Red Mosquito — Negotiating With "Hackers"

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A High-Speed Internet Boondoggle Is Now a Campaign Issue in Kentucky

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Kentucky's $1.5 Billion Information Highway to Nowhere

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Facebook and Twitter Turned to TurboVote to Drive Registrations. Officials Want Them to Turn Away.

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Facebook Moves to Block Ad Transparency Tools — Including Ours

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Georgia Officials Quietly Patched Security Holes They Said Didn't Exist

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How Big Oil Dodges Facebook's New Ad Transparency Rules

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New Partnership Will Help Us Hold Facebook and Campaigns Accountable

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The Overlooked Weak Link in Election Security

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No, a Teen Did Not Hack a State Election

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Besieged Facebook Says New Ad Limits Aren't Response to Lawsuits

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Updated: Facebook Political Ad Collector

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Facebook's Screening for Political Ads Nabs News Sites Instead of Politicians

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What Facebook's New Political Ad System Misses

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How to Wrestle Your Data From Data Brokers, Silicon Valley — and Cambridge Analytica

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For Some Democrats, Facebook Likes Are a Path to Hard-to-Find Supporters

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Four Ways to Fix Facebook

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ProPublica Seeks Source Code for New York City's Disputed DNA Software

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Service Provider Boots Hate Site Off the Internet

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Facebook's Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children

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When Algorithms Decide What You Pay

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