#Buzzfeednews

The @washingtonpost has a story today about John Ioannidis’ research into and statements about COVID. It does a nice job of recapping the year. Some thoughts...https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/12/16/john-ioannidis-coronavirus-
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I was legitimately surprised during the primaries how little it seemed to matter that Biden said things that were completely untrue. We're supposedly in the age of fact-checking, when the
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NEW/BREAKING: DOJ and FBI just released in response to my/@BuzzFeedNews and CNN's #FOIA lawsuit Michael Flynn's 302 from the Mueller probe.https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20457322-leopold-fbi-foia-mueller-probe-michale-flyn
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To all these people saying "what took Amazon/Google/Apple so long to remove Parler" with screenshots of terrible things being said on there: those terrible things don't even make the top
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Facebook continues to be complicit with right wing violence.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/kenosha-militia-facebook-reported-455-times-moderators Facebook continues to be complicit with defamation; “(Webster) had taken actio
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I spent an entire year sharing my thoughts on where thought donors should spend their money (and you can read them all http://gretchen.substack.com ).But since it's #GivingTuesday , here are my
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What’s especially mind-boggling here is that several insurrectionists have all ready been identified (thanks to the many photos) per their sm as MAGA cultists. So “Antifa” has long term sleeper
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Israel and Netanyahu are not allies of the United States. Israel and Netanyahu helped get Donald Trump elected in 2016. Israel and Netanyahu created the George Soros and the globalists
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Today marks the federal safe harbor deadline for states to certify election results. On what that means for Trump and his supporters' legal challenges: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-republican-election-lawsuits-
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This appears to be causing a lot of consternation, so let me try to explain:Deputization gives these specific personnel temporary, limited, law enforcement authority. This authority relates only to the
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We deal with #disinformation a lot here at the CIJ. From teaching how to spot it to discussing its impacts. Here are a few useful links to useful resources and
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No one was prepared for the coronavirus pandemic.But after a long 2020, here are 13 things about the virus that we didn't know at the start of the year. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/13-coronavirus-facts-2020?bftwnews&
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In the lead up to 1/20 it appears that some Trump supporters have latched on to the idea he may somehow invoke the #InsurrectionAct? https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/subtitle-A/part-I/chapter-13 DC officials thought he would
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Okay, ever since @johnedwinmason made the case for @kathphoto’s photograph of Dana Clark being pic of the year (https://twitter.com/johnedwinmason/status/1340722455564922880?s=21) I’ve been making the argument in my head for this to
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Whatever the political outcome, cartography has been a real winner this election.For the first time I feel that interactive maps have become as seamless as reading print.As the last votes
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Thread: You know what makes this story so much better?That it sprang from the Mueller Investigation!https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-25/lobbyist-abramoff-charged-in-crypto-currency-case-u-s-says After seeing this story, I did
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