Protecting Truth in the Digital Age
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In the fog of modern warfare, data often becomes ammunition. When reports emerged of Ukrainian drone strikes deep inside Russian territory, the immediate focus was on physical damage—fuel depots, radar stations, and other infrastructure. But within hours, a different kind of battlefield began to take shape online. A chart circulated…
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There is a strange paradox tucked inside the latest snapshot of the American workplace. On the surface, workers seem to have turned a corner. They are more likely than they were a year ago to say they understand their health insurance, more likely to believe their benefits will catch them if they get sick, and more likely to describe their personal finances in positive terms. But underneath those encouraging responses is a much more fragile reality: millions of employees are one medical bill away from falling apart, and many are quietly making decisions today that could harm their health and…
Over the weekend, Ukraine managed to really, genuinely piss off Russia—not in some abstract diplomatic way, but in the most literal sense. For the third time, Ukrainian forces hit a Yandex data center, and they did it right in the middle of all the high-stakes dealmaking chatter between Washington, Moscow, and Kyiv—the kind that includes the usual promises that selling out Ukraine will save us a penny at the pump. If you’ve ever wondered what makes the modern Russian internet tick, Yandex is the answer. It’s Russia’s version of Google, but it’s also a lot more than that: a cloud…
