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Corrections nobody reads: the continued influence effect
Of 30 outlets that headlined a Syrian troops claim, 4 later headlined the official denial. A retracted fraud accusation reached millions; its correction, 42 news sites. What the continued influence effect is, and what makes corrections work better.
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The people who told: whistleblowers and what happened to them
From the Pentagon Papers to the Facebook Files: what six whistleblowers and a publisher revealed, what courts later confirmed, and what happened to them, including Assange's 2024 plea. Plus two cases from China and Russia.
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The press and the agency: Operation Mockingbird and the Church Committee
"Project Mockingbird" in the CIA's own files is a 1963 wiretap of two columnists. The Senate's Church Committee found covert ties to about 50 US journalists and over 1,000 subsidised books. Documented, disputed and legend, separated.
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Operation INFEKTION: how the KGB spread the claim that the US made AIDS
In 1983 an anonymous letter in a small Indian paper claimed the Pentagon made AIDS. By 1987 the story ran in 80+ countries; in 1992 Russia's spy chief admitted the KGB was behind it. How it travelled, and the same method today, from several capitals.
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Firewalls and foreign-agent laws in China, Russia and beyond
Seven years for five supermarket price tags. How China's firewall, Russia's 2022 "fakes" law and Europe's new foreign-agent laws make speech costly, what their defenders say, and how Hungary's parliament voted to abolish its sovereignty office in 2026.
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The "corpse factory": WWI atrocity propaganda and its long shadow
In 1917 Britain's papers said Germany boiled its dead for fat; a minister found "nothing incredible" in it. It was false. In 1942 true reports of mass murder were dismissed as "too similar" to that old lie. How atrocity propaganda backfired.
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The EU Digital Services Act: what it actually requires
The EU's first DSA fine hit X for blue checks, ads and researcher access, not for speech; later fines on Temu and AliExpress were about illegal products. What the law requires, where supporters and critics find their evidence, and the clashes so far.