Shoebox Lady Is Not Alone—Americans Got Scammed for More Than $10 Billion in 2023
A cell phone screen warns of a potential scam call.Tolgart—Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Who among us has not handed $50,000 cash in a shoebox to a purported undercover CIA agent in an SUV with tinted windows because a fake FTC investigator…
Biden Blames Putin for Aleksei Navalny’s Death, Urges Ukraine Funding
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the reported death of Alexei Navalny from the Roosevelt Room of the White House on February 16, 2024 in Washington, DC. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.At a televised White House press…
Onslaught of Raw Sewage Near US-Mexico Border Is a Public Health Crisis
April 16, 2021, Tijuana, Mexico.Raquel Natalicchio / ZUMA This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Raw sewage and runoff in the Tijuana River is exposing communities at the US-Mexico border to an unusual and noxious brew of pathogens and toxic chemicals, according to a report released this week.…
Meta Wants to Make it Harder to See Political Content On Threads. What Does that Even Mean?
AP/Jaap Arriens Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Earlier this week, Meta decided to create the grandest of Gordian knots for itself when Adam Mosseri, its executive in charge of Instagram and Threads, announced that the company doesn’t want Threads to “proactively amplify political content…
A New Study on Medication Abortion Refutes the Arguments Conservatives Are Taking to the Supreme Court
A new study refutes some of the arguments that are the basis of a forthcoming Supreme Court case seeking to restrict access to abortion pills.Alejandro Alvarez/Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A key argument from anti-abortion activists bringing a case to the Supreme Court is…
“Did You Expect Anything Else?”: Kremlin Insiders Weigh in on Alexey Navalny’s Death
A woman holds flowers and a portrait of opposition leader Alexei Navalny during a protest in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin, Germany.Markus Schreiber/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This story first appeared on Meduza, an independent, reader-supported Russian newsroom based in Latvia.…