Report: Facebook Still Struggles to Contain Misinformation
Bill Clark-Pool/Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In 2016, Facebook was caught flatfooted. Throughout that year’s election, Americans using the platform confronted a range of misinformation as Russian state-sponsored trolls, Eastern European teenagers, and others…
How Our Tax Code Is Rigged Against Black Americans
Emory law professor Dorothy BrownAnn Watson Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Emory University law professor Dorothy Brown saw a lot as a girl growing up in the South Bronx, including a white cop beating a handcuffed…
10 People Killed in Colorado Supermarket Mass Shooting
David Zalubowski/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Ten people, including one police officer, were killed when a gunman opened fire inside a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, Monday afternoon, according to police. One male suspect…
Activists Decry a Different Border Surge in Texas: Cops and Troops
A family of Central American asylum seekers arrives to a bus station after being dropped off by U.S. Border Patrol agents in Brownsville, Texas.John Moore/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In early February, Texas Gov. Greg…
The 3 Worst Arguments That Republicans Made Against DC Statehood
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.With Joe Biden in the White House and a slim Democratic majority in Congress, residents of the District of Columbia are probably the closest they’ve ever been to…
Trump’s New Favorite Georgia Republican Is Crazier Than He Is
Michael Brochstein/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Ever since Brad Raffensperger refused to go along with Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election, the former president has had it out for Georgia’s Republican secretary of…