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How the Junk Science of Hair Analysis Keeps People Behind Bars

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the US criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, and Facebook. In the three decades since Florida sent Gerald Delane Murray to death…

How Telegram Became the Center of the Internet

Mother Jones; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Every so often, the spiritual center of the internet shifts, as the locus where online culture is shaped and incubated before rippling out into the wider world cycles to a new home. Today, that shift is…

Piecing Together the Evidence: Open-Source Intelligence in Israel’s Gaza War

Mother Jones; Getty; Photo courtesy of Elliot Higgins Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Open one social media platform and you’re hit with a fake video; open another and you’re hit with bigotry. Open a news article, and you’ll find some victims “killed” but others “dying.” Each account of events in Israel…

“As if They Just Dropped Dead”: Navigating the Israel-Palestine War of Words

Mother Jones; Getty; Photo courtesy of Tamara Kharroub Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Open one social media platform and you’re hit with a fake video; open another and you’re hit with bigotry. Open a news article, and you’ll find some victims “killed” but others “dying.” Each account of events in Israel…