Exclusive: Stacey Abrams Says the Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery Was “Murder”
Mother Jones Illustration; Photo Courtesy of Fair Fight For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In exclusive interview with Mother Jones on Thursday afternoon, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was clear about how she sees the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old Black man: It’s “murder,” she said. …
Security Researchers Find Flaws in Online Voting System Tested in Five States
Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press An online voting technology that has been tested in five states can be hacked to alter, block, or expose voters’ ballots, according to research published Thursday by a trio of MIT researchers. Voatz, a Boston-based company, claims its app allows for widely accessible and secure voting from smartphones by relying…
Democrats Prove No One Has to Hack an Election to Create Chaos
The phone app used for the Iowa caucuses.TNS/via Zuma The traveling road show has moved on from Iowa, and the campaigns and most of the media circus that go with them have set up shop in New Hampshire. Still, the full results of the Iowa caucuses are not yet known. Numbers have been posted in…
This Jaw-Dropping Interview Shows How the Media Still Struggles With Trump’s Lies
George Stephanopoulos interviews Trump national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien.ABC News/YouTube Every once in a while, a moment comes that crystallizes what is so wrong with the political-media universe in the era of Donald Trump. And one such moment occurred on Sunday morning. It was not flashy or headline-generating. This moment lasted only seconds. Its…
Facebook’s Newest Election Policies Still Leave Trump Free to Lie
om Williams/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Press On Monday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the unusual step of personally announcing the removal of four manipulation campaigns from the company’s platforms. During a call announcing elections-related policy changes, Facebook said the operations, three of which originated in Iran and the other from Russia, targeted the…
The US Government Has Done “Almost Nothing” to Stop Cyber Attacks
Kalousek Rostislav/CTK via ZUMA In 2004, as he sat before the commission investigating the 9/11 attacks, Richard Clarke famously declared, “Your government failed you, those entrusted with protecting you failed you, and I failed you,” before asking for understanding and forgiveness. Clarke, a former senior government counterterrorism official, told the world that before the terrorist…