INTRODUCTION Bitcoin is back, soaring 150% in 2020, and on Wednesday reached heights it hadn’t seen since 2017. Of course, if you dealt with a ransomware gang in the past three years, you know Bitcoin never left. You might have missed the news recently, overshadowed as it was by the [Keep reading]
This report really is worth reading “After hearing that Facebook is saying that posting the Lord’s Prayer goes against their policies, I’m asking all Christians please post it. Our Father, who art in Heaven…” Someone posted this obvious falsehood on Facebook recently, and it ended up on my wall. Soon [Keep reading]
INTRODUCTION Rhonda Foxx is the newly-minted Head of Social Equity Policies & Engagements at Intel. Before that, she was chief of staff for Rep. Alma Adams (D-N.C.) and ran for Congress earlier this year. During a recent talk at Duke University, she called the current pandemic “a period of great reset.” It’s [Keep reading]
Georgia suffered major voting machine malfunctions, according to Election Integrity Foundation Chairman Harri Hursti. Voting machines were “incorrectly loaded,” according to WSB-TV. Hursti said there were a variety of malfunctions. In Spalding County, there was “100 percent failure in the beginning,” Hursti said. “People came ready to wait but…..clearly, they [Keep reading]
You probably remember “Stop, Drop, and Roll” — shorthand instructions for what to do if you catch fire. For years, I have recommended something similar to Internet users when they encounter anything suspicious — Stop chatting, Drop the conversation, and Roll your chair away from the keyboard. I usually intend [Keep reading]
Before I get into my pragmatic guide for watching the election results roll in tonight, please take a moment to think about the real star of today’s historic event: The poll worker. There is so much pressure on election staff this year. There’s a deluge of mail-in ballots, there’s demands [Keep reading]
INTRODUCTION In the U.S. media guilty of misinformation on disinformation? As election day fast approaches, election hacking continues to attract lots of attention. It’s a vague term that has been used to describe everything from nation-state actors changing voter registration records to politicians discrediting mail-in ballots. Perhaps nothing has caused [Keep reading]
The most important thing happening during these next few weeks might *not* be the presidential election. I think one can make an argument that today’s antitrust case filed against Google might ultimately be a bigger deal. Our daily lives, our stock market, our mental health, our communities, and our jobs [Keep reading]
Writing about fairness in the business section risks ridicule and derision, but only from people who read just the first few pages of their Econ 101 textbook, then nap through the rest of the class. There’s some great research into people as economic actors and how they react to unfairness. [Keep reading]
From Harri Hursti Filing Declaration There’s been lots of noise around potential problems with mail-in voting lately, but it’s not hard to find flaws in the way America counts ballots. What would you think if a state paid more than $100 million to buy all-new electronic voting machines, and it [Keep reading]
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