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Mineral Trade Did Not Cause Conflict in the Congo March 14, 2025

The surge in violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has some commentators blaming a familiar scapegoat: mineral trade and American technology companies whose products contain coltan and other “conflict minerals.” Eastern Congo is rich i...

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Europe Wants to be the World’s Speech Police March 03, 2025

The greatest threat to Europe isn’t China, Russia, or some other external actor; it’s “the retreat of Europe from… fundamental values” like the freedom of speech.That was Vice President Vance’s warning to European leaders at the 2025 Munich Security ...

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Big Tech Manipulating Research Harms Society October 04, 2024

Like Big Tobacco in the 1950s, Meta funding and facilitating research to cast doubt on emerging consensus on social media’s many ills ...

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Big Tech’s Coup September 26, 2024

On August 30, the Brazilian Supreme Court banned X—the social media platform formally known as Twitter—from its country’s Internet....

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