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“Shadowy” Online Ads Are Targeting an American Election Again, This Time in Alabama

Just one of many, many pieces of election disinformation that spread on social media during the 2016 presidential election. Drew Angerer / Getty Images The Daily Beast reports: Three months after Mark Zuckerberg pledged to stop external forces from disproportionately affecting U.S. elections, targeted ads are bombarding voters in a pivotal Senate race. Those ads […]

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Pentagon Says Trans People Can Start Enlisting in the Military in 2018

Protesters in Times Square after Trump announced a ban on transgender troops last summer. Spencer Platt/Getty Images After a federal judge again ruled against the Trump administration’s ongoing attempt to ban trans people from the military on Monday, a Pentagon official told the Associated Press that the military will begin accepting trans recruits on January […]

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Kid Rock Says He’s Not Running, You’re Dumb for Thinking He Was, and It Was All Steve Bannon’s Idea Anyway So Bawitdaba

The Sweet Southern Sugar strategy? Due out “November, whatever, third or something like that.” Kid Rock went on Howard Stern’s satellite radio show yesterday to A) promote his forthcoming U.S. tour and B) declare unreservedly that he would not be challenging Michigan’s incumbent democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow in the midterm elections next year, despite the […]

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