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It took just three months for the rumor that COVID-19 was engineered as a bioweapon to spread from the fringes of the Chinese internet and take root in millions of people’s minds.

By March 2020, belief that the virus had been human-made and possibly weaponized was widespread, multiple surveys indicated. The Pew Research Center found, for example, that one in three Americans believed the

The Biden campaign "coordinated" with a former CIA official to give the discredited Hunter Biden letter to hand-picked media outlets, according to a report from the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. According to the report, former CIA senior adviser Nick Shapiro apprised Andrew Bates, a Biden campaign operative who now works at the White House, of his efforts to give reporters a

A CIA official helped wrangle signatories to an October 2020 letter of 51 former federal intelligence officials discrediting information from Hunter Biden‘s abandoned laptop computer as Russian disinformation, according to a new congressional report. Former CIA analyst David Cariens, a signatory of the letter, told congressional investigators that a CIA employee affiliated with the agency’s

Government officials and lawyers worldwide are using artificial intelligence (A.I.) as a justification to grab more power. The latest examples come in the form of copyright ownership. But if the government gets its hands on A.I. development in order to "protect" copyright owners, America will miss being a leader in the 21st-century tech revolution. We don't need a new regulatory framework to