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May 16 2018
News
Inequality and the Intellectual Dark Web
A prominent group of heterodox thinkers is united by more than just opposition to political correctness and support for free speech.
National Review
May 12 2018
News
Critics Miss the Point of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’
Writers like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro appeal to the growing number of Americans who feel left behind by mainstream American culture.
National Review
Dec 18 2018
News
Stars of ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ Scramble to Save Their Cash Cows
Members of the so-called Intellectual Dark Web are taking a financial beating and scrambling for funds because their followers are reluctant to continue pledging money on Patreon after the crowdfunding platform jettisoned another right-wing provocateur over hate speech.
Daily Beast
Oct 16 2019
News
Feds Torpedo Massive Dark Web Child Porn Site
According to the Department of Justice, a now-busted online hub for child pornography had strict instructions for its users: “Do not upload adult porn.”
Welcome to Video, a site which allegedly hosted hundreds of thousands of videos of child sexual exploitation, was the target of a DOJ investigation and takedown announced Wednesday. The U.S. Attorney’s office announced the arrest of
Daily Beast
Oct 16 2019
News
Dark web child porn bust leads to 338 arrests worldwide
Officials from the United States, Britain and South Korea described the network as one of the largest child pornography operations they had encountered to date.
Called Welcome To Video, the website relied on the bitcoin cryptocurrency to sell access to 250,000 videos depicting child sexual abuse, authorities said, including footage of extremely young children being raped. Its upload
Reuters
Jul 11 2022
Analysis
Jan. 6's Tangled Web Of Extremism
Mike Jensen keeps a database of bad guys. As a senior researcher at the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), part of Jensen’s job is to identify violent events that occur in the U.S. and investigate whether the people involved have any ties to extremism. If they do, he adds them to his database.
In what he calls a “
FiveThirtyEight
Aug 27 2019
Opinion
Elizabeth Warren's Pitch for 'Economic Patriotism' Is Full of Intellectual Dishonesty and Economic Fallacies
Warren needs to take a lesson from Leonard Read's "I, Pencil."
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) is promising to protect Americans from the scourge of…pencils?
In a new video posted to Twitter over the weekend, the presidential candidate promises to create a new federal agency that would expand on the protectionist measures undertaken by Donald Trump. She's even borrowing Trumpian
Guest Writer - Right
Jul 25 2022
News
Trump: ‘Fox & Friends’ has gone to the ‘dark side’
Former President Trump tore into Fox News’s flagship morning program on Monday, lashing out at its hosts for their coverage of his polling as he eyes another run for president in 2024.
“@foxandfriends just really botched my poll numbers, no doubt on purpose,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social, the social network platforming he started after leaving office. “That show has been
The Hill
Sep 01 2021
Perspectives Blog
To navigate the dangers of the web, you need critical thinking – but also critical ignoring
This piece originally appeared on The Conversation, which AllSides rates as Lean Left. It was written by Sam Wineburg, a Professor of Education and History at Stanford University. The writer's bias has not been rated.
The web is a treacherous place.
A website’s author may not be its author. References that confer legitimacy may have little to do with
The Conversation