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A leading voice of the new “alt-right,” Breitbart.com tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos, does not write many of the articles that appear under his byline on the conservative news site, two sources who have worked directly with him told BuzzFeed News. These sources — a former intern and someone who has worked with Yiannopoulos for years…
Milo Yiannopoulos. Photo: @nero/Twitter How many people does it take to produce a daily post and a handful of speeches about the ways that feminism threatens traditional video-game culture? At least 45, apparently: In a BuzzFeed article published Thursday night, Milo Yiannopoulos, the tech editor of Breitbart.com and a longtime Gamergate figure, acknowledged…
The best way to understand Milo Yiannopoulos, internet troll extraordinaire, is to ask him about feminism. “Sex-negative social justice warriors always banging on about ‘affirmative consent’ are secretly the first to strap on a gimp mask and demand to get fucked eleven ways,” Yiannopoulos wrote to me in an email. “Which, don’t get me wrong,…
I’m Commander Shepard, and this is my least favorite racist on the Citadel. Continuing his tendency to Tweet absolutely anything, no matter how ridiculous, Donald Trump recently shared the following video with his 7.3 million followers: Yes, that is Mass Effect music and voice acting throughout the ad, which appropriately ends with a title card…
A quiet spring weekend was suddenly shattered on Sunday when news of the “Panama Papers” investigation broke. The massive international project involved approximately 400 journalists across 75 countries, plowing through roughly 11.5 million documents from a secretive Panamanian law firm specializing in creating offshore holding companies. The investigation took more than a year, commencing after…
The Panama Papers leak is still in its infancy, but one thing is clear: the largest data leak in the history of investigative journalism promises to have repercussions for the rich and powerful around the world. Already, leaders in Iceland and Russia are facing questions about their use of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca…
For those of us who care about democracy and the importance of a healthy political discourse, a story published by Bloomberg this week, “How to Hack an Election,” was incredibly distressing. In it, Colombian hacker Andrés Sepúlveda comes clean about eight years he spent allegedly using dark, and often illegal, computer skills to help conservative…
Updated on April 3 at 9:58 p.m. EST News organizations from around the world have published investigations based on a massive trove of leaked documents they say reveal corruption and questionable business dealings of world leaders, politicians, sports stars, and others. The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung said Sunday it received encrypted internal documents from Mossack…
Richard Conniff When people talk about natural history museums, they almost always roll out the well-worn descriptive “dusty,” to the great exasperation of a curator I know. Maybe he’s annoyed because he’s spent large sums of his museum’s money building decidedly un-dusty climate-controlled storage sites, and the word implies neglect. (“Let me know,” the curator…
A sign alerts trail walkers in Fairfax County’s Roundtree Park to the remains of a bridge that washed out near Holmes Run. With a mounting backlog of deferred maintenance, there are no immediate plans to fix it. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) For decades, Fairfax County has been a national model for suburban living, a place…