Vanderbilt Woman Didn’t Think She’d Been Raped Until She Saw Video Of It

The Vanderbilt University student who was allegedly raped by several football players last year testified Thursday that she didn’t believe she had been sexually assaulted until investigators showed her video of the incident. The woman, a then-21-year-old majoring in neuroscience and economics, had reportedly been dating 21-year-old Brandon Vandenburg, a football player at the school….

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Actually, young people like the NSA more than old people do, Pew says — Fusion

Actually, young people like the NSA more than old people do, Pew says After the Edward Snowden revelations about the National Security Agency’s wide-spread spying on the Internet, one might have expected the web-loving masses of young people to develop a poor impression of the agency. But, according to a new Pew Research Center poll, nothing…

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On the Fetishization of a Brooklyn Neighborhood and the Problem with Saying Park Slope Has a Small Town Feel | Brooklyn Magazine

On the Fetishization of a Brooklyn Neighborhood and the Problem with Saying Park Slope Has a Small Town Feel Yesterday, the New York Times Real Estate section ran a story about what it’s like to live in Park Slope, a neighborhood which, the paper declared, is an ideal place to “grow into.” And while I have…

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The Dread Pirate’s Diary

Illustrations by Susie Cagle. I imagine that someday I may have a story written about my life, and it would be good to have a detailed account of it. — from Ross Ulbricht’s laptop, home/frosty/documents/journal/2012/q1/january/week1     When Ross Ulbricht, the alleged operator of a massive online drugs black market, was arrested on October 1,…

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What does Facebook’s new tool for fighting fake news mean for real publishers? » Nieman Journalism Lab

Facebook announced yet another tweak to the algorithm that governs its users’ News Feeds yesterday. The social network has introduced a new tool that allows users to flag a post as “a false news story.” The move follows a few other attempts by the platform to better delineate different types of content. For example, in…

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