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Foxes in the henhouse

Social Media and Social Control: How Silicon Valley Serves the US State Department

Facebook isn’t the only Silicon Valley firm with partisan oversight of what we see: the bipartisan billionaire class and their security state have partnered with tech firms since the dawn of the internet to control the parameters of users’ thinking.

by Morgan Artyukhina

Could Brazil Actually Keep The NSA Out Of Its Internet?

Brazil has announced plans to rebuild the country’s Internet infrastructure to avoid mass surveillance.

Could Brazil Actually Keep The NSA Out Of Its Internet?

For the White House, the recent bout of trouble the administration finds itself in with Brazil represents the ever-expanding rebuke coming from friends and foes alike. After revelations that the National Security Agency has been covertly eavesdropping on international communiqués originating from or terminating in the United States, a

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Frederick Reese

Frederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university’s newspaper, “The Colgate Maroon-News,” before starting and heading his own magazine, “The Idealist.” Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese

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