Accountability
Failures and successes of institutional and governmental accountability.
Collection by Charles Baldwin
The New York Times
New Estimate for an Oil Leak: A Thousand Times Worse Than Rig Owner Says
3 min · · The leak, about 12 miles off the Louisiana coast, has been releasing oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico since 2004, when a bundle of undersea pipes ruptured. · Shared by 32, including Charles Baldwin, George M 🇪🇺, Nils Hitze, publici, Tom Connor
Engadget
Facebook will share data on hate speech suspects with French courts
1 min · · It's said to be the first time the company is providing such information to courts. · Shared by 7, including Charles Baldwin
The New York Times
A Plan to Mine the Minnesota Wilderness Hit a Dead End. Then Trump Became President.
12+ min · · The project’s reversal of fortunes has angered environmentalists and focused attention on an unusual connection between a Chilean billionaire and President Trump’s family. · Shared by 27, including Xeorge Xonway, Hiroko Tabuchi, Charles Baldwin, David Guttenfelder
Foreign Policy
Canada Reckons With Genocide
9 min · · A damning new report on the deaths of indigenous women highlights post-colonial nations’ failures. · Shared by 7, including Charles Baldwin
Foreign Policy
Facebook’s New Currency Has Big Claims and Bad Ideas
6 min · · Libra is an ideological project, not a practical one. · Shared by 20, including Charles Baldwin, your #1 source for absurdist true crime 🐀 🐍👑 🌷, Loughlin O'Nolan
Reuters
How judges added to the grim toll of opioids
· In case after case, U.S. judges sealed evidence about the risks - the result of a lethal secrecy that Reuters found shrouds many product-liability cases. · Shared by 17, including Charles Baldwin, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr
The Washington Post
Meet the New York couple donating millions to the anti-vax movement
· Bernard and Lisa Selz are big donors to a group that has played a central role in this year’s measles outbreaks. · Shared by 26, including Esther Schindler, Dr. Tara C. Smith, Charles Baldwin, Philanthropy News Digest
The Intercept
I’m a Journalist but I Didn’t Fully Realize the Terrible Power of U.S. Border Officials Until They Violated My Rights…
12+ min · · I complacently assumed that CBP’s horrendous treatment of migrants wouldn’t affect me directly, least of all in Austin, the city where I was born. · Shared by 104, including Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, 🌏🔎Leigh Alexander 🐬💿✨, Richard Bernabe, Mathew Ingram, Martin Stabe, Miguel, Marcus Schwarze 🚀, 🏳️🌈☕Suzannah Is Being Incorrectly Female☕🏳️🌈, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Charles Baldwin, Bjorn Larsen, Fern
Foreign Policy
Belgium’s Beijing Embassy Calls Chinese Cops on Uighur Family
5 min · · Belgian officials say their small country can't risk offending China. · Shared by 11, including Charles Baldwin
The New Republic
Quillette’s “Antifa Journalists” List Could’ve Gotten Me Killed
4 min · · What a harassment campaign reveals about a darling journal of the intellectual dark web. · Shared by 10, including Charles Baldwin
The Atlantic
Bolton Keeps Trying to Goad Iran Into War
2 min · · Throughout its history, America has attacked countries that did not threaten it. · Shared by 9, including Charles Baldwin
The New York Times
A ‘Sorceress’ in Brazil, a ‘Wink’ in India: Walmart Pleads Guilty After a Decade of Bribes
5 min · · A settlement ends an inquiry into the retailer’s dealings with government officials around the globe, which came after a New York Times report in 2012. · Shared by 20, including Forbes India, Charles Baldwin
cpomagazine.com
EPIC Alleges Google May Be Helping U.S. Government Conduct Warrantless Searches
4 min · · Scanning images in billions of users’ files without warrants, is Google helping the U.S. government to conduct warrantless searches and violating the Fourth Amendment? · Shared by 5, including Charles Baldwin
BBC News (World)
Rape victims asked to hand phones to police
4 min · · Prosecutions may not go ahead if police are not given access to emails, messages and photographs. · Shared by 9, including Charles Baldwin
BuzzFeed News
YouTube’s Newest Far-Right, Foul-Mouthed, Red-Pilling Star Is A 14-Year-Old Girl
6 min · · Shared by 62, including Mathew Ingram, Charles Baldwin, Rand Fishkin, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Bjorn Larsen, Liliane Ferrari ™
Insider Business
Amazon's warehouse worker tracking system can automatically fire people without a human supervisor's involvement
2 min · · Hundreds of Amazon workers have been fired over productivity at just one warehouse in one year. · Shared by 79, including Antonio Vieira Santos, Charles Baldwin, Niklaus Gerber, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Oliver Reichenstein, Thomas Pleil, Thomas Power, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️