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ICE is building a social media panopticon

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement carries out raids across the country, the agency is working rapidly to expand an online surveillance system that could potentially track millions of users on the web. Federal records uncovered by The Lever reveal that ICE is paying $5.7 million to use an AI-powered social media monitoring platform called Zignal…

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Carl Lewis: “If you have enough likes, enough followers, and if you’re famous, then you’ve ‘won.’ It’s not about excellence anymore”

Things didn’t go so well for Carl Lewis the last time he was at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. Lewis is one of the all-time greats of track and field, with nine Olympic and eight World Championships gold medals. But, during his only competitive appearance in India, at the Nehru Centenary International Athletic Meet in…

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