Mueller’s team warns that the “Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.” Among the report’s most alarming findings are its revelations about the scope of Russian hacking.
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Volume I of the Mueller Report, which “describes the factual results of the Special Counsel’s investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and its interactions with the Trump Campaign,” confirms that WikiLeaks played an important role in disseminating stolen information.
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Russian meddling in U.S. politics via social media was a major topic of the report. Unfortunately, Attorney General William Barr chose to redact large portions of this section of the report, citing “Harm to Ongoing Matters.” These redacted sections include information on “Project Lakhta,” the larger Russian scheme of which 2016 election interference was one part.
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This morning marked the end of a seven-year standoff as embattled WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was pulled from London’s Ecuadorian embassy and taken into custody by UK authorities. London police were “invited into the embassy by the ambassador, following the Ecuadorean government’s withdrawal of asylum” just days after WikiLeaks tweeted that Assange was facing expulsion from the embassy that had sheltered him since 2012.
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On Wednesday, an international coalition of astronomers announced that they had seen the unseeable and were ready to share it with the world. For the first time in human history, the public was invited to gaze into a black hole spinning in a galaxy 55 million light years away from Earth.
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Mozilla et al v. Federal Communications Commission, a case with major ramifications for the future of net neutrality, went before a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals on Friday, February 1.
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Leaving a tool that shapes life for millions of Americans in the hands of for-profit corporations is at best a wildly dangerous experiment, and at worst an inarguable selling-out with far-reaching consequences for huge numbers of innocent people.