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Using social media to uncover a black market ‘brand’ linked to vaping illness
On September 27, federal health officials announced that they had tracked a number of bootleg THC cartridges to the vaping-related lung illnesses that have afflicted more than 1,000 people across the country. The most common cartridge cited by officials is a brand known as Dank Vapes. Emma Betuel, a mind and body reporter for Inverse,...
CNN’s LGBTQ town hall highlights benefits and pitfalls of the format
Marginalized communities are rarely mentioned in questions put to presidential candidates. But last night, CNN’s town hall, held in Los Angeles, provided an unprecedented chance for members of the LGBTQ community to address problems specific to their lives on a national stage. Nine Democratic candidates participated, each given a 30-minute segment. Some capitalized on the...
Words have lives, and politics, of their own
Last Friday, CJR published a piece I’d written—originally as a staff email—kvetching about what I claimed was the rampant misuse of the word opioid. Applied to compounds such as oxycodone and hydromorphone, the word, I wrote, made no sense. The suffix -oid means that something is like, but not actually, whatever is prepended to it—and...
Moving beyond ‘Zuck sucks’
In March, when Mark Zuckerberg called for new regulations on internet companies, journalists rightly covered the move with skepticism. Many pointed out that Zuckerberg might be angling for regulations favorable to Facebook or trying to offload Facebook’s own responsibilities onto regulators. A reader skimming this coverage, however, would not necessarily come away with a clear...
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A few years ago, on a plane somewhere between Singapore and Dubai, I read Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities (1983). I was traveling to report on the global market for passports—how the ultrawealthy can legally buy citizenship or residence virtually anywhere they...
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I wrote a story that became a legend. Then I discovered it wasn’t true.
In 2003, with what felt like an angel on my shoulder, I wrote a story that became a myth. It was a once-in-a-lifetime piece. An emblem for human courage in the face of adversity, and an inspiration for motorcyclists like...
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New: Atlas Obscura CEO David Plotz is leaving. The company wants to crowdsource his replacement https://t.co/OiiLiVCjn1
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) October 14, 2019Per a Fox News spokesperson, Shep Smith is stepping down from Fox News. This afternoon was his final show.
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) October 11, 2019As of today, Splinter will cease publication. It has been my greatest honor to have been the editor of this site and I will love this staff to my dying breath. Thank you to all of our readers, fans, and haters—it’s been a thrill. Further details TK. Splinter forever.
— aleksander chan (@aleksnotalex) October 10, 2019A Fox News spokesperson says Trey Gowdy "has been terminated and is no longer a contributor."
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) October 9, 2019Mark Zuckerberg will testify before House Financial Services Committee on Oct. 23 to discuss Libra, etc. https://t.co/TqQelkQqaU
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