"Never Seen Anything Like It:" The Biggest Month in Antitrust in 50 Years
(In the face of overwhelming documentary evidence and testimony, the Justice Department would later acknowledge the so-called gunwalking campaign and would admit to having given false information to Congress. The story would become the investigative reporting story of the year, receiving an Emmy and the Edward R. Murrow Award.) The Justice Departme
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For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug
But this Google trial? By far the most important moment was when Judge Mehta denied a third-party motion to broadcast a publicly accessible audio feed of the trial for fear that information Google wishes wouldn’t be disclosed become public. Indeed, Google lawyers have explicitly argued that the judge should avoid allowing documents to become public... See more
Matt Stoller • How to Hide a $2 Trillion Antitrust Trial
The fact that supposedly reputable news organizations are openly working in concert with governments to craft narratives around Covid—and now to push vaccines and demonize the unvaccinated—is extraordinarily dangerous. And the fact that Twitter banned me at the open urging of the federal government is a betrayal of American values that is hard to b
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