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The Toxic Marriage of Billionaires and Clickbait: How the Press Poisons Public Debate

By Karen Orr ​Our public discourse is a rotting corpse. A pernicious blight infects the way we consume news and understand our society. It is the toxic marriage between the billionaire-owned press baron model and the hunger for anger clickbait. This alliance doesn’t seek to inform; it seeks to inflame, to divide, and ultimately, to […]

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Indybag- Activists Signal. Just Dae it.

Indybag: “A Modern-Day Scot’s Guide to Not Being a Muppet on the Internet“ ​So, you’ve finally realised that the corporate behemoths fucking hate you, but want your money and have an unending appetite for your personal data. Good fer you. You’ve heard the whispers about Signal, the one-horse race for privacy in the digital age- […]