Kai Farjo
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- Oct 1, 2026
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Consumer protections should include influencer advertisements (opens the original)
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It is common on social media to see influencers advocating for supplements, claiming they cured their anxiety, fixed their gut or helped them lose weight. However, many of these fantastical claims are not true, and often the influencer making them is being paid to do so. Social media has become a go-to source for health information, especially for young adults, despite the prevalence of harmful mis- and disinformation. Unenforced regulations of paid health advertising online generate false trust
Michigan needs to regulate the cameras reading your license plate (opens the original)
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More than 125 Michigan cities and counties now operate Automated License Plate Reader systems, yet Michigan has no law governing them. The lack of oversight is especially disconcerting given the facts that the data ALPRs collect is available to law enforcement agencies outside the state, the alerts they generate are frequently incorrect and officers use them for personal purposes. Due to the invasive nature of ALPRs, Michigan should regulate them. Most of these cameras are operated by Flock Safe
Slacktivism doesn’t work (opens the original)
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Slacktivism is the practice of supporting a cause through low-effort online actions like sharing posts, signing petitions or participating in viral challenges. One of the most prominent examples, the Ice Bucket Challenge in the summer of 2014, turned slacktivism into a global phenomenon. More than 17 million people posted themselves pouring ice water over their heads on social media, and their efforts raised over $220 million for ALS research in a matter of weeks. The scale of that moment appear
Give Michigan teachers the right to strike (opens the original)
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When Ann Arbor Public Schools teachers returned from winter break this past January, they were without a renewed contract for the first time this century. Teachers began working to rule, which means refusing to provide unpaid supervision of after-school clubs and programs. In addition to this, teachers organized community rallies, drawing more than 1,500 teachers and students to publicly oppose the district’s offer. After months of negotiation, the district and union reached a tentative agreemen
America won’t have high-speed rail anytime soon (opens the original)
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Traveling from Ann Arbor to Chicago by train takes about four and a half hours and can cost up to $100 on Amtrak, the only state-owned interstate passenger rail company. With a new high-speed rail connection between these two cities, passengers would make that trip in under two hours. High-speed rail differs from standard rail by traveling on straight, level rail and exceeding speeds of 100 MPH. However, such a train does not currently exist in the United States. Despite sufficient technology an
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