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- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Sep 17, 2026
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Facing Outraged Residents, Flock Got Help From Group That Uses AI to Rally Public Support (opens the original)
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The debate over Flock cameras in Knoxville, Tennessee, had reached a fever pitch this July when a stay-at-home mom received a text message from a nonprofit group she had never heard of. The group, Neighbors for Strong Communities, asked Ashley Smith to speak out in support of Flock’s controversial license-plate readers. The nonprofit even offered to use artificial intelligence to help her draft an email to public officials. There was only one catch: Smith, a mother of four, said she noticed that
FAA Investigates Drone Pilot Who Films Animal Abusers (opens the original)
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For years, animal rights groups and the agriculture industry have played a cat-and-mouse game over drone videos of conditions at major farms. Angry farmhands faced off against activists who flew their drones overhead, with the operators secure in the knowledge that the Federal Aviation Administration allows licensed pilots to soar over farmland as long as they followed its rules and regulations. Now, a new chapter has opened in these drone wars: The FAA has launched an investigation of an animal
Flock Donations to Local Politicians’ Groups Skyrocket as Protests Against AI Cameras Mount (opens the original)
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As fed-up activists target Flock, the AI-powered surveillance camera company is battling back with a massive increase in donations to associations for mayors and other local officials. Since the beginning of 2025, Flock has given 700 percent more to the partisan groups representing mayors, attorneys general, and governors than in the previous three years. The giving has gone to Democratic and Republican groups alike. Donating to those groups is a time-worn strategy for companies under scrutiny.
Trump Goes After Anonymous Email Provider in Italy. The Real Target Is Free Speech in the U.S. (opens the original)
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In the latest escalation of the Trump administration’s war on the left, the U.S. government’s designation of a popular antifascist webhosting provider as a terror group could shutter a swath of radical websites in the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Wednesday that they were targeting the Italy-based A/I Collective with terror sanctions. Federal law gives the Treasury Department broad discretion to apply the terror label to foreign groups. A wide
Conservative Groups Side With Minneapolis Protesters Against Trump Crackdown (opens the original)
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A trio of conservative and libertarian-leaning groups have asked a federal judge to force the disclosure of confidential files about undercover agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement infiltrating left-wing protest groups in Minneapolis. The Cato Institute, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and the Society for the Rule of Law filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Tuesday arguing that the Trump administration illegally targeted protesters based on their ideology. A
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