With a wooden cross towering behind her, Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters took the stage on September 16 at the Appleton Christian Church. The crowd came to its feet, shouting cheers and chants of “Tina! Tina! Tina!” The moment was a triumphant return for the western Colorado community’s top elections official after weeks […]
Author: AJ Vicens
The Extreme Right’s Favorite Web Provider Just Got Hacked
Epik, the domain registrar known for hosting far-right websites and social media services, was recently hacked, according to a release from someone claiming to be associated with the online collective known as Anonymous. “This dataset is all that’s needed to trace actual ownership and management of the fascist side of the Internet.” As first reported […]
I Did Social Media for a Baseball Team. My Boss Was Worried I’d Sleep With the Players.
It was one of the first things he said to me. The team’s general manager told me, the social media manager, that I couldn’t speak to players—because I might sleep with them. How do you successfully leverage social media without access to the one thing people care about in sports? It was a trip. I […]