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Meet Mercy and Anita – the African workers driving the AI revolution, for just over a dollar an hour ( www.theguardian.com )

Mercy craned forward, took a deep breath and loaded another task on her computer. One after another, disturbing images and videos appeared on her screen. As a Meta content moderator working at an outsourced office in Nairobi, Mercy was expected to action one “ticket” every 55 seconds during her 10-hour shift. This particular...

In a Violent Nature review – horror unplugged is quietly gruesome ( www.theguardian.com )

A man in a mask is out to get you; that’s the basic drill, and horror fans know it – they love the drill, they worship the drill, they have an endless, insatiable appetite for the drill. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t appreciate innovative variations on the premise: an original choice of weapon, perhaps, or...

Internal memo reveals Anti-Defamation League surveillance of leftwing activist ( www.theguardian.com )

The Anti-Defamation League has surveilled leftwing activists and “regularly tracks, profiles and sends threat assessments of individuals” it perceives as a problem, according to an internal email obtained by the Guardian. The memo shows the ADL collected information on a Black Indianapolis activist, Tatjana Rebelle, who...

Voter ID rule may have stopped 400,000 taking part in UK election, poll suggests ( www.theguardian.com )

More than 400,000 people may have been prevented from voting in the general election because they lacked the necessary ID, with those from minority ethnic communities more than twice as likely to have experienced this, polling has suggested....

Opinion: Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? ( www.theguardian.com )

According to one journalist’s tally, the New York Times has run 192 stories on the subject since the debate, including 50 editorials and 142 news stories. The Washington Post, which has also gone for saturation coverage, published a resignation speech they wrote for him. Not to be outdone, the New Yorker’s editor-in-chief...

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