Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach 'Jew Haters' ProPublica Got Nazi memorabilia to sell? Facebook's self-service ad-buying platform had the right audience for you. Until this week -- when ProPublica asked Facebook about it -- the social network made it possible for advertisers to direct pitches to the news feeds of almost 2,300 people who expressed interest in the topics "Jew hater," "How to burn jews," or, "History of ‘why jews ruin the world.'" Email: Abedin Mom Helped Water Down Clinton Saudi Speech Fox News New emails obtained by Judicial Watch show that Huma Abedin's mother, a lecturer at a Saudi women's college where Hillary Clinton spoke in 2010, helped to water down the then-Secretary of State's speech, warning against mentioning terms like "freedom" and "driving for women." Still More From Snowden's Stolen Trove The Intercept Publishing more from National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Intercept reports on a secret NSA eavesdropping partnership with Ethiopia's draconian security forces; a base in in the English countryside used to direct drones and spy on Arab Spring uprisings; and American spooks' blowing their cover by doing personal shopping on a covert network. Equifax Had Ample Warning to Fix Bug But Did Nothing Wired Equifax had ample prior warning to patch a software bug that allowed hackers to access personal data for over 143 million people. The Apache Software Foundation released a fix for the bug a full two months before the May hacking incident. Worse, the site Equifax created to help people after the hack was left vulnerable too. Anna Nicole Smith's High-Class In-Laws Used Low Ploy Bloomberg To prevail in a struggle over the fortune left by J. Howard Marshall II, the Texas oil billionaire who married Anna Nicole Smith, his heirs deceptively enlisted historically black colleges in an amicus brief. The case illustrates how it's possible for well-funded litigants to stack the deck by generating phony friends of the court. Part two of series. Violent Femmes: The Girl Gangs of El Salvador Pacific Standard As gender-motivated killings have risen in El Salvador over the past decade, so has the number of young women and girls joining gangs. Because adolescent boys fit the standard gangster profile, girls can more easily slip by as drug mules, or to pick up bi-weekly extortion payments. They're inconspicuous foot soldiers -- and excellent cannon fodder. Rainforest Death by Chocolate Guardian The world's chocolate industry is driving deforestation on a devastating scale in West Africa, the Guardian reports. Cocoa traders who sell to Mars, Nestlé, Mondelez and other big brands buy beans grown illegally inside protected areas in the Ivory Coast, where rainforest cover has been reduced by more than 80 percent since 1960. Illegal product is then mixed in with "clean" beans in the supply chain. |