The California Courier likes to run Facebook ads against Democrats. Its funding, and most of its writers, are a mystery.

Could this mysterious California news site influence the 2026 election? The California Courier uses the name of an established paper and doesn’t disclose apparent Republican ties. Critics call it ...

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On a recent Monday, Eric Natividad woke up around 8 a.m., showered, ate breakfast, and braced himself for a day of being tracked. Natividad, 32, is a student at Mt. San Antonio College, which is one ...

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This story was copublished with Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for its newsletters here. Last summer, administrators at Bradford High School in Kenosha, ...

We’ve all experienced slow and inconsistent mobile data connections—speed varies with topography and proximity to cellphone towers, making it hard to measure. We used data from a 2016 FCC study that ...

Facebook’s recommendation algorithm shows different news, groups, and hashtags to different users. But who sees what? Split Screen attempts to answer that question with real world data collected ...

Across the country, more than 2,600 police and close to 600 fire departments have partnerships with Ring, the popular doorbell camera company that was acquired by Amazon in 2018. In 2018 and 2019, ...

Seven years ago, Allstate Corporation told Maryland regulators it was time to update its auto insurance rates. The insurer said its new, sophisticated risk analysis showed it was charging nearly all ...

For many people, an app malfunctioning is scarcely more than an annoyance. But for a Honduran immigrant living in Pennsylvania, a recent glitch elicited fears about the worst-case scenario: that it ...