Twitter, Facebook Target Accounts Spreading Misinformation on Hong Kong Protests

Twitter Inc. TWTR 2.76% took down more than 900 accounts linked to the Chinese government that were spreading misinformation about the protests in Hong Kong, the company said Monday. These accounts were deliberately and specifically attempting to sow poli…
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Opinion | Whatever Trump wants on trade, do the opposite

President Trump is my North Star. Kind of. Whatever policy recommendation he makes family separations at the border, tax cuts for the super-rich, pulling out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) I can be virtually certain that he is wrong. Use him as a guid…
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Opinion | Israel’s ban on Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib lays bare its oppressive reality

Hagai El-Ad is executive director of BTselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. If Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) had been allowed by Israel to visit her family in the Palestinian village of Beit Ur al-Fauqa, she migh…
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Opinion | Why doom and gloom won’t help us fight climate change

Bruce Beehler, an ornithologist and naturalist, is the author of 12 books, the most recent being Natural Encounters: Biking, Hiking, and Birding Through the Seasons. Early one morning not long ago, I rose from a chair on my porch in Bethesda to gaze at a ro…
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