Everett Rutherford Jr

By Trudy Rutherford, aunt of Matthew Heath September 11 is a hard day for many Americans. We are reminded each year of the terrorist attack that killed so many innocents. While I didn’t lose anyone on that day in 2001, on that anniversary date I often reflect on what my country means to me. But on September 11, 2020, that date took on a new and horrible meaning for me and my family. I was in the kitchen at my home in Tennessee when the phone rang. It was my brother, Robert.

Why a story about a Tinder campaign bot in the UK should prompt a push for online campaign transparency In an opinion piece Thursday at the New York Times, Yara Rodriguez Fowler and Charlotte Goodman explained how they used the dating app Tinder to try to sway key voters in during this spring’s UK election. The pair recruited two developers who created a bot designed to engage in an automated conversation with other users via the app’s messaging service.