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Justin Ling

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Covers:  Disinformation, Russia/Ukraine, policing, national security, politics
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How the conspiracy theory about biolabs in Ukraine went viral

How the conspiracy theory about biolabs in Ukraine went viral

Investigative reporter Justin Ling exposes how a conspiracy theory about biolabs in Ukraine started with a si…

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How a Major Toy Company Kept 4chan Online

How a Major Toy Company Kept 4chan Online

Documents obtained by WIRED confirm that Good Smile, which licenses toy production for Disney, was an investo…

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This webcomic made it okay to be sad online. Then its artist vanished.

This webcomic made it okay to be sad online. Then its artist vanished.

The author of 'Pictures for Sad Children' went AWOL after a 2014 Kickstarter drama. In an exclusive interview…

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A Chain of Fools

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By Justin Ling Verified
| Bug-eyed and Shameless
Renaud Camus, surrounded by his disciples It’s 1898 and Sergei Witte is trying to destroy the old Russia. As finance minister to Tsar Nicholas II, Witte modernized the state, got the railways in shape, pushed the empire onto the gold standard, signed advantageous trade deals with Russia’s neighbors, started the engine of industrialization — and he was just getting started. The dithering and indecisive tsar had to be led by the nose to do anything, and Witte was doing exactly that.
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Opinion | Mark Carney has a grand unifying theory of the economy. Unfortunately, he’s not acting on it

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By Justin Ling Verified
| The Toronto Star Verified
Doing that, he explained in a speech to the University College London, is a job for “one of the hottest fields in economic policy — macroprudential policy.” Carney has a different definition of “hot” from the rest of us. But boring as it sounds, the prime minister’s grand theory is worth understanding. It explains something he’s getting fantastically wrong about Canada’s interminable housing crisis. What’s macroprudential policy?
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Opinion | I’ve studied the ‘incel’ culture that fuelled the Montreal shooting and solutions are hard to find

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By Justin Ling Verified
| The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON) Verified
“We have a new saint among us,” a user wrote to his online buddies Monday evening. Attached were three images that had spread around social media: The first, showing a young man crouching down, clad in camouflage. In the next photo he’s running, rifle in hand, a murdered Montreal police officer at his feet. In the third, he’s face down, dead. Other users on the message board joined in the celebration. “New Canadian hero,” one wrote. Others were sad the shooter hadn’t killed more.
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