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Susan is a freelance writer following humanity one UGC at a time.

Susan LaMarca

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“In the USA, health is a business”: Doctor details the major price difference of medicine in India vs. United States

Katherine Huggins is a New York-based journalist and freelance contributor to the Daily Dot&#8217;s tech and politics section.

Katherine Huggins

Elon Musk over his own tweet "No, we need more like double that number yesterday! The number of people who are super talented engineers ... motivated in the USA is far too low. Think of this like a pro sports team: if you want your TEAM... championship, you need to recruit top talent who.... enables the whole team to win."

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Right-wingers turn on Elon Musk over his latest immigration stance

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Laura Loomer launches shockingly vulgar tirade against Marjorie Taylor Greene

Divya is an independent writer based in Bengaluru, India covering issues on social justice and governance.

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WhatsApp’s 100 billion daily messages in India are all under the BJP’s watchful eye

Srishti Jaswal is an award-winning journalist based in India, after stints in Paris and Berlin. She writes on politics, tech, human rights and governance.

Srishti Jaswal

Facial recognition technology on face of Ganesha

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Holiest Hindu pilgrimages are now training grounds for authoritarian AI algorithms

Arbab Ali is an independent reporter based in New Delhi, India. He tweets @arbabali_jmi.

Arbab Ali

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Modi turned India’s influencers into an army of YouTube puppets

Sabah Gurmat is a freelance journalist presently based in Mumbai, India. She has been writing primarily on issues of law, human rights, and the intersection of tech with civil liberties.

Sabah Gurmat

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Cow vigilantes are flooding social media with videos of violent crimes—and becoming celebrities online

Shweta Desai is an independent journalist and researcher based in Mumbai.

Shweta Desai

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Cow pee drinkers are becoming social media stars in India—and pushing dangerous claims

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Surveilled and exploited by intrusive technology, workers across India are rising up together

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Childcare workers in India rise up in protest over government-run nutrition-tracking app

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India is creating a ‘surveillance segregation’ state by tracking lower-caste workers

Samira Sadeque is a New York-based journalist reporting on immigration, sexual violence, and mental health, and will sometimes write about memes and dinosaurs too. Her work also appears in Reuters, NPR, and NBC among other publications. She graduated from Columbia Journalism School, and her work has been nominated for SAJA awards. Follow: @Samideque

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