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Dana Ysabel Dela Cruz (they/she) is a Brooklyn-based writer, educator, and grad student at the Pratt Institute School of Information. Their work has appeared in the Santa Barbara Independent, Huffington Post, and AsAmNews.

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Clothing website Shein sells Muslim prayer mats as decor

Dell Cameron was a reporter at the Daily Dot who covered security and politics. In 2015, he revealed the existence of an American hacker on the U.S. government&#8217;s terrorist watchlist. He is a co-author of the Sabu Files, an award-nominated investigation into the FBI&#8217;s use of cyber-informants. He became a staff writer at Gizmodo in 2017.

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Muslims attacked, mosques threatened in wake of Trump travel ban

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A female Lebanese news anchor was told to shut up—here’s what she did instead

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Saudi journalist’s tweets yield death threats

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