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Rebecca Redeker is The Daily Dot’s Fall 2024 FOIA Intern. She is a Journalism student, pursuing a minor in General Business at the University of Maryland. Rebecca has been published in The Greenbelt News Review, worked with The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism and produced commercials in a team for the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

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