📡 Dishes From Elon Musk's Starlink Are Being Smuggled Into Iran

Plus: All the Metals We Mined in 2021, Dominion Voting Systems CEO speaks out against conspiracy theories, and more…

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Dishes From Elon Musk's Starlink Are Being Smuggled Into Iran. Starlink receivers have begun to arrive inside Iran, smuggled into the country in hopes of providing a backup internet should the Iranian regime shut down the country's existing system. Starlink, operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX, is a global network… (Karl Vick / Time)

Jason Brodsky @JasonMBrodsky

TIME has confirmed the arrival of the 1st Starlink receivers inside #Iran. Cassette tapes of Khomeini were smuggled into Iran in the lead-up to the 1979 revolution. Fast forward to 2022, Starlink receivers are being smuggled into the country. #MahsaAmini

time.comDishes For Elon Musk’s Starlink Are Being Smuggled Into IranWith the Iranian regime cutting internet access, activists want Elon Musk’s satellite internet system in place as a backup

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All the Metals We Mined in 2021: Visualized. “If you can’t grow it, you have to mine it” is a famous saying that encapsulates the importance of minerals and metals in the modern world. From every building we enter to every device we use, virtually everything around us contains some amount of metal. (Govind Bhutada / Visual Capitalist)

JesseJenkins @JesseJenkins

All the metals the world mined in 2021 to scale. (Squint to find cobalt and lithium) visualcapitalist.com/all-the-metals…

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Dominion Voting Systems CEO speaks out against conspiracy theories. Despite a rash of unsubstantiated claims lobbed against his company, the CEO of Dominion Voting Systems, John Poulos, has remained largely silent. That changed Sunday night on 60 Minutes when Poulos sat down with Anderson Cooper… ( CBS News)

60 Minutes @60Minutes

“I think it [the Dominion case] is much stronger than most defamation cases that I have seen. I might say it is the strongest,” says Lee Levine, a retired First Amendment lawyer who represented most media companies, including CBS and Fox. cbsn.ws/3SnaM1u

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TSMC: the Taiwanese chipmaker caught up in the tech cold war. Washington wants the company that dominates semiconductors to move more production to the US but Taipei is resisting Taiwan greeted Nancy Pelosi as a true friend when the US House Speaker visited the country in August in what was seen as a… (Kathrin Hille & Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times)

Emily Taylor @etaylaw

Really good to see the @FT in-depth analysis of Taiwan’s role in global semiconductor markets. Lots of great stuff here from @KathrinHille and @Dimi . TSMC: the Taiwanese chipmaker caught up in the tech cold war

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The Wire Retracts Its Meta Stories. Statement by The Wire, October 23, 2022 Earlier this week, The Wire announced its decision to conduct an internal review of its recent coverage of Meta, especially the sources and materials involved in our reporting. Our investigation, which is… ( The Wire)

Zoë Schiffer @ZoeSchiffer

The Wire has retracted its Meta stories. It’s also taken down the investigation it did into TekFog. Both involved reporting and technical expertise from Devesh Kumar.

thewire.inThe Wire Retracts Its Meta StoriesGiven the discrepancies that have come to our attention via our review so far, The Wire will also conduct a thorough review of previous reporting done by the technical team involved in our Meta coverage.

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