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Emily Elena Dugdale

@eedugdale.bsky.social
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🇨🇴 she/her journalist in LA. I write about jails (+ other stuff). Executive editor of @lapublicpress.bsky.social

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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Newsom just put new limits on ICE. Here’s what’s changing in LA: Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 21 immigration bills into law, including new rules targeting ICE detention centers, unmarked rental vehicles, and courthouse arrests. lapublicpress.org/2026/10/la-n...
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Newsom just put new limits on ICE. Here’s what’s changing in LA
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 21 immigration bills into law, including new rules targeting ICE detention centers, unmarked rental vehicles, and courthouse arrests.
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Shot On 35mm @shoton35mm.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
My 15th time in the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker 😡 'Reporter ticketed, jabbed with police baton at LA protest' @freedom.press pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incident...
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Reporter ticketed, jabbed with police baton at LA protest
L.A. Taco reporter Lexis-Olivier Ray was cited by police, kettled and shoved with a police baton while covering a workers’ …
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
What Extreme Heat Is Like in U.S. Prisons
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Summer Heat in Prison: Just How Hot Are Our Nation’s Prisons?
Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how hot their prisons get in the summer. One prison reached 117 degrees.
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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
FCC to journalists: cover the Iran war the way the president prefers or lose your broadcast license.
Brendan Carr tweet: Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up.  

The law is clear.  Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. 

And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters.

The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. 

It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news.

When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong.  It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media.  And we can’t allow that to happen.

Time for change!

Trump "Truth":

Yet again, an intentionally misleading headline by the Fake News Media about the five tanker planes that were supposedly struck down at an Airport in Saudi Arabia, and of no further use. In actuality, the Base was hit a few days ago, but the planes were not “struck” or “destroyed.” Four of the five had virtually no damage, and are already back in service. One had slightly more damage, but will be in the air shortly. None were destroyed, or close to that, as the Fake News said in headlines. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (in particular), and other Lowlife “Papers” and Media actually want us to lose the War. Their terrible reporting is the exact opposite of the actual facts! They are truly sick and demented people that have no idea the damage they cause the United States of America. Fortunately, as proven by our Great and Conclusive Election Win in 2024, the People of our Country understand what is happening far better than the Fake News Media! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Sam Levine @samrlevine.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Breaking news: A jury convicted people who protested outside an ICE facility in Texas of providing material support to terrorists, and other charges in a closely watched case in which the gov't argued the protesters were "Antifa". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas
Case was seen as major test of the first amendment and whether the US could use broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters
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Shot On 35mm @shoton35mm.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
We're at 55% of our $25,000 goal to help me launch @lataco.bsky.social investigative news desk. Thanks so much to everyone who has contributed or shared our fundraiser! We're already putting the money we've raised to use 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Donate here - givebutter.com/la-taco-inve...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.

But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.

He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.

He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
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Madeleine Vasaly @madeleinevasaly.com · 08/01/2026
Minneapolis.
Demonstrators at the January 7, 2026, evening vigil for Renee Nicole Good. A tall flag reads "Fuck ICE."
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Bryna Godar @bgodar.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Wrote a piece for @slate.com explaining that states have a long history of prosecuting federal officers when they allegedly use excessive force. Federal officers are only immune from such prosecutions when they act reasonably in carrying out lawful duties.
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Minnesota Could Prosecute the ICE Shooter. Trump Can’t Pardon Him.
Shortly after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, city leaders began looking into whether the officer had violated state criminal law.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.
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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 17/12/2025
AI Fellow @eedugdale.bsky.social & Hanisha Harjani revealed that Match Group knew for years about abusive users but chose to keep millions of customers unaware. Stephen Matthews was first reported for rape to Hinge in 2020. Only his arrest in 2023 got him off the apps. bit.ly/4b7RCrp
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Dating App Cover-Up: How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps
Editor’s note: Graphic details could be offensive or disturbing to some readers. The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its...
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Julie Patel Liss @juliepatel.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Thanks to my sources; editors Jenna Chandler @zenagrossa.bsky.social @eedugdale.bsky.social @rina.bsky.social; LAPP's design/web/audience team (like Alyson Yee & @adelcidlugo.bsky.social); and publisher Matthew Tinoco for all your help.
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Tiny homes are a flawed solution to LA’s homelessness crisis, investigation finds
Investigation uncovers flooding, broken heaters, and safety concerns. Critically, more than half of residents end up homeless when leaving LA’s tiny home villages.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
hooooooooly shit he is not fucking around
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
What we know so far, 9:30pm —Dems flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani up —Dems seem to flip 2 statewide offices in GA —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincy. —Dems sweep Orlando council —PA: Dem justices up big —Maine anti-mail vote measure down —Krasner wins
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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
it's almost like running young, leftist, authentic politicians MOTIVATE VOTERS
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Eelaware @eelaware.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
And then the entire politics staff was fired. RIP Teen Vogue.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Is it good when federal judges have to schedule Sunday night 10 pm hearings about absurd military invasions of their state.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if a federal judge has to remind you (multiple times) that you’re a lawyer and an officer of the court?
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Emily Elena Dugdale @eedugdale.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
In 2023, I wrote about a young veteran who ended his life in jail as LASD sheriff’s deputies watched videos on their computers and failed to perform standard welfare checks in his dorm. Today, his family revealed new evidence that deputies also falsified safety check records.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...
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We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract
404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.
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Washington Post Guild @postguild.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The right to speak freely is the ultimate personal liberty and the foundation of Karen’s 11-year career at The Post. We’re proud to call Karen a colleague and a longtime union sibling. The Post Guild stands with her and will continue to support her and defend her rights.
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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Their jails are atrocious and unsafe. The OIG for the LA County Sheriffs reported that from April to June, seven people died in the department’s custody. Of those seven, four were suicides. YTD, the department has reported 36 in-custody deaths.
In-Custody Deaths
Between April 1 and June 30, 2025, eight people died in the care and custody of the Sheriff's Department. The Department of Medical Examiner's (DME) website currently reflects the manner of death for seven deaths: two natural, one accidental, and four suicides. There were no homicides. For the one remaining death, the DME finding is
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Emily Elena Dugdale @eedugdale.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit today against LASD and LA County over “unconstitutional and inhumane conditions” at LA County jails. Bonta highlights that we’re on track to have “more in-custody deaths in 2025 than at any time in the past twenty years.”
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Emily Elena Dugdale @eedugdale.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Context in our @lapublicpress @latimes collab from September: @keribla.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Spotty redactions and public records reveal names of deputies in case against D.A. advisor
State prosecutors fought to keep the deputies' names secret. An investigation by The Times and LA Public Press identified them.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/06/2025
How one Los Angeles complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city’s housing crisis. “I didn’t know how to explain it to her. I just said, ‘No, we aren’t going to move.'”
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These Los Angeles tenants are saying no to rent hikes
How one complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city's housing crisis.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 22/06/2025
The mayor of Huntington Park had formally directed the police department to enforce laws against ICE concerning unmarked vehicles, visible license plates and required agency identification.
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Huntington Park mayor directs police to enforce ICE agents’ self-identification
Huntington Park Mayor Arturo Flores released a statement Saturday, condemning what he called “masked abductions” amid immigration raids across Los Angeles County, and directing police to intervene …
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Emily Elena Dugdale @eedugdale.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Headed to #IRE2025 and a reminder that you can always say no to this ❌
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Federal agents attack press and protesters with pepper balls at DTLA’s federal building during protests against ICE arrests. @shoton35mm.bsky.social reporting on the scene.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!
The Rwanda arrangements were first reported by the Washington Post, which also cited work by an independent journalist who had uncovered the recent deportation from the U.S. of an Iraqi national to Rwanda.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 30/04/2025
The US used to have free to low tuition until schools couldn't discriminate based on race
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
This UCLA psychiatrist's expert evaluation of ex-sheriff Alex Villanueva is ... really something. (The county hired Cohen to do this eval to determine whether Villanueva had really suffered emotional distress as a result of being put on a "Do Not Rehire" list, as he alleged in his lawsuit.)
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/04/2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about strikes in Yemen to a second unclassified Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4jBQ1wV
Pete Hegseth is pictured wearing a blue suit, looking to his left. A headline reads: "Pete Hegseth Said to Have Shared Sensitive Attack Details in Second Signal Chat." Photo by Eric Lee/The New York Times
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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 17/04/2025
“If you’re in a bar, and someone’s being creepy to you, you’re going to tell the bartender or the bouncer and that guy is going to get kicked out… With these apps, the bouncer didn’t work.” — @eedugdale.bsky.social, lead reporter, The Dating Apps Reporting Project twp.ai/9PQx0X
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Investigating the Systemic Failures Enabling Abuse on Dating Apps
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt for their decision not to turn the planes around on March 15. He orders them either to fix their mistake or identify who made those decisions (presumably for further sanctions).
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Emily Elena Dugdale @eedugdale.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
“Substance-use related” incident sent three incarcerated youths in LA County to the hospital and cancelled visitation at Los Padrinos this weekend, according to the probation department.
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
By 2022, 40% of the buses weren’t working, as @eedugdale.bsky.social reported at the time: laist.com/news/crimina...
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Nearly 40% Of LASD Jail Buses Are Out Of Service, And Some Incarcerated People Are Missing Court Dates
The transportation shortage has wreaked havoc on courtroom schedules.
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
In THEORY the point of jail is to make sure people show up to court - but since 2018 LASD has often failed to get them there At one point >80% of buses were broken & 1/3 of inmates were missing court dates. My latest @latimes.com is a deep dive on how it came to this www.latimes.com/california/s...
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L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. can't get inmates to court on time, angering judges, delaying justice
Moving defendants from jails to courts is one of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department's main responsibilities. For more than half a decade, it's struggled to get that done, infuriating lawyers, advoca...
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James Queally @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The problem isn't new. Our friend @eedugdale.bsky.social wrote this story way back in 2022. But it has gotten worse in the past year, per attorneys, judges, prosecutors, anyone I speak to in an L.A. courthouse, ever. laist.com/news/crimina...
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Nearly 40% Of LASD Jail Buses Are Out Of Service, And Some Incarcerated People Are Missing Court Dates
The transportation shortage has wreaked havoc on courtroom schedules.
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James Queally @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The L.A. Sheriff's Department can't get inmates to jail on time thanks to a years-long bus crisis, sowing courtroom chaos, infuriating judges and leading to people getting injured in jail when held longer than they should be. Latest from @keribla.bsky.social & me: www.latimes.com/california/s...
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L.A. sheriffs can't get inmates to court on time, angering judges, delaying justice
Moving defendants from jails to courts is one of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department's main responsibilities. For more than half a decade, it's struggled to get that done, infuriating lawyers, advoca...
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Earlier today the LA Times had AI-generated counterpoints to a column from @gustavoarellano.bsky.social. His piece argued that Anaheim, the city he grew up in, should not forget its KKK past. The AI "well, actually"-ed the KKK. It has since been taken off the piece. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/03/2025
1. Happening now, the United States Senate is considering S9, a bill that would ban transgender people from playing sports of their gender identity from chess to darts and everything in between. It could result in genital exams and more. I'm covering live. Watch: www.senate.gov/legislative/...
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Emily Elena Dugdale @eedugdale.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
California Attorney General Ron Bonta indicts 30(!!) probation officers for their role in allowing and/or encouraging fights between youths at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall.
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Stephanie Wolf @stephrwolf.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
On @npr.org this morning, @eedugdale.bsky.social talking about The Dating Apps Reporting Project. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...
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Investigation finds online dating conglomerate slow to ban users accused of assault
NPR speaks with reporter Emily Elena Dugdale about an investigation into online dating conglomerate The Match Group that found the company is slow to ban users after they're accused of assault.
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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 17/02/2025
Steven Matthews was first reported for rape to #Hinge in 2020. Only his arrest, in 2023, got him off the apps. AI Fellow @eedugdale.bsky.social & Hanisha Harjani reveal why this happened in this report for @themarkup.org, @theguardian.com & @19thnews.org! pulitzercenter.org/stories/dati...
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Dating App Cover-Up: How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps
Editor’s note: Graphic details could be offensive or disturbing to some readers. The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its...
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Tech Transparency Project @ttp-updates.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Match Group made a show of hiring trust & safety workers to assure users it platform was safe. When negative media attention and congressional scrutiny died down, the company laid off its core safety team and outsourced their jobs. Read more from @eedugdale.bsky.social & Hanisha Harjani:
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Rape under wraps: how Tinder, Hinge and their corporate owner chose profits over safety
Match Group has known for years about abusive users on its dozen dating apps, but leaves millions of people in the dark
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Kim Chandler McDonald @kimcmcd.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The latest @cybersecadvisors.net (In)Securities - issue #125 - features articles by: @bvig.bsky.social @mrdolores.bsky.social @connorjonespwns.bsky.social @eedugdale.bsky.social @grahamcluley.com @jessicalyons.bsky.social + more! MY APPRECIATION TO ALL WRITERS & SOURCES! 1/4 tinyurl.com/yp7ahtr2
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Cybersecurity Advisors Network (CyAN) on LinkedIn: CyAN Cyber (In)Securities Issue #125
Dear CyAN Community, Welcome to edition #125 of the CyAN (In)Securities newsletter. As the digital landscape continually evolves, so too do the challenges and…
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Emily Elena Dugdale @eedugdale.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Not the prison texting app asking for vday money!
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