Monday morning news drop
Spyware is huge threat to global human rights and democracy, expert warns: Cybersecurity expert Ron Deibert to testify to Canadian MPs about troubling spread of invasive surveillance tools. (The Guardian).
This 20% Nasdaq gain doesn’t mean we’re in a new bull market: Explosive rallies are actually more common in bear markets (Marketwatch)
Is America’s Job Market “Too Good”? Federal Reserve officials want to reduce businesses’ demand for workers to put downward pressure on wage growth and contain inflation. Yet the pace of hiring remained strong as of mid-July. (The Overshoot)
Does Crypto Have Any Good Use Cases? Besides making VCs richer, of course. (Nat’s Crypto Newsletter)
YouTube Still Reigns as TikTok Surges Among Teen Social-Media Users, Survey Says More than a third of teens are on social media almost constantly, a Pew Research poll finds. (Wall Street Journal)
30 Things Donald Trump Did as President You Might Have Missed Trump’s presidency may be best remembered for its cataclysmic end. But his four years as president also changed real American policy in lasting ways, just more quietly. We asked POLITICO’s best-in-class policy reporters to recap some of the ways Trump changed the country while in office, for better or worse. (Politico)
Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief. (New Yorker)
Alex Jones’ origin story: 4 moments that shaped the ‘multiplatform prophet of paranoia’ His misinformation brought him fame. Now, it is at the center of the Sandy Hook defamation trial. (Grid)