Strange News: Crowdsourced Looting, Dumb Passwords, and the US as a 'Backsliding' Democracy
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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4.2 • 11K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
An NGO called the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance has classified the United States as a backsliding democracy. A list of popular passwords may indicate people are increasingly less cautious than they should be. Multiple cities are falling prey to crowdsourced looting, thought to be coordinated in advance via social media. All this and more in this week's Strange News.
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