This day in history

2001, 2006, 2016, 2020

#20yrsago American lies about Canadian health care https://web.archive.org/web/20001018035352/https://washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/0007.marmorsul.html

#20yrsago Definitive primer on search-engine optimization https://web.archive.org/web/20010618232354/http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/templates/print_template.htmlt?meta=/webmonkey/01/23/index1a_meta.html

#15yrsago Duran Duran moves to Second Life, will gig there http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5253782.stm?ls

#5yrsago Researchers learn about wire-fraud scam after Nigerian scammers infect themselves with their own malware https://www.secureworks.com/research/wire-wire-a-west-african-cyber-threat

#5yrsago Foreign influence: how a Chinese businessman funneled $1.3M to Jeb Bush’s campaign https://theintercept.com/2016/08/03/gop-lawyer-chinese-owned-company-us-presidential-politics/

#1yrago California DMV’s $50m/year data selloff https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#you-are-the-product

#1yrago Novartis’s $678m bribery scandal https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/07/tired-of-winning/#novartis

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