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Chinese cops now spying on American soil (Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Daily Beast)

China is compiling a global registry of its ethnic minorities who have fled persecution, threatening to detain the families of those who don’t comply. The message: Nowhere is safe.

U.S. House candidates vulnerable to hacks: researchers (Joseph Menn, Reuters)
Three of every 10 candidates running for the U.S. House of Representatives have significant security problems with their websites, according to a new study by independent researchers that underscores the threat hackers pose to the November elections.

The fake-news fallacy (Adrian Chen, New Yorker)
Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the Internet.

No, you can’t vote via text or tweet (Alexa Corse and Dustin Volz, Wall Street Journal)
As midterm elections loom, state officials and social-media companies combat disinformation on how to vote

The next record-breaking fire will happen soon. So how will California pay for it? (The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Time)
California’s lawmakers are considering how much of the cost of fires sparked by electrical equipment should be paid by taxpayers and how much by utility companies.

Trump administration’s terrorism claims omit crucial available data (Harsha Panduranga and Faiza Patel, Just Security)
A key strategy in the Trump administration’s advocacy for its signature Muslim ban and “extreme vetting” policy initiatives has been to portray immigrants as especially prone to violence and terrorism, and as serious national security threats. The administration has advanced this narrative by misleadingly presenting government data to paint a picture that is at odds with copious empirical evidence. (Cont.)