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N ever underestimate the power of one determined person. What Carole Cadwalladr has done to Facebook and big data , and Edward Snowden has done to the state security complex , the young Kazakhstani sc
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PORTLAND, Ore.—Victor Pierce has worked on the assembly line of a Daimler Trucks North America plant here since 1994. But he says that in recent years he’s experienced things that seem straight out of
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Lisk Feng for BuzzFeed News Two years ago , people were writing eulogies for Twitter. Rudderless and without product direction, the company was losing users and advertisers, and seemed unable to conta