Episode 1: North Dakota’s Facebook Mercenaries

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Aug 25, 202637:50Science & Medicine

As protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline began to grow in North Dakota, a new seemingly grassroots Facebook page emerged. In this episode we meet the hired gun behind it, Robert Rice, who was working for the pipeli...

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