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Endorsements Are Manipulation. The Digital Free Press Will Never Make One.
Endorsements spend a newsroom's trust on steering your vote. The Digital Free Press will never make one. Informing is our job. Deciding is yours.

Yossi Schmidt
Oct 264 min read
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A New Look for The Digital Free Press: Introducing Our New Seal
The Digital Free Press is retiring its original handcuffs logo and introducing a new official seal. Our mission is not changing.

Yossi Schmidt
Oct 222 min read
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TDFP News Roundup 10/15/26
The Digital Free Press News Roundup delivers today's biggest headlines with concise summaries and source links. Holding everyone accountable. Informing, not manipulating.

Yossi Schmidt
Oct 156 min read
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An OpenAI Engineer's Bugging Case Cites His Wife's ChatGPT Prompts. OpenAI Didn't Answer TDFP's Privacy Questions.
Prosecutors say a chatbot account tied to the wife of OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan asked how to build and hide a recorder before one turned up in an executive conference room. The Digital Free Press asked OpenAI how her account was linked to him, who reviewed it and how it reached the FBI. OpenAI did not respond to TDFP's request for comment by deadline.

Yossi Schmidt
Oct 144 min read
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EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Tells TDFP Navy Base Filming Suspect Sent Footage to Friends, No Evidence of Foreign Government Ties
The Department of Justice tells The Digital Free Press that Todd Senff, the Camarillo contractor worker charged with secretly filming military jets at Naval Base Ventura County, sent the footage to friends. Prosecutors say they have no evidence of foreign government ties. He faces 14 federal misdemeanor counts.

Yossi Schmidt
Oct 143 min read
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TDFP News Roundup 10/14/26
The Digital Free Press News Roundup delivers today's biggest headlines with concise summaries and source links. Holding everyone accountable. Informing, not manipulating.

Yossi Schmidt
Oct 146 min read
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TDFP News Roundup 10/13/26
The Digital Free Press News Roundup delivers today's biggest headlines with concise summaries and source links. Holding everyone accountable. Informing, not manipulating.

Yossi Schmidt
Oct 137 min read
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San Antonio Files Federal Lawsuit Against Homeland Security Secretary
First report: the City of San Antonio sued the Homeland Security secretary in federal court Oct. 13 (No. 5:26-cv-06542), weeks after officials threatened legal action over an East Side ICE processing center. The docket does not state the claims.

Yossi Schmidt
Oct 134 min read
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Pentagon Supplier Pays $1 Million Over Allegations It Sold the Military Chinese-Made Parts Under "Buy American" Rules. The Case Stayed Under Seal Until This Week.
DOJ says a Pentagon supplier and affiliates paid $1 million over claims they sold the military Chinese-made parts under Buy American rules. A TDFP review of the unsealed docket.

Yossi Schmidt
Oct 123 min read
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TDFP News Roundup 10/12/26
The Digital Free Press News Roundup delivers today's biggest headlines with concise summaries and source links. Holding everyone accountable. Informing, not manipulating.

Yossi Schmidt
Oct 127 min read
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TDFP News Roundup 10/8/26
The Digital Free Press News Roundup delivers today's biggest headlines with concise summaries and source links. Holding everyone accountable. Informing, not manipulating.

Yossi Schmidt
Oct 86 min read
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TDFP News Roundup 10/7/26
The Digital Free Press News Roundup delivers today's biggest headlines with concise summaries and source links. Holding everyone accountable. Informing, not manipulating.

Yossi Schmidt
Oct 77 min read
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TDFP News Roundup 10/6/26
The Digital Free Press News Roundup delivers today's biggest headlines with concise summaries and source links. Holding everyone accountable. Informing, not manipulating.

Yossi Schmidt
Oct 66 min read
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AI Assistant Read a Login Code from a User's Email to Get into His Account. Here Is What We Know.
The Digital Free Press asked Instinct and Cursor whether users are told. Neither had responded as of publication.

Yossi Schmidt
Oct 53 min read
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TDFP X Review (2026)
X open-sourced its algorithm, but it publishes no transparency reports, has no payout rates for creators, and never answered our questions. Grade: 4/10. FAILING.

Yossi Schmidt
Oct 55 min read
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TDFP News Roundup 10/5/26
The Digital Free Press News Roundup delivers today's biggest headlines with concise summaries and source links. Holding everyone accountable. Informing, not manipulating.

Yossi Schmidt
Oct 56 min read
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TDFP News Roundup 9/23/26
The Digital Free Press News Roundup delivers today's biggest headlines with concise summaries and source links. Holding everyone accountable. Informing, not manipulating.

Yossi Schmidt
Sep 236 min read
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Before Camelot Came Merlin—and The Pendragon Cycle Is Worth Watching
By Yossi Schmidt, Founder of The Digital Free Press RATING: 8.4/10 The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin is exactly the kind of project I want to see succeed: ambitious, unapologetic about its values, and willing to build something instead of spending another decade complaining about Hollywood. Based on Stephen R. Lawhead’s novels, the seven-episode DailyWire+ series goes back before King Arthur, before Camelot, and before the Round Table. It begins with Taliesin and Charis

Yossi Schmidt
Sep 173 min read
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TDFP News Roundup 9/17/26
The Digital Free Press News Roundup delivers today's biggest headlines with concise summaries and source links. Holding everyone accountable. Informing, not manipulating.

Yossi Schmidt
Sep 175 min read
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TDFP News Roundup 9/16/26
The Digital Free Press News Roundup delivers today's biggest headlines with concise summaries and source links. Holding everyone accountable. Informing, not manipulating.

Yossi Schmidt
Sep 165 min read
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