The Most Captivating Stories You Can't Miss This Week
This week for BuzzFeed News, Reggie Ugwu meets the stream weavers. Read that and these other great stories from BuzzFeed and around the web.
Inside the Playlist Factory — BuzzFeed News
Reggie Ugwu discovers how teams of anonymous, hardcore music fans are trying to solve the record industry’s toughest problem. "We’ve come to expect that virtually all of our problems can be solved with code, so much so that we summon it unthinkingly before doing almost anything...But what if music is somehow different?" Read it at BuzzFeed News.
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Documents Raise Disturbing Questions About Detainee Abuse Under Obama — BuzzFeed News
Right after he took office, Barack Obama promised to do away with torture. But documents obtained by Ali Watkins and Aram Roston show for the first time how a harsh interrogation tactic thrived on his watch in Afghanistan. Human rights advocates said it could be inhumane and illegal. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
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How to Make a Police Shooting Disappear — GQ
Sean Flynn reconstructs the secret proceedings that led to the baffling decision not to indict two Cleveland police officers in the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. "Grand jurors, almost without exception, follow where prosecutors lead them. And when they don’t return indictments in high-profile cases, it’s almost always because the prosecutor does not want them to." Read it at GQ.
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Meet North Korea's Number One Fan in the United States — BuzzFeed News
Beimeng Fu meets Ken Roh, a South Korean immigrant who moved to the United States 43 years ago. Now, he’s running a pro–North Korea website, the most visible of a small group of Pyongyang’s devotees in the U.S. Read it at BuzzFeed News.
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