By NBC News’ Ed Flanagan
BEIJING – In the past few years China’s Internet vigilantes have mobilized to root out, expose and shame people they perceive to be exhibiting corrupt or immoral behavior.
Marked for their unfettered zeal, the literal translation of the Chinese term for this ad hoc group of sleuthing online activists is: [...]
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NBC News’ Jim Maceda just returned from several weeks of reporting in Afghanistan.
Watch the video below to see a behind-the-scenes tour of how U.S. troops cope with the extenuating circumstances of living in what Maceda calls a booby-trapped ghost town in Afghanistan’s 130 degrees Fahrenheit heat.
After years of reporting on military embeds in Iraq and Afghanistan, Maceda calls [...]
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