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Behind the Blog: With Blogs Like These, Who Needs a Private Jet
By Samantha Cole - 7/3/2026, 10:00 AM - 175 words
Faulty reasoning signals
- Confirmation Bias - 0%
- Anchoring Bias - 0%
- Availability Heuristic - 12.6% (22 hits)
- Representativeness Heuristic - 0%
- Hindsight Bias - 0%
- Overconfidence Bias - 0%
- Framing Effect - 9.1% (16 hits)
- Loss Aversion - 0%
- Status Quo Bias - 0%
- Sunk Cost Effect - 0%
- Optimism Bias - 0%
- Pessimism Bias - 0%
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Behind the Blog: With Blogs Like These, Who Needs a Private Jet
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together.
This week, we discuss the Supreme Court, the private jet, and AI on the TV.
JOSEPH: I used to cover court cases and judge’s opinions a lot more back at Motherboard.
Sometimes it was in cases I broke news in, like that time the FBI secretly ran a dark web child abuse website.
Other times it is big decisions that have wider impacts on privacy, surveillance, and government power.
Here’s big news regarding the latter sort of decision.
I first saw news of it on the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s blog.
As it says at the start: “You have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment, the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled today in Chatrie v.
United States.”