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Problem may be on your end, or between you and The Atlantic. I've noticed no such issue, and VirusTotal gives it an all clear.[0]

[0]: https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/1baee95371f0f447bbdc2baa53...

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Looks like an malicious ad placed through RTB. A decent AdExchange should not allow placement of such ads.

Interesting! Been a number of years since I worked for a company based on advertising revenue, but sounds like that malicious ad problem hasn't gone away.

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