An attorney filed a sentencing memo on behalf of former House IT aide Imran Awan, claiming that President Donald Trump, other Republicans, and “conspiratorial media” attacks serve as a sufficient substitute for jail time for his client’s bank fraud conviction. Attorney Chris Gowen, a former aide to Hillary Clinton, argued to Judge Tanya Chutkan, a […]
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Japan, U.S. Authorities Investigate Apple Under Anti-Monopoly Act…
Japanese and US authorities are investigating allegations that Apple pressured Yahoo Japan to pull back from a game platform which competes with the App store, according to Nikkei. The move is the latest effort by regulators to address suspected anti-competitive behavior by American tech titans – The Fair Trade Commission and the industry ministry began […]
After Suspending Personal Account of Alex Jones, Twitter Restricts Infowars As Well…
Following the suspension of Infowars founder Alex Jones, Twitter has restricted the Infowars account as well. The account will be restricted from tweeting, but will still be able to browse Twitter and send direct messages to other users, while users will still be able to view the account, reports BuzzFeed News…
Senator Mark Warner Proposes the End of Free Speech – The Revenge of Hillary…
Senate Democrats are circulating a proposal based upon their claim of Russian hacking that will completely takeover the internet and social media which has been leaked. They are adopting the EU approach to silence political criticism. They claim it is necessary, just as the EU argued, that they must act to prevent Russian hackers and […]
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Infowars Website Traffic Explodes After Silicon Valley Blacklists Alex Jones Empire…
Silicon Valley’s coordinated purge of all things Infowars from social media has had an unexpected result; website traffic to Infowars.com has soared in the past week, according to Amazon’s website ranking service Alexa. Infowars was recently banned by YouTube, Facebook, iTunes, Google Podcast, Spotify, iHeartRadio, MailChimp, Disqus, LinkedIn, Flickr, Pinterest and several others – leading […]
The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views…
Martin Vassilev makes a good living selling fake views on YouTube videos. Working from home in Ottawa, he has sold about 15 million views so far this year, putting him on track to bring in more than $200,000, records show. Mr. Vassilev, 32, does not provide the views himself. His website, 500Views.com, connects customers with […]
Behind the Scenes at the Twitter Purge – With Peter Van Buren and Scott Horton (VIDEO)…
From Consortiumnews.com – “On the premiere edition of Consortium News Radio we speak with Peter Van Buren, a former State Department official, whistleblower and victim of Twitter censorship. Van Buren speaks about his experiences in Iraq, the critical book he wrote about those experiences and how the Obama State Department eventually attempted to have him […]
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DNC Serves WikiLeaks With Lawsuit Via Twitter…
The Democratic National Committee on Friday officially served its lawsuit to WikiLeaks via Twitter, employing a rare method to serve its suit to the elusive group that has thus far been unresponsive. As CBS News first reported last month, the DNC filed a motion with a federal court in Manhattan requesting permission to serve its […]
GAB Challenges Microsoft’s ’48 Hour’ Threat ‘to be pulled from its service’…
Hosting Provider Microsoft has given Twitter alternative “Gab” 48 hours to take action against two of its user posts or to be pulled from its service, according to a tweet from Gab. “Big Tech, stop trying to control what people are allowed to read on the Internet,” tweeted Preston Byrne, an Adam Smith Institute Fellow […]
Beware the Slippery Slope of Facebook Censorship…
You may have seen a story this week detailing how Facebook shut down a series of accounts. As noted by Politico, Facebook claimed these accounts “sought to inflame social and political tensions in the United States, and said their activity was similar — and in some cases connected — to that of Russian accounts during […]
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Inside Google’s Effort to Develop a Censored Search Engine in China…
Google analyzed search terms entered into a Beijing-based website to help develop blacklists for a censored search engine it has been planning to launch in China, according to confidential documents seen by The Intercept. Engineers working on the censorship sampled search queries from 265.com, a Chinese-language web directory service owned by Google. Unlike Google.com and […]
Deconstructing Campbell’s Smear Campaign Yields A Blueprint for Propaganda by Adam Carter…
On November 14, 2017, I wrote an article titled “RussiaGate Redux: Part Three,” in which I was critical of what was, in my opinion, a propaganda piece that sought to undermine news of a meeting between Bill Binney, former NSA technical director and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, and Mike Pompeo, US Secretary […]
Google Struggles to Contain Employee Uproar Over China Censorship Plans…
Google bosses were scrambling to contain leaks and internal anger on Wednesday after the company’s confidential plan to launch a censored version of its search engine in China was revealed by The Intercept. Just a few hundred of Google’s massive 88,000-strong workforce had been briefed on the project prior to the revelations, which triggered a […]
Google to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal…
Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest, The Intercept can reveal. The project – code-named Dragonfly – has been underway since spring of last year, and accelerated following a December 2017 meeting between […]
Facebook Cuts Off ‘Hundreds of Thousands’ of Apps in Privacy Crackdown Following Cambridge Analytica Scandal…
Facebook is cutting off ‘hundreds of thousands’ of inactive apps as part of a broader effort to improve user data privacy on the platform. The social media giant said it had shut down apps that didn’t follow the rules around its new review process, created in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In May, […]
‘We Are Not Bots’: Facebook Censors U.S. Activists After Falsely Claiming They ‘Unwittingly’ Planned Protest…
Facebook on Tuesday announced its banning of eight pages, 17 profiles, and seven Instagram accounts that engaged in what it described as online political activity that was both “inauthentic” and ultimately an “abuse” of its platform. While the activity was not attributed to anybody specific, the implication was clear, and at several points, the company […]
Facebook Removes 32 Pages/Accounts for Suspected Disinformation Campaign…
Today we removed 32 Pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram because they were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior. This kind of behavior is not allowed on Facebook because we don’t want people or organizations creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they are, or what they’re doing. We’re still in the very […]
Facial Recognition Gives Police a Powerful New Tracking Tool. It’s Also Raising Alarms…
Picture a crowded street. Police are searching for a man believed to have committed a violent crime. To find him, they feed a photograph into a video surveillance network powered by artificial intelligence. A camera, one of thousands, scans the street, instantly analyzing the faces of everyone it sees. Then, an alert: The algorithms found […]
What Does It Take to Put a Waterfall on a Skyscraper?…
You don’t see this very often—a 350-foot artificial waterfall pouring out of a skyscraper. It looks cool, but it also looks expensive. Gushing water isn’t free: You not only have to get the H2O, but you need energy to bring it to the top of the building. This is why the building only runs this […]
TSA Is Tracking Regular Travelers Like Terrorists in Secret Surveillance…
Federal air marshals have begun following ordinary US citizens not suspected of a crime or on any terrorist watch list and collecting extensive information about their movements and behavior under a new domestic surveillance program that is drawing criticism from within the agency. The previously undisclosed program, called “Quiet Skies,” specifically targets travelers who “are […]
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