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 […]
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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 […]
Twitter’s Censorship Problem Looks Like It’s Here to Stay…
Twitter’s censorship problem looks like it’s here to stay. The company faced a sharp backlash last week after a Vice News investigation revealed that Twitter was hiding several prominent Republicans from its search bar. Those affected included four House Republicans: Rep. Devin Nunes of California, Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio […]
Sen. Mark Warner Floats Major Tech Company Regulations That Don’t Include Breakups…
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), a frequent critic of big tech companies’ behavior, has been floating a list of 20 options for regulating web platforms. Axios, which published the white paper today, says it was prepared by Warner’s staff and has been “circulated in tech policy circles in recent weeks.” The document includes proposals for three […]
Activist Publishes 11,000 Private DMs Between Wikileaks and Its Supporters…
Wikileaks is possibly the most opaque transparency organization. The group, founded by Julian Assange, sometimes hides its true motives, and has not published any information about its own finances in years, despite amassing tens of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency. Now, an activist who has developed an adversarial relationship with the group has published […]
How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies by Zach Dorfman…
In the fall of 1989, during the Cold War’s wan and washed-out final months, the Berlin Wall was crumbling—and so was San Francisco. The powerful Loma Prieta earthquake, the most destructive to hit the region in more than 80 years, felled entire apartment buildings. Freeway overpasses shuddered and collapsed, swallowing cars like a sandpit. Sixty-three […]
Amazon’s Facial Recognition Tech Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress with Arrest Mugshots…
Amazon Rekognition, the controversial facial recognition tool from the Silicon Valley tech giant, has falsely matched 28 members of US Congress with mugshots in its database, a new report from the American Civil Liberties Union revealed today. “These results demonstrate why Congress should join the ACLU in calling for a moratorium on law enforcement use […]
Judges Hear Warning on Prosecution of WikiLeaks…
Prosecuting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing leaked documents related to the 2016 presidential election would set a terrible precedent for journalists, the top lawyer for The New York Times said Tuesday. Addressing a room full of federal and circuit judges at the Ninth Circuit’s annual judicial conference, David McCraw, the deputy general counsel for […]
Twitter Is ‘Shadow Banning” Prominent Republicans Like the RNC Chair and Members of Congress…
Twitter is limiting the visibility of prominent Republicans in search results — a technique known as “shadow banning” — in what it says is a side effect of its attempts to improve the quality of discourse on the platform. The Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel, several conservative Republican congressmen, and Donald Trump Jr.’s spokesman no […]
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