Russian disinformation has become a problem for European governments. In the last two years, Kremlin-backed campaigns have spread false stories alleging that French President Emmanuel Macron was backed by the “gay lobby,” fabricated a story of a Russian-German girl raped by Arab migrants, and spread a litany of conspiracy theories about the Catalan independence referendum, […]
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Twitter Has a New Way to Screw with Conservatives…
Twitter seems to have found a new way to throttle certain users’ accounts, as one prominent conservative writer and comedian recently found himself in the crosshairs of this insidious tactic. Stephen Kruiser, a longtime stand-up comic and contributor at conservative outlets including PJ Media and American Spectator, was an early adopter of Twitter and has […]
Amazon Alexa Records and Shares Woman’s Private Conversation…
A woman in Portland, Ore. claims that her family’s Amazon Alexa smart speaker recorded a private conversation and sent it to someone on her contact list, KIRO 7 News reports. The woman, named only as Danielle, received a phone call from one of her husband’s employees in Seattle, who received a recording of the conversation. […]
Amazon Is Selling Cheap, Real-Time Facial Recognition Technology to Cops…
Amazon has sold cheap facial-recognition software to law enforcement agencies in at least two states and has also sold it to a police body camera manufacturer and a company that does intelligence and data analysis for law enforcement, according to internal documents at those police departments and Amazon’s own marketing materials. The software, created by […]
Google Illegally ‘Identifies Rape Victims’…
Google’s search function reveals the identify rape victims in some cases, according to the Times of London. When users search online for details about prominent attackers, the search giant’s autocomplete feature populates with the names of their victims. The Times found four examples of victims—two rape victims, a sexual abuse victim and a violent crime […]
This Is the ‘Depressing’ Chart Mark Zuckerberg Does Not Want You to See…
Almost a year ago, we wrote about how post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been, but they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis. The Atlantic’s Jean Twenge questioned whether “smartphones destroyed a generation?” There is compelling evidence that the devices we’ve placed in young people’s hands are having profound effects on their […]
Facebook & Atlantic Council Unite: Now Social Media Giant Serves NATO’s Agenda…
Facebook has engaged a think tank funded by weapons manufacturers, branches of the US military and Middle-Eastern monarchies to safeguard the democratic process. It’s akin to hiring arsonists to run the fire brigade. If Facebook truly wanted to “protect democracy and elections worldwide,” it would build a broad coalition of experts and activists from a […]
Wikipedia Is An Establishment Psyop…
If you haven’t been living in a hole in a cave with both fingers plugged into your ears, you may have noticed that an awful lot of fuss gets made about Russian propaganda and disinformation these days. Mainstream media outlets are now speaking openly about the need for governments to fight an “information war” against […]
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Google’s Selfish Ledger Is an Unsettling Vision of Silicon Valley Social Engineering…
Titled The Selfish Ledger, the 9-minute film starts off with a history of Lamarckian epigenetics, which are broadly concerned with the passing on of traits acquired during an organism’s lifetime. Narrating the video, Foster acknowledges that the theory may have been discredited when it comes to genetics but says it provides a useful metaphor for […]
Conspiracy Emerges to Push Julian Assange Into British, U.S. Hands…
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who provided the world’s people with the truth about US war crimes in the Middle East and many of Washington’s coups and regime-change intrigues around the globe, is in escalating danger. Moves are afoot to force Assange out of Ecuador’s London embassy, where he sought political asylum close to six […]
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Senate Approves First Step in Uphill Effort to Restore Net Neutrality…
As noted previously, net neutrality advocates managed to convince Congress to try and use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to reverse the FCC’s misleadingly-named “Restoring Internet Freedom Order.” That order, approved by a 3-2 FCC vote last December, not only kills net neutrality (as of June 11), but eliminates much of the FCC’s authority to […]
Justice Dept, FBI Launch Probe Into Cambridge Analytica…
The Justice Department and FBI have launched an investigation into the now-closed data company Cambridge Analytica, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Prosecutors have told possible witnesses that there is an open investigation into the company as well as “associated U.S. persons,” according to the Times. The newspaper noted that the probe is in its […]
YouTube Secretly Using SPLC to Police Videos…
The Southern Poverty Law Center is assisting YouTube in policing content on their platform, The Daily Caller has learned. The left-wing nonprofit — which has more recently come under fire for labeling legitimate conservative organizations as “hate groups” — is one of the more than 100 nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and government agencies in YouTube’s “Trusted […]
If Facebook Knew They Had 1 Billion Fake Accounts, Why Are They Only Now Deleting Them?…
Facebook continued to give the public a peek behind the curtain, releasing a major report on Tuesday that announced the Silicon Valley company removed more than one billion fake accounts. Facebook also said it purged millions of posts that violate its rules in the last year. The first-ever “Community Standards Enforcement Report,” a robust 81 […]
Ecuador Prepares to Hand Julian Assange Over to U.K., U.S….
More than six years after Julian Assange moved himself into the confines of the Ecuadorian embassy building in London, the WikiLeaks founder finds himself in danger again. Remarks made earlier this week by Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa suggest that her government may be depriving Assange of the political asylum it granted him in […]
Google Employees Resign in Protest over Controversial Pentagon Artificial Intelligence Project…
About a dozen Google employees are resigning in protest over the tech giant’s involvement in Project Maven, a controversial military program that uses artificial intelligence, Gizmodo reports. Project Maven, which harnesses AI to improve drone targeting, has been a source of concern for a number of Google employees. Last month, over 3,100 Google workers signed […]
Corporate Media: Guccifer 2.0’s Final Messenger…
Disobedient Media has consistently covered the work of The Forensicator over the last nine months. Our previous report focused on the first in a series of findings made by the analyst, which reveal intricate issues stemming from the Guccifer 2.0 persona’s earliest publications, as well as the establishment media’s culpability in broadcasting the documents as […]
Cops Take Dead Man’s Smartphone to His Corpse in Attempt to Unlock It…
In a very unusual move, police detectives in Largo, Florida, recently went to a local funeral home and located the body of a man named Linus Phillip. The 30-year-old had died days earlier at the hands of a different Largo officer. The detectives then attempted to use the fingers on Phillip’s body to unlock his […]
It’s Official: the FCC Has Released the Date the Net Neutrality Repeal Will Go into Effect…
After months of inexplicably dragging its feet, the Federal Communications Commission has finally revealed when its net neutrality repeal will go into effect: June 11. “Now, on June 11, these unnecessary and harmful Internet regulations will be repealed and the bipartisan, light-touch approach that served the online world well for nearly 20 years will be […]
Equifax Admits Passport Numbers Were Stolen in Breach…
The fallout from Equifax’s 2017 mega breach continues. As was first reported by the Associated Press, the credit reporting agency’s lawyers sent a letter to the Senate Banking Committee last week revealing that thousands of images of passports were stolen in the breach. Consumers provided those images to the company to dispute inaccuracies in their […]
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