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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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Apple Cancels $1B Ireland Project Over Delays…

Apple announced on Thursday it would cancel plans to build a $1 billion data center in Ireland, citing delays in the center’s approval process. “Despite our best efforts, delays in the approval process have forced us to make other plans and we will not be able to move forward with the data center,” Apple said […]

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Uber Self-Driving Car Saw but Ignored Pedestrian in Deadly Arizona Crash…

A self-driving Uber may have spotted the pedestrian killed in the first fatal crash with a driverless car but ignored her anyway. The self-driving car which killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Phoenix, Arizona in March saw the pedestrian as a “false positive”, causing its on-board system to decide to ignore her rather than swerve to […]

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The Senate Has Forced a Vote to Restore Net Neutrality…

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and 32 other Democrats have submitted a new discharge petition under the Congressional Review Act, setting the stage for a full congressional vote to restore net neutrality. Because of the unique CRA process, the petition has the power to force a Senate vote on the resolution, which leaders say is expected […]

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The West Could Be Closer to China’s System of ‘Social Credit Scoring’ Than You Think…

China has become the largest surveillance state on the planet. Taking a page out of the Netflix show Black Mirror, the People’s Republic of China has begun assigning scores that dictate its citizens’ ability to travel, their social mobility, educational opportunities, and where they can live. The totalitarian 1984 of the future is now 2018 […]

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Bokhari: ‘Free Market’ Defenders of Tech Giants Are Useful Idiots…

Legacy conservatives have sent a clear message to the masters of the universe in Silicon Valley. That message is: “we surrender!” That about sums up the new, self-destructive tendency in the D.C. conservative establishment. A growing number of “free market” advocates are making the case that Facebook, a 2-billion user behemoth with no serious competitor, […]

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