Dear confused journalists: I found the bots you have been looking for. They amplify trolls. They impersonate. They spam. They are funded by oligarchs. What more could you want in a story? And unlike @SecureDemocracy, I have actually shown my work. Gather round. First things first. Here are the accounts in question. They posted nearly […]
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Trump: NASA Bringing Back ‘Space Flight’ Program and Going to Mars ‘In the very near future’…
President Donald Trump announced during a Thursday cabinet meeting that NASA is “bringing back that whole space flight” program and would be sending “something very beautiful to Mars in the very near future.” Before pivoting to Mars, POTUS praised the recent work of Elon Musk and SpaceX on the Falcon rocket program. “Before me are […]
Equifax Breach Worsens, Sparking More Concerns about Consumers’ Data…
Equifax has confirmed that the massive data breach it announced last year is larger than previously thought, affecting an additional 2.4 million U.S. consumers. New details of the breach were announced by the credit reporting company Thursday, taking the total number of victims to 147.9 million. The company says the additional consumers only had their […]
Documents Show FBI Paid Geek Squad Staff to Be Informants…
FBI agents paid employees in Best Buy’s Geek Squad unit to act as informants, documents published Tuesday reveal. Agents paid managers in the retailer’s device repair unit to pass along information about illegal content discovered on customers’ devices, according to documents posted online by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The digital rights group sued the FBI […]
Tech Moguls Driving Mass Layoffs in the Economy Want Universal Basic Income As a Cure…
Driverless cars! IBM Watson! News-writing robots! Amazon Go! The future is here, friends, and it apparently excludes humans. People are preparing for the next mass extinction — an evaporation, if you will — not of humans, polar bears or other creatures, but of jobs. This prospect has been sending shivers through humanity, from New York […]
Flippy the Burger Flipping Robot Is Now Cooking at the CaliBurger Fast Food Chain…
A robot named Flippy is now in the kitchen at a fast food restaurant called CaliBurger in Pasadena. We were there for a preview event where Flippy made us some lunch. Your next fast food burger might be cooked by a robot! Flippy is a brand new, burger flipping robot now cooking at a chain […]
The Feds Can Now (Probably) Unlock Every iPhone Model in Existence…
In what appears to be a major breakthrough for law enforcement, and a possible privacy problem for Apple customers, a major U.S. government contractor claims to have found a way to unlock pretty much every iPhone on the market. Cellebrite, a Petah Tikva, Israel-based vendor that’s become the U.S. government’s company of choice when it […]
InfoWars Blacklisted By Major Advertisers After CNN’s Guerrilla Activism…
CNN has taken it upon themselves to contact companies whose advertisements have been played on the InfoWars-linked Alex Jones Channel on YouTube, resulting in a flood of major brands blacklisting the channels for future ad spending –CNN has discovered ads on InfoWars’ channels from companies and organizations such as Nike (NKE), Acer, 20th Century Fox, […]
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Is Amazon Too Big to Tax???
This year, like every other year, is shaping up to be a triumphant one for Amazon. It is on the cusp of becoming the first trillion dollar company ever. In the coming months it will announce the opening of a second headquarters—and likely bank billions in tax breaks and other incentives from the lucky city […]
Sharyl Attkisson Accuses Obama DOJ of Secretly Swapping Out Her Computer Hard Drive…
Former CBS correspondent Sharyl Attkisson accused the Department of Justice (DOJ) of monkeying around with her hard drive while her computer was in their possession. She tweeted on Thursday, “What would you think if I told you the hard drive of one of my personal computers was secretly switched out w/another while in custody of […]
InfoWars’ Bureau Chief YouTube Account Terminated with No Explanation, Reinstated Hours Later…
InfoWars’ Washington D.C. bureau chief, Jerome Corsi, was temporarily kicked off of YouTube Thursday after receiving two warnings under the platform’s bullying and harassment policy. The account was restored hours later with no explanation – similar to the Alex Jones Channel’s second strike last week. Dr. Jerome Corsi, the 71-year-old Harvard PhD who has become […]
Facebook Keeps Secret Files on Intimate Habits of Internet Users Even If They Don’t Have an Account…
Facebook may be tracking your every move online even if you have never been on the site. Not content with monitoring the movements of its own users, the largest social network in the world is building secret files on the activities of billions of people. Mark Zuckerburg’s company says that is uses this information to […]
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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NOAA Caught Lying About Arctic Sea Ice…
The Arctic is melting catastrophically! Sea ice levels are experiencing their most precipitous decline in 1500 years! Something must be done – and fast. Well, so claims the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and we know by now what that means, don’t we? Yep: the Arctic sea ice is doing just fine. Yep: yet […]
Man Removes Feds’ Spy Cam, They Demand it Back, He Refuses and Sues…
Last November, a 74-year-old rancher and attorney was walking around his ranch just south of Encinal, Texas, when he happened upon a small portable camera strapped approximately eight feet high onto a mesquite tree near his son’s home. The camera was encased in green plastic and had a transmitting antenna. Not knowing what it was […]
SpaceX Takes its First Step Toward Selling Americans Internet from Space…
SpaceX aims to launch two satellites of a new constellation on Feb. 18, the start of a network it expects to one day include more than 4,000 orbiting spacecraft beaming the internet to customers below—and generating billions of dollars in new revenue for the rocket maker. Ajit Pai, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, which […]
Twitter Users Lose Thousands of Followers, Mass Purge of Bots Suspected…
Twitter suspended thousands of accounts overnight and conservatives on the platform aren’t happy about it. Twitter has yet to make a public statement about the issue, but right-wing users believe that they’re being targeted in a mass purge of suspected Russian bot accounts. Conservative Twitter has even started a hashtag called #TwitterLockOut to talk about […]
Sessions Creates Cyber Task Force to Study Election Interference…
The Justice Department is creating a cyber-digital task force to examine outside attempts to interfere with U.S. elections, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday. “At the Department of Justice, we take these threats seriously. That is why today I am ordering the creation of a Cyber-Digital Task Force to advise me on the most effective […]
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Kim Dotcom: “Let me assure you, the DNC hack wasn’t even a hack”…
Kim Dotcom has once again chimed in on the DNC hack, following a Sunday morning tweet from President Trump clarifying his previous comments on Russian meddling in the 2016 election – “I never said Russia did not meddle in the election, I said “it may be Russia, or China or another country or group, or […]
Charleston Chopper Crash Blamed on Private Drone…
Officials at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are investigating a serious helicopter crash that may have been triggered by a drone Wednesday near the southern tip of Daniel Island, South Carolina, in what could be the first-ever drone-related crash of an aircraft in the United States. The crash was initially reported on Wednesday by WCSC-TV, […]
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