Cambridge Analytica rejects the allegations made in tonight’s Channel 4 News story regarding its business practices. The Channel 4 News report contained conversations between Cambridge Analytica senior executives and an undercover reporter posing as a Sri Lankan businessman. The report is edited and scripted to grossly misrepresent the nature of those conversations and how the […]
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The Problem Is Facebook, Not Cambridge Analytica…
Facebook is being hammered for allowing the data firm Cambridge Analytica to acquire 50 million user profiles in the U.S., which it may or may not have used 1 to help the Trump campaign. But the outrage misses the target: There’s nothing Cambridge Analytica could have done that Facebook itself doesn’t offer political clients. Here, […]
Ruh Roh: Former Obama Campaign Director Drops Bombshell Claim on on Facebook: ‘They Were on Our Side’…
A former Obama campaign official is claiming that Facebook knowingly allowed them to mine massive amounts of Facebook data — more than they would’ve allowed someone else to do — because they were supportive of the campaign. In a Sunday tweet thread, Carol Davidsen, former director of integration and media analytics for Obama for America, […]
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Rivals Chip Away at Google’s and Facebook’s U.S. Digital Ad Dominance, Data Show…
Google and Facebook Inc. FB -2.71% have dominated the U.S. digital advertising market for years, earning them the title of “the digital duopoly” and leaving competitors scrambling for crumbs. But now there are signs that platforms like Amazon and Snapchat are chipping away at their market share. In its latest forecast, research company eMarketer predicts […]
A History of Alleged Intimidation and Tampering in House Hacking Case Marked by Witnesses’ Silence…
Soon after the House of Representatives found that Democratic IT aide Imran Awan and his family made “unauthorized access” to congressional data, Imran hurriedly vacated his house, renting it in February 2017 to a former Marine. Imran angrily told his new tenant, Andre Taggart, that he was homeless and to refuse any certified mail in […]
Edward Snowden: Facebook Is a Surveillance Company Rebranded As “Social Media”…
NSA whistleblower and former CIA employee Edward Snowden slammed Facebook in a Saturday tweet following the suspension of Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and its political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, over what Facebook says was imporoper use of collected data. In a nutshell, in 2015 Cambridge Analytica bought data from a University of Cambridge psychology […]
Elaine Herzberg Killed by Self-Driving Uber: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know…
The woman who was killed by a self-driving Uber was Elaine Herzberg, the Tempe Police Department announced. The 49-year-old was transferred to a local hospital after she was hit and died of her injuries. The accident happened around 10 p.m. on Sunday evening. Additional details about Herzberg have not yet been released, but according to […]
Facebook’s Role in Data Misuse Sets Off Storms on Two Continents…
Facebook on Sunday faced a backlash about how it protects user data, as American and British lawmakers demanded that it explain how a political data firm with links to President Trump’s 2016 campaign was able to harvest private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without the social network’s alerting users. Senator Amy Klobuchar […]
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CYBER WAR: Trump Admin Accuses RUSSIA of ATTACKING American Energy Grid…
The Trump administration publicly accused the Russian government of orchestrating coordinated attacks against the American energy grid Thursday; marking the first time the US government has blamed the Kremlin for intentionally hacking the United States’ infrastructure. According to Reuters, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI believe Moscow was behind a sophisticated cyber-attack as […]
Facebook Forced To Apologize After “Video Of…” Autocomplete Search Result Stuns Users
Facebook has been forced to apologize after it spent hours suggesting bizarre, disturbing, and upsetting searches to users on Thursday night. Typing “video of” into the Facebook search bar yielded disturbing results. Multiple users posted examples on Twitter, with the site proposing searches including “video of girl sucking dick under water”, “videos of sexuals” and […]
FBI Supervisor Warned Comey in 2014 That Warrantless Surveillance Program Was Ineffective…
An official who supervised the FBI’s Section 215 warrantless phone surveillance program revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013 says he warned then-Director James Comey it was woefully ineffective in catching terrorists and needed to be modified. Retired Special Agent Bassem Youssef, the chief of the FBI’s Communications Analysis Unit, said in an exclusive interview with […]
America’s Troll Farm Media…
Despite all the smoke and mirrors, most Americans seem to see where the stenographers of corporate capitalism are taking us. A recent Gallup poll found that while 84% of Americans see media as “critical” or “very important” to democracy, only 28% see the corporatist mainstream news media (MSM) as actually supporting democracy. They’re right on […]
Internet Inventor Warns “Regulate Tech Firms Now Or Risk A Weaponized Web”
The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee (not Al Gore), has a dire warning over the concentration of power among a few companies on the internet “controlling which ideas are shared.” In an open letter to mark the 29th anniversary of his invention, Berners-Lee calls for powerful “new gatekeepers” – internet platforms […]
Twitter’s Censorship May Be Unconstitutional…
Does Milo Yiannopoulos have a constitutional right to tweet? Most Americans know they can speak their mind in the public square, thanks to the First Amendment. Speech on social media, however, can be censored because private companies own those cyber spaces. But a recent Supreme Court oral argument suggests Twitter’s practice of banning controversial right-wing […]
Dear Journalists: Here Are the Bots You’re Looking For..
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 […]
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 […]
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