The Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the branch’s chief investigative and protective service and a central organ of counterintelligence activities for the federal government, appeared to authorize warrantless domestic surveillance of U.S. persons even without a “specific connection” to foreign terrorism, thanks to a 2016 update to a DoD directive governing intelligence collection activities…
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Russia-gate Breeds ‘Establishment McCarthyism’ by Robert Parry…
In the past, America has witnessed “McCarthyism” from the Right and even complaints from the Right about “McCarthyism of the Left.” But what we are witnessing now amid the Russia-gate frenzy is what might be called “Establishment McCarthyism,” traditional media/political powers demonizing and silencing dissent that questions mainstream narratives. This extraordinary assault on civil liberties […]
Twitter to Ban Ads from Russia’s RT, Sputnik…
Twitter says it will ban ads from RT and Sputnik, two state-sponsored Russian news outlets that the U.S. intelligence community has said tried to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The San Francisco company also plans to donate proceeds from RT, formally known as Russia Today, and Sputnik ads to support outside research on […]
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Forcing Internet Platforms To Police Content Will Never Work
For many years now, we’ve pointed out that whenever people — generally legacy content companies and politicians — started pushing for internet platforms like Google, Facebook and Twitter to “police” content, that no matter what those platforms did, it was never going to be enough. For example, after years of resisting, Google finally caved to […]
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Trump Campaign: WikiLeaks Posting Hacked DNC Emails Was Legal…
WikiLeaks’ publication of thousands of emails apparently hacked from the Democratic National Committee was legal and specifically protected by federal law, the Trump campaign argued in a court filing Wednesday. Lawyers for the Trump presidential campaign came to the controversial transparency website’s defense in a bid to defeat a lawsuit three Democratic activists filed in […]
The Senate Intelligence Committee 702 Bill Is a Domestic Spying Bill…
Contrary to what you’re reading about it not “reforming” 702, the SSCI bill makes dramatic changes to 702. Effectively, it makes 702 a domestic spying program. The SSCI expands the kinds of criminal prosecutions with which it can use Section 702 data. It does so in Section 5, in what is cynically called “End Use […]
Facebook Tests Removing Publishers from News Feed–Unless They Pay…
Watch out, publishers: a nightmare scenario on Facebook may soon be a reality. The social network last week officially launched its secondary news feed called Explore. The feed generally features posts from Facebook Pages users don’t follow. News Feed, meanwhile, hosts posts from friends and Pages users do follow. But that’s not true for everyone. […]
Tesla Starts Energy Storage at Hospital to Help Puerto Rico…
After CEO Elon Musk extended an offer to help Puerto Rico earlier this month, Tesla is following through on a pledge to contribute to rebuilding the power grid devastated by Hurricane Maria, leaving thousands of people without electricity. In a tweet Tuesday, Tesla posted photos of Hospital del Niño and the solar and power storage […]
Boom Has Orders for 76 of Its Future Supersonic Passenger Jets…
Boom has a new design for its XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator jet, the working prototype aircraft it’s creating to prove out its tech before beginning work on building real, commercial supersonic passenger aircraft. The new design was revealed Tuesday at the Paris Air Show, along with new business milestones: Boom has orders for 76 aircraft thus […]
How Facebook’s Master Algorithm Powers the Social Network…
Instagram engineers faced a Herculean task in early 2016. Fearing that people would miss the most important posts, Instagram’s leadership asked the engineers to transform the chronological photo feed into a curated list of posts based on users’ individual preferences. Development of a similar algorithm for Facebook ’s News Feed, which determines what 2 billion […]
O’Keefe Drops Part IV: 20-Year NYT Veteran Exposes “Culture Of Anti-Trump Bias”…
First it was Audience Strategy Editor, Nick Dudich, who admitted to repeatedly promoting content that intentionally sought to, among other things, damage President Trump’s businesses as a means towards forcing his resignation. Next came the NYT’s senior Home Page Editor, Des Shoe, who described Trump as an “oblivious idiot” and Pence as “f***ing horrible” while […]
Congress Probes Whether Obama DOJ Used the ‘Trump Dossier’ Before Surveillance Court…
Both the House and the Senate are investigating whether the former President Barack Obama’s administration used intelligence in a salacious “Trump Dossier” as “evidence” before a secret federal surveillance court to obtain permission to spy on Donald Trump campaign aides and later his transition team. Leaders in Congress are trying to find out if the […]
McCain’s latest surprise: Regulate Facebook…
Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) knows his time in the public eye is short, so his big statements in recent weeks are especially resonant. Today, McCain will join with two Democrats — Sens. Mark Warner (Va.) and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) — to give bipartisan imprimatur to the first of the “Facebook bills,” responding to last […]
Behind Closed Doors: Former UN Ambassador Claims Others Unmasked in Her Name…
Former President Barack Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations has testified that others made so-called unmasking requests in her name, House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said Tuesday. “Her testimony is they may be under my name, but I did not make those requests,” Gowdy said of former Ambassador Samantha Power during an interview with […]
Ruh Roh: State Dept. Reveals 2,800 “Documents” Not Emails from Huma Abedin Found on Anthony Weiner’s Computer…
The FBI found 2,800 documents on Anthony Weiner’s personal laptop related to his estranged wife Huma Abedin’s work as deputy chief of staff for Hillary Clinton when she served as secretary of state, according to a new report. The State Department on Tuesday informed Judicial Watch that it received those 2,800 documents from the FBI […]
Smartphones Are Killing Americans, But Nobody’s Counting…
Jennifer Smith doesn’t like the term “accident.” It implies too much chance and too little culpability. A “crash” killed her mother in 2008, she insists, when her car was broadsided by another vehicle while on her way to pick up cat food. The other driver, a 20-year-old college student, ran a red light while talking […]
Undercover Video: NYT Editor Slams Pence As ‘F***ing Horrible,’ Says Reporters Tried to Sway Voters Against Trump…
The newest Project Veritas video reveals a New York Times editor trashing Vice President Mike Pence as “f***ing horrible” and indicating that reporters wrote stories during the presidential campaign with the intention of persuading them to vote against Trump. “I think one of the things that maybe journalists were thinking about is like, oh, if […]
Cyber Researchers Reveal Serious Wi-Fi Security Flaw…
Researchers on Monday disclosed a serious security flaw in the encryption standard that protects tens of millions of consumer, business and government Wi-Fi networks — a hole they said could allow hackers to intercept sensitive traffic, tamper with websites or install malware. The flaw affects a security protocol known as WPA2, one of the most […]
“We Microchip Dogs, So Why Not Athletes”…
Companies in Scandinavia and the US have already embraced microchipping as a way to make the office experience more seamless by allowing employees to easily unlock doors or pay for food in the cafeteria. Of course, while workers say they’ve welcomed the technology (one Russian hobbyist has reported self-implanted six microchips), and companies not to […]
Germany Says It Found “No Evidence” Kaspersky Helped Russia Spy on U.S….
US intelligence agencies are claiming that the Russian government leveraged the popularity of Kaspersky Labs’ cybersecurity software to create what is tantamount to a global spy network with the company’s explicit cooperation. However, Germany’s intelligence agencies say they’ve found “no evidence” to suggest these reports are true. The Wall Street Journal, which last week reported […]
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