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Facebook Took No Action When ‘Vets for Trump’ Page Was Hijacked by Foreigners…

The Washington Post published an article recently titled “The Facebook page ‘Vets for Trump’ was hijacked by a North Macedonian businessman. It took months for the owners to get it back.” which outlines how the owners of a Facebook page where former U.S. service members proclaimed their support of President Donald Trump were locked out […]

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Facebook to Train AI Systems Using Police Video…

Facebook will work with law enforcement organizations to train its artificial intelligence systems to recognize videos of violent events as part of a broader effort to crack down on extremism. Facebook’s AI systems were unable to detect live-streamed video of a mass shooting at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand. The effort will use body-cam […]

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DOJ Files Civil Suit Against Edward Snowden Over New Memoir…

The Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit Tuesday against former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden for violating his non-disclosure agreements with the CIA and the NSA by writing a new book about his leaks. Snowden’s memoir, “Permanent Record,” hit bookshelves Tuesday. Snowden, who famously leaked classified documents about government surveillance, has avoided prosecution by […]

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Amazon Reportedly Changed Search Algorithm to Favor More Profitable Products…

After publishing a steady stream of scoops about Amazon’s anti-competitive tendencies, the Wall Street Journal on Monday dropped one of the biggest media bombshells to rock the e-commerce giant in recent memory: That Amazon has deliberately tweaked its product-search algorithm to more prominently feature products that are more profitable for Amazon, including its own in-house […]

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Flirty or Friendzone? New AI Scans Your Texts for True Love…

Every good love story has a moment in which the precious ingénue, blind to the complexities of the world, misinterprets the lover’s move. Sally mistakes Harry’s interest for friendship. Romeo, believing Juliet to be dead, poisons himself. The folly of love is not so much about what we do when we are flooded with feelings, […]

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Oh Goodie!: Google Collects Face Data Now. Here’s What It Means and How to Opt Out…

Google’s latest smart display brings with it a controversial new feature that’s always watching. Face Match, introduced on the Google Nest Hub Max, uses the smart display’s front-facing camera as a security feature and a way to participate in video calls. It also shows you your photos, texts, calendar details and so on when it […]

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Facebook of the Sky: Airbus Tests Program to Track Everything You Do During Flights…

Business Insider reports that the aviation giant Airbus announced this week that it has started in-flight trials of its newest cabin technology which will connect passengers and crew to different elements of the plane such as seats, cargo, and bathrooms. Airbus unveiled its plans for its Connected Experience at the Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) […]

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Israel Accused of Planting Mysterious Spy Devices Near the White House…

The U.S. government concluded within the last two years that Israel was most likely behind the placement of cell-phone surveillance devices that were found near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington, D.C., according to three former senior U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter. But unlike most other occasions when flagrant incidents […]

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Facebook Sanctions Netanyahu Page Over Hate Speech Violation…

Facebook says it has sanctioned the page of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because of a violation of the company’s hate speech policy. Facebook said on Thursday that the social network had suspended for 24 hours the page’s bot, or automated chat function. The page had called on voters to prevent the establishment of a […]

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Is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth Alive?Why Don’t We Hear Much About Julian Assange?…

In Orwell’s dystopian fiction 1984, the government’s mission through the Ministry of Truth is to supply its people with news, entertainment, books, films, plays and songs, packed with the information it wants the people to know. It constructs lies to fit the narrative it wishes to establish and sets about rewriting historical documents so they […]

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Dr. Robert Epstein: Study Claims Google Reflected ‘Very Dramatic Bias’ in 2016 Election Search Results…

Google allegedly offered search results during the 2016 election season that manipulated voters in Hillary Clinton’s favor, according to researcher Dr. Robert Epstein. The study looked into “politically oriented searches” from a “diverse group of American voters,” Epstein said in an interview airing Sunday on “Life, Liberty & Levin.” “In 2016, I set up the […]

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How a Secret Dutch Mole Aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet cyberattack on Iran…

For years, an enduring mystery has surrounded the Stuxnet virus attack that targeted Iran’s nuclear program: How did the U.S. and Israel get their malware onto computer systems at the highly secured uranium-enrichment plant? The first-of-its-kind virus, designed to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program, effectively launched the era of digital warfare and was unleashed some time […]

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50 U.S. States and Territories Launch Antitrust Probe Into Google…

Fifty U.S. States and territories, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, have launched an anti-trust probe into Google and the company’s “potential monopolistic behavior.” The investigation is being led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who formally made the announcement on Sept. 9. The bipartisan probe from attorneys general included nearly every state […]

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Bipartisan Coalition of State AG’s to Launch Google, Facebook Antitrust Probes…

State attorneys general are formally launching separate antitrust probes into Facebook Inc. FB -1.82% and Alphabet Inc. GOOG -0.58% ’s Google unit starting next week, putting added pressure on tech giants already under federal scrutiny. New York Attorney General Letitia James said Friday that her office was organizing a bipartisan, multi-state probe into social media […]

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The Silicon Valley Heavyweights Who Want to Settle the Moon…

The moon is all the rage these days. China wants to send people there. So too does the United States and NASA. In fact, just about every country with a space program has some sort of lunar ambition that they hope will play out over the next few years. Now, there’s a new entrant in […]

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Social Credit System: Facial Recognition Cameras Monitor Chinese Students’ Behavior in Class…

A university in China has installed facial recognition cameras in classrooms that monitor students’ behavior such as nodding off or playing with their cellphones. China Pharmaceutical University in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu Province, is piloting the system in two classrooms and eventually plans to install it in every classroom. “The system can access every student’s […]

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Who Invented the Internet?…A Full History…

The internet has become a staple of modern life. We use it to shop for what we need and want, talk to friends and family, run businesses, meet new people, watch movies and TV, and pretty much everything else you can think of. In short, it has given birth to a new age in human […]

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