A 16-year-old Malaysian teen reportedly committed suicide Monday after the results of an Instagram poll instructed her to do so. Before jumping to her death, the unnamed girl ran a poll on her Instagram account asking her followers if she should commit suicide. The poll read, “Really Important, Help Me Choose D/L,” the D and […]
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The Government Spied on Me. You Could Be Next. by Sharyl Attkisson…
It was bad enough when the Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric Holder engaged in spying on journalist James Rosen (and even spied on his parents’ phone records). And the same cast of characters secretly spied on Associated Press reporters — also in the name of tracking down government leakers. Amid those discoveries were […]
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Hackers Used WhatsApp 0-Day Flaw to Secretly Install Spyware On Phones…
Whatsapp has recently patched a severe vulnerability that was being exploited by attackers to remotely install surveillance malware on a few “selected” smartphones by simply calling the targeted phone numbers over Whatsapp audio call. Discovered, weaponized and then sold by the Israeli company NSO Group that produces the most advanced mobile spyware on the planet, […]
Sen Lindsey Graham: ‘No way in hell’ U.S. Allies Should Use Chinese 5G Technology…
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., argued on Tuesday that the U.S. should not share intelligence or equipment with countries that use Chinese 5G technology. During Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Graham addressed the security threat posed by China. Graham said he hoped that “the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, will be that if you […]
Google’s Left-Leaning Media Biased Revealed: Academic Study Exposes How Algorithm Favors Liberal News Websites…
Google’s bias towards left-wing media outlets has been laid bare by an algorithm which detected that it favors sites including CNN and The New York Times over others. According to data compiled by researchers from Northwestern University, the search engine promoted those sites over others repeatedly in November 2017. Of the 6,302 articles that appeared […]
Sweden Seeks Extradition of Assange to Face Trial on Rape Charges…
It has been one month since UK police entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London and arrested Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. the Wikileaks founder has already been slapped with a 50-week sentence for skipping his bail in the UK, and as the UK prepares to process an extradition request from US prosecutors, they now must also […]
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This Saudi Prince Now Owns More of Twitter Than Jack Dorsey Does…
A Saudi prince has increased his holdings in Twitter, making him the company’s second largest shareholder. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, who in 2011 invested $300 million in the social network, now owns 34.9 million shares of Twitter’s common stock, according to a new regulatory filing (pdf). At nearly 5.2%, his stake in […]
Banned from Facebook? A Polish Court May Help…
Facebook is often criticized for not doing enough to police its platform for hate speech. But the opposite has also been a problem: Mark Zuckerberg’s company uses rather vague “community standards” as the basis for decision to remove users and posts. It doesn’t feel compelled to explain exactly how it applies them, either. Now, a […]
The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism…
Before they started their successful wildcat strike last year, West Virginia teachers railed against the introduction of a workplace wellness program called Go365. The program coerced employees into downloading an app that would monitor their health, rewarding points for exercise and good behavior. Employees who failed to accrue 3,000 points by the end of the […]
UK Tax Authority Forced To Delete 5 Million Unlawfully Collected Biometric Voice Records…
The UK’s tax collector – HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has been forced to delete the biometric voice records of five million people because they did not have clear consent from customers to have them in the first place, according to ZDNet. HMRC uses the Voice ID biometric voice security system to make it easier […]
Lawmakers Demand Details on NSA’s Sweeping Phone Surveillance Operations…
A group of lawmakers is demanding the National Security Agency disclose more details on its sweeping phone surveillance operations to the public. Six Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday called on NSA to release a public report outlining the current state of the Call Detail Record program. Under the program, the agency gathers […]
Why Is Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Saying It’s Time to Break Up the Company? (Video OpEd)…
Co-founder of Facebook, Chris Hughes, goes into great detail as to why it should be broken up. He argues Zuckerberg, as the majority shareholder of the company, wields to much power and he can’t be fired. No one can hold him accountable within the company. Moreover, the company itself with billions of subscribers, retains to […]
Inside China’s Massive Surveillance Operation…
The woman remembers the first time she got a smartphone. It was 2011, and she was living in Hotan, an oasis town in Xinjiang, in northwest China. The 30-year-old, Nurjamal Atawula, loved to take pictures of her children and exchange strings of emoji with her husband while he was out. In 2013, Atawula downloaded WeChat, […]
Chinese Hackers Copy NSA Hacking Software, Use it to Attack U.S. Allies…
A Chinese hacking group considered to be the “most dangerous” by the NSA stole, copied, or reverse engineered the agency’s own hacking software – then use it against American allies and private companies in Europe and Asia during 2016 attacks, according to researchers with Symantec…
‘AOC Press’ Parody Killed in Latest Big Tech Election Interference…
Twitter has banned the popular parody account @AOCPress despite it complying entirely with the service’s rules on satire by self-labelling as such. This account – a satire of Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – had over 85,000 followers at the time of the ban and is now permanently suspended. In an email sent to the account owner, […]
Vendetta Anyone?: Good Grief, Hillary Vied for Zuckerberg’s Job a Year Ago. She Settled Having Her Press Director Placed on the Inside. Top Opponents Immediately Banned…
When Big League Politics contacted Facebook to clarify why Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, and Milo Yiannopoulos were banned by Facebook and Instagram, we discovered the Facebook employee assigned to handle these communications is the former Press Director of Hillary For America. Sarah Pollack is the Policy Communications Manager for Facebook who responded […]
FCC Warns About ‘One Ring’ Robocall Scam: Do Not Call Numbers Back
Don’t call back phone numbers that ring once and hang up, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has warned. People throughout the U.S. have been receiving “One Ring” or “Wangiri” robocalls in bursts, according to officials. The calls are targeting specific area codes “often calling multiple times in the middle of the night.” “These calls are […]
Chinese Fund Backed by Hunter Biden Invested in Technology Used to Surveil Muslims…
On Wednesday, Human Rights Watch released a troubling report about a phone application made by the Chinese government. The app provides law enforcement with easy, daily access to data detailing the religious activity, blood type, and even the amount of electricity used by ethnic minority Muslims living in the western province of Xinjiang. The app […]
Alexa Has Been Eavesdropping on You This Whole Time, and Storing Your Data…
Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recordings? For most people, the answer is, “Are you crazy?” Yet that’s essentially what Amazon has been doing to millions of us with its assistant Alexa in microphone-equipped Echo speakers. And it’s hardly alone: Bugging our homes is Silicon Valley’s next frontier. Many […]
Day of the Long Knives by Raheem Kassam…
Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer and Milo Yiannopoulos have been unpersonned by the digital tech giant Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram. They’re coming for you, next. Or more likely, for us. Human Events stands shoulder-to-shoulder with those being routinely targeted by the would-be ‘Masters of the Universe’, no matter if we agree with […]
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