When a journalist heard a bot organization was hiring writers, she went for it. Slaying online trolls can be a lonely business. Just ask Russia’s Lyudmila Savchuk, who first exposed the story of Russia’s disinformation campaign back in 2014. The journalist and 33-year-old mother of two, Savchuk started noticing websites and social media accounts attacking […]
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Nunes Sues Twitter, Some Users, Seeks Over $250M Alleging Anti-Conservatives ‘Shadow Bans,’ Smears…
California GOP Rep. Devin Nunes filed a major lawsuit seeking $250 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages against Twitter and a handful of its users on Monday, accusing the social media site of “shadow-banning conservatives” including himself to influence the 2018 elections, systematically censoring opposing viewpoints and totally “ignoring” lawful complaints of […]
NASA Is About to Turn Off the Kepler Spacecraft, and it Will Drift Away…
After more than nine years in operation, the Kepler Space Telescope has run out of hydrazine fuel. Mission managers will now send a command to the spacecraft, which is presently trailing Earth in a heliocentric orbit about 150 million kilometers away, to turn off the spacecraft’s transmitters. It will be cast adrift into the silent […]
The WhatsApp Cofounder Who Sold to Facebook for $19B Tells Students to Delete Facebook…
WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton defended his decision to sell his company to Facebook for $19 billion and encouraged students to delete their accounts from the social network in a rare public appearance at Stanford University on Wednesday. As one of the guest speakers for Computer Science 181, an undergraduate class focused on technology companies’ social […]
VIPS: Mueller’s Forensics-Free Findings in DNC Hacks…
Media reports are predicting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is about to give you the findings of his probe into any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump. If Mueller gives you his “completed” report anytime soon, it should be graded “incomplete.” Major deficiencies include […]
Facebook, Google and Other Big Tech Giants Are About to Face a ‘Reckoning’…
Some of the country’s most powerful state attorneys general are signaling they’re willing to take action against Facebook, Google and other tech giants, warning that the companies have grown too big and powerful – and that Washington has been too slow to respond. For many of these top law enforcement officials, the fear is that […]
Free Speech Wars in Social Media: Robert Barnes Explains Law Surrounding Platform or Publisher, Deplatforming, Covington Catholic and Alex Jones…
Robert Barnes is a civil, criminal and constitutional lawyer who has represented many high profile clients. He joins Dave to discuss his legal approach to free speech, his cases representing Alex Jones and the Covington kids, and Tucker Carlson’s free speech battle with the media…
Facebook Blames Massive Outage On “Server Configuration Change”, Apple Now Showing iCloud Outages…
Update 3/14/2019 2:26PM EST: In what could be unrelated similar news, Apple’s System Status Support page on Thursday showed a number of outages and issues, primarily with iCloud. The timing of the outage, one day after Facebook’s outage, is notable, though there are no confirmed links. Here’s what Apple’s support page showed at 2:26PM EST […]
Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During WhatsApp, Facebook Outage…
WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram faced a widespread outage yesterday with users from around the world reporting issues with sending messages on WhatsApp and Messenger, posting feeds on Facebook and accessing other features on the three Facebook-owned platforms. While the outage was quite troubling both for the social media giant and its millions of users, guess […]
Firefox Send — Free Encrypted File Transfer Service Now Available For All
Mozilla has made it easy for you to share large files securely and privately with whomever you want, eliminating the need to depend upon less secure free third-party services or file upload tools that burn a hole in your pocket. Mozilla has finally launched its free, end-to-end encrypted file-transfer service, called Firefox Send, to the […]
Facebook Reverses Zero Hedge Ban, Says It Made A “Mistake”…
It has been a strange 24 hours. On Monday, we first learned that for the previous two days, Facebook had banned all Zero Hedge content across its various mediums, as it went against Facebook’s “Community Standards” (which to the best of our knowledge, neither we not anyone else has any idea what they are), a […]
Facebook Bans Zero Hedge…
Over the weekend, we were surprised to learn that some readers were prevented by Facebook when attempting to share Zero Hedge articles. Subsequently it emerged that virtually every attempt to share or merely mention an article, including in private messages, would be actively blocked by the world’s largest social network, with the explanation that “the […]
My God it’s Never Ending: Facebook Is Giving Advertisers Access to Your Shadow Contact Information…
Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove. Mislove studies how privacy works on social networks and had a theory that Facebook is letting advertisers reach users with contact information collected in surprising ways. I was helping him test the theory by targeting him […]
Your Phone and TV Are Tracking You, and Political Campaigns are Listening In…
It was a crowded primary field and Tony Evers, running for governor, was eager to win the support of officials gathered at a Wisconsin state Democratic Party meeting, so the candidate did all the usual things: He read the room, he shook hands, he networked. Then he put an electronic fence around everyone there. The […]
If Big Tech Can Censor Me, Think What it Can Do to You…
Anti-conservative censorship online has gone from bad to worse. As major social media platforms start to target me for censorship, I shudder to think what it means for millions of other Americans, especially as we approach the 2020 presidential campaign. As Jussie Smollett’s preposterous story about being beaten in a racist, homophobic attack was falling […]
Daniel Ellsberg Responds to the Unjust Jailing of Whistleblower Chelsea Manning…
Whistleblower Chelsea Manning has been sent to jail for refusing to comply with a subpoena to testify in front of a grand jury believed to be investigating Wikileaks’s publishing activities—a grave threat to freedom of the press. The following quote can be attributed to famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower and Freedom of the Press Foundation co-founder […]
LEAKED AUDIO: Google Discusses ‘Steering’ the Conservative Movement…
Google’s senior director of U.S. public policy, Adam Kovacevich appeared to describe the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) as a “sideshow Circus,” in a leaked audio recording in which he also argued that Google should remain a sponsor of the conference to “steer” the conservative movement “away from nationalistic and incendiary comments.” The comments came […]
Tim Berners-Lee: “The Web Has Been Hijacked by Crooks and Trolls”…
Thirty years ago this month, a young British software engineer working at a lab near Geneva invented a system for scientists to share information that would ultimately change humanity. But three decades after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee has warned that his creation has been “hijacked by crooks” that may spell its […]
SHOT: James Clapper – ‘I Didn’t Lie’ to Congress About NSA Surveillance, I ‘Simply Didn’t Understand’ the Question…
Former National Security Agency Director James Clapper said he did not lie about mass domestic surveillance programs when he testified to Congress in 2013, but rather he made a mistake and did not understand what specific program was being asked about. CNN’s John Berman asked for Clapper’s reaction to The Intercept’s Glen Greenwald report: “The very first NSA program we revealed […]
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Russiagate Grand Wizard Deceives Audience About Assange…
When it was first revealed in November that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is under secret charges by the Trump administration, I spent the next few days being told by Russiagaters that this was proof that I have been wrong about their demented cold war cult all along, because #MuellerTime is fast approaching. At long last, […]
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