Logged out from your Facebook account automatically? Well you’re not alone… Facebook just admitted that an unknown hacker or a group of hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability in its social media platform that allowed them to steal secret access tokens for more than 50 million accounts. In a brief blog post published Friday, Facebook revealed […]
Hackers Stole 50M Facebook Users’ Access Tokens Using Zero Day Flaw…
EU Continues to Kill the Open Web: Massive Fines for Sites That Don’t Censor Within an Hour…
The EU really seems quite hellbent on absolutely destroying the open internet. Just as the EU Parliament was voting to approve the EU Copyright Directive, requiring that much of the internet be licensed and curated, rather than open for anyone, the EU Commission decided to move forward with an awful idea that it had first […]
Is It Social Media or Corporate Surveillance? Facebook’s Business Model…
It’s time to ask this question: is Facebook wearing the friendly façade of a social media company while actually operating as a high tech citizen surveillance center? We’ll get to that in a moment, but first a look at what an actual citizen surveillance center looks like in New York City. In 2012 we broke […]
Twitter Exposes its Politically Motivated Censorship Policy in Banning of Alex Jones…
It has been a busy month for Twitter, and Alex Jones, with Jack Dorsey forced to defend the decision not to ban Jones early last month, only reverse course by suspending Jones shortly after a tense Senate hearing on social media. The Senate hearing, in which Dorsey spoke alongside Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, […]
German Court Tells Facebook it Can’t Delete Comments, Even Though German Law Says it Must Delete Comments…
Earlier this year, we wrote about Germany’s free speech suppressing “hate speech” law, which required that social networks remove “hate speech” within 24 hours or face massive fines up to €50 million. Making it even more ridiculous, the law even provided for personal fines up to €5 million for EMPLOYEES at the social networks who […]
Pew Study: 44 Percent of Young Adults Deleted Facebook App in Past Year…
Almost half of the young adults in the U.S. who use Facebook deleted the app on their phones over the past year, according to a new study examining Americans’ changing relationship with Facebook. The Pew Research Center study, published on Wednesday, found that 44 percent of adults between ages 18 and 29, which is composed […]
New Tech Watchdog to Monitor Conservative Censorship on Facebook, Twitter, Google…
The Media Research Center, a conservative press watchdog which has long monitored liberal bias in the news media, on Thursday launchedMRC TechWatch — a new project dedicated to exposing bias and censorship online by major tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube. Overseeing the new effort: Allen West, a senior fellow at the […]
Google Snubbed Senate Hearing…
Facebook and Twitter Chiefs Tell Senators: We Won’t Police the Truth…
As Facebook and Twitter once again expanded their estimates of how much fake content infects their platforms, the chief executives of both firms were reluctant to commit at a Senate hearing Wednesday to countermeasures that might jeopardize their profits in the name of protecting what they described as a digital public square. Facebook COO Sheryl […]
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