The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee (not Al Gore), has a dire warning over the concentration of power among a few companies on the internet “controlling which ideas are shared.” In an open letter to mark the 29th anniversary of his invention, Berners-Lee calls for powerful “new gatekeepers” – internet platforms […]
Twitter’s Censorship May Be Unconstitutional…
Does Milo Yiannopoulos have a constitutional right to tweet? Most Americans know they can speak their mind in the public square, thanks to the First Amendment. Speech on social media, however, can be censored because private companies own those cyber spaces. But a recent Supreme Court oral argument suggests Twitter’s practice of banning controversial right-wing […]
Dear Journalists: Here Are the Bots You’re Looking For..
Dear confused journalists: I found the bots you have been looking for. They amplify trolls. They impersonate. They spam. They are funded by oligarchs. What more could you want in a story? And unlike @SecureDemocracy, I have actually shown my work. Gather round. First things first. Here are the accounts in question. They posted nearly […]
Facebook Keeps Secret Files on Intimate Habits of Internet Users Even If They Don’t Have an Account…
Facebook may be tracking your every move online even if you have never been on the site. Not content with monitoring the movements of its own users, the largest social network in the world is building secret files on the activities of billions of people. Mark Zuckerburg’s company says that is uses this information to […]
How the Media Enable Rep. Adam Schiff’s Russian Bot Conspiracy Theories…
Last week, Laurence Tribe suggested, without evidence, that a plane crash in Russia was related to fallout from the Russian dossier operation orchestrated and funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign. Tribe is a Harvard Law professor, a passionate critic of President Donald Trump, and a known Russia conspiracy theorist. So it should have been surprising […]
That Story about a 20-Year-Old Who Said He Was ‘able to buy’ an AR-15 in 5 Minutes with No ID Is an Outright Lie…
A viral tweet this week alleging a 20-year-old with an expired ID was able to buy an AR-15 rifle in five minutes is a lie. It’s a damned lie. The viral tweet, which has been shared by more than 9,000 social media users, quotes a two-year-old blog post written by then-20-year-old blogger Cody Davis. The […]
Does Mueller Indictment Mean Clinton Campaign Can Be Indicted for Chris Steele?…
Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted foreign citizens for trying to influence the American public about an election because those citizens did not register as a foreign agent nor record their financial expenditures to the Federal Elections Commission. By that theory, when will Mueller indict Christopher Steele, FusionGPS, PerkinsCoie, the DNC and the Clinton Campaign? Mueller’s […]
Analysis: Mueller Indicts Some Russians; Clears Trump of Collusion…
A recurring pattern of the Russiagate investigation is that whenever pressure increases on the FBI and on Special Counsel Mueller an indictment appears. This happened in October when following the FBI’s admission that the Trump dossier-the keystone in the “evidence” of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia-could not be verified and the Wall Street […]
Russian Journalist Who Uncovered ‘Troll Factory’ Confounded by Mueller Indictments…
Mueller Indictment – The “Russian Influence” Is A Commercial Marketing Scheme…
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