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High-Profile Twitter Accounts Overrun with Swastikas…

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Last night, a swath of Twitter accounts with large followings—including Duke University, BBC North America, Forbes, and Amnesty International—tweeted out the same message, in Turkish, that included a swastika and hashtags that translate to “Nazi Germany, Nazi Holland.” The hacked accounts, which apparently stem from increasing vitriol between Turkey and Holland, appear…

FULL MEASURE: The Sum of Knowledge, Part 1/2…

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As a Donald Trump supporter, Andrew Torba felt like odd man out in California’s Silicon Valley—home of prominent tech firms like Apple, Facebook and Google. Last year he was outraged when he attended this campaign rally in San Jose and saw violent anti-Trump protesters attacking Trump supporters. TRANSCRIPT: http://fullmeasure.news/news/cover-story/sum-of-all-knowledge-part-1

Former Twitter Engineer: ‘Making it Difficult to Be a Conservative’ Important for Professional Communities to Do…

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A former Twitter engineer recently tweeted his belief that the most important thing professional communities can do is to make it difficult to be a conservative. Travis Brown, a former open source engineer at Twitter, recently tweeted his disapproval of the tech conference LambdaConf following the announcement that computer scientist Curtis Yarvin would be speaking […]

Judge Sides with Microsoft, Allows “Gag Order” Challenge to Advance…

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On Wednesday, a federal judge in Seattle allowed Microsoft’s lawsuit against the government to go forward. US District Judge James Robart ruled that the company does, in fact, have standing to sue the Department of Justice on behalf of its customers. Microsoft’s case has drawn support from a number of major tech companies, including Apple, […]

97 Tech Companies Including Twitter, Netflix File Legal Brief Condemning Trump’s Immigration Order…

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The onslaught targeting President Trump’s immigration executive order continued overnight, when virtually all US tech corporations, from Apple to Zynga, including Twitter, Netflix, Google, and Microsoft, banded together late on Sunday to file an “impassioned” brief condemning Trump’s temporary immigration ban, arguing that it “inflicts significant harm on American business”…

WTH???: Over 12k Tweets Have Called for Trump’s Assassination…

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In the 12 days since Donald Trump took the oath of office, a steady stream of social media posts have called for the new president’s assassination. The posts are pretty basic and many are jokes or sarcastic or hyperbolic — but there are a lot of them. In a Dataminr search of Twitter posts since […]

Massive Networks of Fake Accounts Found on Twitter…

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The largest network ties together more than 350,000 accounts and further work suggests others may be even bigger. UK researchers accidentally uncovered the lurking networks while probing Twitter to see how people use it. Some of the accounts have been used to fake follower numbers, send spam and boost interest in trending topics…

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