Inside the pro-Donald Trump Facebook group where first responders call coronavirus a hoax facebook social media Article 1351 words 10 votes
Bogus automated copyright claims by CBS blocked Super Tuesday speeches by Bernie Sanders, Mike Bloomberg, and Joe Biden Article 292 words 11 votes
Here's how Biden and Sanders stack up when it comes to how they would govern the tech industry Article 1355 words 6 votes
Are social networks polarizing? A Q&A with Ezra Klein | The Interface with Casey Newton, Issue #464, Feb 27 social media facebook Article 2083 words 5 votes
EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app security Article 619 words, published Feb 20 2020 14 votes
Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’ social media Article 519 words 19 votes
The app that broke the Iowa Caucuses was sent out through a beta testing platform Article 1012 words 10 votes
A Guardian investigation of 218,100 Facebook ads reveals how the Trump campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters facebook social media Article 2517 words 12 votes
Mastodon, my saviour: Why the left should ditch ad-verse social media social media Article 1247 words 13 votes
Biden wants to get rid of law that shields companies like Facebook from liability for what their users post social media facebook Article 481 words 17 votes
Facebook's Ad Library, one of its main tools for election transparency, is riddled with issues and lost 74,000 ads just before the UK election facebook social media Article 1377 words 7 votes
Our neophobic, conservative AI overlords want everything to stay the same Article 968 words, published Jan 1 2020 11 votes
Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building? Article 3342 words 13 votes
"Project DREAD": White House veterans helped the United Arab Emirates build a secret surveillance unit Article 5 votes
Google updates their political advertising policies, limits targeting capabilities, and expands which ads are covered by their transparency report google Article 806 words 14 votes
Facebook's former Head of Global Elections Integrity Ops on how Facebook's policies towards political advertising are harming democracy facebook social media Article 6 votes
The debate over Facebook's political ads ignores 90% of its global users facebook social media Article 888 words 12 votes
NH lawmaker blocks device repair bill, tells constituents to just buy new $1k phones Article 630 words 7 votes
NSO exploited WhatsApp to hack at least 1400 phones and spy on top government officials at US allies facebook privacy security Article 1077 words 16 votes
Twitter announces that they are stopping all political advertising globally social media Tweet 42 votes
This sure looks like Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account—Meet “Pierre Delecto” social media Article 1658 words 18 votes
NSA whistleblower dropped from Australian cyber conference at the last minute security.cyber Article 500 words 6 votes
Millions of the comments posted during public debates like the FCC's net neutrality repeal process have been faked by political operatives using false identities Article 4461 words 18 votes
Facebook has taken down the huge "Police Lives Matter" page after being revealed as a Kosovo-based operation pushing misinformation about US cops social media facebook Article 1387 words 23 votes
US Senator says Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg should face ‘possibility of a prison term’ facebook social media Article 309 words 14 votes
Communications and internet have been blacked out in Kashmir since August 4 - five people explain what it's like to live through Article 1821 words 8 votes
A conservative senator’s crusade against Big Tech: Josh Hawley’s skewering of Silicon Valley has earned praise from some Democrats, but is it truly a sign that right and left agree on something? Article 4635 words 5 votes
Twitter unlocks Mitch McConnell’s campaign account after pressure social media Article 973 words, published Aug 8 2019 12 votes
A draft executive order from the White House would have the FTC and FCC police alleged social media censorship social media Article 7 votes
US Republican Party boycotting Twitter ads over Mitch McConnell’s campaign Twitter lock social media Article 399 words 10 votes
How Not to Regulate Social Media: Proposed privacy and bot laws don’t target real problems, and would cause needless harm internet social media privacy Article 2746 words 4 votes
GitHub restricts developer accounts based in Iran, Crimea, and other countries under US sanctions microsoft Article 612 words 6 votes
Tech firms “can and must” put backdoors in encryption, AG Barr says security Article 679 words 15 votes