The Los Angeles police department pursued a contract with a controversial technology company that could enable police to use fake social media accounts to surveil … LAPD partnered with tech firm that enables secretive online spyingRead more
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How Legal Loopholes and Facebook’s Policies Helped India’s BJP in Elections
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEHC08e8Q6I&rel=0&feature=relmfu] Kumar Sambhav Reporters’ Collective
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Do Online Forums Act as “Radicalization Machines” for White Supremacists
Saturday’s massacre by the 18-year-old white supremacist, which killed 10, has been called a made-for-the-internet massacre, the shooter streaming the massacre on Twitch for about … Do Online Forums Act as “Radicalization Machines” for White SupremacistsRead more
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Racist Manifesto Fuel Push to Regulate Social Media Platforms Where Hate Flourishes
for all of us, this is both incredibly sad, but it also makes us deeply angry, because of all the things that could be and … Racist Manifesto Fuel Push to Regulate Social Media Platforms Where Hate FlourishesRead more
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How Facebook Programmed Our Relatives
Three years ago, on his birthday, a law professor watched his e-mail inbox fill with Facebook notifications indicating that friends had posted messages on his … How Facebook Programmed Our RelativesRead more
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Social media makes it difficult to identify real news
The study found that people viewing a blend of news and entertainment on a social media site tended to pay less attention to the source … Social media makes it difficult to identify real newsRead more
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How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics
Shortly before Sophie Zhang lost access to Facebook’s systems, she published one final message on the company’s internal forum, a farewell tradition at Facebook known … How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politicsRead more
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Facebook planned to remove fake accounts in India
Facebook allowed a network of fake accounts to artificially inflate the popularity of an MP from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), for months after … Facebook planned to remove fake accounts in IndiaRead more
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How Can Climate Activists Fight Misinformation?
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Major Media Outlets That Use Invasive User Tracking Are Lobbying Against Regulation
News outlets entrusted with promoting transparency and privacy are also lobbying behind closed doors against proposals to regulate the mass collection of Americans’ data. In … Major Media Outlets That Use Invasive User Tracking Are Lobbying Against RegulationRead more