social media
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On TEDx, Gene Therapy, Profits, and Criminal Thinking By Phil Butler
And the headlines read, “Putin wants his own private internet.” This genius stroke of Neanderthal mass information came from TechRadar via the golden string of stupidity that emanates from Bloomberg. This “thread” I speak of is the connective tissue of the most ominous force in the history of our planet. How’s that for sensational? Now… Continue reading
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UK parliament committee demands sweeping social media censorship By Robert Stevens
Reporting its 18-month investigation into “Disinformation and ‘fake news’,” the select committee’s explicitly anti-Russian agenda was clear from the outset, with a remit to tackle accusations of foreign interference in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the 2016 referendum on the UK’s European Union membership and the 2017 general election. Continue reading
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Major Psy-Op in Europe Exposed: UK Government Tramples on Values It Vowed to Protect By Alex Gorka
Those who have been saying that the West has turned Russia into a scapegoat to be blamed for each and every thing that goes wrong have been proved right. We have witnessed concocted stories invented to denigrate Moscow that have gone viral as directed by the secret services. The UK, the country that is spearheading… Continue reading
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How Google, Facebook and Twitter are manipulating the Mexican presidential elections—Part 1
In recent months, Google, Facebook and Twitter have signed agreements with the Mexican National Electoral Institute (INE), the organization charged with carrying out elections in Mexico, in what amounts to a massive campaign to manipulate the outcome of the July 1 general elections in the world’s tenth most populous country. Continue reading
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The Real Reason Social Media Makes Hollywood So Nervous By J. F. Sargent
There’s an episode of the Netflix show Black Mirror called “Nosedive,” about a world where everyone can rate their interactions with everyone else on a scale of 1–5, and each person’s average rating determines their socioeconomic status. The moral of the episode (because most episodes of Black Mirror have a techno-moral at the end) was… Continue reading
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If you don’t want Facebook, what do you want? By Dan Hind
Facebook is once again in the news. Last month a joint investigation by the Observer, the New York Times and Channel 4 revealed that a UK company, Cambridge Analytica, had used information about Facebook’s users to target voters during Donald Trump’s successful campaign to become president in 2016. But the threat that the data giants’… Continue reading
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Who Will Take on the 21st Century Tech and Media Monopolies? By Justin Anderson
Worse than the breach itself, Facebook apparently knew about this data-harvesting for years, and in fact, according to another whistleblower who worked at the social media giant itself (Guardian, 3/20/18), had a policy of allowing developers to gather user data by linking apps with Facebook logins, as Cambridge Analytica did through its partnership with Kogan… Continue reading
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If you’re on Facebook then your data has been stolen
Facebook just made the stunning admission that 100 percent of its 2 billion users have likely had their personal data stolen by “malicious actors.” That’s right. One hundred percent. If you’re on Facebook, then it’s a virtual lock that your data has been stolen Continue reading
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Media Warn of ‘Russian Bots’—Despite Primary Source’s Disavowal By Adam Johnson
One could forgive the average reader for thinking reporters covering bots had been replaced by bots. The formula is something we’ve seen a million times now: After a controversial story breaks, media outlets insist that “Russian bots” used the controversy to “sow discord” or “exploit tensions”; a “Russian bot dashboard” is offered as proof. Continue reading
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Cambridge Analytica Is Not Alone: i360 and Data Trust Disastrous for Democracy
Cambridge Analytica, owned by Robert Mercer, is in the news, but other companies — like the Koch Brothers’ i360 and Karl Rove’s Data Trust — are far more dangerous, says investigative reporter Greg Palast Continue reading
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The truth about Cambridge Analytica-SCL: Psy-ops by UK-US deep state actors By Julie Hyland
The serious privacy concerns involved in the harvesting of the personal information of some 50 million Facebook users were underscored by Britain’s Channel 4 News. An undercover investigation filmed Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix boasting of dirty tricks operations to ensnare politicians and subvert elections. But while the disclosures are being used to bolster hysterical… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Champions Of Democracy – From Fake News To Imposed Insanity
Open a corporate website on any given day and you will find someone, somewhere blaming social media for something. No claim is too absurd. Continue reading
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The Democrats’ McCarthyite witch hunt By Andre Damon
One after another, congressmen and senators goaded representatives of Google, Twitter and Facebook to admit that their platforms were used to sow “social divisions” and “extremist” political opinions. The aim of this campaign is to claim that social conflict within the United States arises not from the scale of social inequality in America, greater than… Continue reading
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Freedom of expression under threat – Act Now!
The Trump administration has recently pushed forward deeply worrying new rules for people applying for U.S. visas. Now, some people are being asked to provide every social media handle they used over the past five years – enabling government bureaucrats to scour through everything they’ve posted on those accounts. Continue reading
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Tweet This! The ISIS Terrorists and Social Media By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
Curiously, while the conflict in Syria has destroyed its infrastructure, amidst the bombing, fleeing, starvation, power cuts and fuel shortages, mainstream media would have us believe that ISIS has successfully set up shop in Syria to recruit “jihadist” using Google Chat, Skype, and Twitter (CNN). Clearly, these terrorists are tech-savvy and know how to use… Continue reading
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Big Brother’s Facebook: UK, US intelligence ‘infiltrating’ social media
According to Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who first broke the news on the Snowden NSA leaks, an Orwellian-style dystopia is lurking on the horizon as western spy agencies see an opportunity for manipulating public opinion and disseminating state propaganda by exploiting global internet giants, such as Flickr, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Continue reading
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Social media: A Weapon of PsyWar & you’re the target By Tony Gosling
For centuries the most powerful intelligence gathering service on the planet was the Catholic rite of ‘confession’, where millions of people told vital info to the Pope on guilty acts which could then be used to blackmail them and their co-sinners. But you’d be wrong if you thought that was mostly over with Luther and… Continue reading
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White House information warfare By Vladimir Platov
The White House and its henchmen, in the forms of the U.S. intelligence and the Pentagon, have been using social networking sites to overthrow undesirable regimes at least since 2000. An entire industry of misinformation and public opinion manipulation has been created. Acting on the orders of Washington, real or virtual activists are trying to… Continue reading
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Israel’s War on Facebook By Richard Silverstein
Last week the Shabak hauled a Palestinian in for interrogation because he called Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat, the “mayor of Occupation.” Haaretz notes that four months ago, the police arrested 13 young East Jerusalem bloggers who complained about the “politics of Occupation” and damage to Al Aqsa Mosque. Their lawyer pointed out that charges were… Continue reading
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Social ‘lie detector’ will help journalists verify online rumours. Well that’s the theory
The three-year project, named Pheme, is an European Union-funded collaboration between an international group of researchers led by the University of Sheffield. Continue reading
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