social media
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The Secret Playbook of Social Media Censors – The “Counter Reset”
Glenn Greenwald’s piece on manipulation of the Internet by intelligence agencies gives examples – based upon documents leaked by Edward Snowden – of how governments disrupt social media websites. Continue reading
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Truth hurts: 25 Palestinian social media activists detained for ‘incitement’ By Annie Robbins
Last Thursday Israel rounded up 25 Palestinian activists because of their social media postings on Facebook, and it didn’t warrant a blurp in the mainstream press. The activists were hauled off after their homes were raided in East Jerusalem, due to their Facebook postings. Continue reading
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Point-By-Point Rebuttal of U.S. Case for War In Syria
The White House released a 4-page document setting forth its case for use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government. But as shown below, the case is extremely weak (government’s claim in quotes, followed by rebuttal evidence). Continue reading
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Debunking the “U.S. Government Assessment of the Syrian Government’s Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013” By Eric Draitser
The document entitled “U.S. Government Assessment of the Syrian Government’s Use of Chemical Weapons on August 21, 2013”, released in tandem with public statements made by Secretary of State John Kerry, is merely summary of a manufactured narrative designed to lead the US into yet another criminal and disastrous war in the Middle East. Having… Continue reading
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Kerry releases his version of the ‘proof’ that Assad gassed his own people
Here are the highlights, that no surprise, follow the JIC’s report very closely, although the document is even more padded out than the JIC’s version of their reality Continue reading
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Turkish police round up young protesters for use of social media By Bill Van Auken
Turkish police have rounded up dozens of young protesters in the western port city of Izmir on charges of “encouraging rebellion,” “inciting public hatred” and spreading “misleading and libelous information” for their use of Twitter and other social media during the mass demonstrations that have swept the country over the past week. Continue reading
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Video: 240,000 Turkish Workers Join As Mass Protests Reach More Than 67 Cities
Today the uprisings witnessed a new development, when Turkey’s Confederation of Public Workers Unions, KESK, consisting of 11 unions and approximately 240,000 members, declared their decision to stage a massive two-day strike. Continue reading
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Storyful – Niche Propagandists Work Full-Time Distorting Syria Conflict
With the emergence of social media and the US State Department’s overt attempts at co-opting it to execute its geopolitical agenda, it would be very helpful if there were entire companies dedicated to trawling Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter to supply the Western media houses with prepackaged, filtered content designed specifically to help them bolster their… Continue reading
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Aaron Swartz: Reddit Co-Founder Killed Himself Due to Government Censorship and Harassment?
Reddit co-founder and free speech activist Aaron Swartz killed himself due togovernment censorship and harassment. (He was probably clinicallydepressed and apparently committed suicide; no one is alleging that he was murdered.) Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 8 December 2012: Another ‘NYT’ reporter goes to Gaza and offers condescending anthropological observations on social media
8 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap 9, Including 3 Children, In The West BankIMEMC – The Israeli army kidnapped late on Friday evening, and on Saturday at dawn, nine Palestinians, including three children, in different parts of the occupied West Bank. … Continue reading
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Americans Are The Most Spied On People In World History By Washington's Blog
The American government has more information on the average American than Stalin had on Russians, Hitler had on German citizens, or any other government has ever had on its people. The American government is collecting and storing virtually every phone call, purchases, email, text message, internet searches, social media communications, health information, employment history, travel… Continue reading
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Inside Israel's Twitter War Room: History of a Social Media Arsenal by Rebecca L. Stein
What was lost in all this coverage was the history of the Israeli army’s social media investment, which long precedes 2012. Rather, over the course of the last few years, IDF institutions (along with other state organs) have gradually and carefully built up their presence on social media platforms and established these platforms as key… Continue reading
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Facebook Is Losing Your Mail in Hopes of Receiving More Bribes By Jim Naureckas
Now, say your mail carrier lets it be known that they’ll accept a small fee to make sure that your mail doesn’t get lost–and you decline to pay the fee. What do you expect is going to happen? That’s right, more of your mail is going to get lost. Continue reading
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History, As Recorded on Twitter, Is Vanishing From The Web, Say Computer Scientists
19 September, 2012 — Technology Review Almost 30 per cent of recorded history, shared over social media such as Twitter, has disapeared, according to a new study of the Egyptian uprising and other significant events Continue reading
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Video: EU suspends ACTA ratification, refers treaty to court
The EU has suspended the ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and referred the text to the European Court of Justice to investigate possible rights breaches. Continue reading
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A fool’s paradise revisited By William Bowles
It’s an amazing sleight-of-hand. Propaganda, whether the news, drama or advertising, articulated by the ‘middle-class’ intelligentsia — all the products of a university system designed and built to serve the needs of capital — has succeeded in creating a mass culture and a way of viewing the world that purports to be ours. But it’s… Continue reading
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And this from Mozilla Firefox on Internet censorship
It’s called the Stop Online Piracy Act, but the fact is that it won’t accomplish that goal. Instead, it will impose new, far-reaching consequences for us all. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Inciting Violence – Irony And The English Riots
It was widely reported that two young men acting independently – Jordan Blackshaw, 20, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22 – had been sentenced to four years in prison for trying to incite riots via Facebook in the Manchester area. This ‘despite both being of previous good character’, and despite the fact that their Facebook entries -… Continue reading
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England riots: Government mulls social media controls
The government is exploring whether to turn off social networks or stop people texting during times of social unrest. Continue reading
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People power vs Murdoch
Since November we’ve led the fight against Murdoch’s media takeover! Through almost 1 million actions, 7 campaigns, 30,000 phone calls, investigations and countless stunts and legal tactics, we’ve blocked Murdoch’s BSkyB deal! Jeremy Hunt twice said our 200,000 submissions and threat to sue delayed the government’s sign-off on the deal. Continue reading
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