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• InI 17:42 on 25th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: censorship ( 94 ), data mining ( 88 ), facebook ( 81 ), Google ( 81 ), privacy ( 233 ), social media ( 44 ), surveillance ( 462 ), Twitter   

  Facebook codifies its censorship regime By Andre Damon 

  25 April 2018 — WSWS

  [Another, damn good reason NOT to use Facebook et al! WB]

  Facebook, the world’s largest social media company, spelled out for the first time the criteria it uses to censor speech on its platform, purely at its own discretion, and with no legal oversight or recourse.

  Its “community guidelines” are so sweeping and broad that effectively any statement expressing any critical political view can be constrained as violent, defamatory, “extremist,” “bullying” or—in the most sweeping catchall—“fake news,” and flagged for removal or undetectable censorship.

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• InI 13:45 on 16th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: BBC ( 529 ), facebook ( 81 ), fake news ( 7 ), Google ( 81 ), social media ( 44 ), Twitter   

  If you don’t want Facebook, what do you want? By Dan Hind 

  11 April 2018 — Return of the Public

  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’ business model poses to individual autonomy and to democratic process is not news.

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• InI 16:52 on 10th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: analytica, facebook ( 81 ), Google ( 81 ), jeff bezos ( 4 ), privacy ( 233 ), Robert Mercer ( 2 ), social media ( 44 ), surveillance ( 462 ), Twitter   

  Who Will Take on the 21st Century Tech and Media Monopolies? By Justin Anderson 

  10 April 2018 — FAIR

  

  Facebook “failed to alert users and took only limited steps to recover and secure the private information of more than 50 million individuals” (London Observer, 3/17/18).

  After decades of regulatory neglect, Big Tech is finally coming under the microscope.

  Facebook is under fire for (among other things) its involvement with Cambridge Analytica, a British data analytics firm funded by hedge fund billionaire and major Republican party donor Robert Mercer and formerly led by President Trump’s ex–campaign manager and strategist Steve Bannon. Cambridge Analytica harvested data from over 87 million Facebook profiles (up from Facebook’s original count of 50 million) without the users’ consent, according to a report by the London Observer (3/17/18) sourced to a whistleblower who worked at Cambridge Analytica until 2014.

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• InI 08:06 on 10th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: data mining ( 88 ), facebook ( 81 ), Google ( 81 ), privacy ( 233 ), social media ( 44 ), Twitter   

  If you’re on Facebook then your data has been stolen 

  9 April 2018 — OpenMedia

  Facebook just made the stunning admission that 100 percent of its 2 billion users have likely had their personal data stolen by “malicious actors.”[1]

  That’s right. One hundred percent. If you’re on Facebook, then it’s a virtual lock that your data has been stolen.

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• InI 15:10 on 9th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: censorship ( 94 ), facebook ( 81 ), Google ( 81 ), monopoly ( 18 ), social media ( 44 ), Twitter   

  Facebook: A Cooperative Transformation By Roy Morrison 

  7 April 2018 — EcoCivilization

  According to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 2 billion users represent a global community whose interest are served at no charge, a community that facilitates and encourages historically unprecedented social interconnection on a global scale. Unquestionably much of this is positive.

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• InI 07:48 on 6th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: facebook ( 81 ), russian bots, social media ( 44 ), Twitter   

  Media Warn of ‘Russian Bots’—Despite Primary Source’s Disavowal By Adam Johnson 

  5 April 2018 — FAIR

  

  Washington Post (4/2/18): “Wading into controversy is a key strategy for Russian propaganda bots.”

  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. (These “dashboards” let one see what Russian bots—automated online persona controlled by the Kremlin—are allegedly  “pushing” on social media.)

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• InI 11:45 on 1st February 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: facebook ( 81 ), social media ( 44 ), Twitter   

  Media Lens: Champions Of Democracy – From Fake News To Imposed Insanity 

  1 February 2018 — Media Lens

  Open a corporate website on any given day and you will find someone, somewhere blaming social media for something. No claim is too absurd.

  Last week, journalist Sean Williams, who writes for the New Yorker, New Republic and Wired, tweeted us in a state of high anxiety:

  ‘I just want you to know you’re ruining the national dialogue and pushing more people towards right wing populism. Really.’

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• InI 07:51 on 1st February 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: BBC ( 529 ), facebook ( 81 ), fake news ( 7 ), propaganda ( 209 ), Twitter   

  Faking it By William Bowles 

  January 2018 — InvestigatingImperialism

  It’s time I did a piece on this Fake News nonsense being put about by the Western propagandists, the originators of fake news and what better place to start than the BBC, the fountainhead of impartial and objective journalism, not.

  Hacking, leaking and disputing the facts, it’s never been easier to distort the truth. Thanks to the digital revolution, anyone can dispute established facts and share it with the world on social media – be it for commercial or political gain. But when the line between fact and fiction becomes blurred the very fabric of our society can be endangered. Public trust in traditional media and political institutions has plummeted and some argue the unity of our nations is at stake. How can a free and fair media still operate in a digitised world and restore trust in political debate? – Davos The Fake News Challenge to Politics

  The above quote is from the BBC News Website on 28 January 2018. It’s probably the single most disingenuous piece of journalism the BBC has ever published, for what it’s really telling its public is that the BBC no longer has a monopoly on deciding what is the truth. No wonder it thinks the ‘unity of our nation is at stake’.

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• InI 07:46 on 24th January 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: facebook ( 81 ), Google ( 81 ), NSA ( 403 ), spying ( 153 ), surveillance ( 462 ), Twitter   

  For an international coalition to fight Internet censorship 

  23 January 2018 — WSWS

  An open letter from the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site to socialist, anti-war, left-wing and progressive websites, organizations and activists

  The United States government, in the closest collaboration with Google, Facebook, Twitter and other powerful information technology corporations, is implementing massive restrictions on Internet access to socialist, antiwar and progressive websites. Similar repressive policies are being enacted by capitalist governments in Europe and throughout the world.

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• InI 21:17 on 18th January 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: censorship ( 94 ), CIA ( 602 ), facebook ( 81 ), FBI ( 144 ), Google ( 81 ), NSA ( 403 ), surveillance ( 462 ), Twitter, Youtube ( 47 )   

  Facebook and Google outline unprecedented mass censorship at US Senate hearing By Andre Damon 

  18 January 2018– WSWS

  Behind the backs of the US and world populations, social media companies have built up a massive censorship apparatus staffed by an army of “content reviewers” capable of seamlessly monitoring, tracking, and blocking millions of pieces of content.

  The character of this apparatus was detailed in testimony Wednesday from representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s YouTube before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, chaired by South Dakota Republican John Thune.

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