Meta plans to launch Instagram's standalone Twitter competitor Threads on July 6, per the pre-order App Store listing, which shows screenshots of some features
Amanda Silberling: — Instagram's rumored Twitter competitor … PC Gamer : With Elon Musk's Twitter in chaos Mark Zuckerberg sees his chance: Meta's Threads launches Oli Welsh / Polygon : Instagram to...
A look at the focus on disinformation by media, tech, and academic leaders, and how assumptions about disinfo effectiveness echo old media and advertising myths
In the beginning, there were ABC, NBC, and CBS, and they were good. Midcentury American man could come home after eight hours … Tweets: @karlbode , @karlbode , @daveyalba , @daphnehk , @noupside , @b...
A look at the worldwide industry of PR and marketing firms offering disinformation services including fake accounts, false narratives, and pseudo news sites
Peng Kuan Chin pulled out his phone, eager to show the future of online manipulation. — Unseen servers began crawling the web for Chinese articles and posts. Tweets: @craigsilverman , @talyagoldberg...
100K+ leaked Cambridge Analytica docs show the Facebook data scandal was part of a broad operation in 68 countries involving govts, intelligence agencies, more
Company's work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents — An explosive leak of tens of thousands … Tweets: @profcarroll , @guyverhofstadt , @stevesilberman , @peterjukes...
A look at the multi-pronged, cross-sector approach Finland is taking to successfully fight misinformation campaigns and fake news
Eliza Mackintosh / CNN : Tweets: @bruce_arthur , @tofvessonmikael , @leskevicius , @rogueusmint , @schemaly , @senyorrequena , @holden , @9elumi , @nkjemisin , @osma , @martynmcl , @rozrothstein , an...
TED talk details the targeted disinformation on Facebook ahead of Brexit and the dark money that likely funded it, as Zuckerberg keeps refusing to testify in EU
or, rather, sold—for the profit of Facebook. http://www.theguardian.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Anyway I'm sure that Facebook has been shaken to its very core now that someone has dared to c...
Kaspersky: ASUS pushed a malicious backdoor to ~500K Windows machines for at least five months last year, after its live software update tool was compromised
Earlier today, Motherboard published … Lily Hay Newman / Wired : HACK BRIEF: HOW TO CHECK YOUR COMPUTER FOR ASUS UPDATE MALWARE Vibhuti Sharma / Reuters : Asus implements fix for malware attack Kasper...
Edinburgh University study identifies 419 Russia-linked Twitter accounts that tweeted about Brexit, all from a list of 2,752 accounts Twitter supplied to US
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How Cambridge Analytica, which was hired by the Trump and Brexit “Leave” campaigns, builds psychological profiles of Facebook users with personality quizzes
McKenzie Funk / New York Times :