An anti-fascist researcher says Twitter suspended her account after someone reported a 2019 tweet of hers following Twitter's updated Private Information Policy
to curb the misuse of media to harass or intimidate private individuals,” @Twitter told @b_fung https://www.cnn.com/... If it's being used to harm, revert. https://twitter.com/... Erica Joy / @ericajo...
Hundreds of executives and companies, including Alphabet, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, sign a statement opposing “any discriminatory legislation” around voting
100s of companies and exec sign this letter opposing “any discriminatory legislation.” Ad appeared in the NYT and @washingtonpost today. w / @andrewrsorkin https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter....
Angry over critical coverage, tech figures discuss hitting back against journalists, on Twitter and invite-only Clubhouse, leading to harassment of NYT's Lorenz
chiefly journalism in the public interest. https://www.vice.com/... @jason : Fair warning: everything you say on #Clubhouse is being covertly recorded by journalists to weaponize against you This is t...
White nationalist outlets including VDare and Red Ice TV still operate on Facebook despite its ban on white nationalism; Facebook says it is investigating
Guardian analysis finds VDare and Red Ice TV among several outlets that are still on the platform despite Facebook's promised ban Tweets: @juliacarriew , @adamserwer , @juliacarriew , @peterme , @caro...
8chan struggles to stay up after Cloudflare quit servicing it; 8chan appears to have switched domain registrars to Epik, now hobbled by one of its own vendors
"It's DNS. It's always DNS." Matt Binder / Mashable : Inside the fight to keep 8chan offline Oscar Gonzalez / CNET : 8chan owner says El Paso shooter didn't post manifesto Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :...
How a group of black women outed Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color in 2014, in what may have been a dry run for the 2016 misinformation campaign
Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color. Tweets: @cjane87 , @jamilsmith , @wesleylowery , @mckaycoppins , @yair_rosen...
Subpoena for Discord, the app used by white supremacists to plan the Charlottesville rally, could reveal their identities
In the months before the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally last August, a chat app called Discord was abuzz with alt-right agitators.
Leaked training documents show how Facebook classifies hate speech groups, allowing praise for white nationalism and white separatism but not white supremacy
After a white supremacist killed a protester in Charlottesville in 2017, Facebook pushed to re-educate its moderators …
Experts say Bitcoin's boom is a boon for extremist groups and some far-right leaders, with Bitcoin adoption gaining new urgency after Charlottesville rally
this seems as brave-new-world as almost any brave-new-world thing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Agent Smith / @anonycraig : “The alt-right likes bitcoin the same way criminals and people on the...
Eight out of 28 of Trump's Homeland Security cybersecurity panel resign, citing “insufficient attention” to the issues, Charlottesville comments, more
Board members also condemned the president's response to racist violence in Charlottesville, Va.