How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia
Sweden has tasked its psychological defense authority with openly combating fake news from foreign actors. … X: Alex Steffen / @alexsteffen : Some people, at least, are treating these Russian corrupti...
How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia
The country has empowered a government agency to openly combat online disinformation coming from foreign adversaries, and especially the Kremlin. Mastodon: @carl@heath.social . X: @dabeard , @nytimest...
Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa discusses the role of social media in polarization, interactions with Zuckerberg and Sandberg in 2017, Frances Haugen, more
The journalist, whose reporting has taken on the president of the Philippines and the C.E.O. of Facebook, discusses the … Tweets: @dabeard , @nytopinion , @karaswisher , and @nytopinion Tweets: David ...
An obscure Florida company began acquiring DoD's IP addresses, now totaling 175M, on Jan. 20; DoD says it is a pilot to prevent unauthorized use of its IP space
On January 20, 2021, a great mystery appeared in the internet's global routing table. Kim Lyons / The Verge : The Pentagon reportedly gave a small company control of its IP addresses to find security ...
An in-depth look at Project CETI, a research effort that seeks to use AI to understand the vocalizations of sperm whales off the coast of Dominica
Craig Welch / National Geographic : Tweets: @davideagleman , @liv_boeree , @dabeard , and @natgeo Tweets: David Eagleman / @davideagleman : Too cool. I retain hope that within our lifetimes we humans...
A look at Google's hands-off content moderation approach for Google Podcasts, where hate speech from white supremacists and pro-Nazi groups is easy to find
The platform's tolerance of white supremacist, pro-Nazi and conspiracy theory content pushes the boundaries of the medium. Tweets: @uugwuu , @dabeard , @uugwuu , @repteddeutch , @jessesingal , @waltmo...
How one disgruntled person destroyed the online reputations of 145+ people, aided by “complaint sites” in the US and platforms like Google that rarely intervene
Outrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcock's online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined. Tweets: @kashhill , @zoeschiffer , @dabeard...
Google will pay publishers $1B+ through 2023 to create and curate high-quality journalism for the new Google News Showcase, starting in Germany and Brazil
to help convince governments not to take a whole lot more than that Sundar Pichai / The Keyword : Our $1 billion investment in partnerships with news publishers Byron Kaye / Reuters : Google drops Aus...
Netflix began to build its Black content catalog, the envy of Hollywood, in 2015 after the success of “Orange Is the New Black” and a memo from Black employees
The company didn't set out to build a big library of Black programming, but now it's the envy of its rivals. Tweets: @benyt , @benyt , @wajahatali , @rakeshlobster , @stevensantos , @katrina_hrm , @sa...
Supercuts of violent police behavior during widespread protests have been going viral on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, with one racking up over 45M views
which people have watched tens of millions of times — to reframe the public conversation about the common element in so many protests: police violence https://www.nytimes.com/... Hamza Shaban / @hshab...