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 ...
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...
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...
Leaked Chinese government docs reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang, predictive policing, mass surveillance, and snooping on expats
"brainwashing" — to which China is subjecting at least one million detained Uighur and other Turkic Muslims until they renounce Islam and their ethnicity. https://www.bbc.com/... https://twitter.com/....
An in-depth look at how ICE, under Obama and then Trump, has aggressively used big data, fed by social media, to clamp down on undocumented immigrants
a testament to the agency's quiet embrace of big data. https://www.nytimes.com/... “Surveillance works best when you don't notice it.” Tim Shorrock / @timothys : NYT reports that, via public record re...
An inside look at Donald Trump's Wikipedia entry, one of the most popular pages on the internet, where editors fight a brutal, petty battle over every word
It's one of the most popular pages on the internet. But behind the scenes, editors are fighting a brutal, petty battle over every word. Tweets: @kelseyhalliday , @abenedikt , @katie_rayford , @dabear...