A look at the growing skepticism from Silicon Valley investors and companies of Russian money, once welcomed, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine
and sometimes raised eyebrows. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @xeni : Here's what's missing. It's the biggest story of our time. The link between Yuri Milner, Masha Drokova, Jeffrey Epstein, Edge...
How Amazon grew its business in China, including partnering with a government propaganda arm for a books section on Amazon US, AWS-related concessions, and more
Welcome to the 97th edition of Trade War. — As we near our 100th edition … Msmash / Slashdot : Amazon Partnered With China Propaganda Arm Tweets: Neeraj K. Agrawal / @neerajka : Amazon removed all r...
How Amazon grew its business in China, including partnering with a government propaganda arm for a books section on Amazon US, AWS-related concessions, and more
Amazon.com Inc was marketing a collection of President Xi Jinping's speeches and writings on its Chinese website about two years ago … Tweets: @neerajka , @aliceysu , @dhakatribune , @_woifgang , @the...
US investigators traced ransomware payments back to companies in Moscow skyscraper Federation Tower East, suggesting Russia tolerates ransomware operators
Cybersecurity experts tracing money paid by American businesses to Russian ransomware gangs found it led to one of Moscow's most prestigious addresses. Tweets: @hatr , @adam_k_levin , @ericgarland , @...
An internal September 2018 Facebook memo found ~40% of traffic to Pages went to those with plagiarized or recycled content
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @learmonth , @danieldrepper , @ericgarland , @epro , @arpcomics , @mattrosoff , @jeffhorwitz , @jason_kint , @jason_kint , and @jason_kint Tweets: Michael Learmonth / @l...
Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines
Internal company documents suggest that the company plays down awareness of its flaws. Kara Swisher / New York Times : The Endless Facebook Apology Katie Canales / Insider : Apple reportedly threatene...
The French government found proof of Pegasus malware on three French journalists' phones and has referred its findings to the Paris public prosecutor's office
ban the exploit trade. https://www.theguardian.com/ ... John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton : UPDATE: 🇫🇷French Intelligence officially confirms Pegasus spyware found on phones of *more* reporters. Referre...
A look at Parler, backed by Rebekah Mercer, which has doubled its user base to 10M in a week, but unlike Facebook and Twitter leaves moderation to users
primarily the removal of spam, threats of violence, or illegal activity—is handled by ‘community jurors’, all currently volunteers.” https://www.wsj.com/... Hayes Brown / @hayesbrown : So.........not ...
At all-hands, Zuckerberg said that Biden won the election, Bannon violated policies but not enough to shutter his account, Facebook isn't adverse to legislation
Mark Zuckerberg https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Luke O'Brien / @lukeobrien : Mark Zuckerberg could not make a better case for regulation. https://www.reuters.com/... Rat King / @mikeisaac : Zuckerbe...
DHS and the FBI are investigating a robocall and text campaign warning US voters to “stay safe and stay home”
Despite scattered reports … New York Times : Despite Fears of Violence, Election Day Proceeds Smoothly as Millions Line Up to Vote Kate Cox / Ars Technica : “Stay Home” robocalls to voters prompt FBI,...