A profile of Peter Thiel, who plans to leave Meta's board to focus on politics, funding far-right MAGA candidates who peddle conspiracies and deny Biden won
NYT @rmac18 and @llerer 1st reported about his involvement yesterday — More details about the app on @axios: https://www.axios.com/... @nycsouthpaw : NYT profiles Peter Thiel, the billionaire aparthei...
Adam Mosseri faces criticism after comparing social media to cars, saying “cars create way more value than they destroy”, even though people die in accidents
a delightful & depressing social lubricant blending short-term euphoria w/ long-term regret that offers to young consumers a messy cocktail of dopamine, disorientation, and dependency. Social media is...
Facebook says it has disabled the accounts, apps, Pages, and access to its APIs for researchers running NYU's Ad Observatory Project, citing TOS violations
whose ads are already public and whose data Facebook stores in a public archive. https://www.protocol.com/... Dell Cameron / @dellcam : NEW: Senate Intel Chair @MarkWarner condemns Facebook's decision...
An in-depth look at five iOS exploit chains that were used in hacked websites for carrying out watering hole attacks against devices running iOS 10 through 12
In the earlier posts we examined … Ian Beer / Project Zero : In-the-wild iOS Exploit Chain 1 Patrick Howell O'Neill / MIT Technology Review : Websites have been quietly hacking iPhones for years, says...
Mark Zuckerberg calls for global regulations in four areas: policing harmful content, election integrity, a GDPR-like privacy framework, and data portability
but some experts are questioning his motives Nick Gillespie / Hit & Run : Mark Zuckerberg: ‘I Believe We Need a More Active Role for Governments and Regulators’ David McCabe / Axios : Zuckerberg start...
Sen. Warren proposes tech regulation, including breaking up big tech and rolling back acquisitions at Amazon, Google, and Facebook, as part of her 2020 bid
Silicon Valley is unimpressed VentureBeat : Elizabeth Warren vows to break up Amazon, Facebook, and Google John Koetsier / Forbes : Why Apple Got Spared As Elizabeth Warren Targets Amazon, Facebook, G...
Facebook has urged users to enable phone number-based 2FA, but the numbers are used in a user lookup feature with no opt out and to target ads, sparking outcry
and you can't opt-out. http://techcrunch.com/... Anil Dash / @anildash : Well put. It's doubly devastating when a major platform betrays user trust, because they not only victimize their own users, th...
Sources: hackers stole NSA data on US offensive and defensive cyber capabilities from a contractor's laptop in 2015, likely via Kaspersky software
This Time with Kaspersky's Help Associated Press : Report: Russian hackers target secrets taken by NSA worker Steven Musil / CNET : Russian hackers reportedly stole NSA cyber secrets in 2015 Gareth Ha...