A look at an ISIS-affiliated media program called News Harvest, which is using AI-generated news anchors to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply
The Islamic State-affiliated media broadcast News Harvest shows how artificial intelligence can be used to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply.
A book excerpt details YouTube's efforts to remove Islamic extremist content and how the platform mostly failed to address other forms of political extremism
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A look at Muslim matchmaking apps like Muzmatch, which are trying to “disrupt” the tradition of arranged marriages while adhering to Islamic cultural values
with a chaperone. With their parents' blessing, young Muslims in conservative countries are getting into online dating. Yasmin Hai explains how for @restofworld https://restofworld.org/... https://twi...
El Paso, the third mass shooting announced on 8chan, shows how its /pol/ board deliberately radicalizes users into mass shooters and gamifies massacring people
lone shooter, assault rifle, online manifesto, a link to a live stream—appears to be contagious. https://www.newyorker.com/... Dave Zatz / @davezatz : @Techmeme 'Let's do nothing because it's just not...
China's border guards close to Xinjiang install Android malware on tourists' devices that scans for 70K+ files and downloads texts, calendar entries, phone logs
An APK Chinese authorities load onto the Android phones … Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : China installs a surveillance app on tourists' phones while crossing in the Xinjiang Harper Neidig / T...
Facebook says it was a mistake to approve ads with inaccurate disclosures like “Mike Pence” and “Islamic State” in the “paid for by” field for political ads
William Turton / VICE News :
Behind #OpISIS and GhostSec, a group of hactivists fighting ISIS online, gathering and passing intelligence, which may have helped to disrupt a terror plot
Anonymous vs. the Islamic State — For nearly a year, a war has been unfolding in strange corners of the Internet.
Why the Islamic State leaves tech companies torn between free speech and security
Washington Post : Tweets: @mcandrew . See also Mediagazer Tweets: Andrew McLaughlin / @mcandrew : Remarkably deep & rigorous piece by @nakashimae & @ScottHigham1 on conundrums of free speech & propag...
Why the Islamic State leaves tech companies torn between free speech and security
The Islamic State and its supporters use social media to post propaganda and recruit followers. The Washington Post takes a closer look at how several groups in the United States monitor this activit...