Analysis: many right-wing personalities saw their followers surge on sites like Telegram, Gab, and Gettr after the January 6 riot, but growth has since stalled
possibly to be joined soon by Trump's long-promised social network, Truth Social — can build a sustainable business solely by catering to a radicalized right.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @get...
A voter turnout group says Facebook served 36.8% of their conversion ads to iOS users after Apple's ATT change, down from 63.6%
Tatenda Musapatike is as familiar as anyone with the way Facebook's political ad system works. During the 2016 election and the 2018 midterms … Tweets: @carnage4life , @somospostpc , @codinghorror , ...
2020 political campaigns secured emails with physical security keys from a nonprofit working with Google and Microsoft; source says Biden's campaign used keys
Jordan Novet / CNBC : Tweets: @netik , @codinghorror , and @eladgil Tweets: John Adams / @netik : U2F and FIDO worked to stop email attacks this year. Stop using SMS 2FA. Let's get this in the hands ...
EFF's first staff lawyer reflects on how the debate around online speech has evolved and where he thinks the early internet activists got things right and wrong
I've fought for a free internet for 30 years. Here's where I think we went wrong, and right. Tweets: @codinghorror , @jangles , @ahmed , @mpawlo , @sfmnemonic , @blakereid , @harrisonstephen , and @p...
A behind-the-scenes account on what it was like to provide basic cybersecurity training to 41 Democratic Congressional campaigns from late 2017 to 2018
You know how it happens. You try to secure one Congressional campaign, and then another, and pretty soon you can't stop. Tweets: @pinboard , @allafarce , @codinghorror , @patio11 , @allafarce , @howe...
Niche online communities and media grew in 2017, through Patreon, TinyLetter, “finstagrams”, and more as people looked for alternatives to Facebook and Twitter
niche communities, human connection, people exchanging ideas, maybe even paying each other for the work they'd made — never really lost its appeal, but this year it came back with a miniature vengeanc...
How the Strater family endured 3 years of online harassment, hacked accounts, and swatting
Kevin Roose / Fusion : Tweets: @codinghorror Tweets: Jeff Atwood / @codinghorror : “More like ‘Internet is a mean place full of really shitty people.’” http://fusion.net/...