Twitter lets Saudi official and MBS aide Bader al-Asaker keep his verified account with 2.1M followers, despite being implicated in a plot to recruit employees
Saudi official Bader al-Asaker accused by US of recruiting employees to secretly report on dissidents' anonymous accounts
As streaming platforms like Netflix have grown, political films they used to seek out, like The Dissident, on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, are being shunned
Bryan Fogel's examination of the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi had trouble finding a home among the companies … Tweets: @parismarx , @ennisnyt , @cliffordlevy , @jlcauvin , @fabiochiu...
As streaming platforms like Netflix have grown, political films they used to seek out, like The Dissident, on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, are being shunned
Bryan Fogel's examination of the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi had trouble finding a home among the companies … Tweets: @joshfoxfilm , @dlepeska , @sub8u , @amlivemon , and @brooksbar...
In a first for the US, a district encompassing Greater Seattle will let ~1.2M voters cast ballots via smartphones for an upcoming board of supervisors election
but only for an election you've likely never heard of Paris Martineau / Wired : Elections Globally Are Under Threat. Here's How to Protect Them Axios : Voting by smartphone could leave polls vulnerabl...
Leaked FTI Consulting report: investigators found a suspicious encrypted file on Jeff Bezos' iPhone, causing data transfers to jump by ~29,000%, but no malware
In February of 2019, intelligence information warning … Amy Thomson / Bloomberg : Facebook Says Bezos Hack Highlights Smartphone Vulnerabilities Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search : Irony, Outrage, Spe...
Sources: Will.i.am's AI startup i.am+ hasn't paid staff in 7 weeks, is late on tax payments, and its smart home platform Wink stopped working with many devices
which @iamwill bought in 2017 — is falling apart. Employees haven't been paid in 7 weeks. More here ↴ https://www.theverge.com/... Robert Stephens / @rstephens : But he'll be attending the “Davos in t...
Source: Twitter suspended hundreds of accounts for violating spam rules; the accounts had posted pro-Saudi Arabia tweets about the disappearance of Khashoggi
Khashoggi: Bots feed Saudi support after disappearance Matt Binder / Mashable : Twitter shuts down spambots spreading pro-Saudi hashtags related to Khashoggi disappearance Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing : ...
As the scandal of Khashoggi's disappearance grows, Silicon Valley is mostly quiet on its connections to Saudi Arabia, the largest funding source for US startups
AI Is Getting Baked Into Everything From Tech Companies Tweets: Ragp Soylu / @ragipsoylu : SIGNIFICANT #Khashoggi updates: • Turkish official tells CNN that Khashoggi was cut into pieces • Turks to AJ...