Sequoia's Shaun Maguire speculated in an X post that an innocent Palestinian student was behind the Brown University shooting; the post was later deleted
and unleash chaos Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : Sequoia partner spreads debunked Brown shooting theory, testing new leadership Media Matters for America : After the Brown University shooting, right-med...
Sources: Elon Musk and his right-wing allies discussed how to destabilize the UK Labour government and remove PM Keir Starmer, beyond Musk's aggressive X posts
Votes of millions of people don't count. — Fiction threatens to become reality as the equivalents of Dr. Strangelove and James Bond villain Elliot Carver plan world domination. — archive.ph/waCUV ...
Arab and Muslim workers at Meta detail frustrations over Meta's handling of internal discussions on the Israel-Hamas war, worrying it led to bad product choices
Wired : X: @marcowenjones , @nicolefroio , @evystadium , and @wired . Forums: r/worldnews X: Marc Owen Jones / @marcowenjones : This is an essential read in all the ways Meta silence empathy for Pale...
Pro-government news outlets and influencers in Bangladesh are promoting AI-generated disinformation created with cheap tools ahead of the January 2024 elections
Benjamin Parkin / Financial Times : X: @1br0wn , @areeqchowdhury , @tobywalsh , and @valayism X: Ian Brown / @1br0wn : “It's easy for a politician to say, ‘This is deepfake’, or 'This is #AI-generate...
Investigation: as Amazon and Netflix back down on daring films, self-censorship pervades the Indian streaming industry due to pressure from Modi's ruling BJP
MUMBAI — Over a three-decade career, the filmmaker Anurag Kashyap often trained a critical eye on his native India as he wove tales … X: @aaschapiro , @gerryshih , @gerryshih , @anujbhuwania , @vakash...
Meta responds to concerns about Israel-Hamas war misinformation, saying the company formed an operations center, removed 795K+ posts, and more
I wouldn't call it censorship, it's always an algorithm which controls the content you see on IG and others. But since algorithms something like the secret recipe of Coke, nobody get it if someone pu...
Tech insiders and academics say most independent Uyghur-run websites ceased to exist as Beijing's crackdown in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang region unfolded
a future for their own society.” https://www.wired.com/... Masha Borak / @mashaborak : “It's like erasing the life work of thousands and thousands of people to build something—a future for their own s...
Google Play removes dozens of Android apps, including Muslim prayer apps with 10M+ downloads, after researchers find malware tied to a US defense contractor
Code placed in consumer-facing apps is tied to U.S. national-security contractors, documents show
Facebook's research on teens and mental health is not as conclusive as it appears, relying on teens' self-reported views and a small sample size
With each Facebook crisis, we become savvier … Jean Twenge / The Conversation : Facebook's own internal documents offer a blueprint for making social media safer for teens Maxwell Strachan / VICE : Fa...
Report: since 2004, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook and Twitter have earned $43.8B in contracts with the Pentagon, mostly in relation to the War on Terror
Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE : Tweets: @greisamartinez , @nullvoidstar , @vice , @caradefabio , @munira_ , and @acrecampaigns Tweets: Undeniable Greisa / @greisamartinez : @ACREcampaigns ... Published a ...