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...
Open letter signed by 800+ founders, VCs, and others: Sequoia must act after Shaun Maguire said Zohran Mamdani “comes from a culture that lies about everything”
where the hell is Sequoia going to find a replacement for investing acumen like that? [embedded post] So Mayer / @suchmayer : #AltText the image is a tweet by Shaun Maguire, in which he says that Mamd...
How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia
Sweden has tasked its psychological defense authority with openly combating fake news from foreign actors. … X: Alex Steffen / @alexsteffen : Some people, at least, are treating these Russian corrupti...
How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia
The country has empowered a government agency to openly combat online disinformation coming from foreign adversaries, and especially the Kremlin. Mastodon: @carl@heath.social . X: @dabeard , @nytimest...
Twitter restored several Hindu nationalist accounts popular in India, including some denigrating Muslims, and blocked posts linking to a BBC documentary on Modi
Human-rights groups say they have seen a rise in anti-Muslim material on the platform — Elon Musk's Unconventional Management Style: Former Employees Share Stories
A look at the use of WhatsApp in Indian state Gujarat's elections, as political parties deploy thousands of “digital warriors” to spam the “people's feed”
Samriddhi Sakunia / Rest of World : Tweets: @restofworld , @samriddhi0809 , @samriddhi0809 , @samriddhi0809 , @restofworld , @nationalfedera4 , @hrishirajanand_ , @clifroz , @ankitlal , @samriddhi080...
Elections in India's Gujarat have become a WhatsApp spam war, as the main political parties push content across thousands of groups to influence voters
10,000 volunteers, 50,000 WhatsApp groups, and the intense fight to “control people's feed” in Gujarat. — • AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT, INDIA Tweets: @restofworld , @samriddhi0809 , @samriddhi0809 , @samrid...
NYU report details how influencers backing India's BJP have used YouTube to spread conspiracy theories and hateful content targeting Muslims and women in India
Does YouTube send unwitting users down a ‘rabbit hole’ of extremism? Tweets: @blackamazon : Why especially in the age of gross targeting and abuse for the marginalized is there no recommendation for a...
Sources and internal docs show Facebook's race-blind policies around hate speech left minorities more likely to see derogatory and racist language on the site
but they've repeatedly put profits over people. It's clear that they won't hold themselves accountable, so we must. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @glaad : New revelations from @washingtonpost on...
Sources: Facebook has done little to act on the Islamophobic “Love Jihad” conspiracy theory on its platform in India due to “political sensitivities”
In a video posted to Facebook in November 2020, an extremist priest called for Hindus to rise up and begin killing Muslims in India. Tweets: @jason_kint , @damomusings , @verambergen , @skjain_05 , @k...