A profile of RightForge, a web hosting service underpinning Trump's Truth Social and nearly 1,000 others that serves those who feel “censored”
In the days following Jan. 6, 2021, when many Americans were trying to comprehend how a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol … Tweets: @cbedforddc , @business , and @jeffstone500 Tweets: Christopher Bedford /...
How Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon, and others increasingly rival states for geopolitical influence and are reshaping the global order as we know it
After rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, some of the United States' most powerful institutions sprang into action to punish the leaders of the failed insurrection. Tweets: @ianbremmer , @m...
Trump's last post on Facebook, which now has 700K+ comments, has become a weird internet memorial where his fans and critics still converge to argue and troll
most of his preceding posts received between 20,000 and 200,000 — and new replies come in every few minutes. “We need to know you hear us,” one supporter wrote last week. https://www.latimes.com/... @...
Interview with CEO of SkySilk, the hosting company that helped bring Parler online, who says he did it to spite tech giants like Amazon who abuse their might
On Jan. 10, just days after pro-Trump rioters blitzed the U.S. Capitol, Amazon Web Services pulled the plug on the conservative social media site Parler. Tweets: @davetroy , @jimstinnett , @tompalmspr...
Interview with CEO of SkySilk, the hosting company that helped bring Parler online, who says he did it to spite tech giants like Amazon who abuse their might
On Jan. 10, just days after pro-Trump rioters blitzed the U.S. Capitol, Amazon Web Services pulled the plug on the conservative social media site Parler. Tweets: @gelliebeans1 , @npr , @jimstinnett , ...
How Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other tech giants let their work on domestic terrorism threats, like QAnon, lag behind foreign threats, like ISIS
On a Friday in August 2017 — years before a mob of armed and very-online extremists took over the U.S. Capitol — a young Black woman … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @wexler , @issielapowsky , @angelsdiaz_ ...
Twitter and Facebook have done little to stop the spread of anti-Muslim messages from Indian politicians, amplifying incendiary voices in pursuit of profit
Alaphia Zoyab / Rest of World : Tweets: @anjali28 , @nicdawes , @restofworld , @frankpasquale , @akhildeo94 , @anupkaphle , and @rasmus_kleis Tweets: Anjali Ramachandran / @anjali28 : FB/TW won't do ...
Review of public posts of dozens of Facebook users sharing extreme right-wing views shows how Facebook rewards their lies and helped incubate the insurrection
I saw this play out in the Philippines too when I was reporting my story about President Duterte “influencers” on Facebook. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Stuart Andrew Thompson /...
A researcher says she archived 99.9% of posts on Parler, many with users' location data, as Apple, Google, and Amazon took the service offline
In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump's supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue …
The quick evacuation of the Capitol left computers and devices unattended while the mob ransacked offices, a nightmare scenario for cybersecurity professionals
'Consider Them All Compromised' Samantha Masunaga / Los Angeles Times : The attack on the Capitol may pose a cybersecurity risk. Here's how Tweets: Senator Jeff Merkley / @senjeffmerkley : The trail ...