Trump calls on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or face “consequences,” after she said corporations that “take a knee” to Trump would be held accountable
Donald Trump called on Netflix to fire board member Susan Rice or “pay the consequences,” …
Investigation: after Trump returned to the White House, the SEC eased up on or dismissed 60%+ of ongoing crypto cases, including ones about Trump-tied companies
So Why the Headline? New York Times : How The Times Analyzed the S.E.C.'s Cryptocurrency Enforcement X: Alex Thorn / @intangiblecoins : i really want to believe that NYT is trustwo...
In a weird X Spaces chat, Elon Musk and Alice Weidel, a co-chair of the German far-right party AfD, pushed disinformation about Hitler, migrants, war, and more
God! Martians! A “communist” Hitler! It was heavy on oddness and light on policy as the X owner and the AfD co-leader hit it off.
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. ...
Analysis: Elon Musk's UK obsession is driven by a few X accounts; an ex-Twitter exec says Musk may be the first tech leader to be radicalized by his own product
Tech billionaire's posts about grooming gangs scandal have elevated issue — Elon Musk's recent obsession with UK politics …
Mandiant links hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia, which claimed to target utilities in France, the US, and Poland, to Russia-linked hacking group Sandworm
Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, a group with ties to the Kremlin's Sandworm unit, is crossing lines even that notorious cyberwarfare unit wouldn't dare to.
Meta officials say the US stopped proactively sharing information on foreign influence operations, as the company releases its Q3 2023 Adversarial Threat Report
AJ Vicens / CyberScoop :
How Moscow-based crypto exchange Garantex became a major money laundering channel for cybercriminals and terrorist groups like the Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Garantex customers in Russia can deposit cash in rubles and then receive the equivalent in cryptocurrency, which can then be withdrawn abroad in a foreign currency, effectively dis...
The EU opens an investigation into X over hosting disinformation tied to Hamas' Israel attack and sends X a formal request for information under the DSA
'In this particular case, the Commission services are investigating X's compliance with the #DSA, including with regard to its policies and practices regarding notices on illegal c...
In a letter to Thierry Breton, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says X has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts, labeled tens of thousands of posts, and more
The X social media platform has removed hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts and taken action to remove or label tens of thousands …
In a letter to Thierry Breton, X CEO Linda Yaccarino says X has removed hundreds of Hamas-linked accounts, labeled tens of thousands of posts, and more
The X social media platform has removed hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts and taken action to remove or label tens of thousands …
Letter: Thierry Breton warns Elon Musk that X could face penalties under the DSA for hosting “illegal content and disinformation” about the Israel-Hamas war
European officials warned X on Tuesday that the company formerly known as Twitter appears to have been hosting misinformation …
As X fails to moderate Israel-Hamas misinformation, Meta has an opportunity to make real-time news a pillar of Threads and give the app an existential purpose
Three months into its existence, the app's purpose may be coming into focus — if Meta will embrace it
An excerpt from Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography: Musk cut off Starlink internet access near Crimea to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on a Russian fleet
Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company's Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast …
Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”
Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.
Social media weakened the social capital, strong institutions, and shared stories that bind democracies, especially after 2009 when virality began to intensify
I had plans for the week-end. Ambitious plans. I was going to do my taxes. Christie DeLuca / Analog : Is Social Media a Crack House? Jonathan Haidt / The Atlantic : Grand Hotel ...
Social media platforms have weakened major forces that bind democracies together, especially after 2009 when the virality of social media started to intensify
What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction? In the Book of Genesis, we are told …
The US, the EU, the UK, and Canada agree to cut off a “certain number of Russian banks” from the SWIFT international payments system
Internal docs show the extent of Facebook's knowledge of extremist Groups on its site but don't offer a complete picture of its decision-making in response
Company documents show that the social network's employees repeatedly raised red flags about the spread of misinformation and conspiracies …
Internal docs: Facebook employees created a test account in 2019 and within days it was recommended extreme and conspiratorial content, including QAnon Groups
In the summer of 2019, a new Facebook user named Carol Smith signed up for the platform, describing herself as a politically conservative mother …