2023-12-09
“The group linked to the FSB - and specifically the part of it known as Centre 18 - has been targeting the UK by stealing information from those in political and public life since at least 2015, it is believed. It is claimed the group remains active” Still no mention of Brexit.
Wall Street Journal
The US and the UK accuse Russia's FSB of orchestrating a global hacking campaign since 2015 to interfere in UK elections and target US energy networks and spies
2023-12-08
“The group linked to the FSB - and specifically the part of it known as Centre 18 - has been targeting the UK by stealing information from those in political and public life since at least 2015, it is believed. It is claimed the group remains active” Still no mention of Brexit.
Wall Street Journal
The US and the UK accuse Russia's FSB of orchestrating a global hacking campaign since 2015 to interfere in UK elections and target US energy networks and spies
The cyberattacks also allegedly took aim at U.S. energy networks and American spies — LONDON—The U.S. and U.K. governments …
2023-12-07
“The group linked to the FSB - and specifically the part of it known as Centre 18 - has been targeting the UK by stealing information from those in political and public life since at least 2015, it is believed. It is claimed the group remains active” Still no mention of Brexit.
The Record
The UK accuses a unit of Russia's FSB of using cyberattacks in a “sustained but unsuccessful” campaign to undermine democratic institutions since 2015
The British government accused a unit of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on Thursday of using cyberattacks in a …
2023-04-19
It doesn't take a genius to be able to predict that these labels will be seen by the far right as badges of honour. If tweets are “hateful” they should be removed - this stuff should not be difficult. https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Twitter plans to introduce labels on tweets for which the company has limited searchability or visibility due to a violation of its hateful conduct policy
Jay Peters / The Verge :
It doesn't take a genius to be able to predict that these labels will be seen by the far right as badges of honour. If tweets are “hateful” they should be removed - this stuff should not be difficult. https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Twitter quietly altered its hateful conduct policy to remove long-standing protections for transgender users, including prohibiting “misgendering or deadnaming”
Twitter has quietly altered its Hateful Conduct Policy to remove long-standing protections for its transgender users …
2023-04-18
It doesn't take a genius to be able to predict that these labels will be seen by the far right as badges of honour. If tweets are “hateful” they should be removed - this stuff should not be difficult. https://twitter.com/...
The Verge
Twitter plans to introduce labels on tweets for which the company has limited searchability or visibility due to a violation of its hateful conduct policy
Jay Peters / The Verge :
2023-04-03
Cool kids don't pay for blue ticks. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Twitter removed the verified badge from the New York Times' main account after Elon Musk responded to a meme outlining the outlet's decision not to pay for Blue
The Times and other news organizations say they won't pay for the icon, which is designed to protect against impersonation.
Cool kids don't pay for blue ticks. https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
LeBron James, William Shatner, Seinfeld actor Jason Alexander, and other athletes and celebrities with millions of followers say they won't pay for Twitter Blue
2022-06-20
The extraordinary level of crypto spam in the past couple of years explained. #CryptoScam #Bitcoin https://twitter.com/...
The Block
After suspending withdrawals on Friday, Babel Finance says it has reached “preliminary agreements” on repayments of “some debts”, helping ease its liquidity
- Babel Finance says it has reached “preliminary agreements” with major counterparties “on the repayment period of some debts.”
2021-09-10
Removing the right to have a human review of some decisions made by computer algorithms is a myopic and dangerous mistake. AI algorithms have been shown, in important settings, to be hugely damaging to the lives and prospects of many people (especially people of colour). #bbcaq https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
In a consultation document, UK government suggests removing human review of some AI decisions, in a reversal of EU data protection laws
Excising Article 22 of Brussels regulations would alarm privacy campaigners — The government will put itself on a collision course with data privacy campaigners …
2021-07-15
Facebook gutted its data analytics tool, CrowdTangle, by reassigning dozens of its staff & sidelining its CEO after its data showed incendiary screeds & misleading content from right-wing pages regularly outperform traditional news outlets on the NewsFeed https://gizmodo.com/...
New York Times
Facebook staff detail the fight over CrowdTangle, which notes top-engaging posts, often showing right-wing sources dominating; in April, its team was reassigned
literally 9 or 10 of 10—by conservative media posts. Facebook is unhappy that this makes them look like a right wing echo chamber and are contemplating if and how to reduce transpa...
2021-05-17
“I want to stress that once these content scanning systems are in place (for [CSA] imagery) their usage will expand. They will be retasked by govts all over the world to scan for speech we consider “protected”. This is the infrastructure of authoritarianism” Excellent thread. https://twitter.com/...
Wired UK