2023-10-09
I considered doing 23andMe several times, because members of my family who did got in contact with some distant Jewish relatives in Ukraine that way. But I ultimately never did it, because the thought of a private company having a database of genetic Jews seemed too scary.
Wired
Hackers posted a 23andMe data sample on BreachForums, claiming 1M data points exclusively on Ashkenazi Jews, but the sample appears to lack raw genetic data
At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums.
2023-10-08
I considered doing 23andMe several times, because members of my family who did got in contact with some distant Jewish relatives in Ukraine that way. But I ultimately never did it, because the thought of a private company having a database of genetic Jews seemed too scary.
Wired
Hackers posted an initial data sample from 23andMe on BreachForums earlier in the week, claiming that it had 1M data points exclusively about Ashkenazi Jews
At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums.
2023-03-21
Truly the Henry Ford of our time. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
CASM Technology and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue report: the average weekly number of antisemitic tweets more than doubled after Elon Musk's acquisition
2022-09-19
This investigative report really deserves a lot more attention. Essentially, Russian trolls exploited pro-Israel groups' concern about a Palestinian activist's involvement in the Women's March, in order to fracture that movement and undermine its effectiveness against Trump. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
How Russia's IRA troll factories tweeted a torrent of fabricated narratives against the US Women's March and its leaders for 18 months, fracturing the movement
As American feminists came together in 2017 to protest Donald Trump, Russia's disinformation machine set about deepening the divides among them.
2020-10-15
One big difference between these policies: Facebook's policy change only covers Holocaust denial, and not denial of other genocides like the Armenian genocide. Twitter says its policy will prohibit the denial of other genocides, too. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg
Twitter says it will remove posts that deny the Holocaust for violating hateful speech policies, following Facebook's similar decision
Twitter Inc. will remove posts that deny the Holocaust for violating its hateful conduct policy, according to a company spokeswoman.