WhatsApp CEO says they had recorded an attack against 1,400 users over a two-week period in 2019, casting doubts on NSO's defense against Pegasus project claims
Investigation: Israel-based NSO Group's malware infected 23 phones belonging to government officials, reporters, execs, and activists, out of 67 checked
Dana Priest, a reporter at The Washington Post for 30 years, covers national security issues. Recently, she has investigated Russian …
Instagram's algorithm will now rank original and reposted content equally amid employee concerns about suppression of pro-Palestinian voices
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SensorTower data shows Clubhouse has been downloaded 1.1M times in the Middle East, where its users see it as an open forum to discuss politics and taboo issues
New York Times : Tweets: @abdu , @curdistani , @nytimes , @asadabukhalil , @shahselbe , @rickgladstone , @naderalihashemi , @freddydeknatel , @mairavz , @farnazfassihi , and @evel...
Barack Obama says today's online information ecosystem, which boosts conspiracy theories like QAnon, is “the single biggest threat to our democracy”
Barack Obama was describing to me the manner in which the Mongol emperor and war-crimes innovator Genghis Khan would besiege a town.
As POTUS, Biden will overturn Trump's immigration EOs, support net neutrality, and may not prioritize Section 230 reform, but his antitrust approach is unclear
For the first time in years, US will have someone who likes evidence, governs using science, won't peddle quack theories and drugs, will fact check statements and accept fact check...
Facebook is showing a notification atop its apps that Joe Biden is the projected winner of the 2020 election; Twitter is showing a banner in its Explore tab
As POTUS, Biden will overturn Trump's immigration EOs, support net neutrality and may not prioritize Section 230 reform but his approach to antitrust is unclear
Joe Biden's election as the 46th president of the United States gives the tech industry a reason to breathe a brief sigh of relief …
Microsoft lays off editorial staff at its News and MSN divisions, reportedly affecting around 50 US and 27 UK jobs, as it increases use of AI for news curation
Microsoft News and MSN is increasingly being run by robots — Microsoft is laying off dozens of journalists and editorial workers …
Apple meets Russia's demands to show Crimea as part of Russia for Russian Apple Maps users; elsewhere on Apple Maps, Crimea isn't shown as part of any country
for Russian users Mahit Huilgol / iPhone Hacks : Apple Changes Crimea Map to Please the Russian Government Evan Selleck / iDownloadBlog.com : Apple bends to Russia's demands, chang...
Apple meets Russia's demands to show Crimea as part of Russia for Russian Apple Maps users; elsewhere on Apple Maps, Crimea isn't shown as part of any country
Apple has complied with Russian demands to show the annexed Crimean peninsula as part of Russian territory on its apps.
Facebook bans networks, three originating in Iran and one in Russia, running “inauthentic” accounts, Pages, and Groups misleading US and Latin American users
many of the accounts claimed to be run from swing states pic.twitter.com/pmpLN7LsEf Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : Accounts with usernames like http://black.queen.chloe and michigan_b...
Mark Zuckerberg's proposal of social media as a “Fifth Estate” highlights that the world is fundamentally changing; the sooner we realize that, the better
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began his speech last week by attempting to place free expression in the historical American context … Tweets: @cpojer and @stratechery Tweets: Christo...