2020-07-03
Prominent individuals spent years pushing a few internet freedom apps to receive tens of millions in USG funds without providing evidence that they will succeed; namely Michael Horowitz of Hudson Institute and Katrina Lantos of Lantos Foundation. https://www.vice.com/...
VICE
OTF staff worry about losing trust globally as the new CEO of their parent agency is pressed to divert funds from open-source to obscure, closed-source tech
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2019-12-22
Twitter investigations traced the source of operation to Smaat, a social media marketing and management company in Saudi Arabia, that managed a range of Twitter accounts for high-profile individuals and government departments in Saudi Arabia. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Facebook and Twitter shut down a network of fake accounts using AI-generated faces to “masquerade” as Americans; Facebook links the network to Epoch Media Group
Researchers said the profiles, linked to the Epoch Media Group, used photos generated by artificial intelligence in a preview of an …
2019-12-21
Twitter investigations traced the source of operation to Smaat, a social media marketing and management company in Saudi Arabia, that managed a range of Twitter accounts for high-profile individuals and government departments in Saudi Arabia. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Facebook and Twitter shut down a network of fake accounts using AI-generated faces to “masquerade” as Americans; Facebook links the network to Epoch Media Group
Researchers said the profiles, linked to the Epoch Media Group, used photos generated by artificial intelligence in a preview of an …
2018-01-02
Telegram closed a massively popular channel “AmadNews” which was one of the main organizers of protests in #Iran for inciting violence. The organizers then opened new channels and announced that they fired one admin for violating rules. http://twitter.com/...
Recode
Telegram, citing ToS, suspends public channel that incited violent anti-government protests in Iran; Telegram is a major platform with ~40M users in Iran
“There are lines one shouldn't cross,” says the CEO of the popular messaging app. — The executives of Telegram …
2018-01-01
Telegram closed a massively popular channel “AmadNews” which was one of the main organizers of protests in #Iran for inciting violence. The organizers then opened new channels and announced that they fired one admin for violating rules. http://twitter.com/...
Recode
Telegram, citing ToS, suspends public channel that incited violent anti-government protests in Iran; Telegram is a major platform with ~40M users in Iran
“There are lines one shouldn't cross,” says the CEO of the popular messaging app. — The executives of Telegram …