An investigation exposes “Team Jorge”, an Israeli hacking and social media disinformation unit for hire claiming covert involvement in 33 presidential elections
- Group sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profiles — Evidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across world
An investigation exposes “Team Jorge”, an Israeli hacking and social media disinformation unit for hire claiming covert involvement in 33 presidential elections
- Group sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profiles — Evidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across world
Mark MacGann, who led Uber's lobbying in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, comes forward as the leaker of 124K+ files, says Uber flouted laws and sold a lie
A trove of 124k+ internal Uber documents from 2013 to 2017 reveals management discussions and lobbying efforts during the company's aggressive global expansion
- More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian — Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne
A trove of 124k+ internal Uber documents from 2013 to 2017 reveals management discussions and lobbying efforts during the company's aggressive global expansion
- More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian — Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne
Sources say Palantir's data suites are a primary contributor to HHS Protect Now, a US government tool to track the spread of coronavirus in use since April 10
Palantir, a longtime partner of intelligence agencies, co-founded by major Trump backer Peter Thiel, is helping build “the single source for [coronavirus] testing data.”
Leaked docs reveal the extent of UK's cooperation with Faculty and Palantir on a “Covid-19 datastore” to power the previously announced NHS pandemic dashboard
The Guardian :
A list of issues that make contact tracing an impractical solution in the real world, from trolling others to cheating to insufficient adoption
There have recently been several proposals for pseudonymous contact tracing, including from Apple and Google.
Researchers find anonymous social media app Whisper left hundreds of millions of intimate user messages, tied to personal details like location, exposed online
Drew Harwell / Washington Post :
A new study finds that YouTube's late 2019 algorithm actively discourages users from watching radicalizing content, directing them to more mainstream videos
In 2018, Kevin Roose published a piece in the New York Times in which Caleb Cain, a liberal college dropout, described his experience …
YouTube reinstated channels belonging to a European white nationalist and a British nationalist, calling the removal of their channels a “wrong call”
The video platform said it was a “mistake” to remove the channels of Martin Sellner and another far-right personality known as …