The US Secret Service says it is considering disabling iMessage on employees' phones, blaming the app's E2E encryption for the loss of deleted January 6 texts
unless the data retention system was set up to fail in the first place. Our story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Will Oremus / @willoremus : Insightful thread from a computer...
Twitter agrees to be acquired “by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk” for $54.20 per share in cash; the ~$44B deal requires shareholder and regulatory approval
- Twitter's board accepted billionaire Elon Musk's offer to buy the social media company and take it private, the company confirmed.
The Associated Press will launch a photojournalism NFT marketplace built by blockchain tech provider Xooa on Jan. 31, with proceeds used to fund its journalism
It's offering collectors ‘exclusive, historic, and stunning visual content’ — The Associated Press, or AP … Source: Associated Press .
Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous
good and bad. This has risks (as these leaks show) but are the only honest way to tackle the problem. Would love to see the same from https://abc.xyz/ Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : I...
Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous
good and bad. This has risks (as these leaks show) but are the only honest way to tackle the problem. Would love to see the same from https://abc.xyz/ Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : I...
Sources detail Zuckerberg's decisions putting growth over safety, like censoring “anti-state” posts in Vietnam and opposing a US voting info center in Spanish
Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnam's ruling Communist Party …
Sources detail Zuckerberg's decisions putting growth over safety, like censoring “anti-state” posts in Vietnam and opposing a US voting info center in Spanish
Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnam's ruling Communist Party …
Security experts voice privacy concerns over Apple's new plan to scan users' devices for child abuse images, saying governments will likely increase its scope
Security researchers raise alarm over potential surveillance of personal devices — Apple intends to install software …
Analysis: after violence between Israelis and Palestinians escalated last week, 100+ WhatsApp groups were created to coordinate attacks on Palestinians
Investigation: US military buys granular movement data of people around the world from a wide array of apps for Muslim dating, prayer, Craigslist, weather, more
Sources: Facebook didn't apply hate speech rules to at least four flagged individuals and groups in India, showing a pattern of favoritism to Modi's party
Company executive in vital market opposed move to ban controversial politician; some employees allege favoritism to ruling party Tweets: @jeffhorwitz , @seemay , @rmac18 , @tmclaug...
CBP searched 30,000 devices last year without a warrant, up ~4x from three years prior, and increasingly denies entry to people over content sent by others
Travelers are increasingly being denied entry to the United States as border officials hold them accountable for messages …
Twitter says it proactively suspended ~200K “spammy” accounts, before they became “substantially active”, alongside its initial ban of 936 China-linked accounts
Instead of a narrative of Hong Kong prospering under Chinese rule, it has just shown itself like a bully https://www.nytimes.com/... Alex Stamos / @alexstamos : Working on somethin...
Twitter says it proactively suspended ~200K “spammy” accounts, before they became “substantially active”, alongside its initial ban of 936 China-linked accounts
We are disclosing a significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong Kong …
Zuckerberg says News Feed will focus on what friends share, de-emphasize content from publishers and brands as it moves to favor interactions over passive posts
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook introduced sweeping changes to the kinds of posts, videos and photos that its more than two billion members …