BBC Director-General Calls for Media Critics to Be Purged From Social Media
In the face of a mountain of condemnation over how it provided a key role in helping Boris Johnson win last week’s UK general elections, BBC Director-General Baron Hall of Birkenhead has called for the...
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Social Media and Social Control: How Silicon Valley Serves the US State...
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is in the spotlight for “dining with far-right figures,” and their influence over the information that appears in your feed is apparent. However, Facebook isn’t the only...
View ArticleAs Coronavirus Spreads So Does Anti-Chinese Racism
Facing the worldwide spread of the coronavirus, the World Health Organization declared a global emergency yesterday in response to the outbreak. Up from just 548 on January 22, there are, as of Friday...
View ArticleAs Bernie Sanders Surges, DNC Launches “Troll Army” Ahead of Iowa Caucus
The Democratic National Congress (DNC) has set up an extensive online communications team of trolls – and is launching it just in time for the Iowa caucus. CNN’s Donnie O’Sullivan spoke to a number of...
View ArticleHawkish, Gov’t Funded Think Tank Behind Twitter Decision to Delete Thousands...
Social media giant Twitter announced yesterday that it had shut down over 170,000 accounts favorable to the Chinese Communist Party, as well as more than 1,000 Russian and 7,340 Turkish accounts it...
View ArticleTikTok Could Become Latest Victim of US War on Chinese Competition
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo revealed last night that he is strongly considering banning the hugely popular video app TikTok. “I don’t want to get out in front of the president, but it’s something...
View ArticleFCC Head and Internet’s Most Hated Man Ajit Pai Just Vowed to Kill First...
Citing “censorship outcry” from the three branches of government, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced yesterday via tweet the agency’s intention to move forward with regulation of social media by looking...
View Article“This Will Be Remembered as a Turning Point”: Snowden Warns Against Trump...
NSA whistleblower and internet freedom advocate Edward Snowden has cautioned the public against celebrating President Trump’s recent social media ban. “I know a lot of folks in the comments [who] read...
View ArticleNon-MAGA Activists Caught in Social Media War as Twitter Begins Purge
Few could have predicted the huge fallout from the Stop the Steal rally in Washington, D.C. that saw the president of the United States banned from virtually every social media platform, including his...
View ArticleA Nation Imploding: Digital Tyranny, Insurrection and Martial Law
“In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. [Y]ou can be filled with bitterness,...
View ArticleSocial Media Giants Ban Trump, but the Real Censorship is of Palestinians
In the wake of the Capitol Hill insurrection, Facebook and Twitter finally took a principled stand against President Donald Trump by suspending his accounts. While Trump lashed out at the tech giants,...
View ArticleBirth of the Digital Oligarchy: The Trump Ban and the Social Media Ruse
On January 6, as the events unfolding at the U.S. Capitol were discussed on Twitter, the barrage of opinions predictably accumulated on one side of the political spectrum. Outrage over what mainstream...
View ArticleAmerican Tech Giants Are Partnering with India’s Strongman Leader to...
The far-right government of Narendra Modi is attempting to silence dissent online amid enormous national farmers’ protests — and it is finding willing partners in Silicon Valley social media giants....
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Social Media Microtargeting and the Evolving Ministry of Truth
WEST POINT, NEW YORK — If you’ve ever wondered how that cookware ad happened across your internet browser window after you’d spent ten minutes searching for a turkey baster last Thanksgiving, the...
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Govt-Linked CSIS Urges DC To Partner with Social Media Firms To “Promote...
WASHINGTON D.C. — A new report from Washington D.C.-based think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) concludes that the U.S. government should work closely with social media...
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Massive Secret UK Propaganda Campaign in Former Soviet Republics Seeds Contempt
LONDON — Standing against the scorching blue backdrop at the EU podium in late 2017, then British Prime Minister Theresa May mendaciously promised to “counter [Russian] disinformation” in all the...
View ArticleDigital Trails: How the FBI Identifies, Tracks and Rounds Up Dissidents
Americans deserve the freedom to choose a life without surveillance and the government regulation that would make that possible. While we continue to believe the sentiment, we fear it may soon be...
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Twitter Deletes QAnon to Protect US from Upheaval; Russia May Delete Twitter...
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter has taken action against the QAnon movement, deleting more than 150,000 accounts that promoted the conspiracy theory. This follows a similar crackdown by YouTube. The impetus...
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Facebook, Social Media Giants Admit to Silencing Palestinian Voices Online
OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEM — In a video posted on activist organization Jewish Voice for Peace’s Twitter account, Muna El-Kurd explained why social media is so vital for the Palestinian cause. “We rely on...
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Jessica Ashooh: The Taming of Reddit and the National Security State Plant...
SAN FRANCISCO — Reddit is one of the world’s most influential news and social media platforms. The website attracted over 1.2 billion visits in April 2021 alone, making it the United States’ eighth...
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