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Dozens of tweets doxxing interfaith couples in India have circulated on Twitter for nearly two months, despite being reported for weeks
FinCEN Files Show Criminals Moved Billions as Banks Watched
Internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist shows how large amounts of inauthentic bot activity has boosted many countries' leaders and FB is slow to act
Facebook Is Turning A Blind Eye To Global Political Manipulation, According To This Explosive Secret Memo
Facebook Is Turning A Blind Eye To Global Political Manipulation, According To This Explosive Secret Memo
Peter Thiel Met With The Racist Fringe As He Went All In On Trump
Newly uncovered emails from 2016 show Peter Thiel hosted a dinner in the summer of that year with one of the most influential white nationalists in the US
Facebook told employees it deleted an event page for Kenosha Guard but internal docs show it was deleted by the page admin; Facebook apologizes for the error
Instagram Has Suspended Some Of The Biggest QAnon Conspiracy Accounts
Reddit · 4 weeks ago
China Built A Vast New Infrastructure To Imprison Uighurs
Internal report: Kenosha Guard Page was flagged at least 455 times before Facebook took it down, with four moderators saying it didn't violate any rules
Zuckerberg criticized Apple at companywide meeting, saying the App Store "blocks innovation, blocks competition" and "allows Apple to charge monopoly rents"
At an all-hands, Zuckerberg said Kenosha Guard's Page remained online after the shooting due to "an operational mistake" as some staff questioned his leadership
We Used Blank Spots In China's Maps To Investigate Xinjiang's Camps
Kenosha Suspect Kyle Rittenhouse Was Front Row At Trump Rally
Investigation: Chinese phone maker Transsion, which sells the ~$30 Tecno W2, preinstalled malware on some devices, leading to stolen data and money from users
Chinese-Made Smartphones Are Secretly Stealing Money From People Around the World
A Facebook Executive Protected Hate Speech In India. Now She Wants Police Protection. Ankhi Das reportedly protected right-wing politicians from punishment for violating the social network’s rules — and is now facing death threats.
Facebook's employees and third-party fact-checkers say Facebook has sometimes overruled decisions on divisive content with little transparency
North Paulding High School: Two Georgia Students Claim Suspension
Companies like Facebook and Twitter, which have positioned themselves as the new public square, should absolutely be questioned on their role in cancel culture
Georgia School Reopening Photo Worse Than It Appears
Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias
Sources: at all-hands, Zuckerberg says a ban on TikTok would set "a really bad long-term precedent", arguing any benefit for Facebook would be short-term
Staffers ask Zuckerberg what would happen if Trump uses Facebook to dispute the election; some staff say they have evidence of favoritism for right-wing pages
Facebook employees ask Zuckerberg what would happen if Trump used their platform to dispute election results
Instagram Displayed Negative Related Hashtags For Biden, But Hid Them For Trump
Reddit · 2 months ago
Instagram says a "bug" caused its hashtag recommendations to favor Trump-related content when searching for hashtags related to Joe Biden and Trump
Techmeme · 2 months ago
What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days for results?
An inside look at internal strife and dissent within Facebook, as employees warn the company is "hurting people at scale" and reckon with what they've built
Facebook's employees reckon with the social network they've built
Hackers attacked GEDmatch servers and caused over 1M of its profiles to be opted-in for searching by law enforcement, which were previously opted-out
DHS Employees Worried Portland Response Is Destroying Agency’s Reputation
Personal info of 200K+ Instacart users is being sold on the dark web, including names and last 4 digits of credit card numbers; Instacart denies a data breach
Instacart Customers’ Data Is Being Sold Online
Breach Exposed More Than One Million DNA Profiles on a Major Genealogy Database
Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk
Google Said It Would Invest $10 Billion In India. Nearly Half Of It Is Going To The Country’s Richest Man.
Report details online threats that LGBTQ people face outside of North America on dating apps like Tinder, from overt state surveillance to data security risks
Amid India-China tensions, Zoom fights xenophobic rumors on social media that it is Chinese-owned, scrambling to remind Indian users that it is a US company
Nandini Jammi, one half of pressure group Sleeping Giants, which has targeted Breitbart, Facebook, and others, leaves over disagreements with Matt Rivitz
How An Ohio Black Lives Matter Protest Turned Ugly
Facebook Has Been Profiting From Boogaloo Ads Promoting Civil War And Unrest
Reddit · 3 months ago