YouTube bans conspiracy theory content, such as QAnon or Pizzagate, that justifies "real-world violence", but stops short of banning QAnon content outright

  Techmeme   ·   4 days ago

Thousands of Amazon workers demand time off to vote

  Reddit   ·   6 days ago

Facebook says it will ban anti-vaccination ads

  Reddit   ·   6 days ago

Young conservative group tied to fake accounts that attacked Biden, Facebook says

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

Facebook bans QAnon across its platforms | The change is a significant escalation over its previous actions targeting QAnon and one of the broadest rules the social media giant has put in place in its history.

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

Facebook says it will ban QAnon across its platforms, removing all "Facebook Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts" that represent QAnon

  Techmeme   ·   2 weeks ago

Netflix indicted in Texas over ‘lewd’ depiction of children in ‘Cuties’

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

You don't own your Kindle books, Amazon reminds customer

  Hacker News   ·   2 weeks ago

U.S. patchwork of state, county election computer networks still vulnerable to cyberattacks – "A lot of good stuff has been done," said one expert. "But let’s face it, we’ve got 54 states and territories. The risk landscape is pretty broad."

  Reddit   ·   2 weeks ago

Snap says it helped 1M Snapchat users register to vote on the app, of which over half are first-time voters and 80% are under 30

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Interviews with 40 Amazon employees and government documents: Amazon's COVID-19 response lacks oversight and transparency with inadequate worker safety policies

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Major hospital system hit with cyberattack, potentially largest in U.S. history

  Reddit   ·   3 weeks ago

A group of about 25 experts say they have formed the Real Facebook Oversight Board, a group to analyze and critique Facebook's content moderation decisions

  Techmeme   ·   3 weeks ago

Elon Musk reveals plans to slash electric battery costs, build $25,000 Tesla

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

Judge blocks Trump administration order to remove WeChat from app stores

  Reddit   ·   4 weeks ago

Addicted to losing: How casino-like apps have drained people of millions

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

Facebook to take down false reports of antifa arson in Oregon

  Reddit   ·   1 month ago

Microsoft says hackers working for Russia, China, and Iran have recently escalated their attacks on people and orgs involved in the US presidential election

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Some US states are increasingly calling on National Guard's cybersecurity experts to help election officials in short staffed rural areas or small jurisdictions

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Trump encourages North Carolina residents to vote twice to test mail-in system

  Pinboard   ·   2 months ago

New Zealand enduring wave of cyberattacks

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Airline pilots reported seeing ‘a guy in a jetpack’ flying 3,000 feet over Los Angeles

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Twitter says it plans to add context to trending topics, including picking a "representative tweet" for trends, amid criticism that the feature amplifies hoaxes

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Facebook threatens to block news in Australia if regulations are enacted

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Zuckerberg says Facebook made ‘operational mistake’ in not taking down militia page // The page belonged to the Kenosha Guard, a self-identified local militia that had set up an event on Facebook calling for people to take weapons into the streets.

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Viral pro-Trump tweets came from fake African American spam accounts, Twitter says

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park

  Hacker News   ·   2 months ago

Facebook's decision to disable the #SaveTheChildren hashtag appears to have energized and amplified the QAnon movement, spurring on public, offline rallies

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon

  Pinboard   ·   2 months ago

How QAnon rode the pandemic to new heights — and fueled the viral anti-mask phenomenon

  Pinboard   ·   2 months ago

A new earthquake warning system comes to California, powered by Google

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Sources: an internal Facebook probe into QAnon shows the size of the conspiracy theory's community: millions of members and followers across thousands of Groups

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Internal docs: Facebook removed "strikes" so that at least 2 conservative pages, from PragerU and Diamond & Silk, dodged penalties under misinformation policies

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Trump issues order barring U.S. firms from doing business with TikTok’s parent company

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Facebook removes troll farm posing as African-American support for Donald Trump

  Reddit   ·   2 months ago

Facebook removes Trump post over coronavirus misinformation

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

A look at Election Cyber Surge, which aims to bolster US election cybersecurity by matching local election officials with cybersecurity experts who want to help

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Trump says he’s banning TikTok in the U.S.

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Dark money and PAC’s coordinated ‘reopen’ push are behind doctors’ viral hydroxychloroquine video

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Sources: Facebook ceased research into racial bias in Instagram's moderation tools after finding problematic results; Facebook says the methodology was flawed

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Palantir's federal pandemic contracts worth $42M+ raise fears that its work sharing information with ICE makes it a poor guardian of sensitive medical records

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Profile of Child Rescue Coalition, whose tech is used in 96 countries including the US to help police triage child porn cases, as experts raise privacy concerns

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Cybersecurity firm finds more spyware hidden in Chinese tax software

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Report: US DOD and federal law enforcement have thousands of previously unreported contracts with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Dell, IBM, HP, and Facebook

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

‘Same old defense’: Civil rights groups hammer Facebook after meeting | The virtual summit came weeks after the civil rights groups launched the "Stop Hate For Profit" initiative that has spurred more than 900 companies to halt advertising with Facebook.

  Reddit   ·   3 months ago

Supreme Court won’t throw out ban on robocalls to cellphones

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago

From Mercury to Artemis: The evolution of the spacesuit

  Hacker News   ·   4 months ago

Facebook says it's removed 220 FB "Boogaloo" groups and 95 Instagram accounts, weeks after feds said group members planned the murder of a federal agent on FB

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Tech worker group calls for facial recognition ban citing ‘technical and ethical’ reasons

  Reddit   ·   4 months ago