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 · 4 months 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 · 4 months ago
Trump encourages North Carolina residents to vote twice to test mail-in system Pinboard · 5 months ago
Airline pilots reported seeing ‘a guy in a jetpack’ flying 3,000 feet over Los Angeles Reddit · 5 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 · 5 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 · 5 months ago
Viral pro-Trump tweets came from fake African American spam accounts, Twitter says Reddit · 5 months ago
2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park Hacker News · 5 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 · 5 months ago
How QAnon rode the pandemic to new heights — and fueled the viral anti-mask phenomenon Pinboard · 5 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 · 5 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 · 6 months ago
Trump issues order barring U.S. firms from doing business with TikTok’s parent company Reddit · 6 months ago
Facebook removes troll farm posing as African-American support for Donald Trump Reddit · 6 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 · 6 months ago
Dark money and PAC’s coordinated ‘reopen’ push are behind doctors’ viral hydroxychloroquine video Reddit · 6 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 · 6 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 · 6 months ago
Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown Reddit · 6 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 · 6 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 · 7 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 · 7 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 · 7 months ago
Tech worker group calls for facial recognition ban citing ‘technical and ethical’ reasons Reddit · 7 months ago
TECH NEWS Reddit bans hundreds of subreddits for hate speech including Trump community Reddit · 7 months ago
Spyware hidden in Chinese tax software was probably planted by a nation-state, say experts Reddit · 7 months ago
Facebook just lost one of the biggest advertisers in the world for the rest of 2020 Reddit · 7 months ago
Facebook commits $200M to support US Black-owned businesses, plans to double Black and Latinx staff by 2023, and add "Lift Black Voices" section to app Techmeme · 7 months ago
‘Facebook doesn’t care’: Activists say accounts removed despite Zuckerberg’s free-speech stance Reddit · 7 months ago
Former eBay employees harassed couple who wrote critical newsletter articles, prosecutors say – The company allegedly harassed the people behind the newsletter and then offered to help stop the harassment. Reddit · 7 months ago
US efforts to deploy COVID-19 contact tracing apps have fallen flat, as most states retreat from earlier interest and the few with an app struggle with adoption Techmeme · 7 months ago
Sources detail Google's lackluster response to the BLM movement, which was to "corral and isolate the black employees" to vent without making structural changes Techmeme · 7 months ago
California regulatory agency for transportation formally rules that it considers Uber and Lyft drivers as employees of those companies under AB5 state law Techmeme · 7 months ago
White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter: Other misinformation and misleading claims spread across Twitter on Sunday night and into Monday related to the protests. Reddit · 8 months ago
Facebook says it banned anti-vaccination news site Natural News for using content farms from Macedonia and the Philippines, not for the content it posted Techmeme · 8 months ago