Saturday, 11 January , 2025

Totalitarianism

The Facebook Team that Tried to Swing Nicaragua’s Election is Full...

A tacit agreement between the government and Facebook appears to have been made: you can keep the profits, but we control the message. As...

Facebook shutting down controversial face recognition program, vows to delete over...

2 Nov, 2021 Citing “growing concerns” about privacy and ethics, Facebook has announced it will stop using face recognition technology and delete more than a...

Newly released documents expose how US intelligence meddled in Venezuelan elections...

By Kit Klarenberg 1 Nov, 2021 America’s interference in the electoral process in Venezuela is laid bare in a series of files that reveal how Washington provided...

Campaign for censorship of Facebook content intensifies following January 6 disclosures

By Kevin Reed 29 October 2021 The drive for government regulation and control of Facebook content intensified last weekend following the publication of details about the...

The University of Florida bars professors from testifying in a voting...

October 31, 2021 Three University of Florida professors were denied permission from the school to testify in a major voting rights case against the state,...

Journalism is on Trial

Don’t extradite Assange, your rights are at risk. Assange’s right to publish is our right to know Julian Assange is being sought by the current US...

Avec les drones et algorithmes, l’Europe construit un mur virtuel contre...

Gazeta Wyborcza (Varsovie) Οct. 11, 2021 Loin d’être plus objectifs que les gardes-frontières humains, les robots et algorithmes de plus en plus souvent utilisés dans la...

Journos, ministers, Khashoggi’s son & a ruler’s family on list of...

19 Jul, 2021 A leaked list of over 50,000 phone numbers is believed to include targets marked by clients of Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group...

FT editor among 180 journalists identified by clients of spyware firm

By David Pegg and Paul Lewis Michael Safi, Nina Lakhani Tue 20 Jul 2021 The editor of the Financial Times is one of more than 180 editors, investigative...

Scraped data of 1.5 billion Facebook users offered for sale on...

4 Oct, 2021 Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp are all down, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg has another headache: The personal data of 1.5 billion customers,...