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[Link] Facebook Engineers Admit They Don’t Know What They Do With Your Data
Read: 8/9/2022 www.vice.com
Earlier this year, Motherboard reported about an internal Facebook document that said the company has no idea where users’ data goes, and what the company is doing with it.
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[Link] Elon Musk fails in bid to delay trial over terminated Twitter deal
Read: 8/9/2022 www.theguardian.com
Elon Musk has failed in a bid to delay a trial over his termination of a $44bn (£38bn) deal to buy Twitter. The social media company is suing Musk over his decision to walk away from the transaction and is demanding that he complete the deal on the agreed terms.
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[Link] ‘Death weapons’ : Inside a teenage terrorist network
Read: 4/8/2022 www.politico.eu
When Lukas F. walks onto the site of an abandoned army barracks in the summer of 2021 as part of his training to be a terrorist, he is 16 years old, a slender boy with dark hair. The site is about 45 minutes from the center of Potsdam, a city just southwest of Berlin, Germany.
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[Link] Shitposting Shiba Inu Accounts Chased a Russian Diplomat Offline
Read: 12/7/2022 www.vice.com
An unofficial army of cartoon Shiba Inu dogs is making life hard for people who post Russian disinformation about the war in Ukraine online.
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[Link] Cops Pulled Their Guns on Unarmed Teen Filming Them: ‘What Weapon?’
Read: 12/7/2022 www.vice.com
Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, pointed guns at an unarmed teenager and screamed at him to get on the ground as he recorded them detaining another group of teens.
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[Link] Q Is Back and It’s Tearing the QAnon World Apart
Read: 4/7/2022 www.vice.com
Jim Watkins clearly doesn’t know how his own website works.
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[Link] Starbucks Is Blocking Union Activists and Workers on Twitter
Read: 18/4/2022 www.vice.com
James Skretta, a former barista who helped organize a union at his Starbucks in Buffalo, retweeted the tweet from Starbucks’ corporate account, which has 11 million followers, and wrote: “@Starbucks official stance on union-busting.
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[Link] BeReal Isn’t Real and Makes Everyone Look Extremely Boring
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
BeReal is the anti-Instagram social media app that’s designed to show people’s lives as they really are by encouraging users to post during random, two-minute time increments during the day.
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[Link] These Robotic Reddit TikTok Accounts Come From a Content Farming Discord
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
If you’re on TikTok recently you may have seen a spike in so-called Reddit Stories accounts, which upload TikToks that read out stories written on Reddit and which sometimes have footage of video games playing in the background.
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[Link] Meme Stock Traders Pump Fake Company Enough to Get It Trending
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
The increasingly bored-seeming WallStreetBets crowd has decided that instead of pumping real companies, it’s going to start focusing its energy on a fake one.
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[Link] Teen climate activist subjected to sexist and racist abuse amid federal court climate case
Read: 13/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Teenage climate crisis campaigner Anjali Sharma has revealed the torrent of sexist and racist abuse she has received while fronting a legal case against the Morrison government’s approval of a New South Wales coal project.
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[Link] Guy Whose Companies Keep Getting Sued For Discrimination Threatens to 'Improve' Twitter
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
Elon Musk has joined the board at Twitter, saying he plans to make several improvements to the platform.
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[Link] Police Arrest Man For Uploading ‘Parasite’ Movie Edit to YouTube
Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com
Police in Japan have just arrested another man for posting 10-movie summaries to YouTube including the hit Korean drama 'Parasite'.
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[Link] VPNs: Russia Forces Google to Delete Masses of Links Amid Ukraine Invasion
Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com
Russia's determination to control the minds of its citizens is proceeding full force. Since the invasion of Ukraine, Russian telecoms regulator Roscomnadzor has forced Google to delist tens of thousands of new URLs that link to VPN resources providing access to 'banned' content.
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[Link] This TikTok-Viral WFH Mouse Jiggler Will Make Your Boss Think You're Online
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
A fair point.
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[Link] Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins Explains Why Ukraine Is Winning the Information War
Read: 9/3/2022 time.com
The ability of anyone with a phone or laptop to see Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfold in almost real time—and to believe what they’re seeing—comes to us thanks to the citizens operating what’s known as open-source intelligence (OSINT).
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[Link] QAnon Surfer Who Killed His Kids Believed He Was Neo From ‘The Matrix’
Read: 1/3/2022 www.vice.com
At 3.12 a.m., Matthew Coleman was lying in bed next to his children, 2-year-old Kaleo and 10-month-old Roxy, in a hotel room in the Mexican resort town of Rosarito, when he decided to text his wife Abby. “Hi babe, miss you too. Things have been rough but starting to get some clarity as well.
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[Link] TikTok Finally Bans Deadnaming, Conversion Therapy Content
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
TikTok updated its terms of service Tuesday morning to ban deadnaming, misgendering, misogyny, and content that promotes conversion therapy programs.
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[Link] UK Revives Dangerous Attempt to Verify Age of People Who Watch Porn
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
The bill would require social networks, and any websites that allow users to upload content, to enact a “duty of care” that would require sites to proactively remove harmful or illegal content.
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[Link] Woman Who Allegedly Laundered $1B in Bitcoin Was Cringe YouTube Rapper
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, the U.S. government accused Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31 of laundering around $1 billion in cryptocurrency stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack. As it turns out, Morgan did not exactly keep the low profile you would expect of an alleged criminal.
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[Link] Sweden returns to cold war tactics to battle fake news
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
A top official from Sweden’s new “psychological defence” agency said the country had decided to bring back the cold war-era government body amid fears over Russian aggression against Ukraine.
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[Link] Racist 'Meta Slave' NFT Project Rebrands After Being Called Racist
Read: 5/2/2022 www.vice.com
Over the past year, as the NFT space has begun to explode we’ve begun to see a growing number of racist collections—most notably NFTs depicting George Floyd called “Floydies.
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[Link] QAnon Sex Trafficking Conspiracies Have Shut Down a Texas Butterfly Center
Read: 30/1/2022 www.vice.com
The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas is situated on the Rio Grande river less than half a mile from the U.S.-Mexico border, and has long been the focus of intense and completely baseless conspiracy theories pushed by the QAnon community.
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[Link] Ezra Miller Tells Beulaville, NC KKK Members to Kill Themselves or ‘We’ll Do It’
Read: 30/1/2022 www.vice.com
Actor Ezra Miller posted a cryptic video to Instagram last night, calling out members of the Beulaville, NC Klu Klux Klan.
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[Link] AEC preparing to combat Trump-style misinformation in 2022 election
Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Social media companies should commit to taking down unauthorised political material in agreed timeframes to combat misinformation in elections, according to the Australian electoral commissioner, Tom Rogers.
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[Link] Video Shows Narco Drones Dropping Bombs As People Flee
Read: 13/1/2022 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Terrifying video footage from a narco drone dropping bombs as people scatter below has gone viral in Mexico.
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[Link] Republican Tweets Grossest Christmas Card of All Time
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
On Saturday, the Kentucky Republican tweeted a photo of himself and his family all holding firearms with the message, “Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo.”
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[Link] Video Captures Horrific Moment Military Truck Rams Into Unarmed Protesters
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
At least three civilians have been killed and dozens injured in Myanmar after a military truck was caught on camera speeding towards a crowd and running down unarmed protesters.
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[Link] TikTok Accountants Aren't the Same People Who Help You File Your Taxes
Read: 6/12/2021 www.distractify.com
Jan. 6 2021, Published 11:38 a.m. ET As TikTok continues to dominate the imagination of many people across the country, the social media app and its users have begun to develop a set of unique terms that are largely used only on the platform.
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[Link] Trump social media company claims to raise $1bn from investors
Read: 5/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump’s new social media company and its special purpose acquisition company partner said on Saturday the partner had agreements for $1bn in capital from institutional investors. The former president launched Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) in October.
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[Link] ‘It is surreal’: the five-second book reviews going viral on TikTok
Read: 2/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Fifteen seconds is all you need. Point your phone camera to a shelf and hold up your favourite book, or three. Add a trending soundtrack, a caption, a couple of hashtags – #BookTok #FYP. Throw a pandemic into the mix and you have the formula: you can make a book review go viral.
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[Link] Women’s Tennis Just Called China’s Bluff
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has suspended its tournaments in China over Beijing’s silencing of tennis player Peng Shuai, demanding an investigation into her sexual assault allegation against a former leader of the ruling Communist Party.
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[Link] Alleged Michigan School Shooter Made Gun Video, Had Parents Called Into School
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
Ethan Crumbley, who has since been charged as an adult with murder, attempted murder, and terrorism causing death, used a 9mm Sig Sauer handgun belonging to his father and shot 10 students and one teacher during his rampage at the school on Tuesday, according to authorities. .
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[Link] The Taliban Are Blacklisted by Facebook. Then Why Are They Allowed to Post?
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
For years, Facebook has prohibited the Taliban from using its platform under its counter-terrorist and hate group community standards.
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[Link] TikTok Says Being Victim of Mass Shooting ‘Could Result in You Getting Hurt’
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
One student inside the school took their phone out and filmed the scene inside the classroom, where students were locked in. The gunman was outside, asking to be let in and pretending to be a sheriff. The students did not fall for it.
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[Link] Black TikTokers Are Tired of Not Getting Paid for the Moves You Stole
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
But neither of them created that choreography. It was Jalaiah Harmon, who was 14 years old at the time. Neither D’Amelio nor Rae initially gave her credit, and they apologized only after being called out. Influencers like Rae and D’Amelio have turned their stardom into lucrative careers.
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[Link] Twitter Is Going to Make It Harder To Share Videos and Pictures Taken in Public
Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com
Twitter is expanding its policy on posting private information with the goal of limiting the risk of harassment, intimidation, and doxing.
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[Link] New Twitter CEO's Tenure Begins With People Dragging Old Tweet In Bad Faith
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stepped down on Monday, and announced that CTO Parag Agrawal will be taking over. Agwaral's tenure at Twitter then immediately started in the most painfully Twitter way: a pile-on based on a tweet he made a decade ago.
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[Link] Jack Dorsey Steps Down as Twitter CEO, Again
Read: 29/11/2021 www.vice.com
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is stepping down for the second time since founding the company, Twitter announced Monday. Dorsey will be replaced by current CTO Parag Agrawal. The announcement ends Dorsey's uneven, six-year second stint as Twitter CEO.
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[Link] Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey set to step down, report says
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is expected to step down from his executive role at the social media company, according to CNBC.
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[Link] Should politicians like Peter Dutton suck up Twitter’s hot-gives and -takes or pursue vindication?
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
You’ve got to wonder how Peter Dutton, one of the most wealthy and overstretched members of federal parliament, fathoms up the wherewithal to sue for defamation an unemployed, crowdfunded refugee advocate who called him something nasty on Twitter. Busy? You bet you are.
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[Link] Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your phones: how tech and shock jocks hacked Julius Caesar
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The new Sydney Theatre Company production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar is a “mad ride”, according to Guardian Australia reviewer Steve Dow – a production fizzing with viral imagery, TikTok rightwing conspiracy theorists, smartphone tech, Instagram wellness gurus and the unpredictable energ
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[Link] Meta delays encrypted messages on Facebook and Instagram to 2023
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The owner of Facebook and Instagram is delaying plans to encrypt users’ messages until 2023 amid warnings from child safety campaigners that its proposals would shield abusers from detection.
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[Link] Maryland Mayor Accused of Posting Revenge Porn to r/needysluts Reddit Forum
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
The mayor of a Maryland city was just charged with 50 counts of distributing revenge porn after he allegedly posted sexually explicit photos of a woman to Reddit while in office, according to a charging document released Monday.
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[Link] The Secret to a Better Internet? Post Less, Chat More.
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
One of the web’s oldest functions remains one of its most powerful and promising. As we debate the negative effects of social media, consider the earliest and arguably most prevalent way that we use the internet to connect with other people: the chat.
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[Link] OK, So Facebook Is Bad. Now What?
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
Evidence has been mounting for years that Facebook is harmful for its users. Countless reports have documented how the company’s algorithms push people toward radicalization, allow extremist movements to grow, and spread misinformation on an unprecedented scale.
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[Link] Clearview AI ordered to delete all facial recognition data belonging to Australians
Read: 14/11/2021 www.theverge.com
Controversial facial recognition firm Clearview AI has been ordered to destroy all images and facial templates belonging to individuals living in Australia by the country’s national privacy regulator.
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[Link] GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Suspended from Twitter after Posting Bounty on a Critic
Read: 14/11/2021 itsgoingdown.org
A failed candidate for governor of California was suspended from Twitter for making “violent threats” after posting a $2,500 bounty; specifically asking for the name and address of a critic from Twitter.
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[Link] Still reeling from the Great Facebook Blackout of 2021? Turns out Zuck is not the worst offender
Read: 12/11/2021 www.theregister.com
UK-based price comparision and broadband swapping service Uswitch has totted up the figures and come up with a surprising candidate for most outage incidents in 2021.
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[Link] Discord Backs Off of Crypto After Entire Internet Yells at CEO
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Earlier this week, Discord CEO Jason Citron posted a tweet teasing integration between the gaming-focused chat platform and Ethereum, setting off a total shitstorm.
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[Link] Hostage-Style Bitcoin Scam Videos Are Spreading Across Instagram
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Hackers are forcing Instagram users to film hostage-style videos instructing their followers to participate in fraudulent get-rich-quick Bitcoin schemes as part of a new kind of scam that is spreading across the Facebook-owned app.
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[Link] Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license
Read: 9/11/2021 www.theverge.com
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon.
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[Link] Fed: Meme Stocks Might Blow Up U.S. Economy One Day
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
The Federal Reserve is worried that risk-taking online investors and social media echo chambers could lead to a “potentially destabilizing outcome.
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[Link] Discord Teases Getting Into Crypto and NFTs, People Big Mad
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Internet users, generally speaking, tend to dislike design changes.
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[Link] Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Have Completely Lost It on Twitter
Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com
Bezos, the Amazon founder whose net worth is around $200 billion, implied that he would personally throw actor Leonardo DiCaprio off a cliff in a tweet.
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[Link] The QAnon Followers Who Went to Dallas to See JFK Refuse to Leave
Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com
A group of QAnon believers who gathered in Dallas last week to see the late President John F. Kennedy and his late son reappear, remained in the city and over the weekend, and began discussing establishing a permanent base there where they could all live.
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[Link] Streamer SquidGame losing work over Netflix show association
Read: 7/11/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Imagine signing up for a social media site in 2010, picking a username that you liked and spending the next decade gradually building up a following under that brand. Then out of nowhere, 2021 hits and the biggest television show of the year also happens to be your exact handle.
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[Link] Meet the Antisemitic QAnon Leader Who Led Followers to Dallas to Meet JFK
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Tuesday morning, hundreds of QAnon followers gathered on the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, believing they were going to see John F. Kennedy reappear. These people had traveled from all over the U.S.
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[Link] Mark Zuckerberg downloaded and used a photo app that Facebook later cloned and crushed, antitrust lawsuit claims
Read: 7/11/2021 www.businessinsider.com
The founders of a photo-app startup filed an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook's parent company, Meta, The New York Times first reported on Thursday.
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[Link] Kanye West condemns #MeToo movement as ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four mind control’
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Kanye West has condemned the #MeToo movement that has spoken out against sexual assault in the entertainment industry and beyond, describing it as “mob mentality … Nineteen Eighty-Four mind control”.
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[Link] Police investigate people taking partially nude photos near Russian landmarks
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Police have launched a wave of investigations against young people, mainly women, in recent weeks for taking partially nude or sexually suggestive photographs next to Russian landmarks.
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[Link] Landlords Furious When Tenant Takes Her Garden Setup With Her After Kicking Her Out
Read: 6/11/2021 god.dailydot.com
Another entry in Reddit’s famous “Am I the A–hole” forum has left people with absolutely no doubt as to the answer after a young woman removed her self-installed backyard garden setup to take with her when her landlords declined to renew her lease so that they could sell the house she had be
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[Link] Richard Spencer Held Parties in 'Fash Loft' For White Nationalists, Court Hears
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
It became known as “the fash loft”—and hosted as many as six parties for white nationalist influencers that summer. None of them were recorded. But many otherwise make unlikely bedfellows.
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[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Is 1 Twitter Violation Away From a Permanent Ban
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account has been suspended for a week for posting COVID-19 misinformation, and the Georgia congresswoman is just one more violation away from a permanent ban.
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[Link] Yes, Mark Zuckerberg Sites Are Down
Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
It would appear that Messenger, as well as Instagram’s messaging function and other Facebook-owned services, are currently having trouble, as thousands of users report being unable to access the company’s platforms Wednesday.
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[Link] Don’t Go Cheering Facebook for Killing Its Face Recognition Database Just Yet
Read: 4/11/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
On Tuesday, Facebook offered us a brief respite from the deluge of awful news stories on the company with a pretty pleasant-sounding announcement.
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[Link] Facebook lets Kazakh govt directly flag harmful content, joint statement says
Read: 4/11/2021 www.reuters.com
ALMATY, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Facebook owner Meta Platforms (FB.O) has granted the Kazakh government access to its content reporting system, after the Central Asian nation threatened to block the social network for millions of local users.
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[Link] Data-breached Guntrader website calls in liquidators, is reborn as Guntrader 2 Ltd
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theregister.com
A British firearms sales website's owner has called in the liquidators as his company faces data breach lawsuits – while continuing to trade from a newly incorporated business. Guntrader Ltd entered a creditors' voluntary liquidation on 22 October.
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[Link] Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All Into Dopamine Addicts
Read: 3/11/2021 getpocket.com
According to addiction expert Dr. Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?
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[Link] Online child abuse survey finds third of viewers attempt contact with children
Read: 3/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The largest major survey of people who watch online child sexual abuse has found that one-third of respondents attempted to directly contact a child as a result of the illegal images they watched online.
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[Link] 'Sovereign citizen' posts video after failing to appear in court on firearms offences
Read: 2/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Solange Goodes, 42, was arrested at her farm in Sandy Creek earlier this year, after police allege she threatened them when they came to the property to check if registered guns were properly secured.
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[Link] Parallel metaverses: Facebook’s name change is challenged by Arizona retailer Meta PCs
Read: 2/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Meta PCs, an Arizona-based company that sells computers, laptops and software for gamers was an unremarkable retail outfit a week ago.
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[Link] The Growing Crusade Against Sex, Muslim Culture, and Lesbians in India’s Ads
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
India’s leading fashion designer was forced to withdraw advertisements for his latest line of wedding jewellery after he was threatened with legal action by a politician from the ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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[Link] ‘Squid Game’ Memecoin Soared to Record $2,800. Then It Fell to Zero.
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The SQUID token peaked at a price of $2,861 on Monday, more than 300 times what it was worth when it began trading just a week ago, according to data from CoinMarketCap.
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[Link] Inside the Facebook Group that Sexualises Pregnant Women
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The group, whose name in Malay “Koleksi Mak Buyung Malaysia'' translates to “My Collection of Pregnant Women,” attracted at least 5,000 members before it was removed on Monday evening for “violating site policies”.
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[Link] Elon Musk Tweets an Ancient Chinese Poem. Here’s What It Means.
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The world’s richest man, with $335 billion in wealth and caught up in Twitter spats, now wants some peace, at least according to an 1,800-year-old Chinese poem he just shared.
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[Link] Cops Admit Sharing Images of Murdered Sisters on WhatsApp
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Two Metropolitan police officers have admitted to taking, altering and sharing images of two sisters who were found dead in a London park this year.
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[Link] Facebook Shuts Down Massive Photo Tagging Facial Recognition Program
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
For years, photo tagging was a core Facebook feature and was one of the main things people “did” on Facebook. To tag a photo, you clicked a specific part of it and wrote in the name of your friend.
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[Link] Former UFC Star Paige VanZant is Hunting Down Photo Pirates on Discord
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Former UFC star and Dancing With The Stars runner-up Paige VanZant is reportedly making more money from selling pictures and videos of herself online than she ever did with the MMA organization.
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[Link] Facebook has ruined our reality, now it’s coming for the metaverse too
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
“Facebook”. The word paints a thousand pictures, every one of them a portrait of some element of the human condition I could happily live without. Message requests from veterans in Montana that read, “Hello beautiful Lady.
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[Link] Mastodon Lawyers Tell Trump Social Network to Make Source Code Public
Read: 31/10/2021 www.vice.com
Lawyers for the social network codebase Mastodon have sent a formal letter to former President Donald Trump’s upcoming social network ‘Truth Social’ asking the site to make its source code publicly available, according to an announcement from Mastodon today.
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[Link] Zuckerberg’s role in Facebook rebrand may backfire, experts say
Read: 31/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Mark Zuckerberg’s effort to remove “negative associations” between Facebook and its parent company may be undermined by his decision to front the launch of its rebranding as Meta, experts have said.
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[Link] Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
Read: 29/10/2021 www.vice.com
Facebook’s new name is “Meta,” and its new mission is to invent a ‘metaverse’ that will make us all forget what it’s done to our existing reality.
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[Link] Alleged TikTok ‘Skyrim IRL’ Murders Shows the Real Danger of Stalkerware
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Last week Ali Nassar Abulaban, a popular TikTok and other social media personality with over a million followers combined across his accounts, allegedly murdered his wife and a man.
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[Link] Instagram Hacker Forces Victim to Make Hostage-Style Video
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
A hacker is taking over Instagram accounts before forcing their owners to make hostage-style videos promoting the hacker's money-making scams to try and get their money back.
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[Link] The People Who Left Their Offices to Work From Boats
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
The future of work isn’t work from home; it’s work from wherever you want. For some people, that’s an apartment; for Brad Abbott, that’s a boat. Abbott starts his day in the historic Vineyard Haven Harbor, waking up on the boat he lives on with his family.
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[Link] Trump’s social network has 30 days to stop breaking the rules of its software license
Read: 27/10/2021 www.theverge.com
The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump’s new social network violated a free and open-source software licensing agreement by ripping off decentralized social network Mastodon.
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[Link] What Crisis? Facebook Made $9 Billion In Profit in the Last 3 Months
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. On the face of it, Facebook has been having one of the worst weeks in its history.
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[Link] ‘History will not judge us kindly’: Facebook employees rip Zuckerberg in leaked messages
Read: 26/10/2021 nypost.com
Facebook employees say Mark Zuckerberg’s obsession with growth has overridden ethical concerns and allowed hate speech and incitements to violence to spread unchecked, internal messages leaked to media outlets show.
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[Link] How hackers hijacked thousands of high-profile YouTube accounts
Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Since at least 2019, hackers have been hijacking high-profile YouTube channels. Sometimes they broadcast cryptocurrency scams, sometimes they simply auction off access to the account.
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[Link] Facebook whistleblower tells politicians to 'team up' with US to regulate social media, or be ignored
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Frances Haugen quit Facebook earlier this year and told a congressional hearing in October that Facebook's products were harming children and fuelling polarisation in the United States.
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[Link] What We Know About the ‘Skeletal’ Remains of Brian Laundrie
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed Thursday that remains found at a Florida nature park belonged to Brian Laundrie, the 23-year-old who was a person of interest in the death of his fiancée, 22-year-old Gabby Petito.
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[Link] ‘Hard Not To Respect That’: Why White Nationalists Are Toasting the Taliban
Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com
When the Taliban captured Kabul in August, sealing a remarkable victory in its nearly 20-year war of attrition against the world's leading superpower, jihadist networks around the world erupted in jubilation.
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[Link] Tiktoker finds folder with thousands of audio recordings from home gadgets
Read: 21/10/2021 www.news.com.au
The woman, who goes by my.data.not.yours on TikTok, posted a now-viral video explaining that she requested to see what data Amazon had collected about her, but wasn’t expecting to receive so much. She revealed that she has three Amazon smart speakers.
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[Link] Netflix Isn’t Backing Down on Dave Chappelle and Neither Are Its Workers
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Employees have pledged to walk out of work on Wednesday, including the LGBTQ+ storytelling team and its head of queer editorial.
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[Link] Marvel Enthusiasts Angered by Non-Spoiler
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Marvel fans are apoplectic that a journalist who attended a preview screening of the upcoming Eternals had spoiled the movie. It’s unclear what, exactly, was spoiled.
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[Link] Facebook’s Brand Is So Toxic Zuckerberg Reportedly Wants to Change Its Name
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. In the middle of one of the worst crises his company has ever faced, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not digging in and fixing the democracy-destroying problems he’s created. Instead, he’s reportedly planning to rebrand.
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[Link] Instagram Is Punishing Users by Taking Away Their Link Stickers
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Many Instagram users saw a notification that if they have violated the platform's Community Guidelines in the past, they will no longer be allowed to use links in Stories.
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[Link] Northern Territory chief minister and US senator Ted Cruz in Twitter spat over Covid vaccines
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Northern Territory chief minister, Michael Gunner, has hit back at US senator Ted Cruz who criticised the Northern Territory’s vaccine policy, telling the firebrand Texan conservative “you know nothing about us”.
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[Link] Facebook says Craig Kelly’s content on United Australia Party page OK after banning MP
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Facebook says the United Australia Party’s page does not violate the social media giant’s community standards despite carrying prominent content from Craig Kelly, whose accounts have been banned for breaching the social media company’s misinformation policy.
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[Link] Facebook Says Extremely Common Thing It Does Is Bad When Reporters Do It
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
In an attempt to get ahead of reporting that will seemingly make Facebook—already reeling from weeks of revelations from a whistleblower—somehow look even worse, the company has adopted an increasingly popular strategy among some corporations: posting through it.
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[Link] Queensland MP's son charged over child exploitation material
Read: 19/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The son of a Queensland politician has been denied bail after being charged with possessing child exploitation material while on probation. Daniel Knuth, 24, is the son of Shane Knuth, the Katter's Australian Party state member for Hill.
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[Link] Endometriosis forces Wiggles performer Emma to pull out of upcoming shows
Read: 19/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Popular children's group The Wiggles will be without its yellow performer Emma for its upcoming shows around the country, as she undergoes surgery to manage symptoms of chronic endometriosis. In a statement, Emma Watkins, 28, said she would be admitted to hospital on Tuesday.
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[Link] Museum Starts OnlyFans Account After Its TikTok Is Banned for Posting Nudes
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
The so-called “Vienna Laid Bare” initiative was launched by Vienna’s tourism board late last week along with its OnlyFans account. As of writing subscribers can receive a complimentary Vienna City Card, or a ticket for one of the museums featured on the account.
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[Link] Kids and their computers: Several hours a day of screen time is OK, study suggests
Read: 17/10/2021 theconversation.com
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. Even when kids spend five hours a day on screen – whether computers, television or text – it doesn’t appear to be harmful.
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[Link] Man Sentenced to Death for Setting His TikToker Ex-Wife on Fire During a Livestream
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
The case infuriated Chinese women after media reports suggested that Lhamo had been suffering from Tang’s frequent beatings since the two married a few years ago. Her older sister said Lhamo called the police at least twice, but officers refused to interfere because it was a “family matter.
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[Link] The Gamers Who Regularly Stream to No One
Read: 14/10/2021 www.vice.com
Alex has been streaming for an average of six viewers for nearly three years. Alex, who goes by cobaltgear on Twitch, has been streaming mostly pre-2010 games from his California home since 2017. The numbers tend to vary.
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[Link] This Couple Caught COVID-19, So Authorities Drowned and Burned Their Dogs
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Pham Minh Hung and his wife had amassed a sizable menagerie—17 dogs and one cat, to be exact—pets that they considered their own children.
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[Link] Japanese Host Club With a Nazi Theme Apologizes for Its Lack of ‘Awareness’
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Staffed with male hosts who entertain and pour customers’ drinks, the club, called Unfair, opened on Sunday in the southern prefecture of Osaka.
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[Link] Alison Parker’s On-Air Murder Was in 2015 and Facebook Won’t Remove the Video
Read: 12/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. On the morning of August 26, 2015, television journalist Alison Parker was in Monela, Virginia reporting for a CBS affiliate station.
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[Link] MAGA QAnon's 2 Biggest Celebrities Are at War
Read: 11/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. And the spat is splitting their supporters down the middle.
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[Link] How friend ‘lost to misinformation’ drove Facebook whistleblower
Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Frances Haugen, the whistleblower behind a series of damaging revelations about Facebook, is adamant that she wants to help the social media giant and not foment hatred of it.
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[Link] Facebook Knew Its Algorithm Fed QAnon Content to Users Within a Week
Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Facebook knew its recommendation algorithm was a problem, so it set up a study to test out just how bad the problem was.
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[Link] Workers At Crime-Watch App Citizen Are Unionizing
Read: 4/10/2021 www.vice.com
The workers petitioned for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on September 22, and are waiting for approval to conduct a union election, according to the National Labor Relations Board filing. They are calling their union the Citizen Central Operations Union.
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[Link] Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp hit by outage
Read: 4/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Facebook’s network of services including Instagram and WhatsApp has been hit by an outage in multiple countries including UK and the US, as the company admitted users were having “trouble accessing our apps”.
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[Link] Ex-Fox host claims Facebook defamed him by fact-checking climate change videos
Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Former Fox Business host John Stossel is suing Facebook, alleging that the social media company and one of its contracted fact-checking organizations defamed him when it flagged two of his videos, alerting viewers to “missing context” and “partly false” claims.
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[Link] TikTok Now Has ‘Vulgarity’ Moderators in Pakistan
Read: 27/9/2021 www.vice.com
He went viral because of his slapstick comedy, funny music transitions, and social commentary. But on TikTok, he’s known as Famous “Maulvi,” the South Asian term for Muslim preacher.
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[Link] Fact-checking works to undercut misinformation in many countries
Read: 14/9/2021 arstechnica.com
In the wake of the flood of misinformation that's drowning the US, lots of organizations have turned to fact-checks. Many newsrooms set up dedicated fact-check groups, and some independent organizations were formed to provide the service.
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[Link] Leaked documents reveal the special rules Facebook uses for 5.8M VIPs
Read: 14/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Facebook had a problem on its hands. People were making posts that got caught in the company’s automated moderation system or were taken down by its human moderators. The problem wasn’t that the moderators, human or otherwise, were wrong to take down the posts.
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[Link] Facebook: some high-profile users ‘allowed to break platform’s rules’
Read: 14/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Facebook gives high-profile users special treatment, which includes immunity from its rules for some, and allowed Brazilian footballer Neymar to post nude pictures of a woman who had accused him of rape, according to a report.
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[Link] Hunter Biden Laptop Guy Owes Twitter Money After Failed Lawsuit
Read: 6/9/2021 www.vice.com
John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of the Delaware repair store where Biden allegedly left a MacBook Pro, attempted to sue Twitter for defamation in federal court.
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[Link] Reddit Just Banned One of the Biggest Subreddits for COVID-19 Misinformation
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
A week after its CEO said that COVID misinformation wasn’t much of a problem on the site, Reddit has reversed course and banned r/NoNewNormal, a subreddit it said was responsible for massive amounts of COVID-19 misinformation on the site.
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[Link] ‘AntiVaxMomma’ Allegedly Sold Fake COVID Vaccine Cards on Instagram
Read: 31/8/2021 www.vice.com
Jasmine Clifford, the 31-year-old “AntivaxMomma,” allegedly sold about 250 forged COVID-19 vaccine cards on Instagram from May 2021 to July, according to the Manhattan DA. The scheme involved selling these cards over Instagram that falsely stated an individual had received a COVID-19 vaccine.
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[Link] COVID Troll Alex Berenson Implies He'll Sue to Get Twitter Access Restored
Read: 30/8/2021 www.vice.com
Alex Berenson, the former New York Times reporter turned “the pandemic’s wrongest man,” as the Atlantic once dubbed him, was permanently suspended from Twitter on Sunday for violating the social media company’s policies against coronavirus misinformation.
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[Link] Reddit Responds to Calls From Moderators to Fight Disinformation
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
Some of the most popular subreddits are protesting the proliferation of COVID-19 disinformation and conspiracy theories on the platform.
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[Link] YouTube says it bans accounts believed to be owned by the Taliban
Read: 26/8/2021 www.reuters.com
Aug 17 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube said on Tuesday it bans accounts believed to be owned and operated by the Taliban, as U.S. social media companies scrambled to publicly clarify their rules on the group that is in control of Afghanistan. After U.S.
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[Link] Twitter Refuses to Ban Taliban Accounts, Vows to Remain ‘Vigilant’ Moderating Content
Read: 26/8/2021 www.yahoo.com
Twitter will allow Taliban-affiliated accounts to continue using its platform despite its policies against glorification of violence and threats.
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[Link] WhatsApp Can’t Ban the Taliban Because It Can’t Read Their Texts
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
The Taliban have effectively taken control of Afghanistan, entering the capital Kabul as U.S. diplomats and allies flee the country.
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[Link] China moves to protect personal data form misuse by tech companies
Read: 25/8/2021 the-pen.co
There is considerable interest in efforts by the Chinese government to impose greater control over major private enterprises operating in the country. Critics see this as an attack of freedom to do business. Supporters see it as a justified crackdown on corporate greed.
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[Link] Nazis and incels are using Gotye and MGMT to evade TikTok's auto-moderators, report finds
Read: 25/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
While it's hardly surprising fringe groups have used social media platforms to post hateful material, experts say TikTok has birthed creative ways to distribute the content and avoid auto-takedowns.
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[Link] We Talked to a Dealer Selling Ivermectin Through Shady Facebook Ads
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
Facebook makes money by allowing people to buy ads on its platform depicting ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug commonly used in veterinary medicine, as a treatment for or preventative measure against COVID-19, even though there's no scientific evidence it's effective when used this way.
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[Link] Brunswick’s Good Karma Network shuts amid claims of ‘toxic positivity’, racism
Read: 22/8/2021 www.theage.com.au
It began as a place online where you could share excess lemons with your neighbours, pass on clothes your kids had outgrown or lend someone a power tool: a utopian vision of an online community sharing gifts and advice.
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[Link] Social networks struggle to crack down on ‘incel’ movement
Read: 18/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Despite years of strict moderation from major social networks, the “incel” community remains as influential as it was in 2014, when an English 22-year-old killed seven people on the streets of Isla Vista, California, motivated by his hatred of women.
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[Link] How These Young Activists Are Uniting Middle Easterners
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
The youth-run organization is based in the US but has created an international community that lives online with the sole purpose of bringing to light human right violations and current events happening in the Middle East.
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[Link] He Preached Slow Fashion. Then He Collaborated With Fast Fashion Icon H&M.
Read: 14/8/2021 www.vice.com
This week, a hyped-up collaboration between Indian couturier Sabyasachi and fast fashion brand H&M dropped amid much media frenzy.
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[Link] This Woman Secretly Runs One of the World's Biggest Anti-Vax Websites From Her House
Read: 13/8/2021 www.vice.com
An anti-vaxxer website which scrapes and misrepresents data from a government-run database has been spreading misinformation like wildfire through anti-vax communities for the last month. Now for the first time, the identity of the woman running the site has been revealed.
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[Link] The Congresswoman Behind FOSTA Is Coming for OnlyFans
Read: 13/8/2021 www.vice.com
More than 100 members of Congress signed a letter demanding the DOJ investigate of child sexual abuse material on OnlyFans—which adult industry experts say are baseless.
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[Link] Reddit Quarantines AntiMask Antivax Subreddit
Read: 13/8/2021 www.vice.com
Wednesday, Reddit quarantined r/NoNewNormal, a subreddit that is generally antimask, antivax, and is also against any government COVID restrictions.
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[Link] Discord malware is a persistent and growing threat warns Sophos
Read: 13/8/2021 www.pcgamer.com
A few weeks back, leading cybersecurity company Sophos issued a warning that Discord is becoming an increasingly common target for hackers.
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[Link] At Home and Broke? Steal an Instagram Story of Somebody Else’s Fancy Dinner
Read: 11/8/2021 www.vice.com
Daniel Greenberg, the head of commerce at MSCHF, said that he was sold on the New York art and design collective’s latest drop after testing it on his own Instagram account.
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[Link] ABC journalist agrees to pay MP $79,000 in defamation settlement over tweets
Read: 11/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
ABC journalist Louise Milligan has agreed to pay federal Liberal MP Andrew Laming $79,000 in a defamation case over a series of tweets she sent. Dr Laming launched the case in May, alleging Milligan defamed him in four tweets sent on March 28, 2021.
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[Link] Why isn't the census translated into languages other than English?
Read: 9/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Back in Shanghai, Xueli Zhao was a hospital doctor. Now living alone in a public housing flat in Melbourne's inner-east, 84-year-old Dr Zhao relies heavily on her children to communicate with various authorities as she is lacking English language skills.
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[Link] Real Polygon Keeps Getting Spammed By Shady Polygon
Read: 9/8/2021 kotaku.com
Polygon is an American video game website that publishes blogs, news, reviews, and such. Polygon, according to its website, is “a protocol and a framework for building and connecting Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks.
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[Link] Instagram Shuts Down Fake Likes Factory
Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com
Instagram recently sent a cease and desist demand to a site that sold fake likes and engagement on the platform, prompting the site to shut down in response, according to a person involved in the site and confirmation from Instagram.
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[Link] Facebook users struggling to reactivate hacked accounts are buying $300 Oculus VR headsets just so they can talk to a customer service rep
Read: 8/8/2021 www.businessinsider.com.au
Facebook users struggling to get back into their hacked accounts are buying the company’s $US300 ($AU405) VR headset and returning them unopened just so they can reactivate their profiles, according to an NPR report.
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[Link] Move over, space. Tech billionaires have a new utopian boondoggle: the ‘metaverse’
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Look at all of our tech billionaires trying to leave the world to evade responsibility for their malevolent influence on it. Anything to avoid being confronted by the workers they exploit or the victims of the ethnic and religious clashes facilitated by their platforms.
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[Link] ‘They thought Covid only kills white people’: myths and fear hinder jabs in DRC
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Dr Christian Mayala and Dr Rodin Nzembuni Nduku sit together on a bench outside the Covid ward at Kinshasa’s Mama Yemo hospital.
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[Link] Facebook Just Suspended the Accounts of Some of Its Biggest Critics
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Facebook has made good on its threat to kick out a group of researchers who’ve been among the platform’s biggest critics.
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[Link] FTC Slams Facebook For Lying About Why it Shut Down Misinformation Research
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. In a rare rebuke against a big U.S.
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[Link] Elon Musk's Brother Wants to Build Utopian Learning Gardens, Without Unions
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Big Green's anti-union stance coincides with a series of outwardly progressive institutions and companies, including art museums, universities, public interest law firms, and green energy companies, taking measures to ensure their employees don't unionize.
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[Link] Matt Gaetz Has a Podcast Now, and It’s Just As Bad As You’d Expect
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Matt Gaetz is a United States congressman who’s currently under investigation for sex crimes, but he’s apparently still got some free time to step into a new role: Podcaster.
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[Link] World Kung Fu Governing Body Uses Copyright Law to Hunt Down YouTube Critics
Read: 7/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
The world governing body for kung fu is using copyright law to identify a user who allegedly made defamatory remarks about the organization on YouTube.
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[Link] #MeToo Hits One of China’s Biggest Celebrities. The State Is Taking Credit.
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
A megastar fell from grace over rape accusations. Now China is scrambling to steer the narrative in its favor. Until recently, Kris Wu was one of China’s most adored pop singers, swamped by screaming fans wherever he went.
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[Link] We Tried the Viral TikTok Face Mask That Makes You Look Old
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
In our quest for glowing, youthful skin and hair, we’ve tried it all. We’ve consulted skin care savants, we’ve oiled our pubes, and we’ve spelunked through Sephora sales.
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[Link] Reddit just took out its MGTOW subreddits like the trash they are. Sorry, were.
Read: 5/8/2021 wehuntedthemammoth.com
Well, it took them long enough. Today, at long last, the Reddit admins banned the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit for promoting hate; they also dropped the ban hammer on MGTOW2, the main subreddit’s purportedly hate-free alternative.
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[Link] Scammer Service Will Ban Anyone From Instagram for $60
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
An underground industry is abusing Instagram's mechanisms for removing self-injury and impersonating content to censor and harass people. Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.
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[Link] Twitter admits it verified fake account of author Cormac McCarthy
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Cormac McCarthy is known for his sparse punctuation and distinctive writing style, the violent and pessimistic themes of his work, and his reclusive public persona. So it was surprising to see the novelist on Twitter, sharing bons mots about kombucha and SoundCloud for an audience of thousands.
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[Link] Why the internet in Cuba has become a US political hot potato
Read: 4/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Cubans used to joke about Napoleon Bonaparte chatting to Mikhail Gorbachev, George W Bush and Fidel Castro in the afterlife. “If I’d have had your prudence, I’d never have fought Waterloo,” the French emperor tells the last Soviet leader.
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[Link] US Lawmakers Suggest That Piracy is Part of Twitter’s Business Model
Read: 4/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
A group of bipartisan U.S. House Representatives has sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, urging the company to take copyright infringement seriously.
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[Link] Someone Has Been Faking a Relaunch of Fallout Studio Interplay
Read: 31/7/2021 www.ign.com
Publisher Interplay Entertainment has announced that a Twitter account claiming to announce a relaunch of the storied developer is a fake.
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[Link] Er, no, we would like to continue suing Facebook, US state AGs tell courts
Read: 30/7/2021 www.theregister.com
Attorneys General from 46 US states, plus Guam and Washington DC, have appealed a district court’s decision to dismiss their antitrust lawsuit against Facebook that claims the social media giant illegally acquired its competitors to maintain a monopoly.
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[Link] Facebook and tech giants to target attacker manifestos, far-right militias in database
Read: 28/7/2021 www.reuters.com
July 26 (Reuters) - A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.
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[Link] On the Feasibility of Secure Traceability in End-to-End Encrypted Messaging
Read: 3/6/2021 nadim.computer
WhatsApp recently published an article titled “What is traceability and why does WhatsApp opposite it?”, in which it argues that “some governments” (a reference to Facebook’s current lawsuit against the Indian government) “are seeking to force technology companies to find out who sent a
[Link] Trump closes his ‘beacon of freedom’ website a month after launching it
Read: 3/6/2021 www.theguardian.com
Donald Trump has discontinued the blog-type website he launched in a fanfare less than a month ago as “a beacon of freedom” and “a place to speak freely and safely”.
[Link] Harvey Norman deletes Twitter account amid outrage over jobkeeper
Read: 2/6/2021 www.theguardian.com
The retail giant Harvey Norman has deleted its Twitter account after mass blockings of critics and bizarre emoji responses to those who challenged the company over the action.
[Link] Christian Porter’s barrister Sue Chrysanthou tries to override her own precedent in the Geoffrey Rush case to get interim suppression orders for Porter
Read: 15/5/2021 kangaroocourtofaustralia.com
The only thing that prevented Christian Porter’s barrister Sue Chrysanthou from being humiliated in court on Friday (7/5/1) is the fact that she has no shame.
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[Link] Can Clubhouse keep the party going?
Read: 18/4/2021 www.theverge.com
For the first time since the pandemic started, I had big Friday night plans: a VIPs-only mansion party. The who’s who of 2003, like Elton John, Howard Stern, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan would supposedly be attending.
[Link] US teen saves boy’s life more than 800 miles away after seeing crash on TikTok
Read: 9/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
An adventurous young off-roading enthusiast in West Virginia was saved by social media recently when a teenager more than 800 miles away noticed he was in need of help.
[Link] Twitter won’t let federal archivists host Trump’s tweets on Twitter
Read: 8/4/2021 arstechnica.com
The National Archives and Records Administration is a federal agency responsible for preserving historically significant federal records, including tweets from senior government officials.
[Link] Mafia fugitive caught after posting YouTube cooking video
Read: 5/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
Marc Feren Claude Biart, 53, led a quiet life in Boca Chica, in the Dominican Republic, with the local Italian expat community considering him a “foreigner”, police said in a statement on Monday. He was betrayed by a YouTube channel in which he showed off his Italian cooking skills.
[Link] US military account's gibberish tweet prompts viral mystery
Read: 5/4/2021 www.theguardian.com
The perils of working from home while managing the social media account of a major military power have been thrown into sharp relief after the US Strategic Command tweeted a confusing string of gibberish.
[Link] Facebook “Supreme Court” overrules company in 4 of its first 5 decisions
Read: 2/2/2021 arstechnica.com
The Oversight Board, an independent organization set up to review Facebook's content moderation decisions, handed down its first batch of rulings on Thursday. The rulings didn't go well for Facebook's moderators. Out of five substantive rulings, the board overturned four and upheld one.
[Link] Facebook is bombarding rightwing users with ads for combat gear. See for yourself
Read: 27/1/2021 www.theguardian.com
On 16 January, Facebook announced that it will be “banning ads that promote weapon accessories and protective equipment in the US at least through January 22”.
[Link] Google threatens to leave Australia – but its poker face is slipping
Read: 25/1/2021 www.theguardian.com
The biggest companies in technology love an ultimatum but rarely do they spell out their threats.
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