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Don’t be evil, just OBEY: After Covid-19 tech giants will have even more control over what you see & what you think

Posted on April 14, 2020April 14, 2020By Editor

Silicon Valley’s algorithms are controlling your cognitive map, and Congress is letting it happen. Covid-19 is providing the perfect cover to bolster that control — just in time for the 2020 election. … Read More >Don’t be evil, just OBEY: After Covid-19 tech giants will have even more control over what you see & what you think

Journalism & Mass media

Truth Misdiagnosed As Conspiracy

Posted on April 13, 2020April 13, 2020By Editor

Too often, I see the term “conspiracy theory”, as if conspiracy has no meaning unless tied securely with theory. And so it implies a dangerous untruth, just a theory no one has proven, often despite ample evidence to its truth. … Read More >Truth Misdiagnosed As Conspiracy

Documentary

Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentary

Posted on April 2, 2020By Editor

Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff wrote a monumental book about the new economic order that is alarming. “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” reveals how the biggest tech companies deal with our data. How do we regain control of our data? What is surveillance capitalism? … Read More >Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism | VPRO Documentary

Shows

Facebook Donates 720,000 Masks To Hospitals. WTF?!?

Posted on March 25, 2020March 25, 2020By Editor

Facebook Donates 720,000 Masks To Hospitals. WTF?!? … Read More >Facebook Donates 720,000 Masks To Hospitals. WTF?!?

USA

Facebook Censoring Ron Paul Based on Bogus Politifact ‘Fact-Check’

Posted on March 19, 2020March 19, 2020By Editor

Social media behemoth Facebook has just acted to censor and suppress Ron Paul’s latest weekly column, “The Coronavirus Hoax,” based on a hatchet job “fact check” by the notoriously biased “Politifact” organization. … Read More >Facebook Censoring Ron Paul Based on Bogus Politifact ‘Fact-Check’

Asia & Pacific

Time to ‘Make in India’? Modi puzzles 137mn followers by saying he may ‘GIVE UP’ Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & YouTube

Posted on March 3, 2020March 3, 2020By Editor

India’s internet-savvy PM Narendra Modi said he may soon abandon his highly-trafficked social media pages, prompting an outpouring of posts from supporters begging him to stay, and threats of an exodus to locally-made platforms. … Read More >Time to ‘Make in India’? Modi puzzles 137mn followers by saying he may ‘GIVE UP’ Facebook, Twitter, Instagram & YouTube

USA

‘We’ve seen no evidence’: Social media networks blow up US officials’ claim of ‘Russian coronavirus disinformation campaign’

Posted on February 29, 2020February 29, 2020By Editor

Social media titans Twitter and Facebook poured cold water on the State Department’s latest conspiracy theory, insisting they’d seen no sign “Russian operatives” were spreading falsehoods about Covid-19 on their platforms. … Read More >‘We’ve seen no evidence’: Social media networks blow up US officials’ claim of ‘Russian coronavirus disinformation campaign’

Asia & Pacific

WhatsApp, Twitter, TikTok in Trouble in India For Allegedly Spreading ‘Anti-National’ Propaganda

Posted on February 28, 2020February 28, 2020By Editor

With the widespread use of smartphones and internet, the Indian population is pretty active on social media. Apps like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, and TikTok are used extensively, in some cases to push fake or unverified information. … Read More >WhatsApp, Twitter, TikTok in Trouble in India For Allegedly Spreading ‘Anti-National’ Propaganda

Op-ed

Facebook’s Oversight Board will be Zuckerberg’s patsy censors, giving him cover as he aims to control all global information

Posted on February 20, 2020February 20, 2020By Editor

The demand for more speech and content regulation on the internet by Facebook might seem like turkeys voting for Christmas, but it’s a cunning plot designed to protect and advance the power of Facebook’s unaccountable monopoly. … Read More >Facebook’s Oversight Board will be Zuckerberg’s patsy censors, giving him cover as he aims to control all global information

Russia

Sad face emoji? US social media giants Facebook & Twitter fined by Moscow court as server location impasse intensifies

Posted on February 13, 2020February 13, 2020By Editor

Facebook and Twitter were each fined four million rubles ($62,900) by a Moscow court on Thursday. It marks an escalation in a standoff between the American social media giants and Russian regulators. … Read More >Sad face emoji? US social media giants Facebook & Twitter fined by Moscow court as server location impasse intensifies

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