How Real Activists Learned Facebook Was Deleting Their Protest Page for ‘Inauthentic Behavior’

Facebook’s definition of “authentic” is complicated because disinformation campaigns are complicated. Continue reading How Real Activists Learned Facebook Was Deleting Their Protest Page for ‘Inauthentic Behavior’

‘Twitter and Tear Gas’ Looks at How Protest Is Fueled and Crushed by the Internet

The new book from Zeynep Tufekci looks at how the web has helped demonstrations take off around the globe, but also made them harder to sustain. Continue reading ‘Twitter and Tear Gas’ Looks at How Protest Is Fueled and Crushed by the Internet

This Indie Space Network Launched the ‘First Protest in Space’ Targeting Trump

‘LOOK AT THAT, YOU SON OF A BITCH’ reads a suborbital tweet paraphrasing Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell. Continue reading This Indie Space Network Launched the ‘First Protest in Space’ Targeting Trump