Collaborate Disseminate
Rotten Tomatoes had to make changes to audience rating functionality following a review-bombing campaign against the film. Continue reading ‘Captain Marvel’ Shows How the Culture War Is Making User Reviews Useless
Internal Facebook documents obtained by Motherboard show specific steps and strategies taken by the company to fight content moderation issues that may spike during an election season. Continue reading How Facebook Trains Content Moderators to Put Out ‘PR Fires’ During Elections
Facebook and Twitter got a lot of heat, but “Instagram’s appeal is that’s where the kids are, and that seems to be where the Russians went.” Continue reading Instagram became the preferred tool in Russia’s propaganda war
Austin Thompson pleaded guilty on November 6 in a San Diego Federal court to knowingly causing damage to third-party computers. Continue reading DerpTrolling game server DDoS attacker pleads guilty
American social media companies simply weren’t prepared for what hit them in 2016: a barrage of accounts spewing disinformation in an unrelenting influence operation against the U.S. presidential election. It was a subversion of Silicon Valley’s altruistic intent, a turning of America’s digital openness against itself. It was, as Peter Singer and Emerson Brooking explain in their eponymously titled book, “like-war.” “If cyberwar is the hacking of the networks, ‘like-war’ is the hacking of the people on the networks by driving ideas viral through likes and lies,” Singer said in an interview. While the Russian campaign to interfere in U.S. democracy involved plenty of hacking, “it was the ‘like-war’ side, the influence operation side, that gave it its impact,” he added. Tech companies may have been ready to defend their networks from hacking, but they were blindsided by the disinformation offensive, according to Singer, a senior fellow at New America, a […]
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Calling the internet’s newest conspiracy craze a leftist prank just adds another layer of unproven conspiratorial bullshit. Continue reading QAnon Hysteria Shows that the World Learned Nothing From 2016
Think today’s hackers are only motivated by money? Think again. In the gaming world, there’s plenty of hacks-for-lulz on display. Continue reading Nintendo Switch hackers show hacking for mischief is alive and well
As a female MP Jess Phillips faces threats of violence and aggression every day. Continue reading MP gets 600 rape threats in a night, wants an end to online anonymity
On a daily basis, it disables millions of fake accounts before they ever hatch. Continue reading Facebook crushes 583 million fake accounts in 3 months
The Wikimedia Foundation wasn’t given warning before Susan Wojcicki announced at SXSW that YouTube is planning to use its content to debunk fake news. Continue reading Can Wikipedia Solve YouTube’s Conspiracy Theory Problem?