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Facebook has settled a lawsuit over facial recognition technology, agreeing to pay $550m (£419m) over accusations it had broken an Illinois state law regulating the use of biometric details.
A network comprised of hundreds of fabricated Facebook profiles disseminates political propaganda and also coaxes real users to reveal as much about themselves as they are willing. The social network appears to be impotent in its response to the professional saboteurs.
Users ‘have a right to know’ if the company broke the law and violated privacy says Democratic attorney general for Massachusetts Maura Healey.
Social media giant accuses The Spinner of using fake accounts on its platforms; company says it can affect behavior by exposing people to articles ‘disguised as editorial content’.
Research conducted by EU DisinfoLab and POLITICO prompts backers of France Libre 24 to disclose their ties to Poland.
Historical documents released by the Foreign Office shed new light on how a secretive team of British civil servants tried to influence the international media during the Cold War.
To make matters worse, uninstalling it could cause even more pain.
YouTube’s celebrity culture and community dynamics play a major role in the amplification of far-right content.
An explosive leak of tens of thousands of documents from the defunct data firm Cambridge Analytica is set to expose the inner workings of the company that collapsed after the Observer revealed it had misappropriated 87 million Facebook profiles.
Brazil’s Ministry of Justice said on Monday it fined U.S. tech giant Facebook Inc 6.6 million reais ($1.6 million) for improperly sharing user data.
Facebook took down more than 600 accounts tied to The Epoch Times, a media outlet that has spent heavily on digital ads to push pro-Trump conspiracy theories.
Huge numbers of ads have disappeared from a tool created by Facebook to allow the public to know how they are being advertised to.
Guardian analysis finds VDare and Red Ice TV among several outlets that are still on the platform despite Facebook’s promised ban.
Google employees are accusing the company’s leadership of developing an internal surveillance tool that they believe will be used to monitor workers’ attempts to organize protests and discuss labor rights.
On Monday afternoon #DeleteFacebook made a comeback as a Twitter trend after it was revealed that Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg had held informal meetings and off-the-record dinners with conservative journalists, commenters and at least one Republican congressman in a Politico article, including Tucker Carlson and Lindsay Graham.
Oswald Mosley was banned from the BBC. His modern successors have no such problems finding a platform.
Part-time officer has worked on ‘behavioural change’ projects in the region.
Far from deplatforming racists, Facebook is moving toward private groups that will be harder to monitor.
The BBC has upheld a complaint against its Breakfast presenter. As British broadcasters and journalists of colour, we demand it reconsiders.
Facebook claims to be doing a lot to fight hate speech. But Facebook has also cashed nearly $1.6 million in ad money from organizations designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center between May 2018 and Sept. 17, 2019, according to a Wednesday report by Sludge.
Malicious sites installed a “monitoring implant” that compromised personal data on iPhones that simply visited them, according to security researchers.
People don’t just adopt far-right extremist views overnight — they have to become radicalized, and YouTube is the perfect place for that to happen.
Google acknowledged its contractors are able to listen to recordings of what people say to the company’s artificial-intelligence system, Google Assistant.
Britain’s counter-terrorism chief has said far-right terrorists are being radicalised by mainstream newspaper coverage, while also criticising the hypocrisy of outlets such as Mail Online, which uploaded the “manifesto” of the gunman in the Christchurch terror attack.
The serious privacy concerns involved in the harvesting of the personal information of some 50 million Facebook users were underscored by Britain’s Channel 4 News. An undercover investigation filmed Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix boasting of dirty tricks operations to ensnare politicians and subvert elections.
In the second of our explosive expose of the SCL Group we ask: what is the phantom contract with the MOD from 2010/11 and what did the ‘external training’ a previous FOI revealed involve?
Liam O'Hare on the deep connections between Cambridge Analytica’s parent company Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL Group) and the Conservative Party and military establishment; ‘Board members include an array of Lords, Tory donors, ex-British army officers and defence contractors. This is a scandal that cuts to the heart of the British establishment.’
There are two dangers in the media howl over Trump’s computer gurus Cambridge Analytica, the data-driven psy-ops company founded by billionaire brown-shirts, the Mercer Family.
Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters.
If you've ever thought that Jonathan Pie's contrived rants sounded like they could've been written by someone from a left-liberal rag obsessed with getting speaking gigs for fascists, you were right.
What do NATO, private military contractors, giant arms manufacturers, wine merchants, the NSA, Trump, British property tycoons, Russian oligarchs, and Big Oil have in common? The world’s largest social network.
In this report, Hope Not Hate shows how recent terror attacks in the UK have been successfully exploited by anti-Muslim activists over social media, to increase their reach and grow their audiences.
In the three months since Internet monopoly Google announced plans to keep users from accessing “fake news,” the global traffic rankings of a broad range of left-wing, progressive, anti-war and democratic rights organizations have fallen significantly.
A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.
With links to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, the rightwing US computer scientist is at the heart of a multimillion-dollar propaganda network.
No quantity of retractions, excuses or apologies from the outlets that ran with it will heal the damage. That goes for ‘Bowling Green’ and other false stories, too.
Prosecutors in Frankfurt are investigating two people for making up a crime, after they claimed in a national newspaper that dozens of Arab men rioted and sexually assaulted women at New Year.
Regulator says report on Labour leader’s views about shoot-to-kill breached impartiality and accuracy guidelines.
A silent war continues, led by the west, ignored by the media, writes John Pilger.
Cathy Come Home director calls for corporation to democratise and says ‘bad history’ dramas such as Downton Abbey put viewers’ brains to sleep.
A pretty outrageous post has surfaced showing a Question Time Audience Producer seeking audience members from an EDL-supporting Facebook event page.
A majority of the British public believe the media is deliberately biased against Jeremy Corbyn and seeking to portray him in a negative light.
British Labour MP Jo Cox was brutally murdered yesterday. Although the motive is not yet proven, there is mounting evidence that the detained suspect, 52-year-old white male Thomas Mair, was motivated by political ideology.
Campaigners target Frozen and The Jungle Book maker, which owns about 10% of youth-focussed media company.
Two bitter rivals have agreed to drop mutual antitrust cases across the globe. Why? To fend off the greater regulatory threat of democratic oversight.
Since its founding in 2007, Breitbart News Network has grown to become one of the most popular news outlets on the right. Over the past year however, the outlet has undergone a noticeable shift toward embracing ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right. Racist ideas. Anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant ideas –– all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the “Alt-Right.”
One of the defining features of the corporate media is that Western crimes are ignored or downplayed. The US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on the night of October 3, is an archetypal example.
Labour leadership hopeful says he was told not to pursue his demand for official investigation when serving under Mr Blair's government.
Privacy campaigners and open source developers are up in arms over the secret installing of Google software which is capable of listening in on conversations held in front of a computer.
The Daily Mail has a long history of supporting right-wing parties, including the fascists in the 1930s.
The British Government has suppressed the release of secret documents relating to Rupert Murdoch's dealings with a French-Australian conman and KGB operative four decades ago.
The British army is creating a special force of Facebook warriors, skilled in psychological operations and use of social media to engage in unconventional warfare in the information age.
Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of rapacious power? Why do the New York Times and the Washington Post deceive their readers?
There is more truth about American journalism in the film Kill the Messenger, which chronicles the mainstream media’s discrediting of the work of the investigative journalist Gary Webb, than there is in the movie All the President’s Men, which celebrates the exploits of the reporters who uncovered the Watergate scandal.
Charles Davis went public with a series of accusations against his former employer, backed up by screenshots of emails he posted this week to Twitter, suggesting that the company had killed articles he’d written because of potential conflicts with advertisers and “brand partners” of the company.
At most media organizations, there's a “Chinese wall” between editorial and advertising operations — each department operating independently of one another. At Vice Media — marketing shop first, editorial brand second — that's not quite how it works, according to a series of emails published to Twitter by recently departed editor Charles Davis.
I am not surprised that Piers Morgan has been outed for allegedly hacking phones (listening, in one case, to personal messages between Heather Mills and Paul McCartney.) I learned about the creepy antics of this one-man TV-host crime spree the hard way: as a victim of his crime-and-slime form of “journalism.”
Confidential papers, obtained by the Sunday Telegraph, have revealed that the BBC allowed MI5 to investigate the backgrounds and political affiliations of thousands of its employees, including newsreaders, reporters and continuity announcers.
Experts confirm that Iran's president did not call for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’. Reports that he did serve to strengthen western hawks.
Britain was condemned yesterday for its obsession with television and celebrity culture, and its ignorance of current affairs.
Bertelsmann, one of the world's largest media groups, deliberately misled researchers in an attempt to conceal its Nazi past, according to a report released yesterday by independent historians.
The Tories last night demanded an investigation by the head of the civil service into allegations by the BBC's senior foreign correspondent, John Simpson, that Downing Street had hacked into the Corporation's newsroom computers.
Not long after I wrote a series for the San Jose Mercury News about a drug ring that had flooded South Central Los Angeles with cheap cocaine at the beginning of the crack explosion there, a strange thing happened to me. I was silenced.
Military personnel from the Fourth Psychological Operations Group based at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, have until recently been working in CNN’s hq in Atlanta.
