What Elon Musk’s Twitter ‘free speech’ promises miss
Musk proposed a buyout of the social platform yesterday.
Food Delivery Leak Unmasks Russian Security Agents - bellingcat
The Yandex.Food leak implicates thousands of Russian users, including military personnel
Data leak from Russian delivery app shows dining habits of the secret police
The Yandex Food leak exposed the data of 58,000 users.
Apple and Meta shared data with hackers pretending to be law enforcement officials
Bad actors contacted the platforms with emergency data requests.
Turns out Gettr is a hypocritical privacy nightmare and we are just shocked | Input
What comes next.
It Doesn't Make Sense to Treat Facebook Like a Public Utility
It's an American solution to a global problem.
GM finally bends the knee to California’s authority to set vehicle pollution rules
GM backed Trump’s fight with California and lost.
The Mac Malware of 2021 👾
a comprehensive analysis of the year's new malware!
Five former SpaceX employees speak out about harassment at the company
Employees say their complaints about workplace misconduct were routinely ignored
How to Guard Against Smishing Attacks on Your Phone
“Smishing" is an attempt to collect logins or other sensitive information with a malicious text message—and it's on the rise.
A Standard for Universal Digital Ad Transparency
Commentary: Microsoft can't be the fireman and the arsonist
Microsoft could move slower to ship better code, discontinue old features (like Apple), or get its customers to a good security baseline (like Google).
Apple’s Anti-Sexting Tool for iOS Will Warn Kids About Nudes—but Won’t Notify Parents
Apple added a new feature in the iOS 15.2 iPhone update to give kids a warning before they send or open nude photos—and made a difficult decision to omit a feature that would have warned their parents.
We’re Making the Facebook Papers Public. Here’s Why and How
Independent experts from NYU, UMass Amherst, Columbia, Marquette, and the ACLU are partnering with Gizmodo to responsibly publish this historic leak.
Can Russia’s Press Ever Be Free?
The journalists of Novaya Gazeta report on dangerous conflicts—and endure threats of their own.
The Verge updates its policy for tech PR people speaking “on background,” noting the practice can be “hilariously stupid”
Companies speaking to reporters — especially tech companies, but they're by no means the only ones; media companies do it too — like to add information "on background." That means that the information they provide can be included in the story, but can't be attributed specifically to …
Facebook Doc Stories - Google Docs
Facebook Doc Stories October 27, 2021 WaPo: In Poland’s politics, a ‘social civil war’ brewed as Facebook rewarded online anger WaPo: Former Facebook auditor says whistleblower’s claims have ‘revived’ civil rights concerns WSJ: Federal Trade Commission Scrutinizing Facebook Disclosures Forbes:...
Facebook Doc Stories
This is an ongoing public Google Doc collecting all the stories published surrounding the Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook Files” project.
Shortlink: https://bit.ly/fbdocstories
The Facebook Files
Facebook knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws but hasn’t fixed them. That’s a key finding of a Journal series that launched this week, based on an array of internal company documents. Read all the stories here.
[Report] Bad News, By Joseph Bernstein | Harper's Magazine
Selling the story of disinformation
Cryptocurrency Is Bunk
Cryptocurrency promises to liberate the monetary system from the clutches of the powerful. Instead, it mostly functions to make wealthy speculators even wealthier.
Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows
Firefox can now set itself as default in just one click.