Internet
Governments around the world employ armies of keyboard warriors to spread propaganda and disrupt their online opposition. Their goal? To shape public discourse around global events in a way favorable to their standing military and geopolitical objectives. Their method? The Weaponization of Social Media. James Corbett discusses in detail. #socialmedia #keyboardwarriors
Some content is detrimental and some are beneficial. Because we’re bombarded with information from every direction, it’s never been more important to carefully curate what we consume. #CriticalThought
The featured CBC Marketplace program, “Why You’re Addicted to Your Smartphone,” goes behind the scenes, talking to tech insiders about how cellphone addiction is manufactured, and the effects thereof. #addictedtomyphone
Computer viruses, identity theft, ransomware, cyberbullying and many other threats are affecting children every day. Let’s take a look into a kids exposure to the so-called world of internet.
More than 16,000 signals are analyzed by a service called Sift, which generates a “Sift score” ranging from 1 – 100. The score is used to flag devices, credit cards and accounts that a vendor may want to block based on a person or entity’s overall “trustworthiness” score, according to a company spokeswoman.
European Union member states were accused of threatening freedom of speech and online expression and ignoring the will of millions of people after they adopted controversial copyright rules.
Technology has shaped and changed the current state of financial trading, and also the future directions. For an instant, through technology, it’s now easier than ever to trade on the various markets, and making a transaction is faster than ever, and the financial depth of information that is easy to access.
Your hobbies, habits and preferences are meticulously tracked by Facebook, and your personal data is then sold to whomever wants access to it — ostensibly for targeted marketing purposes, but there are no safeguards in place to prevent scammers and political agents from using the data. #facebookspying #facebookcensorship
Dr. Mercola reviews the Top 10 internal Mercola.com searches for 2018 — the articles and information people have turned to again and again. #health
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Watch this fascinating TED video with Alex Edmans discussing what you can trust in a ‘post-truth’ world. #truth #ted
In Facebook’s patent application, titled “Predicting Household Demographics Based on Image Data,” the company makes very clear the purpose of its new technology. If the patent is granted, and officials at Facebook choose to move forward with the new technology, it would likely be part of a major family-targeting program—one aimed at providing retailers with the data they need to target products that whole families might want to purchase, such as a vacation or a phone package plan.
Thousands of Google employees across the globe walked out of their offices at 11:10am local time on Thursday to demand improvements to workplace culture including an end to sexual harassment and misconduct.
By Jake Johnson | Common Dreams The massive shutdown affected many sites devoted to covering war, police brutality, and other issues neglected by the corporate media. After Facebook announced on Thursday that it shut down and removed hundreds of pages and accounts that it vaguely accused of spreading “spam” and engaging in “inauthentic behavior,” some of the […]
The Press For Truth Facebook page with over 300,000 followers, and the Anti-Media page of over two million Facebook followers were unpublished on October 11 without warning, as well as hundreds of other indy/alternative news Facebook pages.
“The crisis for democracy posed by digital disinformation demands a new social contract for the internet rooted in transparency, privacy, and competition,” declares a new report that challenges the overwhelming power wielded by large tech firms and the online platforms they now control. Published by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank New America—and building on a previous paper titled Digital Deceit—the new report by Dipayan Ghosh of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Ben Scott of the Omidyar Network argues that “as a democratic society, we must intervene to steer the power and promise of technology to benefit the many rather than the few.”
