Controlling Internet
Telegram Founder’s Detention Shows ‘Dangerous Trend’ of Online Surveillance
Aug 27, 2024
Western governments are increasingly seeking to deepen their control of online platforms while looking...
Sugar Daddy of Trump’s VP Pick Has Deep Ties to CIA
Vance’s top funder, Peter Thiel, co-founded the data-analytics company Palantir, which has the CIA as a client, and was an early investor in Facebook,...
The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook...
By Alan Macleod
Oct. 31, 2022
A MintPress study has found that hundreds of former agents of the notorious Israeli spying organization, Unit 8200, have...
Facebook Approved an Israeli Ad Calling for Assassination of Pro-Palestine Activist
After the ad was discovered, digital rights advocates ran an experiment testing the limits of Facebook’s machine-learning moderation.
By Sam Biddle
November 21 2023
A series...
Meta Executive Working in Greece Hacked by ‘Predator’ Spyware
By Tasos Kokkinidis
March 21, 2023
A dual U.S.-Greek national working for Meta Platforms Inc. was hacked by the Predator spyware for around one year in...
Alan MacLeod on the Former Israeli Spies in Top Social Media...
by Scott
Nov 10, 2022
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Alan MacLeod of Mintpress News is back to talk more about the alarming number of former spies working for the...
How Facebook, Twitter Let Climate Fall Into Culture Wars: Study
By Giulia Carbonaro
Jun 9, 2022
Climate disinformation has crowded out the facts on social media over the past 18 months, outperforming science-based content even...
Facebook Allows Praise of Neo-Nazi Ukrainian Battalion If It Fights Russian...
The reversal raises questions about Facebook’s blacklist-based content moderation, which critics say lacks nuance and context.
By Sam Biddle
Feb 24 2022
Facebook will temporarily allow its...
New McCarthyism in the West
White House makes “strategic decision” to wage war on unflattering words about NATO
By Rick Rozoff
January 29, 2022
n all seriousness, the U.S. government may not...
The Facebook Team that Tried to Swing Nicaragua’s Election is Full...
A tacit agreement between the government and Facebook appears to have been made: you can keep the profits, but we control the message. As...