Internet
Top Democrats attack Trump
The push to delegitimize the election results continued after a trio of top Senate Democrats called for a nonpartisan commission to investigate allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. Sens. Ben Cardin (Md.), Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) and Patrick Leahy (Vt.), the top Democrats on the Foreign Relations, Intelligence and Judiciary committees, back the creation an independent commission with 18 months to report its findings The Hill reports.
Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White...
Paul Horner, the 38-year-old impresario of a Facebook fake-news empire, has made his living off viral news hoaxes for several years. He has twice convinced the Internet that he’s British graffiti artist Banksy; he also published the very viral, very fake news of a Yelp vs. “South Park” lawsuit last year.
Yahoo scanned emails for US intelligence
It is not known whether the directive, which was sent to the company’s legal team, came from the National Security Agency or the FBI, according to the two former Yahoo employees. It is also not known what the intelligence officials were seeking, except wanting the company to search for a set of characters, which could mean a phrase in an email or an attachment.
Facebook ‘blocks accounts’ of Palestinian journalists
Account suspensions come on heels of agreement between social media giant and Israel to team up against "incitement".
By Sophia Hyatt
Editors from two Palestinian news publications based in...
Facebook backs down, will no longer censor the iconic ‘Napalm Girl’...
If you were to pick a handful of images that changed how people think about war, Nick Ut’s most famous photograph would surely be among them. The image of 9-year-old Kim Phuc running from napalm — her skin burning, her clothes burned away — defined the horrors of the Vietnam War.
Google “erases” Palestine from the map
Over 150,000 signatories have backed a Change.org petition entitled “Google: Put Palestine on your maps” as of Monday, accusing Google Maps of “making itself complicit in the Israeli government’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine” either on purpose or inadvertently. The petition, drafted by Zak Martin, slams the omission of the UN non-member observer state’s name on the map as a “grievous insult” to Palestinians.
Farange on Internet politics and the Dutch referendum
By NIGEL FARAGE
Today's Dutch referendum on the EU's expansionist agreement with Ukraine really is the people's referendum. It wasn't triggered by politicians or political...