Category: Internet
Inside an effort to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race
Facebook has removed the page of yet another media outlet. This time, it’s not a far right fringe network like Infowars, but “Venezuela’s only independent, grassroots leftwing English media platform,” the outlet, Venezuela Analysis, noted on Twitter
Could this be the point at which public opinion finally begins to turn and people to delete their accounts, or at least stop using the service so much?
Platform Is Unhealthy for African Americans & U.S. Democracy
We need to stay informed about the encroachment of big business and social media corporations in our private lives and the depths to which the private sector can farm information
To safeguard our privacy, we need a decentralised internet where personal data is no longer stored on massive servers owned by a handful of corporations
Interview on Duterte’s deadly “war on drugs,” his affinity for Donald Trump, and his weaponization of social media
In the latest installment of “Scheer Intelligence,” Jeff Cohen plumbs a range of topics, including the myriad failures of our political press and the Blue Wave election that wasn’t quite, as well as the future of the progressive movement. No matter how many congressional seats it ends up flipping, he contends, the Democratic Party is Read more…
Facebook Retaliated Against Protests by Pushing Anti-Semitic, Anti-Black Narratives
The technologies and social media platforms (such as Twitter and Facebook) that once promised to enhance democracy are now increasingly being used to undermine it