How Fascist Sympathizers Hijacked Reddit’s Libertarian Hangout
Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For years, Reddit’s most popular libertarian board, r/Libertarian, eschewed formal moderation in a bid to stay true to its ideology’s anything-goes ethos. But over the course of the last several weeks, Reddit users with a history of advocating white supremacy and state…
Facebook Just Got Hit With a Massive Lawsuit. It Could Cost the Company Billions.
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. DC Attorney General Karl Racine on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Facebook, accusing the social-media giant of “unfair and deceptive” practices that violated consumer privacy and led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The first lawsuit of its kind in the United States, the…
After Propaganda, Conservative News Was the Most Popular Content Pushed by Russian Trolls
Arriens/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russian internet trolls helped expand the reach of conservative media outlets as part of a Kremlin campaign to influence US politics and sow social discord, according to a new report commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Conservative content resonated heavily with the trolls’ Facebook…
Congress Had a Chance to Press Google on Hoaxes and Hate Speech. They Blew It.
Douglas Christian/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. House lawmakers spent three and a half hours on Tuesday going after Google CEO Sundar Pichai on a range of issues, but barely addressed one of the tech giant’s biggest problems: its role in spreading misinformation and radicalizing users. Instead, the Republicans…
After Russia Attacked Ukrainian Ships, These Twitter Accounts Joined the Battle
A patrol boat on duty in the Kerch Strait Sergei Malgavko/TASS/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In late November, after Russian vessels opened fire and seized three Ukranian ships near the Crimean peninsula, researchers said internet trolls with a history of sharing Russian propaganda targeted at Western audiences shifted their focus…
Former Facebook Manager: Being Black at Facebook Is Bad, But Being Black in Silicon Valley Is Worse
Maciej Luczniewski/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Just before Mark Luckie quit his job as a manager at Facebook, he sent out a departing internal memo November 8 calling out his former employer for having a “black people problem”—and then, last week, shared that note with the public on his…