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…
Did Sean Spicer Break the Law With His Tweets?
#NeverTweetChris Kleponis/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. No one would accuse Sean Spicer of being a fashion or beauty influencer, but it turns out he has something in common with them: shady spon-con practices. In the seeming eternity since he exited the White House in July 2017, …
How Bots Are Hijacking the Political Conversation Just Before the Election
Tweets featuring “MAGA” and “QAnon” are largely driven by automated behavior.Omar Marques/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When President Donald Trump tweeted about a caravan of immigrants heading to the US border in late October, it set off a wildfire of misinformation on social media. Posts…
This Researcher Rode 5,000 Miles With Uber to Understand the Gig Economy
Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you’re a frequent passenger of Lyft or Uber, there’s a good chance you’ve met your fair share of drivers. But probably not as many as Alex Rosenblat, an ethnographer and researcher at Data & Society, a nonprofit in New…
Facebook Just Shared New Disturbing Details About its Massive Data Breach
Alexander Pohl/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two weeks ago, Facebook warned that attackers may have accessed the accounts of up to 50 million users. Today, the company provided an update reporting that instead of 50 million accounts, only 30 million were accessed. But that the breach exposed a mass of…