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If You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It
If You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It Various readers, fans, blog commenters, Facebook trolls, and auditors twanged on me all last week about my continuing interest in the RussiaRussiaRussia hysteria, though there is no particular consensus of complaint among them — except for a general “shut up, already” motif. For the […]
Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Surveillance Capitalism
Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and Surveillance Capitalism Whether it creeps into politics, marketing, or simple profiling, the nature of surveillance as totality has been affirmed by certain events this decade. The Edward Snowden disclosures of 2013 demonstrated the complicity and collusion between Silicon Valley and the technological stewards of the national security state. It took the […]
Why I Disagree With The Strategy Of Exiting Facebook, Twitter And YouTube
Why I Disagree With The Strategy Of Exiting Facebook, Twitter And YouTube Earlier this month Ben Swann, an important voice for whom I have nothing but respect, expressed a sentiment in one of his excellent Reality Check videos that I’m seeing more and more in anti-establishment circles, and I happen to strongly disagree with it. In […]
Edward Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As “Social Media”
Edward Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As “Social Media” NSA whistleblower and former CIA employee Edward Snowden slammed Facebook in a Saturday tweet following the suspension of Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and its political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, over what Facebook says was imporoper use of collected data. In a nutshell, in […]
Facebook ‘Hid Webpages’ And Bragged About Ability To Influence Elections
Facebook ‘Hid Webpages’ And Bragged About Ability To Influence Elections While many leftists in the United States are still screeching about “election meddling” by Russia, they may want to take a long look at Facebook. The social media giant actually hid webpages and bragged about its ability to influence elections. According to The Intercept, when Mark […]
This Is The Worst Purge Of Conservative Voices In The History Of The Internet
This Is The Worst Purge Of Conservative Voices In The History Of The Internet In recent weeks, we have witnessed an unprecedented social media crackdown on conservative voices. YouTube’s war with Alex Jones has gotten the most attention, but literally hundreds of conservative content creators have had their accounts penalized, suspended or deleted by YouTube, […]
Should Facebook, Google and Twitter Be Public Utilities?
Should Facebook, Google and Twitter Be Public Utilities? This opaque corporate censorship amounts to a private-sector Stasi, pursuing an Orwellian world of profits reaped from the censorship and suppression of dissent My longtime friend GFB recently suggested I revisit my position on RussiaGate, the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US election. I have […]
Brazil’s Largest Newspaper Abandons Facebook; Says News Feed is “Banning Professional Journalism”
Brazil’s Largest Newspaper Abandons Facebook; Says News Feed is “Banning Professional Journalism” São Paulo, Brazil— The largest newspaper in Brazil, Folha de S Paulo, announced late last week that due to Facebook’s recent changes to their news feed algorithm resulting in what the paper claims is “effectively banning professional journalism,” it would cease publishing content on […]
Agitprop Is Not News
Agitprop Is Not News Forget about sharks. In their Valentine’s Day editorial: Why Does Trump Ignore Top Officials’ Warnings on Russia?, The New York Times jumped several blue whales (all the ones left on earth), a cruise ship, a subtropical archipelago, a giant vortex of plastic bottles, and the Sport’s Illustratedswimsuit shoot. The lede said: […]
Soros and the EU Commission are now against the free Internet
Soros and the EU Commission are now against the free Internet With his investments, Soros has become a billionaire. Unfortunately, for many years he has been interfering in the political and demographic developments in Europe and has been financially promoting ethnic replacement. Now he is turning against CSU, Facebook and Twitter because they are endangering […]
Facebook Cracks Down On Independent Media, Under Guise Of ‘Enhancing Relationships’
Facebook Cracks Down On Independent Media, Under Guise Of ‘Enhancing Relationships’ January 30, 2018 Nothing could have more perfectly exemplified the establishment’s use of Orwellian Newspeak than Facebook’s latest move to censor independent thought under the pretense of caring about the emotional wellbeing of the masses. The media giant has been documented live-streaming murders, suicides, rapes, […]
The Net’s Good Old Boys: Dr. (Don’t Be) Evil Meets Dr. Strangelove
The Net’s Good Old Boys: Dr. (Don’t Be) Evil Meets Dr. Strangelove Dr. Eric Schmidt has called for intelligence agencies to stop illegally prying into personal information and has been doing his best to convince the government to pay Google to do it legally instead. That said, in 2009 he was widely rebuked for telling […]
Facebook Will Trust Its Untrustworthy Users to Rank the Trustworthiness of News
Photo: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images FACEBOOK WILL TRUST ITS UNTRUSTWORTHY USERS TO RANK THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF NEWS FACEBOOK USERS, BY and large, are not very good at differentiating between what’s fact and what’s false. Many users will eagerly share both reliable news and the fake stuff without any hesitation. It happens because users either want the falsehoods […]
Justice Department Helped Washington State Prosecutor Target Facebook Records of Anti-Pipeline Activists
Photo: Ty Campbell via The Red Line Salish Sea JUSTICE DEPARTMENT HELPED WASHINGTON STATE PROSECUTOR TARGET FACEBOOK RECORDS OF ANTI-PIPELINE ACTIVISTS NINE MONTHS AFTER pipeline opponents in Washington state staged a protest that blocked freeway traffic, Facebook ended a protracted legal standoff with a county prosecutor, turning over detailed records on the indigenous-led group behind […]
2018: The Year of Living Dangerously
2018: The Year of Living Dangerously I’m calling 2018 “The Year of Living Dangerously.” That description might seem odd to lot of observers. Major U.S. stock indexes keep hitting new all-time highs. 2017 went down as the first calendar year in which the Dow Jones industrial average was up for all 12 months. Even in […]
