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Beware Of White Helmets Bearing News
Beware Of White Helmets Bearing News The celebrated White Helmets of Oscar fame appeared to have made their own feature film in Duma on the night of the alleged chemical attack… At the center of the controversy over an alleged chemical attack in the Damascus suburb of Duma on April 7 are the White Helmets, […]
Social Media Now Being Used by Police and Intelligence Agencies to Collect Biometrics
Social Media Now Being Used by Police and Intelligence Agencies to Collect Biometrics Amid the ongoing Facebook/Cambridge Analytica debacle over their general surveillance and misuse of users’ private data, there is an emerging trend that is infinitely more disturbing. The first story popped up in the UK yesterday where police admitted to using a photo […]
Fake news, algorithmic sentinels, and facts from the future
Fake news, algorithmic sentinels, and facts from the future The suggestion that social media outlets need to police so-called “fake news” rings true on its face. Who wants to read news coverage known to be false? But what rates as “fake news” will be harder to define than we think. And, putting algorithms in charge […]
RED FLAG: Homeland Security Hiring “Media Monitoring Services” to Compile Journalist and Media Influencer Database
RED FLAG: Homeland Security Hiring “Media Monitoring Services” to Compile Journalist and Media Influencer Database On April 3rd the Department of Homeland Security posted an ad to FedBizOpps.gov (Federal Business Opportunities). That is the government’s website where they post contractor work. DHS is looking for “Media Monitoring Services.” They want a database with built-in search […]
China’s ‘Social Credit System’ Sounds Pretty Dystopian, but Are We Far Behind?
China’s ‘Social Credit System’ Sounds Pretty Dystopian, but Are We Far Behind? The ACLU declared China’s system “nightmarish,” and it’s not difficult to see why. In its third season, the British science fiction TV series Black Mirror featured an episode called “Nosedive.” The episode, which was co-written by The Office actress Rashida Jones and starred Bryce Howard, depicted a society […]
Check Your Mute List On Twitter For Possible New Censorship Shenanigans
Check Your Mute List On Twitter For Possible New Censorship Shenanigans I decided a while back that I’m just going to document all the weird censorship activities that I personally encounter from giant social media corporations in order to have information available to the public so the hive mind can connect the dots on all […]
U.S. Tourists Will Be Required To Turn Over Their Social Media History
U.S. Tourists Will Be Required To Turn Over Their Social Media History The State Department will unveil new rules on Friday requiring most visitors or immigrants to the United States to turn over their recent social media histories, in accordance with one of President Trump’s key national security enhancements contained in his “extreme vetting” executive […]
Facebook Changes Privacy Tools, Allowing Users To Delete Data
Facebook Changes Privacy Tools, Allowing Users To Delete Data Responding to public and political outrage, on Wednesday morning Facebook announced a reorganization of the privacy settings that users and have long criticized as a seeming afterthought, and which will provide for better privacy data control and make it easier for users to find, download and […]
The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big Data Psy-Ops
The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big Data Psy-Ops Bryan Bedder/Getty ImagesAlexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, addressing the Concordia Summit in New York, September 19, 2016 Apparently, the age of the old-fashioned spook is in decline. What is emerging instead is an obscure world of mysterious boutique companies specializing in data analysis and online influence that contract […]
1984 is in Full Bloom
1984 IS IN FULL BLOOM When I read this forwarded email from Yojimbo from HollyO this morning it seemed surreal. I swear it sounded like a scene from 1984, the movie. I can’t believe this is happening in this day and age. I think we are all being naive regarding how far our ruling class […]
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 […]
Inhuman: What The Establishment’s Bot Hysteria Reveals About Their View Of The Masses
Inhuman: What The Establishment’s Bot Hysteria Reveals About Their View Of The Masses The only apparatus that could hope to match the soullessness of the psychopaths that run our planet is manifested in the rise of artificial intelligence, paired with robots, which press reports indicate will replace vast sections of the beleaguered human workforce within […]
For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned.
For Two Months, I Got My News From Print Newspapers. Here’s What I Learned. I tried to skip digital news for a while. My old-school experiment led to three main conclusions Photo: Doug Chayka/The New York Times I first got news of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, via an alert on my watch. Even though I […]
How China’s Social Credit Score Will Shape the “Perfect” Citizen
How China’s Social Credit Score Will Shape the “Perfect” Citizen If you have too much debt and bad credit, it may be tough to get credit cards and loans. The idea is that people less likely to pay pack lenders get less credit. Well imagine if there was a social credit system. But it was the government that used it to decide […]
Social Media Censorship Is Vastly More Dangerous Than The Censored Material
Social Media Censorship Is Vastly More Dangerous Than The Censored Material US oligarchs: Russia hacked our election. Public: Uh oh! What should we do about it? US oligarchs: Greatly inflate the military budget, sanction US rivals, and censor dissenting opinions. Public: Umm… aren’t those things you’ve always wanted to do anyway? US oligarchs: Hush. I know […]
