Month: January 2020
The UK Election Showed Just How Unreliable Facebook’s Security System For Elections Really Is
Jacob King – Pa Images / Getty Images The Memorial Hall polling station in the village of Bishop’s Itchington, Warwickshire, as voters go to the polls in the general election. On Dec. 10, just two days before the United Kingdom went to the polls, some 74,000 political advertisements vanished from…
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Browsers Are Fixing the Internet’s Most Annoying Problem
After years of invasive pop-ups asking for notification permission, Chrome and Firefox have finally taken action. Source
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How to Watch the Last Democratic Debate Before the Iowa Caucuses
With just six candidates taking the stage, the DNC’s seventh primary debate is the smallest one yet. Source
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Get Ready for More Phones With No Buttons
As we inch closer to phones with all-screen designs, physical buttons are on the chopping block. Source
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Facebook Will Call Some Media “State Controlled.” Al Jazeera Said That’s “Dangerous.”
Government-funded news organizations worried they could be damaged by Facebook’s imminent plan to label content from state-controlled news organizations are furious at a process they say is opaque and irresponsible. When Facebook announced plans to apply such labels in October, it provided no information about the criteria it would use…
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Disinformation For Hire: How A New Breed Of PR Firms Is Selling Lies Online
Ben Kothe / BuzzFeed News; Getty Images This story was reported in partnership with the Reporter, an investigative news site in Taiwan. Peng Kuan Chin pulled out his phone, eager to show the future of online manipulation. Unseen servers began crawling the web for Chinese articles and posts. The system…
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