Author: Zach_Wilson
“I Found Election Interference And No One Cared”: One US Veteran’s Fight To Protect His Compatriots Online
Holly Pickett for BuzzFeed News With Frosting the dog keeping him company, Kristofer Goldsmith checks messages from a Facebook scammer who contacted him impersonating a fellow veteran. On Nov. 13, US Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor and diplomat George Kent appeared in front of a full gallery of press and…
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Trump Retweeted The Name Of The Alleged Whistleblower
On Friday, a few minutes before midnight in Washington, DC, President Donald Trump retweeted a message to his 68 million followers that named the alleged whistleblower. It was an escalation from the president, who has until this week refrained from publicly disclosing the name of a CIA officer that has…
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Right-Wing Publishers Have Found A Way To Post The Supposed Trump Whistleblower’s Name To Facebook
Facebook told BuzzFeed News in November that it would be removing content that featured the name of the CIA officer and former National Security Council staffer whom prominent Republicans have claimed for months is the whistleblower whose anonymous complaint sparked the president’s impeachment. Except the name is still all over…
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The Rise — And Rise — Of Mass Surveillance
Giulia Marchi/Bloomberg via Getty Images A police officer walks past surveillance cameras mounted on posts at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. We live in a world where school cameras monitor children’s emotions, countries collect people’s DNA en masse, and no digital communication seems truly private. In response, we use encrypted chat…
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Twitter And Facebook’s Race To The Bottom
It’s been a rough decade for Facebook and Twitter. The two entered the 2010s with so much promise. On Twitter, you could talk to just about anyone. On Facebook, you could treat yourself to endless amusement, scrolling through photos and statuses your friends probably should not have posted. Then, all…
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This Teacher Makes $40,000 A Year. This Lawyer Makes $210,000 A Year. That Explains The American Economy.
Chicago Tribune / Tribune News Service via Getty Images Thousands of Wisconsin teachers, state workers, and union members protest Gov. Walker’s legislation, in the State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, Feb. 18, 2011. At 6:30 a.m. every weekday, Ethan Floerke wakes up for his full-time job teaching language arts to 100…
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