Author: Zach_Wilson
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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Public Blast or Private Chat? Social Media Maps a Middle Way
Companies like Twitter and Facebook have begun to carve out a space for users that’s more like real life—with more options between shouts and whispers. Source
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10 Best CES 2020 Devices You Can Buy Right Now: Earbuds, E-Bikes, Toys, and More
Most of CES’s flashy tech is months, maybe years, from hitting store shelves. Here are a few devices you can order now—and some extra deals we like. Source
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Pro-Iran Sources Have Flooded Twitter With Lies — Likely To Prevent A War With The United States
In the week following the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, pro-Iranian disinformation has inundated Twitter, exaggerating the number of Americans injured by the Iranian counterattack on Jan. 8 and falsely claiming that US forces were retreating from Kuwait. These fabrications are not intended to confuse an audience in the…
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The Most Popular Facebook Content About Iran Right Now Isn’t Just Pro-Trump — It Was Posted By Him
Drew Angerer / Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks about Iran during an event to unveil significant changes to the National Environmental Policy Act in Washington, DC, Jan. 9. For people on Twitter, the six days since Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was killed in…
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