Amnesty reveals gigantic Mexican Twitter troll-bot mob that threatens...
Amnesty International has published a damning report on the organized networks of Mexican Twitter trolls and botmasters for hire who orchestrate massive harassment campaigns against investigative...
View ArticleEx-Fox News host: when I filed a sexual harassment claim against Ailes, the...
In a federal complaint against Fox News, former Outnumbered host Andrea Tantaros claims that after she filed a sexual harassment claim against the former CEO Roger Ailes, Fox News contracted with a...
View ArticleA vending machine in a Moscow shopping mall sells Instagram likes
Journalist Alexey Kovalev is in Moscow, whence tweeted this picture of "a vending machine in a mall for buying Likes for your Instagram pics." He added, "On offer: print your Insta pics, buy...
View ArticleThai police arrest three Chinese nationals in raid on social media "like"-farm
Immigration police arrested three Chinese nationals in a raid on a rented room in Tambon Ban Mai Nongsai, charging them with work-permit violations and for "online trading of contraband goods." The...
View ArticleLeaked memo details Koch Bros' astroturf strategy to lower US corporate tax rate
A strategy memo circulated around the time of a Koch network retreat sets out a five-part plan to pressure the Trump regime to lower corporate taxes and pass other policies favorable to corporate...
View ArticleAnalysis of 22 million FCC comments show that humans love Net Neutrality and...
Data analysis company Gravwell ingested 22,000,000 comments sent to the FCC's docket on Net Neutrality and posted their preliminary findings, which are that the majority of comments came from bots,...
View ArticleThe "mom and pop" business owner who loves Trump's tax plan is a lobbyist for...
"Tax Reform for America" is a US Chamber of Commerce-backed astroturf group that features testimonials from "mom and pop" business owners who back Trump's tax plan, which will overwhelmingly benefit...
View ArticleThe secretive wealthy family behind the opioid epidemic are using the same...
The Sackler Family are best known for philanthropy, but their real legacy is the opioid epidemic, which they engineered through their family firm, Purdue Pharmaceutical, which used a variety of front...
View ArticleWall Street and Trump are about to kill the CFPB, the only government agency...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (previously) is practically the only US regulator we can be proud of -- founded by Elizabeth Warren before she ran for the Senate, the CFRB is a consumer...
View ArticleCable operator Fidelity Communications admits it that secretly created the...
Isaac Protiva wanted to know who was behind the "Stop City-Funded Internet" campaign that was pouring a fortune into scuttling the plan to build a fast, efficient, low-cost city network in his...
View ArticleExiled Cambodian opposition leader sues Facebook in California over...
Cambodian dictator Hun Sen has ruled since 1998, and when an opposition leader used Facebook to challenge his election in 2013, Hun Sen teamed up with a fake news outlet called Fresh News to deploy a...
View ArticleThe independent experts who favorably evaluated Facebook's "Messenger Kids"...
When Facebook rolled out "Messenger Kids," an IM product aimed at the 6-and-up set, it trumpeted that during the product's 18-month development cycle, it had been evaluated by child development...
View ArticleLobbyists release push-poll in an effort to tank Right to Repair bills and...
The Security Innovation Center is a lobbying group backed by CompTIA, CTIA, TechNet and the Consumer Technology Association for the express purpose of fighting laws that would legalize repairing your...
View ArticleHow Russian investigative journalists working for precarious free press...
St Petersburg's Internet Research Agency -- AKA "The Troll Factory" -- is in the news since Robert Mueller indicted 13 of its employees, but it first came to public attention in 2013, when...
View ArticleIt's laughably simple to buy thousands of cheap, plausible Facebook identities
Twitter draws a lot of fire for making it easy for anyone to set up an anonymous account or a bot; the argument against this says that making it easy to be anonymous also makes it easy to be shady. By...
View ArticleTwo sitting Senators were among the people whose identities were stolen in...
Trump's FCC Chairman Ajit Pai was so determined to ram through a Net Neutrality repeal that he ignored the fact that the FCC's public comment inbox was flooded with fake comments from anti-Net...
View ArticleScott Pruitt's EPA has opened secret backchannels to the climate denial...
The Environmental Defense Fund and the Southern Environmental Law Center sued the EPA to force it to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request for access to emails to and from thinktanks...
View ArticleThere's a giant geodesic dome floored with fake grass in NYC
Josh, one of my inbox zine's readers, made this. He wrote, "For a very long time I’ve wanted to build a giant geodesic dome filled with fake grass in lower Manhattan. This August it happened." His...
View ArticleUS governmental requests for comment are routinely flooded by pro-corporate bots
Last year, the FCC was only able to ram through a repeal of Net Neutrality by refusing to reject the millions of comments sent by bots that used the stolen identities of regular internet users, dead...
View ArticleNew York Attorney General expands law-enforcement investigation into the bots...
The FCC justified its Net Neutrality-killing order by claiming that comments it received showed strong public support for dismantling the rules that stop your ISP from deciding which parts of the...
View ArticleIf you tell Facebook you're a senator looking to buy political ads, they just...
Vice decided to test out Facebook's commitment to positively identifying the people and organizations behind political ads, so they applied for clearance to buy ads in the names of ever sitting US...
View ArticleBlockbuster Gizmodo investigation reveals probable masterminds of the massive...
US government agencies can't just make up rules: they're require to show that the rules they make reflect the best evidence, and part of that is a "notice and comment" period for major policy shifts...
View ArticleHealth industry lobbyists are posing as "ordinary citizens who don't want...
Here are some "ordinary citizens" who have recently been featured in the press as people who are completely OK with the state of American healthcare and totally opposed to Medicare for All or any...
View ArticlePaying for climate change: the question isn't "How?" but "Who?"
Writing in Wired, political scientist Henry Farrell points out what should be obvious: we're going to pay for climate change (that is, either we're going to rebuild the cities smashed by weather and...
View ArticleThe only thing health insurance companies are good at is scaring us about...
In a new column in the LA Times, business columnist Michael Hiltzik makes the argument that the only thing health insurers have done with any effectiveness is scare us into thinking that the...
View ArticleAmazon pays happy warehouse workers to tweet about how happy they are...
Nelsie writes, "Twitter user tweeting about inhuman conditions at Amazon warehouses gets brigaded by tag-team of warehouse workers who are paid to tweet about working at Amazon warehouses two days of...
View ArticleLeaks reveal how creepy, cultish monopolist Intuit lobbied Congress and the...
Virtually every rich country on Earth provides pre-completed tax-returns that you can either ignore (and pay an accountant or do your own taxes), or just sign and return: after all, the government...
View ArticleBanned from Youtube, Chinese propagandists are using Pornhub to publish...
China's state disinformation campaigns against the Hong Kong protesters are unwelcome on Youtube, Twitter and Facebook, with the mainstream platforms shutting down accounts that spread propaganda...
View ArticleLeaks reveal how the "Pitbull of PR" helped Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers...
Propublica has obtained a tranche of leaked internal communications between the Sackler family's Purdue Pharma, makers of the lethal opioid Oxycontin, and Dezenhall Resources, known as "The Pitbull of...
View ArticleA vast network of shadowy news sites promote conservative talking points...
Columbia Journalism School's Tow Center has published the results of a longrunning investigation into a network of shadowy "local news" sites whose bulk content is composed of algorithmically...
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