Social Media and Online Video Firms Are Conducting ‘Vast Surveillance’ on Users, FTC Finds
Agency accuses Meta, Google, TikTok and other companies of sharing troves of user information with third-parties.
CEOs Pay for Advanced Copies of Questions at Senate Hearings
Corporations and powerful elites facing investigations can pay lobbyists for an inside scoop, Twitter File documents show.
Moderna is Spying on You
Exclusive Moderna documents show how the vaccine maker is monitoring online discourse and partnering with an NGO with a history of censoring social media.
NewsGuard’s For-Profit Censorship Model Merges Government and Corporate Power
The anti-misinformation start-up works closely with the Defense Department, intelligence agencies and the world’s largest corporate marketing conglomerate.
A Researcher Hijacked the CIA’s Secure Contact Link for Informants Due to a Flaw in X
Kevin McSheehan discovered that the CIA’s link for informants was bugged on X, leaving the door open for a malicious actor to impersonate the agency.
Anti-War Activist Visited By CHP Officers At Home After Posting Viral Video of Embarrassing AOC Interview
An anti-war activist was visited by California Highway Patrol officers after posting video of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s bumbling comments on Israel-Palestine. The action, which AOC denies triggering, was initiated by a call to US Capitol Police.
Twitter Spreads Paid US Gov’t Propaganda While Falsely Claiming It Bans State Media Ads (VIDEO)
Twitter says it bans ads from state-affiliated media outlets. However, US government propaganda organs like the Voice of America’s VOA Persian pay the social media corporation huge sums of money to spread disinformation against Iran and other foreign adversaries.
Twitter Faces FTC Probe, Likely Fine Over Use of Phone Numbers For Ads
Twitter’s use of the data for advertising purposes was discovered in 2019.
This Tweet Crashes Twitter on iPhones
Do this at your own risk, and be mindful of the risk to others.
Under US pressure, social media companies censor critical content and suspend Venezuelan, Iranian, and Syrian accounts
As the US escalates its hybrid wars, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are suspending accounts and censoring content that conflicts with Washington’s pro-war narrative. The Grayzone spoke to several people silenced in these social media purges.
Social Media and Social Control: How Silicon Valley Serves the US State Department
Facebook isn’t the only Silicon Valley firm with partisan oversight of what we see: the bipartisan billionaire class and their security state have partnered with tech firms since the dawn of the internet to control the parameters of users’ thinking.
Senate Report on Russian Interference Was Written By Disinformation Warriors Behind Alabama ‘False Flag Operation’
Hailed by Congress and the media as defenders of democracy, high-tech Russiagate hustlers Jonathon Morgan and Ryan Fox have been exposed for waging “an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation” to swing the 2017 Alabama senate race.
The Only ‘Russian Bots’ To Meddle In US Elections Belonged To Democrat-Linked ‘Experts’
US cyber-security experts have blamed Russia for meddling in American elections since 2016. Now it has emerged that authors of a Senate report on ‘Russian’ meddling actually ran a “false flag” meddling operation themselves.
Democratic Operative Who Bragged About Russian Bot ‘False Flag’ Issues Contradiction-Filled Denial
The Democratic operative who boasted about orchestrating a “false flag” operation that used fake Russian bots to swing a US Senate race has issued a farcical denial in which he backpedals on his own publicly available statements.
200+ Palestinians Killed Since March… and IDF Alerts PETA About Plight of Tortoise
Having killed more than 200 Palestinians since March — including children, journalists, medics, and cripples — the IDF has apparently decided to show its more humane side, alerting advocacy groups to the plight of a lowly tortoise nearly murdered by Hamas “arson balloons.”