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DARPA Releases BAA for Disinformation Campaign Prevention Effort | Executive Gov
by Brenda Marie Rivers
November 5, 2020
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has issued a broad agency announcement to identify potential sources of technologies and…
Threats, Lies and Videotape: Prigozhin’s Long-Running War on Free Media | bellingcat
by Bellingcat Investigation Team
September 4, 2020
On 21 May 2019, a team of three CNN journalists and a supporting crew of five landed in Bangui, the…
Opinion | It’s official: In Egypt, you can now get 15 years in jail for a tweet | The Washington Post
by Elisa Massimino and Neil Hicks
September 3, 2020
In the six years since Abdel Fatah al-Sissi assumed the presidency in Egypt, the country has devolved into the deepest human…
Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past | AlterNet
by Catherine Stinson
July 6, 2020
‘Phrenology’ has an old-fashioned ring to it. It sounds like it belongs in a history book, filed somewhere between bloodletting…
We Chat, They Watch: How International Users Unwittingly Build up WeChat’s Chinese Censorship Apparatus | The Citizen Lab
by Jeffrey Knockel, Christopher Parsons, Lotus Ruan, Ruohan Xiong, Jedidiah Crandall, and Ron Deibert
July 2, 2020
A significant body of research over the past decade has shown how online platforms in China are routinely censored to…
Risks with coronavirus tracing apps go beyond privacy | Los Angeles Times
by Woodrow Hartzog
May 12, 2020
Last week, the world got a preview of how Google and Apple’s contact tracing project might look and function. Some…
The tech ‘solutions’ for coronavirus take the surveillance state to the next level | The Guardian
by Evgeny Morozov
April 15, 2020
In a matter of weeks, coronavirus has shuttered the global economy and placed capitalism in intensive care. Many thinkers have…
Conservative News Sites Track You Lots More Than Left-Leaning Ones | WIRED
by Andy Greenberg
February 11, 2020
In an age of hyper-partisanship, Americans increasingly get their news from sites that align with their political beliefs. But more…
As Virus Spreads, Anger Floods Chinese Social Media | The New York Times
by Raymond Zhong
January 27, 2020
SHANGHAI — Recently, someone following the coronavirus crisis through China’s official news media would see lots of footage, often set…