The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

Trending down: Two black former policy executives at Pinterest revealed a history of racist discrimination at the company. Here’s Russell Brandom at The Verge : Dubbed “Secondary Infektion,” the campaign spanned a number of online platforms, beginning on the Russia-based LiveJournal in 2014, and moving to Twitter and YouTube later that year.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 24, 2025

We know that China, Iran, Russia, Turkey, and North Korea are using bot networks to amplify narratives all over the world, says Ran Farhi, CEO of Xpoz , a threat detection platform that uncovers coordinated attempts to spread lies and manipulate public opinion in politics and beyond. A lie repeated often enough becomes truth.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

A country where nothing is true and everything is possible is, to be clear, looks more like Russia than the one I grew up in. Snap has a history of releasing disastrous filters. It also has a history of bragging about how it uses human curators to weed out bad stuff from Discover and other surfaces of its app. So this one hurt.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Equifax lost data from more than 100 million people (possibly working for Russia, depending on who you believe), which is certainly more information than TikTok has ever had access to. And those posts might get even wider distribution than their ads, if history is any guide. billion to fight California’s housing crisis.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

The idea that conservative voices are being censored during a time when they enjoy the broadest audience, and some of the widest support, in human history has become an article of faith for the Republican Party.). We would all benefit, I think, from having greater insight into how social networks choose what to show us in our feeds.

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The Verge

JULY 22, 2020

The discussion centered on Microsoft’s history of antitrust regulation, but Smith also brought up his concerns over how Apple runs its App Store. Democrats are worried about a potential Russia-linked effort to interfere in the election by using a Senate panel to advance smears against presidential candidate Joe Biden.

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