Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Saturday, April 28, 2018

MSNBC's Joy Reid apologizes for insensitive blog posts from the past, while also not taking full responsibility.

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Courtesy Raw Story :   Calling her comments “despicable and wrong,” Reid copped to writing some of the offense comments, but said she tr...
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Thursday, April 12, 2018

One of the oldest white supremacist sites on the internet is going broke. I know, sad right?

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Courtesy of The Daily Beast :   Stormfront.org has been an internet hate hub since it launched in 1996. Its owner, former Ku Klux Klan ...
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Friday, March 30, 2018

Ecuador cut off Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's internet, because that is how you punish petulant teenagers.

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Courtesy of The Guardian :   Ecuador has cut Julian Assange’s communications with the outside world from its London embassy, where the f...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2018

The Russians also infiltrated Reddit, one of the most popular websites on the internet.

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Courtesy of the Daily Beast :   Reddit admitted it has “found and removed a few hundred accounts” associated with Russian propaganda, on...
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Monday, February 19, 2018

How the take down of Al Franken was orchestrated by the Right Wing and supported by Russian Twitter bots.

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Courtesy of Newsweek: While everyone has been focused on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election to support Donald Trump, the...
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

One of the world's top advertisers is threatening to take their ads offline if digital platforms do not do something about the fake news and extremism on their sites.

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Courtesy of CNN :   Unilever is threatening to pull its advertising from digital platforms that it says have become a "swamp" ...
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Thursday, February 08, 2018

Right Wingers and Trump supporters are overwhelmingly the largest consumers of fake news on the internet.

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Courtesy of Newsweek :   Fake news published in the U.S. was overwhelmingly consumed and shared by right-wing social media users, a new ...
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018

The Senate has the 30 sponsors it needs to move a bill to the floor to reverse the FCC's decision to repeal net neutrality.

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 Courtesy of The Hill :   A Senate bill that would reverse the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to repeal net neutrali...
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Saturday, December 16, 2017

Remember the New Mexico school shooter? Yeah, well he was a Trump supporting white supremacist.

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William Edward Atchison Courtesy of the Daily Beast :   In real life, William Edward Atchison—people called him Bill—lived in a little...
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Sunday, November 26, 2017

Something to keep in mind.

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Next time someone tries to tell you that the internet was fine without #NetNeutrality and it going away will won't change anything just...
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Friday, November 17, 2017

Trump's head of the FCC is on track to reverse the 2015 bill on net neutrality.

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Courtesy of Reuters :   The head of the Federal Communications Commission is set to unveil plans next week for a final vote to reverse a ...
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Thursday, September 28, 2017

Fake News creator, who believed he helped get Donald Trump elected, found dead in Arizona.

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Courtesy of the New York Post :   Paul Horner, who penned debunked articles about Bill Murray running for president and President Barack...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Russia, who just used Facebook to help undermine our democracy, wants to make sure they have control over it in their country. Update!

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Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times : In its latest attempt to wrest control of the internet, Russia's communications agency has threa...
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Sunday, September 03, 2017

Online advertising makes the spreading of fake news as easy as tying your shoes.

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Courtesy of Bloomberg :   The intentional spreading of false stories has been credited with swaying such monumental events as last year...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

37 pro-Trump rallies cancelled. Will be held online instead where it is much safer for the little snowflakes.

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Courtesy of Gizmodo :   Pro-Trump rallies that were originally being planned for roughly 37 locations across the US have been canceled. ...
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Tuesday, June 06, 2017

Sarah Palin pretends to be standing up for children, while using her own to hawk crappy merchandise on the internet.

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Courtesy of Buy One Get One Free Barbie's Facebook page :   The left seems to have a "War on Decency". We used to be able ...
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Tuesday, May 09, 2017

John Oliver helping us all to protect Net Neutrality.

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Courtesy of Raw Story : One of the first John Oliver segments to gain national attention came in 2014, when he called for viewers to flo...
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Saturday, April 29, 2017

Facebook admits that it was used to spread propaganda. Gee, no shit.

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Courtesy of The Guardian : Facebook has publicly acknowledged that its platform has been exploited by governments seeking to manipulate ...
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Thursday, April 27, 2017

Google reveals new tools for avoiding fake news.

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Courtesy of the Guardian :   Google announced its first attempt to combat the circulation of “fake news” on its search engine with new t...
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Monday, April 10, 2017

My reaction after my internet suddenly popped back on after being down or molasses slow all day yesterday.

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That feeling when you're caught daydreaming at work :) (via @UmmRKSZ ) #mediawatch pic.twitter.com/lRkTbpygfo — Media Watch (@ABCme...
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