Mashable: “Twitter just struck a blow against government censorship, even if the tech giant won’t come out and say so directly. On Tuesday morning, Alec Muffett, a cybersecurity professional with a long history of working with the Tor network, announced he’d brought skills to bear at Twitter. Specifically, Muffett wrote that he’d helped the company… Continue Reading
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What I Found When I Looked for the Helpers
The Atlantic: “Even in the midst of death and divisiveness, people are working to fix different pieces of American life the pandemic broke. Pandemic coverage has continually described America’s rancor and division, political ineptitude and buck passing, fury at leaders and fellow citizens for restricting too much or not enough, for insisting on masks or… Continue Reading
WaPo – How we verify videos out of Ukraine
“This is how journalists figure out if all those Ukraine videos are real. Visual forensics allows reporters to pinpoint the location of images emerging from the conflict and verify their authenticity…While some newsrooms have their own teams (The Post has seven people doing this work, and the Times has a team of 17), there’s also… Continue Reading
Surgeon general calls on Big Tech to turn over Covid-19 misinformation data
The New York Times: “President Biden’s surgeon general on Thursday used his first formal advisory to the United States to deliver a broadside against tech and social media companies, which he accused of not doing enough to stop the spread of dangerous health misinformation — especially about Covid-19. The official, Dr. Vivek Murthy, declared such… Continue Reading
Using News and Social Media for Finding Financial Assets – 5 Top Tips
Via LLRX – Using News and Social Media for Finding Financial Assets – 5 Top Tips – Private investigator Marcy Phelps searches social media and online news for clients on a daily basis and recommends specific sources as useful for asset investigations. Phelps notes that not everything will show up in public records, and news… Continue Reading
EU’s ban on Russia Today and Sputnik is now in effect
TechCrunch: “The EU’s ban on Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik has just gone into effect after the bloc formally adopted the sanctions, meaning media regulators are now expected to monitor compliance, with the risk of fines being levied by national watchdogs across the bloc for any platforms found continuing to distribute the Kremlin-linked media firms’… Continue Reading
How to avoid sharing bad information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
MIT Technology Review: “The fast-paced online coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Wednesday followed a pattern that’s become familiar in other recent crises that have unfolded around the world. Photos, videos, and other information are posted and reshared across platforms much faster than they can be verified. The result is that falsehoods are… Continue Reading
Twitter to Label Tweets Linking to Russian State Media
Security Week: “Twitter will put warnings on tweets sharing links to Russian state-affiliated media, the platform said Monday, as Kremlin-tied outlets are accused of spreading misinformation on Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Pressure is on social media giants to squelch misleading or false information about the attack, which has drawn fierce international condemnation. Kremlin-run media outlets… Continue Reading
A guide to writing accessible image captions
Mashable – Make it easier for everyone to enjoy your pretty Instagram posts and funny tweets: “Making your social media profiles accessible to the majority of people stumbling across your posts is an intentional practice. From Instagram and Twitter photo descriptions to captioning audio on your TikTok videos, you have to consciously add these accessibility… Continue Reading
Fact checking the Russian attack on Ukraine
Mashable: “Even if you think you’re following reports from reputable sources, it’s still important to do your due diligence and fact check it yourself. Here are some pointers on how to do that: Investigative news site Bellingcat has created a frequently updated database of footage from Russia and Ukraine that is false, which they debunk.… Continue Reading
How to avoid falling for and spreading misinformation about Ukraine
Washington Post: “Anyone with a phone and an Internet connection is able to watch the war in Ukraine unfold live online, or at least some version of it. Across social media, posts are flying up faster than most fact-checkers and moderators can handle, and they’re an unpredictable mix of true, fake, out of context and… Continue Reading
How Biden defeated Putin’s Ukraine disinformation campaign
Quartz: “…As Putin and his allies have claimed, falsely, that Ukraine is committing genocide, controlled by Nazis, developing nuclear weapons, or launching attacks on pro-Russian civilians, the US has worked to “prebunk” these narratives, Harding says, arguing that “the final accounting is going to show that the strategy made Russia’s life much harder.” Our theory… Continue Reading
