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How Social Networks Became a ‘Subsidiary’ of the FBI and CIA
The Twitter Files have lifted the lid on a secret alliance between Silicon Valley, intelligence agencies and the political establishment The US Congress last tried to grapple with what the country’s...
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Congress Might Want a TikTok Ban, but Their Questions Suggest Going Even Further
What if the United States government banned every single social media app? Not just TikTok. All of them. Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter–sayonara. It may sound ludicrous, but if you apply the logic behind...
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Snowden Warns Today’s Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like ‘Child’s...
With this week marking 10 years since whistleblower Edward Snowden disclosed information to journalists about widespread government spying by United States and British agencies, the former National...
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To Build a Movement For Democracy, We Have To Win the Internet
Looking towards the 2024 presidential election, we must face the real possibility that we may be headed into an electoral autocracy. For those of us who have experienced repression and violence at the...
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The Censors Down Under: The ACMA Gambit on Misinformation and Disinformation
In January 2010, the then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, doing what she does best, grasped a platitude and ran with it in launching, of all things, an institution called the Newseum....
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Meet The Left Youtubers Blowing Up the Alt-Right Pipeline
If you are worried about whether the kids are alright, you should be. The Right has inundated social media with accessible misinformation, to put it charitably — and social media is exactly where teens...
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To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation
“If you’ve never tried to organize a movement without the internet, I’m here to tell you, it’s really hard. We need to seize the means of computation, because while the internet isn’t the most...
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The Refusal
“Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible.” — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man.1 Internet sobriety is what I...
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In the Shadow of Silicon Valley
Seeing cars with no human inside move through San Francisco’s streets is eerie enough as a pedestrian, but when I’m on my bicycle I often find myself riding alongside them, and from that vantage point...
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How to Take Back the Internet
Platforms that once represented a promise of freedom are now monopolies based on data extraction and surveillance. Users who joined social media to stay in touch with their friends find themselves...
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AI Chatbots: Hype Meets Reality
Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere. Companies use powerful AI chatbots on their webpages or phone systems to handle customer questions. Newsrooms and magazines use them to write...
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