A Goodreads librarian went rogue, edited the site to expose "censorship in favor of Trump fascism." To hear them tell it, Goodreads was removing criticism of Trump’s book from the site.
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Rogue Goodreads Librarian Edits Site to Expose 'Censorship in Favor of Trump Fascism’
“When we let powerful people’s books be protected from criticism, we give up the right to hold power accountable.”
New from 404 Media: ICE is using a university building as a deportation office. The university is basically powerless. We got audio from a meeting between students and administrators about it. "We inherited those tenants, we didn’t invite them to be in that building."
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ICE Is Using a University Building as a Deportation Office and the University Says It Can't Do Anything About It
The Milwaukee School of Engineering is largely powerless to kick ICE out of a building it wanted to turn into a new academic center, according to a...
A new lawsuit accuses a16z of turning Roblox into a school shooter's playground
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Lawsuit Accuses a16z of Turning Roblox Into a School Shooter's Playground
The family of a dead teen girl said she'd still be alive if Roblox did a better job moderating its platform.
New: Con Edison, the energy company serving New York City, refuses to say how ICE gets its customers' data. I looked through a bunch of cases where both HSI/ICE and FBI get or 'search' through Con Edison data. Con Edison won't even say if they require a warrant
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Con Edison Refuses to Say How ICE Gets Its Customers’ Data
Court records show Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a part of ICE, and the FBI obtained Con Edison user data. The utility provider refuses t...
We tested out Zenni's anti-facial recognition glasses coating. It actually (kinda, technically) works? "ID Guard" adds a pink sheen to the surface of the glasses that reflects the infrared light used by some facial recognition cameras. So, only threats like that
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Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia.
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Written “in the manner of a good crime thriller” (The Wall Street Journal), the inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation eve...
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So an a16z-backed startup called Doublespeed promises clients can “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.” It's basically a spam operation then
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a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.
New from 404 Media: DHS is trying to unmask an anonymous Instagram/Facebook account that tracks ICE activity by claiming the accounts are importing merchandise. Zero evidence for that, lawyers say demand is wildly out of scope. It's a tactic to unmask critics
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DHS Tries To Unmask Ice Spotting Instagram Account by Claiming It Imports Merchandise
There is no evidence the Instagram and Facebook account, called Montcowatch, sells anything. Lawyers from the ACLU say the move is "wildly outside ...
"Hold onto your butts, because one day you might be breathing through them."
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Breathing Through Our Butts Declared Safe After First Human Trial
The first application of enteral ventilation—aka breathing through the bum—to humans proved the technique is safe.
It's search engines and social media that are making it crazy easy for people to find the tools to produce deepfake harassment tools
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New Research Shows Deepfake Harassment Tools Spread on Social Media and Search Engines
An analysis of how tools to make non-consensual sexually explicit deepfakes spread online, from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, shows X and s...