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The Military Origins of Facebook Part 1
[Media] [Politics] The Military Origins of Facebook by Whitney Webb Posted June 20, 2021 Facebook’s growing role in the ever-expanding surveillance and “pre-crime” apparatus of the national security state demands new scrutiny of the company’s origins and its products...
Your Car’s Location Information Is Up For Grabs
[Media] [Social] Your Car’s Location Information Is Up For Grabs by Emiliano Falcon-Morano Posted June 19, 2021 Recent reporting from Vice News shows that a surveillance company and U.S. military contractor, the Ulysses Group, is openly advertising a product the...
U.S. Media Offers Negative Picture Of COVID-19 Pandemic, Study Finds
[Media] [Social] U.S. Media Offers Negative Picture Of COVID-19 Pandemic, Study Finds by Jane Clayson and Serena McMahon Posted June 18, 2021 Does the news seem overwhelmingly negative these days? Dartmouth College economics professor Bruce Sacerdote thought so. He...
Video: Roger Waters Tells “Little Prick” Zuckerberg To “F*** Off” Following Request To Use Iconic Pink Floyd Song For Ad
[Media] Video: Roger Waters Tells “Little Prick” Zuckerberg To “F*** Off” Following Request To Use Iconic Pink Floyd Song For Ad by Steve Watson Posted June 15, 2021 Pink Floyd song writer Roger Waters slammed Mark Zuckerberg during a press conference recently,...
The Journalist and the Whistleblower
[Media] The Journalist and the Whistleblower by James Risen Posted June 14, 2021 As the government attacks press freedom, reporters must consider their responsibility to sources — and each other. It is the sources who have faced criminal charges, not the reporters who...
How Anonymous is DuckDuckGo?
[Media] How Anonymous is DuckDuckGo? by Brad Richardson Posted June 6, 2021 DuckDuckGo is an internet search engine that prioritizes the privacy of the people who use it to find results to their online queries. One of the biggest selling points of this private engine...
Tenth Circuit Misses Opportunity to Affirm the First Amendment Right to Record the Police
[Justice] [Media] Tenth Circuit Misses Opportunity to Affirm the First Amendment Right to Record the Police By Sophia Cope and Adam Schwartz Posted June 5, 2021 We are disappointed that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit this week dodged a critical...
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
[Media] [Social] [Community] How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism by Cory Doctorow Posted June 3, 2021 Surveillance capitalism is everywhere. But it’s not the result of some wrong turn or a rogue abuse of corporate power — it’s the system working as intended. This...
Amazon’s Twitter Army Was Handpicked for “Great Sense of Humor,” Leaked Document Reveals
[Media] Amazon’s Twitter Army Was Handpicked for “Great Sense of Humor,” Leaked Document Reveals by Ken Klippenstein Posted May 27, 2021 Amazon’s small Twitter army of “ambassadors” was quietly conceived in 2018 under the codename “Veritas,” which sought to train and...
Study: U.S. Media’s Covid Coverage Slants Heavily Negative
[Media] Study: U.S. Media's Covid Coverage Slants Heavily Negative by Brian McGlinchey Posted May 26, 2021 Mainstream outlets stoke fear while shielding us from encouraging facts. If you’ve felt the media has heavily emphasized bad news throughout the Covid-19...
Project Veritas releases internal Facebook documents detailing campaign to censor vaccine concerns on platform
[Social] [Media] Project Veritas releases internal Facebook documents detailing campaign to censor vaccine concerns on platform by Mia Cathell Posted May 25, 2021 Project Veritas has obtained internal documents from Facebook whistleblowers detailing the social media...
The hidden fingerprint inside your photos
[Media] [Justice] The hidden fingerprint inside your photos By Jerone Andrews Posted May 24, 2021 When you take a photo, your smartphone or digital camera stores "metadata" within the image file. This automatically and parasitically burrows itself into every photo you...
This Surveillance Company Claims It Can Track Nearly Any Car in Real-Time
[Justice] [Media] This Surveillance Company Claims It Can Track Nearly Any Car in Real-Time by Lucas Ropek Posted May 17, 2021 A defense contractor that claims to have access to motor vehicle location data on a global scale says it wants to use that data to help U.S....
12 Useful Ways to Reuse an Old Router (Don’t Throw It Away!)
[Media] 12 Useful Ways to Reuse an Old Router (Don't Throw It Away!) By Christian Cawley Posted May 15, 2021 Old router cluttering up your drawers? Here's how to repurpose your old router and save some money instead of throwing it away! Reckon it's time for a new...
Digital Trails: How the FBI Identifies, Tracks and Rounds Up Dissidents
[Community] [Justice] [Media] Digital Trails: How the FBI Identifies, Tracks and Rounds Up Dissidents by Nisha Whitehead and John Whitehead Posted May 13, 2021 The government’s efforts to round up those who took part in the Capitol riots shows exactly how vulnerable...
Bodies in Seats, The Secret Lives of Facebook Contractors
[Media] [Social] Bodies in Seats, The Secret Lives of Facebook Contractors By Casey Newton Posted May 10, 2021 Three former moderators for Facebook in North America agreed to break their nondisclosure agreements. In February, I wrote about the secret lives of Facebook...
Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, 14 Eyes – Explained
[Media] [Social] [Political] Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, 14 Eyes – Explained by Sven Taylor Posted May 8, 2021 As awareness of global surveillance grows, more people are looking for information about the Five Eyes, Nine Eyes, and 14 Eyes surveillance alliances. This guide...
The Rights of the Naturally Immune
[Social] [Political] [Media] The Rights of the Naturally Immune by Thomas Harrington Posted May 7, 2021 There is an important issue that, in the midst of all the talk of vaccines, has not gotten nearly the attention it deserves: the civil rights of those who have...
Inside New York City’s Partnership With Israeli iPhone Hacking Company Cellebrite
[Justice] [Media] Inside New York City’s Partnership With Israeli iPhone Hacking Company Cellebrite by Michael Hayes Posted May 6, 2021 In June 2019, the secretive Israeli digital forensics firm Cellebrite, which works with law enforcement to unlock cell phones,...
The Inversion
[Politics] [Social] [Media] The Inversion by Robert Gore Posted May 2, 2021 If it seems like the world has turned upside down it’s because it has. Right is wrong and wrong is right. Truth is lies and lies are truth. Knowledge is ignorance and ignorance is knowledge....
Google and Palantir Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
[Media] [Social] Google and Palantir Are Two Sides of the Same Coin by Will Oremus Posted April 29, 2021 If you know the name Palantir, you probably know that it’s associated with Peter Thiel, that it contracts with defense and law enforcement agencies, and that it...
We Mapped How the Coronavirus Is Driving New Surveillance Programs Around the World
[Media] [Social] We Mapped How the Coronavirus Is Driving New Surveillance Programs Around the World by Dave Gershgorn Posted April 27, 2021 An attempt to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic, at least 30 governments around the world have instituted temporary or...
COVID Propaganda Roundup: FBI Announces Plan to Prosecute Americans Using Fake ‘Vaccine Certificates’
[Media] [Social] [Justice] COVID Propaganda Roundup: FBI Announces Plan to Prosecute Americans Using Fake ‘Vaccine Certificates’ By Ben Bartee Posted April 27, 2021 The corporate press, in its ongoing propaganda campaign to vaccinate the entire fauna of the planet...
India Targets Climate Activists With the Help of Big Tech
[Justice] [Media] [Social] India Targets Climate Activists With the Help of Big Tech by Naomi Klein Posted April 26, 2021 Tech giants like Google and Facebook appear to be aiding and abetting a vicious government campaign against Indian climate activists. The bank of...
Find Out What Google and Facebook Know About You
[Media] [Social] Find Out What Google and Facebook Know About You by Baratunde Thurston Posted April 23, 2021 Hackers obtained the Social Security numbers of more than 145 million Americans. Paid political chaos monkeys allegedly harvested data from at least 87...
Techno-Censorship: The Slippery Slope from Censoring ‘Disinformation’ to Silencing Truth
[Social] [Media] Techno-Censorship: The Slippery Slope from Censoring ‘Disinformation’ to Silencing Truth By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Posted April 22, 2021 “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to...
Conspiracy Theories Are Caused By Government Secrecy
[Political] [Social] [Media] Conspiracy Theories Are Caused By Government Secrecy by Caitlin Johnstone Posted April 14, 2021 The DC Circuit has ruled that the CIA is under no obligation to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests pertaining to its involvement...
Opening the CIA’s Can of Worms
[Media] [Political] Opening the CIA’s Can of Worms by Edward Curtin Posted April 13, 2021 “The CIA and the media are part of the same criminal conspiracy,” wrote Douglas Valentine in his important book, The CIA As Organized Crime. This is true. The corporate...
GrayKey iPhone unlocker poses serious security concerns
[Media] GrayKey iPhone unlocker poses serious security concerns by Thomas Reed Posted April 10, 2021 Ever since the case of the San Bernadino shooter pitted Apple against the FBI over the unlocking of an iPhone, opinions have been split on providing backdoor access to...
Here’s How Easy It Is for Cops to Get Your Facebook Data
[Justice] [Media] Here’s How Easy It Is for Cops to Get Your Facebook Data by Ella Fassler Posted April 8, 2021 Police can access everything from “pokes” to private Messenger data — and increasingly do. Although this sort of collaboration between Facebook and law...
Pipeline Company Issues Broad Subpoena to News Site That Covered Protests Against It
[Media] [Justice] Pipeline Company Issues Broad Subpoena to News Site That Covered Protests Against It by Alleen Brown and Sam Richards Posted April 6, 2021 Last week, members of the nonprofit news organization Unicorn Riot received a subpoena from the pipeline giant...
We Mapped How the Coronavirus Is Driving New Surveillance Programs Around the World
[Social] [Political] [Media] We Mapped How the Coronavirus Is Driving New Surveillance Programs Around the World by Dave Gershgorn Posted April 5, 2021 It’s a complex trade-off: Governments need information to create containment strategies and know where to focus...
Deepfake detectors can be defeated, computer scientists show for the first time
[Media] Deepfake detectors can be defeated, computer scientists show for the first time by University of California - San Diego Posted April 4, 2021 Systems designed to detect deepfakes --videos that manipulate real-life footage via artificial intelligence--can be...
The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows
[Media] The Journalistic Tattletale and Censorship Industry Suffers Several Well-Deserved Blows by Glenn Greenwald Posted April 3, 2021 A new and rapidly growing journalistic “beat” has arisen over the last several years that can best be described as an unholy mix of...
YouTube Financially Deplatforms Swath of Indie Media
[Economic] [Media] YouTube Financially Deplatforms Swath of Indie Media by Caitlin Johnstone Posted March 30, 2021 The Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube has demonetized numerous independent media accounts, a jarring escalation in the steadily intensifying...
How to Communicate Privately in the Age of Digital Policing
[Media] How to Communicate Privately in the Age of Digital Policing by David Koff Posted March 29, 2021 For some eye-opening statistics, check out the transparency disclosures — all linked below — from Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Microsoft, Apple, and Google....
Breaking the Chain of Obedience
[Political] [Social] Breaking the Chain of Obedience By Gary Z McGee Posted March 27, 2021 The chain of obedience has always existed. For instance, people have always been told, “because I said so,” or “because it’s the law,” or “it’s just the way it is.” These simple...
The Deep State’s Stealthy, Subversive, Silent Coup To Ensure Nothing Changes
[Justice] [Media] [Political] The Deep State’s Stealthy, Subversive, Silent Coup To Ensure Nothing Changes by John W. Whitehead Posted March 25, 2021 The police have been transformed into extensions of the military while the nation itself has been transformed into a...
Digital Trails: How the FBI Is Identifying, Tracking and Rounding Up Dissidents
[Justice] [Social] [Political] [Media] Digital Trails: How the FBI Is Identifying, Tracking and Rounding Up Dissidents By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Posted March 22, 2021 Databit by databit, we are building our own electronic concentration camps. With...
Overcoming Big Brother’s Four-fold Ministry of Fail
[Media] [Policial] [Social] Overcoming Big Brother’s Four-fold Ministry of Fail By Gary Z McGee Posted March 20, 2021 Just think about the bought and paid for media outlets (Fox News, CNN). How the truth is twisted by prostitute reporters who are paid off by...
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Mainstream American liberals think they’re clear-eyed because they can see the propaganda strings being pulled by Fox and Donald Trump, and mainstream American conservatives think they’re clear-eyed because they can see the propaganda strings being pulled by MSNBC and the Democrats, but the propaganda strings on both trace back to the same puppet master. And seeing that is just the beginning.
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