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Zuckerberg’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Zuckerberg’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Damning whistleblower testimony followed by an epic outage, all along with a multibillion-dollar loss: it’s almost enough to make me feel a bit sorry for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Almost. First the outage: outages are the spectre that haunts every online company. Internet downtime is effectively a “closed” sign

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Has the Time Come to Regulate Social Media?

Has the Time Come to Regulate Social Media?

Karl D. Stephan mercatornet.com Karl D. Stephan received the B. S. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1976. Following a year of graduate study at Cornell, he received the Master of Engineering degree in 1977 and was employed by Motorola, Inc. and Scientific-Atlanta as an RF

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Xinjiang: An Unprecedented State of Terror

Xinjiang: An Unprecedented State of Terror

Ruth Ingram mercatornet.com Ruth Ingram is a researcher who has written extensively for the Central Asia-Caucasus publication, Institute of War and Peace Reporting, the Guardian Weekly newspaper, The Diplomat, and other publications. An Orwellian surveillance that surpasses even the evils of North Korea and the Khmer Rouge’s Cambodia

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Germany Wants to Force Gab to Censor, It’s Not Happening

Germany Wants to Force Gab to Censor, It’s Not Happening

Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com Only Jesus Saves This week we received a huge packet of documents with fines and legal threats from the nation state of Germany. Gab is refusing, and has refused for many years, to comply with the German Network Enforcement Act. Gab is a US company

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Op-Ed: Protecting Your Data during COVID-19

Op-Ed: Protecting Your Data during COVID-19

Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities As I write this column I am thinking about the extra weeks of economic hardship still lying ahead for many Kiwi businesses in the Auckland region during Level 3 and Level 2 in the rest of

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How Do Nuclear-Powered Submarines Work? A Nuclear Scientist Explains

How Do Nuclear-Powered Submarines Work? A Nuclear Scientist Explains

AJ Mitchell Australian National University Born and raised in Northern Ireland, AJ Mitchell attended Queen’s University Belfast as an undergraduate studying Mathematics and Physics. Following an internship at ETH Zurich, He decided to pursue a career in academic research. The Australian government has just declared an historic defence agreement

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‘What Is My IP Address?’ Explaining One of the World’s Most Googled Questions

‘What Is My IP Address?’ Explaining One of the World’s Most Googled Questions

Paul Haskell-Dowland Edith Cowan University Bogdan Ghita University of Plymouth Associate Professor Paul Haskell-Dowland is the Associate Dean for Computing and Security in the School of Science at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. Bogdan Ghita is the Associate dean (International), Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Plymouth What is

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‘Anorexia Coach’: Sexual Predators Online Are Targeting Teens Wanting to Lose Weight. Platforms Are Looking the Other Way

Suku Sukunesan Swinburne University of Technology Dr Sukunesan is a Senior Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology within the Information Systems Department. He is an experienced researcher with a keen interest in social media applications, social network analysis and health innovation. There’s no shortage of people online looking to

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What Are Dark Patterns? An Online Media Expert Explains

What Are Dark Patterns? An Online Media Expert Explains

Jasmine McNealy University of Florida Jasmine E. McNealy is an associate professor in the Department of Media Production, Management & Technology, in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida, where she studies information, communication, and technology with a view toward influencing law and policy. Dark patterns

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Thank You for Liking

Thank You for Liking

One of the most damning indictments of the tobacco industry is that it for a long time it knew how harmful its products were – and lied about it. Which makes Facebook the New Big Tobacco. Because internal documents show that Facebook is well aware of how toxic its Instagram platform

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Somehow They Still Can’t Understand Why Nobody Trusts the System

Simon Black sovereignman.com Simon Black, as James Hickman is more commonly known, is the Founder of Sovereign Man. He is an international investor, entrepreneur, and a free man. His daily e-letter, Notes from the Field, draws on his life, business and travel experiences to help readers gain more freedom,

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