When WhatsApp sold its giant messaging platform to Facebook for $22 billion, “I sold my users’ privacy,” one of the company’s co-founders said. WhatsApp founder
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Israeli Cyber-Election Meddling Is Its Newest Industry
Those US and British politicians who are bashing Russia for foreign “election meddling” could use a more honest set of talking points. It is Israel,
Cambridge Analytica Parent Co. Used Yemen as Test Site for Global Manipulation Tactics
Leaked documents show that Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), the parent company of the notorious Cambridge Analytica, carried out a surveillance operation embedded among local Yemeni
Social Media Choices: Leave, Migrate, or Remain?
Social media users are essentially left with three choices following the revelations that their Facebook data was being manipulated for political purposes, with each of
The Dawn of Psychographic Outcome-based Warfare
Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Israeli intelligence-surveillance-military complex – perhaps, in a dozen or more highly-secured computer systems laboratories in Tel Aviv, Herzliya,
Cambridge Analytica & The Facebook-Big Data Conspiracy
The Guardian published an exposé about how Cambridge Analytica allegedly mastered the use of social media data to give the Brexit and Trump campaigns a
The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine
There’s a new automated propaganda machine driving global politics. How it works and what it will mean for the future of democracy. “This is a
Facebook, Uber and the End of the Great American Tech Delusion
We’ve been there before, in the crash of the dot-com bubble of 2000, when we believed that downloading pop music and porn would drive the
