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WhatsApp Founder Admits to Selling Users’ Privacy to Facebook

September 29, 2018

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 Mike Acton has opened up about some of …

Israeli Cyber-Election Meddling Is Its Newest Industry

July 14, 2018

Opinion

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, not Russia, China, or North Korea, that hosts a blo…

Cambridge Analytica Parent Co. Used Yemen as Test Site for Global Manipulation Tactics

July 9, 2018

Opinion

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 populat…

Social Media Choices: Leave, Migrate, or Remain?

May 5, 2018

Opinion

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 them having their own pros and …

The Dawn of Psychographic Outcome-based Warfare

March 27, 2018

Opinion

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, Ramat Gan, and …

Cambridge Analytica & The Facebook-Big Data Conspiracy

March 27, 2018

Opinion

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 crucial edge in 2016. The UK news outlet release…

The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine

March 24, 2018

Opinion

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 propaganda machine. It’s targeting people individually to…

Facebook, Uber and the End of the Great American Tech Delusion

March 23, 2018

Opinion

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 economy of the future. We’ve done it again: We made another te…