Facebook Policing Personal Messages Won’t Really Save Children from Abuse, But It WILL Bring Us Closer to 1984

Facebook Policing Personal Messages Won’t Really Save Children from Abuse, But It WILL Bring Us Closer to 1984

Facebook’s “rebel shareholders” want to review potential risks that a new end-to-end encryption service could allow for increased exploitation of children by sexual predators – but why wait until now to kick up a fuss? We collectively scratch our heads today in bewilderment at how someone in Victorian times could walk into a chemist and…

This Is Why You Can’t Trust The Fact Checkers

This Is Why You Can’t Trust The Fact Checkers

For the last eight years I have worked as a writer, researcher, and investigative reporter for many well-known American independent media outlets. I have spent my time investigating digital surveillance technology, attacks on indigenous communities, and the overall growth of the government and corporate power. As someone working in this field, writing about topics which…

We Cannot Allow Facebook and Twitter to Use COVID-19 to Launch Their Own Coup D’état

We Cannot Allow Facebook and Twitter to Use COVID-19 to Launch Their Own Coup D’état

World leaders are having their social media posts deleted under the guise of the pandemic, but is this just the beginning of socially destructive subterfuge? A few days ago, Facebook and Twitter decided to delete contributions from two world leaders. The first was Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who shared a video and aired his view…