The Verge

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Not long after it blocked Facebook , Myanmar has now ordered mobile networks and internet service providers to block Twitter and Instagram in the country as well. The southeast Asian country’s military seized power in a coup earlier this week, detaining its civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi along with other government officials.

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Vox

JANUARY 7, 2021

The largely unmoderated and right-wing social network was also involved in the planning of the insurrection , leading some to worry that Parler is a new hotbed of misinformation and extremist activity. Others claim that stricter moderation amounts to censorship and pushes users to darker corners of the internet.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

And in Las Vegas, three men were indicted “for allegedly conspiring to destroy government and private property during protests in that city on May 30, and for allegedly possessing Molotov cocktails,” the Wall Street Journal reported. Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

As Russian media attempts to cast the invasion as a response to Ukrainian aggression , on-the-ground reporting has played a crucial role in countering the propaganda, with footage coming from both professional journalists and amateurs on social media. The invasion has already reduced internet connectivity in some parts of the country.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Education has long served as the key to unlocking economic progress and social mobility. However, unequal access to digital tools has created a large gap between children who have access to fast, reliable internet connectivity in school and at home and those who don’t. We know that access to the internet is essential for learning.

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Vox

MARCH 16, 2022

The case for treating internet access as a health necessity. One of the more surprising answers to this question is one that appears to have a relatively straightforward solution: internet access. The study authors estimated that for every additional 1 percent of residents in a county who have internet access, between 2.4

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

The big social platforms, who were once loath to intervene in matters of political speech, are getting much more comfortable with the idea. On the other hand, the number of places where they can easily find new followers on the internet appears to be shrinking, and for that at least I’m grateful. India bans TikTok.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp is suing India’s government over new internet rules it claims are unconstitutional and will “severely undermine the privacy” of its users, The New York Times reports. However the Indian government argues the rules are required to track the origins of misinformation.

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Vox

JANUARY 21, 2021

The debate over deplatforming Trump has overshadowed how effective social media bans are at fighting extremism. Within days of the January 6 Capitol insurrection, outgoing President Donald Trump’s internet presence was in upheaval. . | Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images. It’s not a violation of the First Amendment.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

He threatened to “shut down” social media companies, and then personally targeted a Twitter employee to intimidate and harass him. Then, Trump quickly threatened Twitter with revenge by signing a scorched-earth executive order that would blow up the entire internet. That sounds a lot like something a government would say!

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Vox

JUNE 3, 2023

Within a matter of minutes of being posted, the realistic-looking image spread on Twitter and other social media networks after being retweeted by some popular accounts. Reporters asked government officials all the way up to the White House press office what was going on. This isn’t an entirely new problem.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

That’s because social media platforms have made it easier than ever for extremists to recruit new adherents and push their fringe beliefs into the mainstream. That public show of force was decades in the making — neo-Nazis have been using the internet since the early ’80s to recruit new followers. Samuel Corum/Getty Images.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In July, amid the rise of the buzzy audio-only social network Clubhouse, some users reported being harassed by other members. The other view, which I took, is that any social product ought to begin with moderation in mind. Of course, easy for me to say: I’m not building a social app. As always, there are tradeoffs.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Today, let’s talk about some of the less obvious ways that conservative social networks keep slipping up — and whether Truth Social, which has the backing of President Trump, can manage to avoid their fate. First, the news: Truth Social is live in the App Store, and hit No. What else is there to say about Truth Social?

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Vox

MARCH 14, 2022

Children’s online safety is the latest (and oldest) target of Washington’s internet legislation. Social media is bad for kids. At least it is according to multiple studies , former social media company employees , and the president of the United States. Paula Daniëlse/Getty Images. Now they’re trying again.

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The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2020

In this week’s episode of “should the social network leave it up or take it down?” According to a report from The Guardian , the company has removed a Facebook group with more than 1 million members after it was threatened by the Thai government for violating local laws around defaming the ruling monarch.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 8, 2021

Large chunks of the internet were offline starting shortly before 6:00 a.m. ET on Tuesday, including everything from CNN to the British government, in an outage being blamed on Fastly, a content distribution network used by hundreds of high-profile websites. Gizmodo was also down during this morning’s outage. Read more.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A second possibility is that these companies, faced with such extraordinary liability, would instead choose to censor millions of peaceful social media users in order to make sure that no terrorism-related content slips through. To be clear, I am emphatically not accusing Styles of leading such a cartel. Please don’t sue me, Harry.)

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Vox

DECEMBER 23, 2020

During the pandemic, access to quality broadband internet has been essential for keeping kids learning. Americans are struggling to pay for internet during the pandemic. The pandemic has demonstrated how essential a lifeline the internet is, and how costly it can be for those who don’t have it. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 11, 2013

All those factors together make the Symantec Government Symposium of 11 March 2014 one to pay attention to. The Symantec Government Symposium features 10 sessions where attendees will: Explore how agencies can develop a process for incident response prioritization and use actionable intelligence throughout the entire threat lifecycle.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Social media companies are in a standoff with Russia on censorship — and there’s no easy solution. If they don’t follow the Kremlin’s orders, they risk being booted off of the local internet entirely. . | Alexei Nikolsky/TASS/via Getty Images. These situations threaten to fracture the way people communicate across the world.

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The Verge

AUGUST 12, 2021

WhatsApp and other apps are reportedly blocked in Zambia during ongoing general elections being held in the country Thursday, according to digital rights organization Access Now and internet monitor NetBlocks. Polls closed as of 12PM ET , but votes are still allowed to be cast for anyone still in line.

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Vox

MAY 28, 2020

President Trump announcing his executive order on social media in the oval office on Thursday | Photo by Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images. Trump’s new order aims to limit social media companies’ legal protections if they don’t adhere to unspecified standards of neutrality. Trump tweeted on Tuesday.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

But Democrats are increasingly worried about the influence of misinformation on social media aimed at Latino voters in the runup to the election. Several misinformation researchers told Recode that they’re seeing alarming amounts of misinformation about voter fraud and Democratic leaders being shared in Latino social media communities.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Social media companies are in a standoff with Russia on censorship and there’s no easy solution. If they don’t follow the Kremlin’s orders, they risk being booted off of the local internet entirely. . | Alexei Nikolsky/TASS/via Getty Images. These situations threaten to fracture the way people communicate across the world.

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Vox

DECEMBER 9, 2020

On Wednesday, the US Federal Trade Commission and 48 US state attorneys general filed major lawsuits against Facebook that argue the social media giant is a monopoly whose anti-competitive practices harm Americans. No company should have this much unchecked power over our personal information and our social interactions.”.

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Vox

OCTOBER 6, 2022

At stake are fundamental questions about how the internet works, and what kind of content we will all see online. Currently, algorithms and similar behind-the-scenes automation determine everything from what content we see on social media to which websites we find on search engines to which ads are displayed when we surf the web.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 7, 2020

Summary: Building an operating network takes more than protocols or even code. We often hear that the internet is a product of standards, and while that's true, it also only exists because people strung cable, wrote code, created rules, built organizations, and formed alliances. Governance.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“We recognized that operating a localized version of LinkedIn in China would mean adherence to requirements of the Chinese government on Internet platforms,” LinkedIn wrote in a blog post. It will not have a social feed or the ability to share posts and articles. based social networking site operating in China.

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Network World

MARCH 30, 2017

The Russian government used "thousands" of internet trolls and bots to spread fake news, in addition to hacking into political campaigns leading up to the 2016 U.S. Disinformation spread on social media was designed to raise doubts about the U.S. election, according to one lawmaker.

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GeekWire

APRIL 5, 2021

A years-long campaign to turn internet service into a public utility in Washington state could get a big boost from President Joe Biden’s massive infrastructure plan. The proposal Biden unveiled last week pledges to spend $100 billion to make broadband internet service available and affordable to all Americans.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

Schools, hospitals, and businesses all relied on this invisible network, and with the pandemic forcing people to work from home, there was more strain on the system than ever before. Attackers had set cellphone masts on fire and shared the videos on social media to the applause of fellow conspiracists. He’s spreading all this virus.”.

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Spearline Testing

JANUARY 7, 2021

He says this is why it would also suit every company, organization, and government entity to have a disaster recovery plan, stating: “Disaster recovery planning has to remain a central part of IT management. Today most, if not all, social interactions happen over mobile networks and the Internet.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2022

In a call with reporters on Tuesday, Meta executives said Russian media affiliated with the government had been demoted in the main Facebook Feed, and that it was no longer being recommended algorithmically anywhere on the social network.

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GeekWire

APRIL 17, 2021

Hansen’s bill gives municipalities broad legal authority to become internet service providers while the companion bill, SB5383, appears to give competitive preference to existing internet service providers. As a result, some lawmakers pushed to have the legislation limited to areas without existing internet service.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 25, 2024

The unknown hackers were able to breach the council's networks and deploy malicious software, causing widespread disruption. The cybercriminals encrypted critical data and systems across the council's networks, severely hampering its ability to operate and provide services to residents. Air Force (Ret.);

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Several hacktivist groups are utilizing resources such as Telegram, Signal, and the Dark Web to help protestors in Iran who are fighting back against the government's violent response to protests across the country. Telegram has been one of the most useful tools for the citizens of Iran. police department. regional transportation company.

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