Vox

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

But that inevitably means there are scammers ready to use the internet to take advantage of these vaccine seekers to steal their money and personal information. The organization has warned people that posting images of their vaccine cards on social media — in order to celebrate their inoculation — is only making things worse.

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Vox

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Twitter’s US user base was already in decline prior to the takeover by Musk,” said Jasmine Enberg, principal analyst for social media at Insider Intelligence. The billionaire believes that Twitter is dominated by the “ media elite ” and part of mainstream media’s “ oligopoly on information.” And sure, Wikipedia is successful.

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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. Online misinformation has existed since the dawn of the internet, and crudely photoshopped images fooled people long before generative AI became mainstream.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 31, 2024

A new nonprofit, nonpartisan technology organization called TrueMedia is developing an AI-powered tool to detect deepfake videos, photos, and audio, aiming to combat political disinformation in the leadup to the 2024 elections. The plan, in essence, is to use AI to fight AI.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While many people might think of Russian state-sponsored hacking groups when it comes to infiltrating social media platforms, there’s actually a global network of hackers participating in an underground economy where things like Facebook and Instagram accounts are commodities. Exactly how hackers go after legitimate accounts varies.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. She succeeds co-founder David Brown, who will remain on the board of the global network for entrepreneurs. Battle is a longtime board member at Netflix, LinkedIn and OpenTable.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees the metaverse as the future of the internet, and of his company. To meet those expectations, the company says it’s been developing a project called CAIRaoke, a self-learning AI neural model (that’s a statistical model based on biological networks in the human brain) to power its voice assistant.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) tallied over $1.8 Reconnaissance - BEC actors perform reconnaissance on potential victims, compiling lists of potential targets, visiting company websites, social media, and networking websites. Should you have a BEC Incident Response Plan?

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2021

It’s a small but growing front in the war over cord-cutting, challenging regulators to decide which matters more: the increasing role streaming services play in American media diets or their significant practical differences from traditional TV. Missouri paved the way for pushing streaming franchise fees.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Our guests included: Cindy Liebes, Chief Program Officer for the Cybercrime Support Network; Jake Wilson, Security Awareness Evangelist for Western Governors University; and Gretel Egan, Senior Security Awareness and Training Strategist for Proofpoint. So, reporting is vital.". Liebes ended on an encouraging note. Ask me anything.'.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

Find out what Daniel looks for and how he does digital forensics using social media and other open source resources. While I produced this episode, a 21 year old Massachusetts National Guard airman is alleged to have photographed and distributed copies of classified US Military material on Discord, a social media site. You find clues.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. A lot of people didn't know each other and there wasn't always trust because of some of the claims that were coming out in the way that it was being presented in the media. Here’s CBS news.

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Vox

DECEMBER 28, 2023

When Bryce, a 29-year-old nonprofit director in Kansas City, started using it last summer, “It was the one that everyone was talking about.” It was a swipe app with a simple sign-up process, which connected users via their Facebook profiles, creating a “friends of friends” dating network. None of this is exactly high praise.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

The new Bing uses generative AI in its web search function to return results that appear as longer, written answers culled from various internet sources instead of a list of links to relevant websites. Generative AI is already starting to find its way into mainstream applications for everything from food shopping to social media.

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Vox

MARCH 30, 2023

A lot of people who saw it thought it was fun, too, so they spread it around social media. You might even call it a turning point in the war against mis- and disinformation, which the people fighting were, frankly, already losing simply because social media exists. Most of them probably had no idea that it wasn’t real. And then what?

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

These regularities are unknown to humans, but they’re stored as billions of weighted connections between the different nodes in GPT-3’s neural network. If you input the word “fire” into GPT-3, the program knows, based on the weights in its network, that the words “truck” and “alarm” are much more likely to follow than “lucid” or “elvish.”

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

What about social media? Vamosi: That's a gray area with the Internet of Things. Vamosi: What about the parents who just want to monitor their children's internet use. What if a single app cut off your access to social media, or work simply because a former partner wanted some form of revenge. But what about IoT devices?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

So I started attending Black Hat, Def Con, and after many years wrote my own book on the insecurity of internet of things devices. Turns out, SANS Institute -- which stands for SysAdmin, Audit, Network, and Security -- has launched some programs to find out. So why, then, is Sunny talking to the media at this time?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

What he touched off instead was a rampant epidemic last November that infected a national defense network of computers among others. Either in courts or in the media, hackers have been demonized. I've been in touch with some notable names and media and they've you know, they've assured me that they'll make a best effort.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Lil Nas X’s “Panini,” NASA’s social media presence, Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line, and John Krasinski’s Some Good News YouTube show are among the winners of this year’s Webby Awards. This year’s winners, announced on Tuesday , were largely dominated by media and entertainment companies. New Media Inc.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Vox Media has a whole podcast called Pivot. Who can devote nights and weekends to getting something built to show that they have started solving their problem, that has a network or a set of relationships with other people devoted to the same problem. Nonprofits can do that. It’s kind of the cool term. It’s the hip thing to do.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Video games were the only form of mass-media entertainment that didn’t seem to be affected by the lockdown measures in early 2020, but that was primarily due to how the industry’s release calendar works. You can’t have an Internet of Things if there aren’t any things. It couldn’t last forever, though. The chip shortage.

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Vox

JUNE 25, 2020

As one of the internet’s oldest and most prolific sources of health misinformation and conspiracy theories, Natural News is a hub for climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers. While it poses as a news outlet, Natural News is actually a network of sites filled with bylined articles and flanked by ads for survivalist gear and dodgy health cures.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

Among the biggest beneficiaries has been Signal, the encrypted messaging app whose development is funded by a nonprofit organization. Adding millions of users has served as a vindication for a company that has sought to build a healthier internet by adopting different incentives than most Silicon Valley companies.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

It is the final work of a coalition of some of the most respected names in platform analysis in academia and the nonprofit world: the Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, Graphika, and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. no widespread fraud.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 4, 2021

You decide for yourself after reading about this case—which features a right wing social media site CEO and the hack of some 40 million posts; a message from former President Trump that he never actually sent; and a transgender hacktivist on a social justice quest who claims she didn't hack anything in this case.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook. Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 4, 2021

You decide for yourself after reading about this case—which features a right wing social media site CEO and the hack of some 40 million posts; a message from former President Trump that he never actually sent; and a transgender hacktivist on a social justice quest who claims she didn't hack anything in this case.

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Vox

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen created an international media blitz earlier this year when she leaked tens of thousands of damning internal company documents to the Wall Street Journal and US government. A new network of tech whistleblowers. Getty Images/iStockphoto. Every application I sent would be an immediate rejection.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. One of her focuses is building networks between Azerbaijani people and researchers across the world.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. The result was a stack of policies that are largely offensive to mainstream American sensibilities.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Signal, once a niche messaging service for the privacy-minded, is currently the most downloaded app in the United States, unseating perennially popular social media and gaming apps. The encrypted messaging app is currently the most downloaded app on both app stores. 2 in the App Store) and Signal (now No. What makes Signal different?

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

from what our policy is and the principles of the platform we’re running are — knowing that the decision that we made was going to lead to a lot of people being very upset inside the company and a lot of the media criticism we’re going to get,” said Zuckerberg. But “I knew that I needed to separate out my personal opinion. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

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. Facebook bans a violent Boogaloo network. for 5G networks. prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India.”.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Like Wikipedia, social media companies run on user-generated content, and they’re once again scrambling to come up with ways to stop the spread of misinformation and disinformation on their platforms. Wikipedia is hosted by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which covers its associated costs, including servers, software, and legal fees.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

We need to get the internet to everyone in America. Riario oversees nine libraries in the Catskills region, where some areas don’t have access to broadband internet at all. A $60-a-month internet option, about the national average , is only available if you have that $60. Broadband internet in the United States is not great.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

And while I ultimately come to some different conclusions than the authors do, the book is worth reading for everyone interested in social networks, trust and safety, and cybersecurity. The Internet Research Agency, a “troll farm” that the New York Times had first profiled in 2015 , was running its own attack.

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