What Can The Mass “Check-in” At Standing Rock Tell Us About Online Advocacy?
By Leshu Torchin, University of St Andrews On Oct. 31, more than a million Facebook users “checked in” at Standing Rock Reservation, on the border…
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Revealed: The Orwellian Tools Used By Law Enforcement To Spy On Activists Via Social Media
By Jake Anderson Last week, the California ACLU released an alarming report about California law enforcement agencies’ covert use of social media surveillance software. The report…
Documents Reveal Widespread Abuse of Social Media Spying Tools by California Cops
By Derrick Broze The release of thousands of pages of documents has revealed that California law enforcement have secretly acquired social media monitoring tools that…
Corporate Media Retreats to Hollywood as New “Truth” Media Destroys False Narratives in Real Time
By Jefferey Jaxen Mainstream corporate media outlets in America have been suffering from a slow bleeding loss of viewership for years. A critical mass of…
Facebook And Israel Officially Announce Collaboration To Censor Social Media Content
By Whitney Webb Following Facebook’s censorship controversy over a world famous photograph of the Vietnam War, Facebook has agreed to “work together” with Israel’s government…
As Riot Police Begin Mass Arrests of Pipeline Protesters, Facebook Immediately Blocks Livestream
By Matt Agorist The alternative media group, Unicorn Riot, found themselves on the receiving end of the iron fist of Facebook censorship this week. During…
The Federal Reserve Just Made a Facebook Page … And It’s Getting Destroyed by Trolls
By Carey Wedler The Federal Reserve bank is well known for its secrecy. But in an attempt to reach out to the people it claims…
The NSA Built a Secret, Warrantless, Shadow “Social Network” and You’re Already On It
By Matt Agorist For roughly the last decade and a half, the NSA has been caught in lie after unscrupulous lie. Every time they are…
America’s Biggest Ally Now Has Special “Thought Police” Unit to Track Down Online Trolls
By Claire Bernish Thought police now patrol social media platforms and online forums to quash putatively ‘abusive’ vitriol with the help of feckless civilians urged…
Travel Alert: US Border Agents Want to Know What You’ve Been Doing on Social Media
By Lauren McCauley File this under Another Unsettling Development: People who want to travel to the United States may soon have their Facebook profiles and…
This Orwellian Technology Automates Censorship and Is Even Worse Than It Sounds
By James Holbrooks As people around the world struggle to come to terms with the recent years’ rise in terrorist attacks — and on the…
New Company Promises to Spy on Your Facebook Posts for Your Landlord
By James Holbrooks A new UK startup will “take a deep dive” into the intimate details of people’s private lives by essentially strip-mining data from…
New Social Network Based on Blockchain Technology Wants to End Censorship
By Carey Wedler As Facebook and other digital social platforms face repeated accusations of censorship, a new blockchain-based social networking platform is emerging — with the…
A Single Meme’s Message on Hemp Plastic Was So Powerful, It Sparked an Internet Revolution
By Claire Bernish If you still don’t believe in the power of Internet-based activism, the incredible explosion of interest in hemp plastic — literally generated…