Insiders Say X’s Crowdsourced Anti-Disinformation Tool Is Making the Problem Worse
On Saturday, the official Israel account on X posted a picture of what looks like a child’s bedroom with blood...
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They Supported Air Strike Victims. Then They Were Doxed and Arrested
Since taking power in a coup two years ago, Myanmar’s military junta has suppressed people’s rights, cracked down on opposition,...
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Deepfake Porn Is Out of Control
Many of the websites make it clear they host or spread deepfake porn videos—often featuring the word deepfakes or derivatives...
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The US Congress Was Targeted With Predator Spyware
The media consortium, along with security researchers from Amnesty International and Google’s Threat Analysis Group, were able to show Vietnam’s...
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Rumors of a ‘Global Day of Jihad’ Have Unleashed a Dangerous Wave of Disinformation
Yesterday, FBI director Christopher Wray attempted to assure the Jewish community in the US that his agency is taking any...
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US House Republicans Had Their Phones Confiscated to Stop Leaks
“Oh, wow. Really?” John Larson, a Connecticut Democrat, says after WIRED informs him of his rowdy Republican neighbor’s new no-phone...
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A New Protocol Vulnerability Will Haunt the Web for Years
Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Cloudflare revealed this week that they battled massive, record-setting distributed denial of service attacks against their...
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How the FTX Thieves Have Tried to Launder Their $400 Million Haul
As the criminal trial of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried unfolds in a Manhattan courtroom, some observers in the cryptocurrency world...
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A Graphic Hamas Video Donald Trump Jr. Shared on X Is Actually Real, Research Confirms
Yesterday afternoon, Donald Trump Jr. posted a graphic video to X (formerly Twitter) that purported to show Hamas fighters murdering...
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The UN Risks Normalizing Internet Censorship
The United Nations’ main internet governance body looks set to host its next international forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In...
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Elon Musk Is Personally Undermining X’s Efforts to Curb Israel-Hamas War Disinformation
Since Musk took control of the platform just under a year ago, he has restructured it to encourage engagement over...
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Google Makes Passkeys Default, Stepping Up Its Push to Kill Passwords
Less than six months ago, Google announced that it was launching support for the password replacement known as “passkeys” for...
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