Friday, September 29, 2023

Vittoria Elliott

X Fires Its Election Team Before a Huge Election Year

X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has fired its head of threat intelligence, Aaron Rodericks, and four other members of the team responsible for combating disinformation and misinformation, just months before the US Republican primaries mark the beginning...

Satellite Images Show the Devastating Cost of Sudan’s Aerial War

On Thursday, the head of the Sudanese Army, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, asking for increased aid from the international community for Sudan and condemning the paramilitary groups that he says...

Pegasus Spyware Is Detected in a War Zone for the First Time

On November 10, 2021, Varuzhan Geghamyan, an assistant professor at Yerevan State University in Armenia, received a notification from Apple on his phone. His device had been compromised by Pegasus, a sophisticated piece of spyware created by the Israeli...

Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino Is Teetering on the Glass Cliff

In December, Elon Musk, then only two months into his tenure as owner and CEO of Twitter, put out a poll asking whether he should resign as CEO of the company. When a 57.5 percent majority encouraged him to...

Brazil Proposed Internet Regulation. Big Tech Took the Gloves Off

On April 28, Felipe Neto, a Brazilian YouTuber with more than 45 million followers, was angry. He had just received a message from YouTube warning him about PL2630, a bill in Brazil’s National Congress dubbed the “Fake News Law”...

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