Artificial intelligence Facebook bans hundreds of accounts linked to Russia and Iran | Artificial intelligence Aug 29, 2018 More accounts banned from FacebookREUTERS/Regis Duvignau By New Scientist staff and Press Association Facebook has identified and banned more…
Social Media Twitter suspends more accounts for “engaging in coordinated manipulation” | Social Aug 28, 2018 Following last week’s suspension of 284 accounts for “engaging in coordinated manipulation,” Twitter announced today that it’s kicked an additional…
Tech Tips & Tricks How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication to Protect Your Firefox Accounts | Tips & Tricks Aug 28, 2018 Mozilla has begun to roll out two-factor authentication (2FA) in Firefox accounts, the mechanism which is used to synchronize history, add-ons,…
Social Media After genocide report in Myanmar, Facebook bans accounts that reached millions | Social Aug 28, 2018 After Facebook was accused of being too slow to respond to posts that contributed to ethnic violence in Myanmar, the network removed more than a…
Social Media Facebook bans Myanmar military accounts for ‘enabling human rights abuses’ | Social Aug 27, 2018 Facebook is cracking down on the military leadership in Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country where the social network has been identified as a…
Computing Chinese Crypto Bans on WeChat Accounts, Events, and Exchanges: What Happened and Why | Crypto Aug 26, 2018 This week, the government of China has cracked down on crypto-related WeChat accounts, blockchain events and digital asset exchanges, solidifying its…
Innovation Google deletes accounts with ties to Iran on YouTube, other sites | Innovation Aug 24, 2018 Google announced Thursday that it deleted 58 accounts with ties to Iran on its video platform YouTube and its other sites, the latest sign that…
Advertising Google removes YouTube channels and web accounts tied to Iran | Advertising Aug 24, 2018 Google has deleted 39 YouTube channels and 19 other web pages connected to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, a state-run media outlet,…
Social Media Facebook, Twitter boot accounts tied to Iran, Russia for coordinated deception | Social Aug 23, 2018 Within hours of each other on Tuesday, both Facebook and Twitter announced that they had removed nearly 1,000 accounts for manipulative or…
Social Media Facebook and Twitter remove hundreds of accounts linked to Iranian and Russian political meddling |… Aug 22, 2018 Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts and pages for what it calls “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” generally networks of ostensibly…