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This Watchdog Group Aims to ‘Defund the Insurrectionists,’ One Ad at a Time
In the year since the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, plenty of people have done what they could to try to prevent a disaster like this from happening again. Fences were erected, security personnel braced for more violence, tech companies made… more algorithms meant to predict where mass riots could happen. For the…
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35 Secret Code Words Facebook Uses to Talk About Its Users and Tools
One of the most surreal parts of going through the mountain of documents captured from within Facebook’s walls by whistleblower Frances Haugen is seeing the words employees use when discussing some of the company’s most sensitive products and systems. Many of these names (CORGI! Yoda!) sound deceptively cute, while others sound more… sinister.
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YouTube Bans Anti-Extremism Group Right Wing Watch, Immediately Unbans Right Wing Watch
YouTube has rolled back a permanent suspension of Right Wing Watch (RWW), a nonprofit that tracks extremist individuals and groups, apparently backtracking from its stance that documenting those extremists’ actions is the same as promoting them.
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QAnon, CultTok, and Leaving It All Behind
“I was impressed that it only took four years,” Danielle, self-identified ex-cult member, 34, said on a phone call. This was a few days after Joe Biden’s inauguration, and we were talking about the previous week of SOS social media posts from wide-eyed QAnon followers, like a TikToker propped up on a pillow, pleading, like…