internet manipulation and propaganda
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Elon Musk Pivots to Pizzagate as Advertisers Flee
If Elon Musk is actively trying to drive advertisers away from his floundering social media site X, then he’s doing a really fantastic job of it. Fresh off spurring a maelstrom of criticism over a tweet that was broadly decried as antisemitic (and which led to an outflux of advertisers), Musk has now decided to…
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Twitter Bans State Media’s War Prisoner Pics Because of the Geneva Convention
Twitter announced Tuesday that it would ban content featuring prisoners of war from government and state-affiliated media organisations amid the online information war between Russia and Ukraine playing out on its platform. The company said it social network would no longer amplify or recommend government accounts from Russia.
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Facebook’s List of 4,000 Banned Entities Includes Hate Groups, Criminals, and a Whole Lot of Terrorists
Facebook has banned thousands of individuals and organisations allegedly involved in terrorism, according to a Tuesday report by the Intercept, as part of a sprawling blacklist called Dangerous Individuals and Organisations (DIO) that appears to mirror the interests of the U.S. government and military.
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Social Media Execs Fuel Extremist Violence Globally, Report Finds
Under the pretext of “newsworthiness,” U.S. tech leaders have, for years, aided political leaders in spreading extremist views underpinned by racial animus and all other forms of prejudice, in turn giving rise to an explosion of violence and persecution targeting vulnerable communities worldwide.