politics
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Facebook Rejects Its Own Supreme Court’s Order to Ban Cambodia’s Ex-Prime Minister
Meta has rejected its own Oversight Board’s recommendation to immediately suspend the Facebook and Instagram accounts of Cambodia’s former Prime Minister Hun Sen, an authoritarian dictator who refers to political dissidents as dogs and has been accused of using Meta’s platforms to incite violence. The decision marks a stark divergence from the Oversight Board, which was…
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FBI Ordered to Find Out Which Agency Disobeyed White House in Secret Deal, Finds Out It Was Itself
Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that an unknown federal agency had breached official White House policy and used secretive methods to conduct a business deal with the NSO Group, a blacklisted spyware vendor known for selling powerful surveillance tools. The agency in question not only brazenly disobeyed the government’s official policy, but…
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Spell Check Fail: Typo Leads to U.S. Military Leaking Sensitive Data
U.S. military personnel have been reportedly sending sensitive government and military information to the person managing Mali’s internet domain for years, all because officials keep forgetting to type the “I” at the end of their outbound address. The Financial Times broke the story about a steady flow of emails being sent to the “.ML” domain,…