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Belarus Turned Off the Internet. Its Citizens Hot-Wired It.
In early August, Belarus — known as Europe’s last dictatorship — went almost entirely offline for 72 hours. On Wednesday August 26, for approximately one hour, Belarus shut down key parts of the capital’s internet once again; allegedly, the order had come directly from official state bodies.
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Twitter Says Its Partner Dataminr Wasn’t Surveilling Protests for Local Cops, Just ‘News Alerting’
AI intelligence analysis startup Dataminr monitored nationwide protests against the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd using rarely granted, privileged access to Twitter’s “firehose,” the Intercept reported on Thursday. While this seems like a clear violation of Twitter policies against using its tools for surveillance purposes, Twitter says Dataminr was just “news alerting” and thus…
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U.S. Feds Charge Protester With Torching Police Cars After Following Unnerving Online Trail
FBI agents used online evidence including an Etsy shop and profiles on LinkedIn and fashion website Poshmark to identify and charge a woman they say set fire to two police cars during recent protests in Philly, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Here’s Why YouTube’s Cracking Down on Creators Raising Ad Dollars for Racial Justice
If you’re part of the growing chorus of folks around the world looking for ways to support the Black Lives Matter movement, there’s Southern Poverty Law Centre! But what you can’t do ” at least according to YouTube ” is pull those funds from advertising on the platform.