Twitter sued over Saudi spying that allegedly landed popular user in prison | Ars Technica
Saudi Arabia became a top shareholder while its spies infiltrated Twitter.
Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It | Techdirt
So here’s the deal. If you think the Twitter Files are still something legit or telling or powerful, watch this 30 minute interview that Mehdi Hasan did with Matt Taibbi (at Taibbi’s own demand): H…
Mapping Disinformation in Africa – Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Russia has pioneered a model of disinformation to gain political influence in Africa that is now being replicated by other actors across the continent.
The Great Internet Grievance War the Right Has Wanted Is Here. It Ain’t Going Well.
The “Twitter Files,” and the journalists hand-picked for them, don’t reveal what Elon Musk wanted.
This endless fanfare of grievance, innuendo, and motivated misprioritization colors most of the content you’ll find on the most popular conservative news and opinion outlets: vast edifices of bullshit constructed atop small kernels of verifiable information. But this ongoing victim narrative is undermined by the plain fact that, far from being marginalized and undervalued, by most available metrics, right-wing news and opinion is very popular and profitable. Fox News consistently tops the cable news ratings. Conservative radio shows and podcasts top the leaderboards in their respective disciplines. Right-wing Facebook pages are consistently among the most popular issues-based Facebook pages. Substacks dedicated to the proposition that divergent political opinion has no home in the American media earn their proprietors better livings than they ever would have made at the publications they once called home. We are literally living in the Golden Age of Getting Rich and Wielding Influence by Pretending That Your Voice Has Been Silenced—which brings us back to the Twitter Files, and the people to whom they were handed by the wealthiest man in the world.
EXCLUSIVE: TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists
ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.
Rage Clicks, Hatebomb and the New World Order: How Hard-Right Politics and Conspiracy Theories Overlapped to Undermine Malaysia’s Elections – GNET
BFM: The Business Station - Podcast Morning Brief: Hate Speech And Extreme Violence Has No Place In Malaysia
The police have warned Malaysian social media users against uploading content that would threaten public safety and order, after it came to public attention that there were Tik Tok clips bringing up the May 13 racial riots in relation to GE15. Munira Mustaffa, Executive Director of the Chasseur Group tells us the reason for the rise of such damaging rhetoric and if there are organised forces behind it.