A DALL-E generation of “an oil painting of America’s war on terror if conducted by an artificial intelligence.” Image: Elise Swain/The Intercept; DALL-E Sensational new machine learning breakthroughs seem to sweep our Twitter feeds every day. We hardly have time… Read More ›
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Google and Meta Embrace Full-Court Strategy Against Media Ad Revenue Sharing Proposal
The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, a bipartisan bill, would be the first piece of legislation to fundamentally challenge the business model for social media giants, forcing them to give major journalistic organizations a cut of their ad revenue. As… Read More ›
CIA Venture Capital Arm Partners With Ex-Googler’s Startup to “Safeguard the Internet”
Trust Lab was founded by a team of well-credentialed Big Tech alumni who came together in 2021 with a mission: Make online content moderation more transparent, accountable, and trustworthy. A year later, the company announced a “strategic partnership” with the… Read More ›
Left-Wing Voices Are Silenced on Twitter as Far-Right Trolls Advise Elon Musk
Elon Musk claims to be “fighting for free speech in America” but the social network’s new owner appears to be overseeing a purge of left-wing activists from the platform. Several prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had their accounts suspended… Read More ›
Elon Musk’s “Free Speech” Twitter Is Still Censoring DDoSecrets
Shortly after firing Twitter employees who criticized him on social media as well as privately on the company’s Slack, self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk began reversing Twitter suspensions of prominent right-wing accounts that had previously violated Twitter’s policies. These… Read More ›
Elon Musk Would Have Done Better With Twitter If He’d Read Noam Chomsky
An image of Elon Musk is seen surrounded by Twitter logos, on Nov. 8, 2022. Photo: STR/NurPhoto via AP Everything in this article was accurate at the time of publication. However, given the speed of changes at Twitter, anything could… Read More ›
An Uber Millionaire Wants You to Vote on the Internet — Despite the Inherent Vulnerabilities
In the fall of 2010, the District of Columbia was preparing to do something bold: allow overseas voters to cast their ballots online. A few weeks ahead of the November general election, it conducted a mock internet election and invited… Read More ›
By Buying Twitter, Elon Musk Has Created His Own Hilarious Nightmare
Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Stavanger, Norway, on Aug. 29, 2022. Photo: NTB/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk (and his consortium of much smaller investors) now owns Twitter. We need to take seriously the possibility that this will end up… Read More ›
Hacked Documents: How Iran Can Track and Control Protesters’ Phones
Read this story in Persian As furious anti-government protests swept Iran, the authorities retaliated with both brute force and digital repression. Iranian mobile and internet users reported rolling network blackouts, mobile app restrictions, and other disruptions. Many expressed fears that the… Read More ›
Oakland Cops Hope to Arm Robots With Lethal Shotguns
In a series of little noted Zoom meetings this fall, the city of Oakland, California, grappled with a question whose consequences could shape the future of American policing: Should cops be able to kill people with shotgun-armed robots? The back-and-forth… Read More ›