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In the wake of Donald Trump’s surreal ascension to POTUS, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly defended his company’s culpability in Trump’s win. Critics have pointed to Facebook’s propagation of fake news via the site’s algorithmically curated “Trending Topics” module and—perhaps even most dastardly—within users’ News Feed as directly responsible for the rise of America’s first potentially authoritarian-ish leader. Zuck’s public refutation exists within a larger […]

4224 28 by Adam Segal November 18, 2016 A man is silhouetted against a video screen with an Facebook logo as he poses with an Samsung S4 smartphone in this photo illustration taken in the central Bosnian town of Zenica, August 14, 2013. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters) Here is a quick round-up of this week’s technology headlines and related stories you may have missed: 1. Disinformation. Disinformation everywhere. Since Donald Trump’s […]

The reaction to the election of Donald Trump is as much a function of social media and its negative effects on the populace as anything the candidates did or said. People like to say social networks, especially Facebook, are a great way to maintain relations with old high school chums and relatives you ditched when you were 20. In reality, if you wanted to stay […]

Malwarebytes Ransomware continues to evolve and it is becoming more and more of a challenge for the general public to stay shielded from such threats and security experts to stay on top of the evolving strains of ransomware being found in the wild. It is not just the malicious code itself, however, which is a problem. Now, support scammers are taking tips from ransomware developers to make […]

While there is no sign of our collective ­obsession with ­social media fading any time soon, there is also a growing determination by some to cut all ties and go on a ­technology detox. It sometimes feels as if new platforms for posting, sharing and pontificating are appearing by the day. With so many outlets for people to share their opinions and views of the world, and […]

The Trump Tower in New York, which currently serves as Donald Trump‘s residence in New York has just been renamed “Dump Tower” on Google Maps. The tech company has reportedly moved to fix the label immediately last Sunday, so it’s now back to its old label. Dump Tower The renaming is said to have been perpetrated last Nov. 26 around the time someone or the same person […]

By Andrea Hopkins | OTTAWA OTTAWA Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will not attend the funeral of Fidel Castro, his office said on Monday, days after Trudeau’s warm comments about the late Cuban leader sparked a backlash. Furore over Trudeau’s expression of sorrow at Castro’s death has erupted in both Canada and the United States. Trudeau acknowledged Sunday that Castro had been a dictator as political opponents […]

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U.S., Peru seize $30 million in fake dollars, biggest bust ever | Reuters ‘+Reuters.inlinevideo.title+’ ‘+Reuters.inlinevideo.length+’ ‘); } WASHINGTON U.S. and Peruvian agents have seized a record $30 million in counterfeit dollars in the biggest netting of fake greenbacks ever by the U.S. Secret Service, the agency said on Thursday. The stash was discovered when more than 1,500 Peruvian police, along with Secret Service agents, carried out searches […]

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Generations of Ohio State and Michigan fans will debate the latest episode of one of college football’s most impassioned rivalries, a 30-27 Ohio State victory in two overtimes on Saturday, the Buckeyes’ fifth straight win over the Wolverines. What if Michigan quarterback Wilton Speight — who generally played well, completing 23 of 36 passes for 219 yards and two touchdowns — had not fumbled […]

“This step will strengthen the hands of the common man in the fight against corruption, black money and fake currency.” —Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. For the first time, Indian patriot and defender of the common man, Narendra Modi, appears to be in over his head. Practically, the unintended (?) consequences are nothing short of a crushing blow to those his efforts are said to protect. The […]

After a US election in which hyper partisan news sites helped propel Donald Trump to the presidency, the future direction and financing of this ardent alternative journalism seems unclear. In recent days, some brands and ad platforms have blacklisted the right-wing Breitbart News for hate speech, while Facebook and Google — facing accusations of enabling misinformation online — have acted to prevent their advertising from appearing on […]

Craig Timberg from Washington Post must be bored this Thanksgiving, spending his time concocting a rich and imaginative tale of fake news websites swaying the billion dollar Clinton campaign from no brainer win to a horrible loss. Here we are, once again, with the faux claims out of Washpo — spreading their own ironic fake news of Russian hacking conspiracies and a furious — and all of a […]

Via The Daily Bell, Barack Obama on fake news: ‘We have problems’ if we can’t tell the difference The US president denounced the spate of misinformation across social media platforms, including Facebook, suggesting American politics can be affected. -Guardian Is fake news the new “conspiracy theory.” We’ve read that it may be, and it seems likely to us. That’s because “conspiracy theory” has seemingly lost credibility as […]

Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.”—Former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we? There’s the garden variety fake news that is not really “news” so much as it is titillating, tabloid-worthy material peddled by anyone with […]

Submitted by Stephen Miller via HeatSt.com, The mainstream media continues to freak out over the spread of “fake news” on Facebook and other social media platforms such as Twitter and reddit. Hillary Clinton’s late campaign thinks this is a problem. The Democrat party seems to think people with Facebook accounts are to blame for Hillary’s decision to ignore crucial swing states in the final weeks of the campaign, that likely cost her […]

For the past year, Deutsche Bank was one of the most stubbornly pessimistic banks. Then, overnight, everything changed for one reason: Donald Trump. The German bank laid out its 180-degree change in opinion in a 30-page Friday note titled “Trump: the huge picture for stocks”, in which it revealed that it now expects the S&P to easily rise to 2,250 by Trump’s inauguration, and then rise to […]

In what seems like a sudden and shocking about face, the Saturday Night Live team of ‘comedians’ appeared to take a shot at the ‘fakeness’ of mainstream media news and the omnipresent (pre- and post-election) bias towards anti-Trump and pro-liberal perspectives on any and every headline that crosses the wires… The hidden ‘WestWorld’-ness of CNN (and the mainstream media)… As ScreenCrush so eloquently puts it, if it […]

As SHTFPLan.com’s Mac Slavo notes… While the powers that be are determining the fate of alternative media voices that are now branded under the dubious label “fake news” and blacked out from online search results, it is worth keeping in mind all the disinformation and downright lies that have been perpetrated by the corporate news media – typically hand in hand with a political agenda.   Whether […]

Federal prosecutors have charged a former Valeant manager and the former chief executive of Philidor, a defunct pharmacy chain, alleging the pair operated an illegal kickback scheme to personally enrich themselves to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. New York prosecutors alleged that Gary Tanner of Valeant and Andrew Davenport of Philidor secretly worked together to promote a deal under which the Canadian drugmaker purchased […]

Snapchat parent company, Snap Inc., has just filed confidentiality for its initial public offering (IPO), according to reports. News about a Snapchat IPO at a $25 billion valuation first surfaced back in October, and new reports now bolster such claims. The company is reportedly seeing to raise $4 billion, which would lead to a valuation of $25 to $35 billion. The confidential filing with the Securities and Exchange […]

By Paul Sandle | LONDON LONDON Google delivered a vote of confidence in London’s future as a technological hub after the Brexit vote on Tuesday by announcing plans for a new building in the King’s Cross area of the city that will house thousands of extra engineers. Google’s Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said computer science had a great future in Britain, citing the talent pool, educational institutions, […]

By Julia Love and Kristina Cooke | SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Monday it is working on a policy change to prevent websites that misrepresent content from using its AdSense advertising network, a move aimed at halting the spread of “fake news” and other types of misinformation on the internet. The shift comes as Google, Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc face a backlash […]

If there’s one thing Ubisoft games like doing, besides having you climb radio towers, it’s putting fictional versions of Ubisoft in its games. But with Watch Dogs 2, this little meta touch seems to have Ouroboros-ed itself right back into the real world by teasing what could be two unannounced new Ubi games. A side mission, titled “Ubistolen”, sees you intercepting the phone call of an in-game Ubisoft […]

Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below. I’m a fan of Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s performance as Negan on The Walking Dead, but we’re quickly seeing that a little Negan goes a very long way. After listening to him flippantly speechify for a solid hour in the premiere, and then catching a bit more of him last week in “The Cell,” this week’s chapter began to collapse under […]

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