Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin TikTok is the third most downloaded app in the App Store. Photo Illustration by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Topline: TikTok—the biggest new social media craze in recent years, with an image so sunny that even high schools have embraced it—has removed two dozen accounts …
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WUZHEN, China (Reuters) – A “Cold War mentality” and “bully behavior” are hindering mutual trust in cyberspace, China’s propaganda chief said on Sunday at the start of the World Internet Conference in the eastern Chinese town of Wuzhen. People walks in front of a screen at the World Internet Conference (WIC) in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, …
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The icon for the “Study the Great Nation” app is displayed in the App Store on an iPhone in an arranged photograph taken in Hong Kong on April 15, 2019. (Justin Chin/Bloomberg) BEIJING — The Chinese Communist Party appears to have “superuser” access to all the data on more than 100 million cellphones, owing to …
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Lu Yingxin has been singing “My People, My Country” for the past week. An earnest propaganda anthem from 1985, the song typically wouldn’t stand a chance against Taylor Swift, K-pop and other modern tunes the 18-year-old college student and her friends like to listen to. Then, on Sunday, Ms. Lu and her roommates saw a …
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Ben Kothe / BuzzFeed News A BuzzFeed News investigation uncovered a network of websites and accounts using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social platforms to sow propaganda targeting Iran and Qatar. The accounts, which have now been taken down, appear to have been professionally run by PR firms based in the Middle East and Africa. …
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Patrick Lux | Getty Images News | Getty Images The same kinds of digital dirty tricks used to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and beyond are now up for sale on underground Russian forums for as little as a few thousand dollars, according to a new report from an internet security company. Businesses, …
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The same kinds of digital dirty tricks used to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and beyond are now up for sale on underground Russian forums for as little as a few thousand dollars, according to a new report from an internet security company. Businesses, individuals and politicians remain at risk of attack from …
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How safe are European elections from interference by third parties, cyberattack and hostile propaganda? We are talking about 27 parallel unique electoral processes in each member state, which can be targeted by hostile actors using a tailor-made set of tools: the malicious use of bots, algorithms, artificial intelligence, trolls, deepfakes and fake accounts in political …
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Tech giant Google has cut off a sanctioned Russian propaganda website from popular tools that allowed the site to track and collect extensive data on the site’s readers. The website, USA Really, has been barred from using Google Analytics, the company told The Daily Beast last week, depriving the site of reporting data on readers’ …
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How safe are European elections from interference by third parties, cyberattack and hostile propaganda? We are talking about 27 parallel unique electoral processes in each member state, which can be targeted by hostile actors using a tailor-made set of tools: the malicious use of bots, algorithms, artificial intelligence, trolls, deepfakes and fake accounts in political …
