Instagram’s New Shopping Feature Exploits Users, Promotes Surveillance Capitalism
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He Pretended to Be Trump’s Family. Then Trump Fell for It.
Canadian military wants to establish new organization to use propaganda, other techniques to influence Canadians
The Canadian Forces wants to establish a new organization that will use propaganda and other techniques to try to influence the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of Canadians, according to documents obtained by this newspaper.
Inside America’s Secretive $2 Billion Research Hub Collecting Fingerprints From Facebook, Hacking Smartwatches And Fighting Covid-19
Among the government’s wilder Mitre orders: a prototype tool that can hack into smartwatches, fitness trackers and home thermometers for the purposes of homeland security; software to collect human fingerprints from social media websites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for the FBI; support in building what the FBI calls the biggest database of human anatomy and criminal history in the world; and a study to determine whether someone’s body odor can show they’re lying.
Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’ prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter
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U.S. govt-linked PR firm ran fake news networks for right-wing Latin American regimes
U.S. govt-linked PR firm ran fake news networks for right-wing Latin American regimes
A Washington, DC-based PR firm linked to the US government and Democratic Party, CLS Strategies, ran a fake news network on Facebook and Instagram, spreading propaganda for Bolivia’s coup regime and the right-wing opposition in Venezuela and Mexico.
Facebook Faces Lawsuit for Allegedly Harvesting Instagram Users’ Biometric Data
The Facebook and Amazon Documents That Captivated the Hearing
The Facebook and Amazon Documents That Captivated the Hearing
Here’s a look at how Mark Zuckerberg plotted the Instagram acquisition. Plus: Inside Amazon’s plan to take down Diapers.com.
TikTok, Huawei, and America’s Decline

The desperate war on Huawei and TikTok shows how far the US has fallen behind in technology and geopolitical strategy
TikTok, Huawei, and America’s Decline
Facebook Offers Money to Reel In TikTok Creators
Facebook Offers Money to Reel In TikTok Creators
Instagram makes lucrative offers to popular TikTok users to join its new competing service, raising stakes in social-media rivalry
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