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The end of democracy: how the government spies on its own citizens

The end of democracy: how the government spies on its own citizens

Government hires firm to monitor New Zealanders’ social media to inform Covid-19 response Stuff, 1 May, 2022   A company commissioned by the government has been monitoring social media comments about the Covid-19 response for almost two years, reporting back every four days. Documents released to RNZ show Annalect surveilled public comments on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and other sites, about current topics like ‘Covid response’, ‘virus’, ‘vaccine rollout’, ‘economy’, ‘business and consumers’, ‘contact tracing’ and ‘team of five million’, posted by…

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On Elon Musk, Twitter and Artificial Intelligence

On Elon Musk, Twitter and Artificial Intelligence

This is a fascinating article on Elon Musk and Twitter wars from Whatdoesitmean.com which is an eccentric website that continues many useful resources and links. I do not read it necessarily for its conclusions. Barely Noticed “17 Acre War” Upends Entire World  “Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind. It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the…

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Facebook rebrands itself

Facebook rebrands itself

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announces company is rebranding as ‘Meta’ Facebook employees unveil a new logo and the name ‘Meta’ on a sign at the company’s headquarters, October 28, 2021, California, US © Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP Facebook has announced that, going forward, it will be known as Meta. Beset by numerous scandals in recent weeks, the firm is aiming to transition to become “a metaverse company” rather than a social media firm. Mired in numerous antitrust probes, battling investigations in multiple…

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Facebook, WhatsApp & Instagram ALL down in major worldwide outage

Facebook, WhatsApp & Instagram ALL down in major worldwide outage

Facebook Is Alive, DNS Issues Being Resolved After Six Hours Of Darkness Update (1905ET): Today’s Facebook whistleblower debacle and global outage cost CEO Mark Zuckerberg $6 billion of his net worth.  * * *  Update (1829 ET): After six hours offline, the estimated global economic impact of the internet disruption for Facebook, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger comes out to nearly $1 billion.  The NetBlocks Cost of Shutdown Tool (COST) estimated the outage had a total economic impact of a whopping $968 million…

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Jacinda Adern’s PR disaster on Facebook

Jacinda Adern’s PR disaster on Facebook

Vaccine injured and friends and family attack NZ Prime Minister Monday 27 September 2021, 10:20AM By Ministry for Families The New Zealand Prime Minister’s facebook page is still reeling from a PR (public relations) nightmare, after a post that encouraged the public to talk about vaccine side effects exploded. On Saturday 25 September the NZ testimonials facebook page, which allowed members to report vaccine injuries direcly and had over 17,000 members, was shut down. The following day, Jacinda Ardern addressed the elephant…

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Big Pharma Allies Unite to Silence Covid Vaccine Critics on Social Media

Big Pharma Allies Unite to Silence Covid Vaccine Critics on Social Media

I think that they are upping the ante everywhere because they may be losing the public relations war. Today on TruNews, Edward Szall and the team share with the audience the accusation by President Joe Biden that those individuals who choose to remain unvaccinated are killing people. The US administration endorses the finding of the UK’s Center for Countering Hate, targeting twelve individuals at the Disinformation Dozen, that should be banned from all media platforms. Rick makes a challenge to…

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Facebook Now Sending Warnings to Some Users About Potentially ‘Extremist’ Friends

Facebook Now Sending Warnings to Some Users About Potentially ‘Extremist’ Friends

Epoch Times, 1 July, 2021   Some Facebook users have recently reported being sent warning messages from the social media giant relating to “extremists” or “extremist content.” “Are you concerned that someone you know is becoming an extremist?” one message reads. “We care about preventing extremism on Facebook. Others in your situation have received confidential support.” The message also provides a button to “Get Support,” which leads to another Facebook page about extremism. Redstate editor Kira Davis, who said was sent a…

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“Fact-Checking” Takes Another Beating

“Fact-Checking” Takes Another Beating

Fact-checkers are great, but the media business keeps trying to solve its credibility problem by misrepresenting what they do Matt Taibbi The soul of rectitude testifies in the Senate https://taibbi.substack.com/p/fact-checking-takes-another-beating The news business just can’t stop clowning itself. The latest indignity is an international fact-checking debacle originating, of all places, at a “festival of fact-checking.” The Poynter Institute is perhaps the most respected think tank in our business, an organization seeking to “fortify journalism’s role in a free society,” among…

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Government considering 100 points of ID to get Facebook, Tinder account

Government considering 100 points of ID to get Facebook, Tinder account

To protect the public from sexual violence? Yeah, right! They could ask the social media giants to turn off the tap of pornography and pedophilia. This is about something quite different. The government could require you to hand over your passport to tech companies before posting online in a move that’s been slammed by experts. A recommendation from the report suggests requiring identification to get a social media account on websites like Facebook or Twitter. Picture: Denis Charlet / AFPSource:AFP…

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A vicious attack on Dr. Vernon Coleman – he says goodbye

A vicious attack on Dr. Vernon Coleman – he says goodbye

Already feeling unwell I feel totally dispirited this morning after the vicious online attack on one of the most beautiful people on the planet, Dr. Vernon Coleman. As a result he has decided to throw in the towel and who could possibly blame him? The entire world will be the loser. He has selflessly given his all to reveal the truth of the covid-19 plandemic as he sees it in the face of almost unprecedented vicious attacks from the British…

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