I find this very troubling for the future of privacy rights.

As we know, Big Tech and the political hack fuck leftists lay in the same bed, under the same nasty sheets...oh this could be bad.

Facebook to build $800M data center in metro Phoenix, its first Arizona investment

As most of the activist media reporting on this major issue, the hack fuck activist media is placing the highlights on the 'clean energy' aspect of the building.

Only one source is saying that it's for expanding of the demand of data capture.

 

A Big Tech whistleblower has spoken out on Google’s latest attempts to censor conservative speech. Zach Vorhies exposed Google and how it changed their news algorithms in order to target President Trump.

In his new book, “Google Leaks: A Whistleblower’s Expose,” the former Google and YouTube employee details how the Big Tech conglomerate celebrated their attempts to redirect the truth during the 2016 election and how they did it.

“One of the things that most people noticed was one of the questions that was asked by the audience. Which asked Sundar Pichai what Google had done best during the 2016 election. To which Sundar replied, that it was the use of machine learning in order to censor the fake news,” said Vorhies.

He also explained how the process worked during an interview with the Epoch Times. Vorhies went on to clarify how these classifiers were trained by people with biases based on what they believed to be fake or misleading news. The classifiers allow Google to automatically filter out content they believe goes against the truth and their political narrative.

Vorhies added Google’s algorithm attached new negative stories about Trump onto old ones in order to keep them trending at the top of their search results longer. He concluded by exposing Google’s attempt to rewrite its’ operating code to prevent many in the U.S. from participating in the national discussion.


https://www.amazon.com/Google-Leaks-Whistleblowers-Exposé-Censorship/dp/1510767363

 

But sometimes censorship is necessary. And they shouldn't be surprised since sex trafficking is now part of the treasonous conservative/Republican platform.

Child abuse spotted on Gettr as ‘reckless’ pro-Trump platform faces new scandal: report

John Wright
August 16, 2021



Jason Miller Fox News/screen grab


In the latest scandal to hit fledgling Gettr, users of the new pro-Trump social media platform have been allowed to share child-exploitation images.

"New research from the Stanford Internet Observatory's Cyber Policy Center has laid bare the dangers of the platform's almost complete lack of moderation and identified more than a dozen child abuse images being shared by Gettr users," Vice News reported Monday.

David Thiel, one of the authors of the report, wrote on Twitter: "This, frankly, is just reckless. You cannot run a social media site, particularly one targeted to include content forbidden from mainstream platforms, solely with voluntary flagging."

Thiel explained that other social media platforms use what are known as "machine learning models" — such as software known as PhotoDNA — to analyze uploaded material, censoring child exploitation images and even notifying law enforcement.

However, Gettr is apparently relying instead on users to report images. And, not surprisingly, this system isn't working, as Thiel and fellow researchers found 16 child-exploitation matches from the PhotoDNA database among images uploaded to Gettr.

"They were also able to successfully show how easy it is to upload child exploitation imagery by posting several benign images PhotoDNA stores in its database for testing purposes," Vice reports.

Jason Miller, the former Trump advisor behind Gettr, denied the report and said all images of children are screened by a human moderator, but did not explain how the 16 matches escaped detection.

Meanwhile, the researchers also found that new user registrations on Gettr have slowed to a trickle just a month after its launch — and the vast majority who've signed up have yet to comment or post on the platform.

"This is hardly surprising however, given that in the week after Gettr launched, the site's source code was leaked and prominent accounts were defaced," Vice reports, referencing reports that the platform was hit with a flood of NSFW Sonic the Hedgehog content, and had become a "safe haven for ISIS."

Read the full story here.

https://www.rawstory.com/gettr-scandal/

 

Oh look
stumbler is pitching another fit.

 

Facebook purges shell accounts linked to anti-vax pages known as 'disinformation dozen': report





AFP/File / Rodrigo BUENDIA


On Thursday, CNN reported that Facebook has announced action against an infamous group of pages known as the "disinformation dozen" by restricting and locking dozens of accounts and groups associated with them.

The "disinformation dozen" are a group of 12 people who, according to a study conducted earlier this year, are responsible for 73 percent of all anti-vaccine propaganda spreading on Facebook.

"In making the announcement, Monika Bickert, vice president of content policy at Facebook, pushed back against the narrative that the twelve accounts were primarily responsible for the spread of vaccine misinformation, writing that focusing on them 'misses the forest for the trees,'" reported Oliver Darcy. "But, Bickert said, 'Any amount of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation that violates our policies is too much by our standards — and we have removed over three dozen Pages, groups and Facebook or Instagram accounts linked to these 12 people, including at least one linked to each of the 12 people, for violating our policies.'"

Among the "disinformation dozen" are Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has pushed anti-vaccine falsehoods for years; Dr. Joseph Mercola, a Florida-based osteopathic physician and top purveyor of alternative and supplement-based health remedies; and Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, who attracted national attention after telling a group of Ohio lawmakers that vaccines turn people into magnets.

Facebook has frequently been criticized for a lack of initiative in removing disinformation from its social network. In recent weeks, the company has sought to crack down, including removing a Russia-based anti-vax propaganda network. Some anti-vax activists, however, are going underground, using code words to continue to spread falsehoods and evade content moderation.

https://www.rawstory.com/anti-vax-facebook/

 

Next up, facebook will be locking accounts pushing disinformation about former President Trump.

Oh. Wait. That was disinformation.

 

It's quite disheartening that folks dont see the concerted efforts of the social media folks and the the democrat party, pushing such a false narrative.

 

The Federal Trade Commission has filed a renewed antitrust complaint against Facebook. The agency filed the amended complaint on Thursday after a federal judge dismissed its previous case in June. The judge ruled the FTC had not provided sufficient evidence that Facebook was a monopoly and gave the commission a second chance to pursue the case.

The complaint accuses the social media site of buying competitors like Instagram and WhatsApp to protect its own business. “The FTC’s claims are an effort to rewrite antitrust laws and upend settled expectations of merger review, declaring to the business community that no sale is ever final,” claimed Facebook.

The amended version is about 30 pages longer than the original complaint and provides more evidence to support the FTC’s claims. In the meantime, Facebook took to Twitter where it said it’s reviewing the complaint and “will have more to say soon.”

 

Devin Nunes's lawsuit against a fake internet cow dealt major blow by Virginia judge





California Republican Devin Nunes (screengrab)


On Monday, the Fresno Bee reported that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) suffered yet another loss in his series of defamation suits against an anonymous set of Twitter accounts trying to satirize him — this time, his case against a Never Trump Republican strategist on Twitter who has criticized him.

"A Virginia judge has dismissed the second of two lawsuits California Rep. Devin Nunes filed against a Republican political strategist who he claimed spread defamatory information about him leading up to his 2018 reelection campaign," said the report. "Judge John Marshall's ruling from earlier this month in Virginia's Henrico County Circuit Court dismisses Liz Mair from a case Nunes filed against her, Twitter and anonymous writers who heckled him on Twitter under the fictional personas of a cow and his mother."

This comes after the judge also ruled that Nunes cannot name Twitter as a defendant in the lawsuit.

According to the report, "Nunes continues to attempt to sue the Twitter personalities known as 'Devin Nunes' cow,' @DevinCow, and 'Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom,' @NunesAlt, although he has not been able to serve them with a complaint."

Mair, who previously worked as online communications director for the Republican National Committee and several GOP politicians including Sens. Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Rand Paul (R-KY), and former Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI), has been an outspoken critic of former President Donald Trump and many of his allies in Congress, once calling the former president a "loudmouthed d*ck."

She was named in 2019 as part of Nunes' suit against the fictional Twitter accounts for her own criticisms of his behavior on the platform.

https://www.rawstory.com/devin-nunes-lawsuit-2654760315/

 

Google reported to the Australian federal government that it has removed nearly 800,000 YouTube videos related to COVID-19 and 275 million COVID-19 apps from its platform as part of its $1 billion (US$726 million) global campaign to “COVID-19″. to combat -19″. Wrong information.”

Google considers official government information from national health departments or the World Health Organization as reliable sources. Meanwhile, WHO famous This information changes over time as the world “learns more about the virus.”

“This has been a massive campaign and activity across our organization,” Longcroft said. “We have deployed significant resources and developed innovative tools, both human-based and machine-based, to curb harmful information and promote authoritative information.”

During the Senate meeting, Longcroft also confirmed that Google had “engaged very closely” with the Australian government, giving it AU$3.6 million of free advertising, resulting in a government-approved COVID-fighting service for Australian users. 19 information received 20.6 million impressions.

For example, in June, YouTube deleted a video In which Stanford Medicine Professor John Ioannidis discusses data related to COVID-19 and the negative effects of the ongoing lockdown. Despite several challenges to censorship, YouTube did not specify which part of Ioannidis’ interview was taken as misinformation.

Facebook in May deleted a post a. connect to Peer-Reviewed Lancet Articles, which stated that SARS-CoV-2 is spread through air transmission. The article criticized a claim made by a review funded by the World Health Organization (WHO) that no firm conclusions had been drawn about air transmission.

The authors of the Lancet article included world-renowned experts on aerosols, including American scientists Kimberly Prather and highly cited aerosol researchers Jose-Louis Jimenez from the University of Colorado.

“We fully believe that measuring misinformation is a real challenge,” Josh Machin, Facebook’s head of policy in Australia, told the Senate last month.

 

Censoring "false information" is a misnomer.
What it really is, is censorship.

 

Infamous anti-vax pastor throws tantrum after Twitter ban -- and claims he was kicked off for 'gospel bombs'

Matthew Chapman
September 14, 2021



Pastor Greg Locker -- Facebook screenshot

On Tuesday The Tennessean reported that infamous anti-vaccine Pastor Greg Locke has been permanently suspended from Twitter for spreading COVID-19 disinformation — and that he posted a lengthy tantrum on Facebook in response.

https://www.rawstory.com/anti-vax-pastor-2655027309/

 

So, then you're in favor of spreading misinformation...

Why am I not surprised!

 

Facebook deleted a few of my comments because they were racist.

I issued a complaint, telling that I only posted a few facts about racial differences, and that I documented the facts from credible sources of data. I added that I had never advocated violence, and that I had never advocated committing a crime.

Now I am allowed to post my racist comments.

Mark Zuckerberg, who co founded Facebook, is Jewish. On my Facebook account I post lots of favorable comments about Jews, but I do so sincerely, because I admire Jews; I respect Judaism; I love Israel.

Posting favorable comments about Jews got me banned from Stormfront and The Daily Stormer.

 

Mark Zuckerberg agreed not to fact check political posts as part of deal with Trump: New book

Travis Gettys
September 20, 2021



Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is facing a new firestorm over the social network's handling of Russian misinformation efforts in the 2016 US election season AFP/File / GERARD JULIEN



Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg agreed to push conservatism on his platform as part of an agreement with the Trump administration, according to a new book.

Venture capitalist Peter Thiel told a confidant that he and Zuckerberg met with the former president, Jared Kushner and their spouses at the White House in 2019, where the Facebook founder promised not to fact check political speech if the administration agreed not to impose heavy-handed regulations, according to excerpts from The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power published by New York Magazine.

"Facebook had long seen itself as a government unto itself," wrote author Max Chafkin, "now, thanks to the understanding brokered by Thiel, the site would push what the Thiel confidant called 'state-sanctioned conservatism.'"

Zuckerberg denied the deal, calling the idea "pretty ridiculous," but the social media platform allowed Trump posts seemingly calling for violence against Black Lives Matter protesters that Twitter removed, and the company mostly ignored calls to limit "Stop the Steal" groups after the former president's election loss.

Trump remains suspended from Facebook for two years following the Jan. 6 insurrection.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-facebook-2655063882/

 

I hear it told my brother-in-law got suspended from facebook to saying that Shaq is a ''commercial whore''

 

The 'Rosetta Stone of the far right' just got hacked — and its secrets are being revealed




www.rawstory.com


On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported on the hack of Epik, a domain hosting website that has become synonymous with far-right groups and causes.

"Online records show those sites have included 8chan, which was dropped by its providers after hosting the manifesto of a gunman who killed 51 Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019; Gab, which was dropped for hosting the antisemitic rants of a gunman who killed 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018; and Parler, which was dropped due to lax moderation related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack," reported Drew Harwell, Craig Timberg, and Hannah Allam.

Epik also briefly hosted the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer, and prolifewhistleblower.com, the website set up to facilitate bounty-hunting snitches for the new Texas abortion law.

According to the report, experts are combing through the data of the leak, which came courtesy of the hacker group Anonymous and includes everything from client names to home addresses to the account credential of far-right site administrators.

"Extremism researchers and political opponents have treated the leak as a Rosetta Stone to the far-right, helping them to decode who has been doing what with whom over several years," said the report. "Initial revelations have spilled out steadily across Twitter since news of the hack broke last week, often under the hashtag #epikfail, but those studying the material say they will need months and perhaps years to dig through all of it."

One of the revelations provided by the leak, said the report, was that Epik had weak security measures.

"Epik's security protocols have been the target of ridicule among researchers, who've marveled at the site's apparent failure to take basic security precautions, such as routine encryption that could have protected data about its customers from becoming public," said the report. "Similar failings by other hacked companies have drawn scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission, which has probed companies such as dating site Ashley Madison for failing to protect their customers' private data from hackers. FTC investigations have resulted in settlements imposing financial penalties and more rigorous privacy standards."

You can read more here.

https://www.rawstory.com/epik-hack/

 

The best disinfectant for treasonous conservative/Republicans is daylight. And this looks like it might be ants under a magnifying glass.

Huge hack reveals embarrassing details of who's behind Proud Boys and other far-right websites
Drew Harwell
Tue, September 21, 2021, 12:53 PM·8 min read

Epik long has been the favorite Internet company of the far-right, providing domain services to QAnon theorists, Proud Boys and other instigators of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol - allowing them to broadcast hateful messages from behind a veil of anonymity.

But that veil abruptly vanished last week when a huge breach by the hacker group Anonymous dumped into public view more than 150 gigabytes of previously private data - including user names, passwords and other identifying information of Epik's customers.

Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post.

Extremism researchers and political opponents have treated the leak as a Rosetta Stone to the far-right, helping them to decode who has been doing what with whom over several years. Initial revelations have spilled out steadily across Twitter since news of the hack broke last week, often under the hashtag #epikfail, but those studying the material say they will need months and perhaps years to dig through all of it.

"It's massive. It may be the biggest domain-style leak I've seen and, as an extremism researcher, it's certainly the most interesting," said Megan Squire, a computer science professor at Elon University who studies right-wing extremism. "It's an embarrassment of riches - stress on the embarrassment."

Drew Harwell
Tue, September 21, 2021, 12:53 PM·8 min read
Epik long has been the favorite Internet company of the far-right, providing domain services to QAnon theorists, Proud Boys and other instigators of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol - allowing them to broadcast hateful messages from behind a veil of anonymity.

But that veil abruptly vanished last week when a huge breach by the hacker group Anonymous dumped into public view more than 150 gigabytes of previously private data - including user names, passwords and other identifying information of Epik's customers.

Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post.

Extremism researchers and political opponents have treated the leak as a Rosetta Stone to the far-right, helping them to decode who has been doing what with whom over several years. Initial revelations have spilled out steadily across Twitter since news of the hack broke last week, often under the hashtag #epikfail, but those studying the material say they will need months and perhaps years to dig through all of it.

"It's massive. It may be the biggest domain-style leak I've seen and, as an extremism researcher, it's certainly the most interesting," said Megan Squire, a computer science professor at Elon University who studies right-wing extremism. "It's an embarrassment of riches - stress on the embarrassment."

Related video: How extremist groups are targeting new, younger members


Scroll back up to restore default view.
Epik, based in the Seattle suburb of Sammamish, has made its name in the Internet world by providing critical Web services to sites that have run afoul of other companies' policies against hate speech, misinformation and advocating violence. Its client list is a roll-call of sites known for permitting extreme posts and that have been rejected by other companies for their failure to moderate what their users post.

Online records show those sites have included 8chan, which was dropped by its providers after hosting the manifesto of a gunman who killed 51 Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019; Gab, which was dropped for hosting the anti-Semitic rants of a gunman who killed 11 in a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018; and Parler, which was dropped due to lax moderation related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

Epik also provides services to a network of sites devoted to extremist QAnon conspiracy theories. Epik briefly hosted the neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer in 2019 after acquiring a cybersecurity company that had provided it with hosting services, but Epik soon canceled that contract, according to news reports. Epik also stopped supporting 8chan after a short period of time, the company has said.

Earlier this month, Epik also briefly provided service to the antiabortion group Texas Right to Life, whose website, ProLifeWhistleblower.com, was removed by the hosting service GoDaddy because it solicited accusations about which medical providers might be violating a state abortion ban.

An Epik attorney said the company stopped working with the site because it violated company rules against collecting people's private information. Online records show Epik was still the site's domain registrar as of last week, though the digital tip line is no longer available, and the site now redirects to the group's homepage.

Epik founder Robert Monster's willingness to provide technical support to online sanctuaries of the far-right have made him a regular target of anti-extremism advocates, who criticized him for using Epik's tools to republish the Christchurch gunman's manifesto and live-streamed video the killer had made of the slaughter.

Monster also used the moment as a marketing opportunity, saying the files were now "effectively uncensorable," according to screenshots of his tweets and Gab posts from the time. Monster also urged Epik employees to watch the video, which he said would convince them it was faked, Bloomberg News reported.

Monster has defended his work as critical to keeping the Internet uncensored and free, aligning himself with conservative critics who argue that leading technology companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Amazon and YouTube have gone too far in policing content they deem inappropriate.

Monster did not respond to requests for comment from The Washington Post. But he said in an email to customers two days after hackers announced the breach that the company had suffered an "alleged security incident" and asked customers to report back any "unusual account activity."

"You are in our prayers today," Monster wrote last week, as news of the hack spread. "When situations arise where individuals might not have honorable intentions, I pray for them. I believe that what the enemy intends for evil, God invariably transforms into good. Blessings to you all."

Since the hack, Epik's security protocols have been the target of ridicule among researchers, who've marveled at the site's apparent failure to take basic security precautions such as routine encryption that could have protected data about its customers from becoming public.

The files include years of website purchase records, internal company emails and customer account credentials revealing who administers some of the biggest far-right websites. The data includes client names, home addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords left in plain, readable text. The hack even exposed the personal records from Anonymize, a privacy service Epik offered to customers wanting to conceal their identity.

Similar failings by other hacked companies have drawn scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission, which has probed companies such as dating site Ashley Madison for failing to protect their customers private data from hackers. FTC investigations have resulted in settlements imposing financial penalties and more rigorous privacy standards.

"Given Epik's boasts about security, and the scope of its web hosting, I would think it would be an FTC target, especially if the company was warned but failed to take protective action," said David Vladeck, a former head of the FTC's consumer protection bureau, now at Georgetown University Law Center. "I would add that the FTC wouldn't care about the content - right wing or left wing; the questions would be the possible magnitude and impact of the breach and the representations . . . the company may have made about security."

The FTC declined to comment.

Researchers poring through the trove say the most crucial findings concern the identities of people hosting various extremist sites and the key role Epik played in keeping material online that might otherwise have vanished from the Internet - or at least the parts of the Internet that are easily stumbled upon by ordinary users.

"The company played such a major role in keeping far-right terrorist cesspools alive," said Rita Katz, executive director of SITE Intelligence Group, which studies online extremism. "Without Epik, many extremist communities - from QAnon and white nationalists to accelerationist neo-Nazis - would have had far less oxygen to spread harm, whether that be building toward the January 6 Capitol riots or sowing the misinformation and conspiracy theories chipping away at democracy."

The breach, first reported by the freelance journalist Steven Monacelli, was made publicly available for download last week alongside a note from Anonymous hackers saying it would help researchers trace the ownership and management of "the worst trash the Internet has to offer."

After the hackers' announcement, Epik initially said it was "not aware of any breach." But in a rambling, three-hour live stream last week, Monster acknowledged there had been a "hijack of data that should not have been hijacked" and called on people not to use the data for "negative" purposes.

"If you have a negative intent to use that data, it's not going to work out for you. I'm just telling you," he said. "If the demon tells you to do it, the demon is not your friend."

Several domains in the leak are associated with the far-right Proud Boys group, which is known for violent street brawls and involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and was banned by Facebook in 2018 as a hate group.

A Twitter account, @epikfailsnippet, that is posting unverified revelations from the leaked data, included a thread purporting to expose administrators of the Proud Boys sites. One man who was identified by name as administrator of a local Proud Boys forum was said to be an employee of Drexel University; the university said he hasn't worked at Drexel since November 2020.

Technology news site the Daily Dot reported that Ali Alexander, a conservative political activist who played a key role in spreading false voter fraud claims about the 2020 presidential election, took steps after the Jan. 6 siege to obscure his ownership of more than 100 domains registered to Epik. Nearly half reportedly used variations of the "Stop the Steal" slogan pushed by Alexander and others. Alexander did not reply to requests for comment from the Daily Dot or, on Tuesday, from The Post.

Extremism researchers urge careful fact-checking to protect credibility, but the data remains tantalizing for its potential to unmask extremists in public-facing jobs.

Emma Best, co-founder of Distributed Denial of Secrets, a nonprofit whistleblower group, said some researchers call the Epik hack "the Panama Papers of hate groups," a comparison to the leak of more than 11 million documents that exposed a rogue offshore finance industry. And, like the Panama Papers, scouring the files is labor intensive, with payoffs that could be months away.

"A lot of research begins with naming names," Best said. "There's a lot of optimism and feeling of being overwhelmed, and people knowing they're in for the long haul with some of this data."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/huge-hack-reveals-embarrassing-details-185327291.html

 

Many Republicans are secretly 'thrilled' Trump can't use Twitter to keep 'his boot on their necks': Maggie Haberman

Brad Reed
September 27, 2021



New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman appears on CNN/Screenshot


New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on Monday claimed that many Republican lawmakers secretly agree with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) about former President Donald Trump, although they still aren't willing to take their grievances public.

Haberman said that while not all Republicans secretly harbored dislike of Trump, the number who do is a significant number.

"What [Cheney] says about the number of lawmakers who also resent him, who feel as if he has his boot on their necks, who feel as if they're going to get threatened and are thrilled that he doesn't have his Twitter feed anymore, that's real too," she said.

That said, these Republicans were still worried about angering their own voters by crossing the former president.

"At the moment, the party's base is with the former president, and contrary to predictions that that was going to change when he left office, we haven't seen that," she said. "If anything, we have seen the number of Republicans who have, you know, bought into his falsehoods about the last election have also grown."

Watch the video below.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-republicans-2655178921/

 

Funny.
Like trump is a marine or sumpin.
Not many deplorables give much thought to what trump is about lately.

Thats become a despicable thing.