Games Cambridge Analytica's financiers somehow got hold of a simulation game designed to warn about machine-learning's corruption of politics Cory Doctorow
Business Cambridge Analytica is out of business, but its heavy hitters have reopened under a new name Cory Doctorow
christ what an asshole Cambridge Analytica became a US powerhouse thanks Mercer's laundered money and a judas goat named John Bolton Cory Doctorow
Business Just because Cambridge Analytica tells its customers it can sway elections, it doesn't follow that they're any good at it Cory Doctorow
videos Facebook insists that Cambridge Analytica didn't "breach" data, but "misused" it, and they're willing to sue anyone who says otherwise Cory Doctorow
facebook With repetition, most of us will become inured to all the dirty tricks of Facebook attention-manipulation Cory Doctorow
trumpism Rumour mill says that the Mercers are going to axe Bannon from Breitbart over "Fire and Fury" remarks Cory Doctorow
politics Roger Stone admits he talked Wikileaks and Julian Assange with Trump campaign in 2016, Steve Bannon and Rebekah Mercer oddly connected Xeni Jardin
happy mutants Chicagoans can actually play "Machine Learning President," the election RPG Cory Doctorow
computational propaganda Cambridge Analytica instructs its lawyers to warn journalists Mark Frauenfelder
facebookalypse Facebook says giving Cambridge Analytica info on 50 million people wasn't a “breach.” It was a feature Mark Frauenfelder
politics The Tea Party's baseless claims of IRS discrimination left the agency on life-support, unable to police dark money gushing through "charities" Cory Doctorow
uk Thanks to the EU, the UK's privacy law may solve the mystery of Facebook and the last US election Cory Doctorow
elections Guess who donated all the money to Black Americans for a Better Future Super PAC? Rich white men. Cory Doctorow
corruption Ted Cruz campaign hires dirty data-miners who slurped up millions of Facebook users' data Cory Doctorow