Business Google continues to funnel vast sums to notorious climate deniers Cory Doctorow

politics Facebook removes Trump ally Roger Stone's accounts and pages Xeni Jardin

facebook In a panic over fleeing advertisers, Facebook launches PR blitz to announce it is "a mirror to society" Mark Frauenfelder

politics Twitter kills 32,242 propaganda accounts, Russia, China, Turkey 'state-linked information operations' Xeni Jardin

Technology North Dakota's COVID-19 contact tracing app leaks location data to Foursquare and a Google Ads ID: Report Xeni Jardin

politics Facebook says it will show geographic origin of some posts, to thwart foreign political disinformation campaigns Xeni Jardin

Gadgets You're probably paying too much for car insurance, but that's an easy fix Boing Boing's Shop

racism Facebook refused to remove racist and anti-Semitic group page until it got a letter from New Jersey Attorney General Mark Frauenfelder

Business Frontier, a terrible company, is going bankrupt Cory Doctorow

security Schneier: "It's really too late to secure 5G networks" Cory Doctorow

security Facebook & Twitter ban pro-Trump network that reached 55 million accounts with AI-generated faces, Epoch Media Group and Falun Gong links identified Xeni Jardin

Gadgets 3 VPN options that will help you stay protected in 2019 and beyond Boing Boing's Shop

law Trump's FCC won a terrible victory in last week's net neutrality ruling, but we're still winning the war Cory Doctorow

surveillance America's rotten ISPs object to encrypted DNS, argue that losing the ability to spy on your traffic puts them at a competitive disadvantage Cory Doctorow

elections Report from Defcon's Voting Village reveals ongoing dismal state of US electronic voting machines Cory Doctorow

politics Read the whistleblower complaint about Donald Trump Rob Beschizza

security In Cambridge Analytica clean-up, Facebook says it killed 'Tens of Thousands' of apps Xeni Jardin

christ what an asshole Robert Bork is the architect of the inequality crisis Cory Doctorow

trump Immigrant detention facility driver slams truck into protesters, causing serious injuries Xeni Jardin

health Big Pharma's origin: how the Chicago School and private equity shifted medicine's focus from health to wealth Cory Doctorow