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AFP
Twitter CEO’s Account Hacked, Offensive Tweets Posted
31 Aug 2019
The messages contained racial epithets and included a retweet of a message supporting Nazi Germany.
Prabir Purkayastha
Hacking Elections: Tales From Far and Near
02 Aug 2019
The Netflix film, The Great Hack, focuses on Cambridge Analytica and the Trump elections, and also registers the role of a global right-wing network in influencing elections using big money and their…
Abir Dasgupta, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Election Commission Failed to Curb Fake News Online Before 2019 Lok Sabha Polls
30 Jul 2019
Caught in the midst of a high-stakes battle on the future of regulating the internet, the EC tried and failed miserably to regulate online propaganda, political campaigning, and fake news prior to…
PTI
US Trade Commission Sues Cambridge Analytica for Duping Facebook Users
25 Jul 2019
The UK-based data company is accused of acquiring data from up to 87 million Facebook profiles for use in political campaigns around the world.
Jai Vipra
What’s up with Libra? Everything That Should Concern Us About Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency
02 Jul 2019
The central problem with Libra is not that it is not decentralized; it is that it is not accountable to all the people that it will affect.
Prasanth R.
Decoding Facebook's Libra
28 Jun 2019
Newsclick's Prabir Purkayastha talks about Facebook's latest venture, Libra, which is being pegged as a cryptocurrency
Prabir Purkayastha
Facebook’s Funny Money – Facebucks – and Real Money
28 Jun 2019
What the Facebookers will be doing, by buying Libra or Facebucks, is increasing the pile of liquid money for Facebook.
Associated Press
Facebook Plans Own Globe-Spanning Currency for 2 Billion-Plus Users
18 Jun 2019
The social network unveiled an ambitious plan on Tuesday to create a new digital currency, Libra, similar to Bitcoin, to drive more e-commerce and ads on its platforms.
PTI
Pakistani Blogger-Journalist, Known Critic of Army, Hacked to Death
17 Jun 2019
Muhammad Bilal Khan, 22, having over 16,000 Twitter followers, 48,000 on his YouTube channel and 22,000 on Facebook, was killed by unidentified men.
Prabir Purkayastha
Global Capital, Digital Monopolies and New Forms of Enclosure
15 Jun 2019
The sharing economy is the enclosure of personal property by digital monopolies and creating a new form of casual labour.