Russia’s IRA Targeted Black Americans, Exploiting Racial Tensions
Two days before the 2016 presidential election, @woke_blacks posted an anti-voting polemic to its Instagram account. “The excuse that a lost Black […]
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Russia Targeted Black Americans, Exploiting Racial Tensions
Two days before the 2016 presidential election, @woke_blacks posted an anti-voting polemic to its Instagram account. “The excuse that a lost Black […]
How Instagram Became the Russian IRA’s Go-To Social Network
For Russian misinformation-mongers, 2017 was the year of Instagram. As Facebook and Twitter cracked down on foreign influence campaigns amid media scrutiny, […]
How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America
There’s a meme on Instagram, circulated by a group called “Born Liberal.” A fist holds a cluster of strings, reaching down into […]
Facebook or YouTube Down? What We All Do When Sites Crash
It’s no secret that Silicon Valley has monopolized our time: The average adult spends 24 hours per week online. It’s tempting to […]
A Complete Guide to All 17 (Known) Trump and Russia Investigations
While popular memory today remembers Watergate as five DNC burglars leading inexorably to Richard Nixon’s resignation two years later, history recalls that […]
Remove the ViewMyPDF Ads Chrome Adware Extension
In order to remove ViewMyPDF Ads Chrome Adware Extension completely you will need to reset Chrome back to its initial settings. Doing […]
Remove the Please tap the Allow button to continue Notification Page
In order to remove Please tap the Allow button to continue Notification Page completely you will need to reset Chrome back to […]
Taylor Swift’s Facial Recognition, the Year’s Worst Passwords, and More Security News This Week
If you thought you were going to make it out of 2018 without a couple more data slip-ups, think again! Two incidents […]
Facebook Exposed 6.8 Million Users’ Photos to Cap Off a Terrible 2018
Friday morning, Facebook disclosed the latest in the ongoing series of privacy and security lapses that have come to define the company […]