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Senior Business Reporter. Built from fledgling Gawker site into a national force bought by Consumer Reports.

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Feb 14

    This is our love letter to democracy.

    publishes 200,000 tweets from Russian trolls Twitter tied to “malicious” election activity — but deleted from voters, journalists and researchers. As Kremlin targets our 2018 elections, let’s learn from the painful past instead of erasing it.
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  2. Retweeted
    May 7
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    Even talking about Roko's Basilisk condemns a whole bunch of people to eternal torment, Elon. Can u not.

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  3. 15 hours ago

    Elon Musk is punning about a philosophical thought experiment called "Roko's Basilik." in which a super-AI punishes simulations of those who don't bring about its creation. Simply reading about it is enough to be marked.

    Rococo basilisk
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  4. May 4

    Here's what the engineer could have seen: "pictures and posts they have shared only with friends, or unencrypted private messages"

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  5. May 4

    Fallout from fired snooping Facebook engineer yields new details on "Sauron alert" feature - Facebook employees get special alert when colleague accesses their profile. Users don't have it.

    Facebook employees get what’s called a ‘Sauron alert’ when a colleague accesses their personal profile—yet ordinary users have no idea if a Facebook employee logs into their account
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  6. May 4

    Change your Twitter password today

    Twitter advises all users to change their passwords after a bug was found that exposed passwords in plain text
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  7. May 2

    Facebook is advertising its scandal cleanups on the New York City subway

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  8. May 2

    Security professionals, how common is this kind of line crossing in the industry and at Facebook? What specific safeguards need to be in place?

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  9. May 2

    Hi if you work/worked at Facebook and have thoughts about employees accessing user data beyond the scope of their job duties, I'm all ears.

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  10. May 2

    Good question ->

    Why does a security engineer need access to non-public data in the first place? Security engineers should manage keys, data custodians should access encrypted data, and users should be able to decrypt data.
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  11. May 1

    Facebook fires engineer accused of abusing his access privileges to "stalk" women online Awkwardly, this is on the same day Facebook announced a new dating feature.

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  12. May 1

    Facebook tells it has fired employee accused of abusing his privileges to stalk women online

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  13. Apr 24

    On 10/16/2016, identified Russian troll prettylaraplace retweeted a request that Trump appoint John Bolton, our database shows: "RT : Dear Please appoint and to your cabinet "

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  14. Apr 24

    I show on how searching for "Saturn" and "Uranus" on YouTube pushes you toward a galaxy of conspiracy videos -- thanks to their recommendation algorithm running amok

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  15. Apr 20

    Congrats to an awesome team!

    A memo to staffers from Noah Oppenheim on the network’s business & tech success:
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  16. Apr 20

    Is there an AdBlock for YouTube conspiracy videos?

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  17. Apr 20

    Descend into the conspiracy clickhole in real time

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    As algorithms take over, YouTube's recommendations highlight a human problem. has more.
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  18. Retweeted
    Apr 19

    If you think YouTube is driving your kid to conspiracy theories at an exponential rate, that's because YouTube is driving your kid to conspiracy theories at an exponential rate. talked to an ex-YouTube whistleblower, and has data to back it up.

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  19. Apr 19

    Try out Youtube’s recommendation algorithm. Sign out of YouTube. Clear cookies and start new private browsing session. Search look for interesting results. See where they take you. Then see where the interesting results go. How many clicks before you hit conspiracies?

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  20. Apr 19

    I searched for “Uranus” on YouTube for my kid’s science project and the site’s recommendation algorithm started showing conspiracy videos and Putin propaganda. A Google engineer turned whistleblower explains why w great work by

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  21. Apr 19

    First collaboration with the fantastic to expose the hate meme ecosystem pumping the fake Starbucks coupon and other viral hoaxes

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