The Joy of Tech® ‘Bill Gates Conspiracy Theory’
Via the Comic Noggins of Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech®! Permalink ...
YouTube to reduce recommendations of ‘conspiracy theory’ videos that misinform users in the US
YouTube announced an update regarding YouTube recommendations last week. As per the new update, YouTube aims to reduce the recommendations of videos that promote misinformation ( eg; conspiracy videos, false claims about ...
HPSCI Takes Misinformation, Conspiracy Theories Hearing Online
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a virtual hearing on the topic of Misinformation and Conspiracy Theories with an august panel of specialists well-steeped in how disinformation and misinformation are ...
Why 8kun Went Offline During the January 6 Hearings
The latest Jan. 6 committee hearing on Tuesday examined the role of conspiracy theory communities like 8kun[.]top and TheDonald[.]win in helping to organize and galvanize supporters who responded to former President Trump's ...
Russian Disinformation Evolving Across the Globe | Avast
Authors: Sadia Afroz and Vibhor Sehgal. On February 24, a conspiracy theory emerged that Russia attacked Ukraine to destroy a clandestine U.S. weapons program. This narrative, started by a QAnon follower on ...
Debunking: that Jones Alfa-Trump report
The Alfa-Trump conspiracy-theory has gotten a new life. Among the new things is a report done by Democrat operative Daniel Jones [*]. In this blogpost, I debunk that report.If you'll recall, the ...
Fact check: that “forensics” of the Mesa image is crazy
Tina Peters, the elections clerk from Mesa County (Colorado) went rogue, creating a "disk-image" of the election server, and posting that image to the public Internet. Conspiracy theorists have been analyzing the ...
Hamas May Be Threat to 8chan, QAnon Online
In October 2020, KrebsOnSecurity looked at how a web of sites connected to conspiracy theory movements QAnon and 8chan were being kept online by DDoS-Guard, a dodgy Russian firm that also hosts ...
QAnon/8Chan Sites Briefly Knocked Offline
A phone call to an Internet provider in Oregon on Sunday evening was all it took to briefly sideline multiple websites related to 8chan/8kun -- a controversial online image board linked to ...
A requirements spec for voting
In software development, we start with a "requirements specification" defining what the software is supposed to do. Voting machine security is often in the news, with suspicion the Russians are trying to ...
