Didi Rankovic
Didi Rankovic is an experienced online journalist, editor, and translator, with a career spanning over ten years writing for major a English-language website in Serbia, and previously working as translator for international organizations and peacekeepers in the Balkans. Rankovic is passionate about free and open source tech and is a head contributor for Reclaim The Net, focusing on lead stories. [email protected]
Keybase’s Stellar Airdop program to end after a series of problems
The lumen (XLM) airdrop scheme, set up by secure messaging service Keybase and the Stellar Foundation – who are behind the Stellar decentralized protocol to transfer cryptocurrency to fiat money – is coming to an end. Announced in September, the airdrop was worth 2 billion XML (Stellar’s crypto
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey suggests a decentralized future for Twitter
The idea is somewhat at odds with how Twitter has operated up to this point.
New “WhatsApp by Facebook” loading screen causes some users to threaten to abandon the app
Somehow, this is what it took for some users.
Facebook malfunction suggests its ads transparency tools are missing data
Journalists are spooked.
Tom Brokaw laments lack of trust in journalists in social media era, “we’ve lost control”
Brokaw seems to think fake news is something new.
Merriam-Webster dictionary chooses personal pronoun “they” as “word of the year”
For 2018 it was “justice.” For 2017, it was “feminism.”
The Information’s battle to be allowed on Apple’s App Store highlights the power that Apple yield
Apple’s strict App Story policy has often been called into question.
India ruling says YouTube should remove copyrighted content before being asked
India doesn’t think much of YouTube’s Content ID system.
Macron’s far-reaching hate speech laws are facing criticism and challenges
The EU has frozen the bill.
Twitter suspends journalists for reporting on the Pensacola shooter’s motives
Twitter’s actions have faced criticism.
Rutgers study: social platforms portray themselves as “benevolent actors” and see users as “deviants”
The study explores “platform paternalism.”
Facebook policy is deactivating WhatsApp accounts of censored Kashmir people
Facebook won’t make an exception to its rules for those struggling with internet shutdowns.