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]
The Chechnyan government doesn’t like YouTubers not approved by their special arts commission
They also believe artists must always wear “strict outfits and behave modestly.”
Moderate voices on Twitter are lost in a sea of outrage, research shows
Twitter is causing people to product outrage content, or be ignored.
Amazon and Google don’t like you calling their smart speakers “surveillance devices”
The companies are trying to battle the negative perception of their smart speakers.
Amazon is on the brink of EU antitrust investigation
Amazon will face investigation within days.
President Trump says he’s “looking at” Google’s ties to Chinese military
After Peter Thiel’s suggestion about Google being compromised by China, President Trump is taking it seriously.
Google uses auto-generated AMP pages that likely reduce the likelihood of users clicking out of Google
The content also appears to be generated from publisher’s pages but reduces the need for users to click through to publishers.
Christian quote removed as “hate speech” by Facebook
The removal was confirmed by manual review.
UK Labour Party demands documentary exposing anti-semitism within the party is removed from the internet
The party told the BBC they should take the documentary down and only reupload it when they make the changes they want.
Brave’s Basic Attention Token reaches over 200,000 registered publishers
The Basic Attention Token is rapidly growing.
FBI to increase social media monitoring efforts
The bureau has announced that it’s going to increase social media monitoring of “persons of interest”.
Amazon employees urge CEO Jeff Bezos to stop working with Palantir that helps ICE deport illegal immigrants
Palantir’s founder is Peter Thiel, a supporter of President Donald Trump.
UK police are still investigating journalists over the Edward Snowden case from 2013
UK’s National Union of Journalists criticized it by saying that reporting about unlawful surveillance was in the public interest.