Naga Pramod
Naga Pramod is a computer science major and tech news reporter with a passion for cyber security, networking, and data science. [email protected]
Chinese activists detained for archiving censored coronavirus articles to be tried as criminals
Chen Mei and Cai Wei have been detained for weeks for archiving articles the Chinese Communist Party didn’t want people to see.
Zoom says it will continue to censor for China, (but only against citizens in mainland China)
Zoom says it’s working on technology that will allow it to implement geographical restrictions.
Facebook employees balk at the idea of internal Workplace tool blacklisting the word “unionize”
While employees advocate for censorship on the Facebook platform, they don’t want to be censored internally.
Twitter takes down at least some of China’s propaganda artists and bots
Chinese bots have been active on Twitter for at least a year.
Those Who Were Punished for Voicing Their Opinions on Black Lives Matter Protests or Riots
A non-exhaustive list of some of those who have taken the fall.
Disclosed: US news outlets paid to run China’s propaganda
The advertorials seem a lot like news pieces.
Little Britain pulled from streaming services for racial insensitivity because “times have changed”
Even post-millennium shows are being pulled as they don’t comply with the more sensitive tendencies of today.
Facebook moderators call on Zuckerberg to honor “Black employees and users” and censor President Trump
Facebook employees are continuing to put pressure on Zuckerberg.
Employees call on bosses to shut down Blue Lives Matter website
Some employees aren’t happy that one of the more successful websites in the portfolio supports police.
Alex Berenson’s lockdown skeptic book rockets to top of Kindle charts after Amazon’s censorship backlash
While the book was set to do well, it was likely also helped along by the Streisand effect.
BBC “worried” that encrypted apps like Signal can’t be searched for “misinformation” in private conversations
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, several social media platforms and apps have happily decided to promote only World Health Organization-approved narratives and news across the world. While social media platforms are doing so to evade “misinformation” on their platform, the director of B