Tom Parker
Tom Parker is a founder and lead editor for Reclaim The Net and provides news and analysis on how we can promote free speech, stop censorship, and protect our personal data online.
World Economic Forum will plot how to counter “misinformation” at its 2023 annual meeting
The international group wants to predict and mitigate what it determines to be misinformation.
NYT op-ed: “Privacy at all costs” is “dangerous,” use of Signal and similar tools “puts us all at risk”
The piece branded Signal “government-evading technology.”
Trump tech advisor reportedly urged Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft to “combat misinformation”
Internal Twitter documents claim the Trump admin wanted tech companies to combat “misinformation that could stoke panic buying and behaviors.”
Biden admin was “very angry” Twitter wouldn’t censor more aggressively – Twitter Files
“The Biden team was not satisfied with Twitter’s enforcement approach as they wanted Twitter to do more and to de-platform several accounts.”
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is helping to fund the salaries of dozens of Biden officials
Some of these officials have been placed with the goal of focusing on AI and clean energy — two areas where Schmidt has investments.
TikTok spied on US journalists and other US users, monitored their location
Highlighting the privacy concerns many have raised about the social media app.
New report shows extent of Apple’s censorship for China and Russia’s governments
VPNs and private browsing apps are the main types of apps that are unavailable in these countries.
UK ISP Three is blocking private email service Tutanota
“ISPs must not have the power to decide which online services users can or can not access.”
Meta likely has your phone number and email, even if you never shared them. Here’s how to delete this data.
A little known data deletion tool.
Truth Social launches direct messages
Available for all users.
FBI tried to get Twitter to share account information without a warrant
More evidence of the agency attempting to extract data from Twitter directly.
Even former Twitter censor expressed discomfort with FBI demands
New internal discussions revealed.