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National Science Foundation Faces FOIA Requests Over Funding of Online Speech Moderation Tools
ADF seeks transparency on NSF’s role in online speech moderation with FOIA requests.
Bank of England’s Fake “Privacy” Push Sparks Fears of Surveillance Currency
The Bank of England’s digital pound plans raise critical privacy concerns, emphasizing “privacy, not anonymity,” amid data security risks.
Members
House Weaponization Committee Report Warns of AI-Enabled Censorship Echoing 2020 Social Media Suppression
The detailed report unveils alarming potential for AI-driven censorship, backed by the Biden administration, reminiscent of the Hunter Biden laptop story suppression.
Campaign funded by Pfizer and Moderna lobbyists sent Twitter weekly lists of tweets to censor
Some of the content targeted by the campaign included articles that were “using the news to further prove the CDC is untrustworthy.”
Google to introduce behavioral “interventions”
The next dystopian idea, including proposals such as “pre-bunking.”
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World Economic Forum pushes MIT program that automatically detects “disinformation narratives” online
More calls for censorship.
Facebook, quite literally, wants to hear your thoughts
Facebook has a new patent for “subvocalized speech recognition glasses.”
Poll suggests majority of people support big tech contact tracing
The pandemic has been a big boon for big tech overreach.
Free and open source software is being sold commercially in the Microsoft Store
Microsoft doesn’t appear to be bothered about the practice.