Topic: Logically
Logically is a fact-checking organization that has faced scrutiny for its role in flagging content on social media platforms. Its operations highlight the intersection of fact-checking, censorship, and surveillance, raising concerns about the implications for free speech and individual privacy. The involvement of government entities in monitoring and regulating online discourse further complicates the environment of digital rights.
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Fact-Checker Logically Sold After Going Into Administration Amid Big Tech Retreat from Speech Flagging
A $30 million experiment in algorithmic “truth”-telling ends in a quiet asset sale.
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UK MP Questions Whether Elon Musk and JD Vance’s Criticism of Censorship Laws May Constitute “Foreign Interference”
When opinions from abroad start sounding like crimes, it’s not interference — it’s insecurity.
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UK Disinformation Unit Minutes Reveal Consideration of Placing Government Employees Inside Social Media Companies
The same tactics as the Chinese Communist Party.
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Washington State’s Social Media Surveillance Program Flags Posts by Journalists and State Rep. Jim Walsh
Controversial speech monitoring.
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WA Secretary of State Hobbs, Despite Ethics Complaints, Boasts Using AI To Surveil Social Media
Steve Hobbs ignores criticism, proceeds to surveil online speech.
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Arizona State GOP Submits Official Ethics Complaint Against WA Secretary of State Steve Hobbs for Alleged Misuse of Public Money in Monitoring and Suppressing Criticism
Allegations of surveillance and censorship.
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Republican State Lawmakers Call For Halt of Oregon’s Election “Misinformation” Big Tech Flagging Program
Free speech and privacy concerns.
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Exposed: The UK Company Subjecting Your Social Media Posts To State Surveillance
Logically is partnered with Big Tech platforms.
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DHS to spend almost $700,000 of taxpayers’ cash on studying “extremism” in video gaming
The DHS has a recent trend of projects targeting tech and the internet.
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DHS considers using January 6 to justify mass social media surveillance of citizens
A further civil rights challenge, outsourced to private companies.
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Alleged owner of popular QAnon site QMap fired after fact-checker contacted his employer
QMap was shut down shortly after the fact-checker published an investigation into the alleged owner.
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Popular QAnon site QMap shut down after fact-checker publishes alleged owner’s details and registered address
QMap was reportedly a popular site for supporters of the online QAnon movement.