Facing a world in which the extraordinary will become ordinary, and the ordinary may become impossible | Continue reading

Why am I the only one worried about what happens to our LLM prompts? | Continue reading

Yet another MAGA attempt to stifle constitutionally protected speech. | Continue reading

(Clapping back at Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger's bullshit) | Continue reading

We know too little about the platform providing 'bulletproof' chat services to the Internet's worst actors | Continue reading

Six months of research in one hour. | Continue reading

Unraveling the complex factors behind Sam Altman’s untimely exit | Continue reading

#IncidentResponse #Consulting | Continue reading

Disinformation, hate speech, and attacks against critical infrastructure will now be considered by the International Criminal Court. | Continue reading

A starter framework towards addressing the types of persistent threats which are often incubated within toxic Internet cultures such as Kiwi Farms. | Continue reading

You're using your smartphone, scrolling through your favorite apps, sending messages, and staying connected. But what if some of those innocent-looking apps are not what they seem? | Continue reading

Did you hear? Twitter is planning to kill its critical blocking feature | Continue reading

When China's prodigious tech influencer, Naomi Wu, found herself silenced, it wasn't just the machinery of a surveillance state at play. Instead, it was... | Continue reading

My first-ever piece of Internet content dating back to October 2011 | Continue reading

A win for the First Amendment–also a boon for stalkers and harassers! In a landmark decision that is no doubt sending shockwaves through legal communities and advocacy groups, the Supreme Court just ushered in a major shift in the way threats are legally defined and prosecuted. | Continue reading

What is the RESTRICT Act, and what will it mean if it becomes law? Dear Reader, Ever since I first saw Tulsi Gabbard fear-mongering on Twitter about the surveillance implications of the RESTRICT Act, I knew I wanted to write a clear-eyed analysis of this bill and how it could imp … | Continue reading

Deciphering the complex impact of disinformation on networked societies. Sometimes I really wonder what the point of doing this job is. False claims that you'd debunked at least several times in the past reappear, and go even more viral than the previous occasions. | Continue reading

Elon Musk, one of the most high-profile tech figures globally, has come under scrutiny for his handling of Twitter after acquiring the social media platform. His leadership style, characterized by drastic changes, public controversies, and disregard for basic social norms, has sp … | Continue reading

Punch line: they're the same person. New details have emerged in the case of an anonymous poster on the harassment website "OnAForums" who has claimed to be a police officer and is alleged to have used his position to conduct illegal surveillance on a man's location through his m … | Continue reading

Peeling back a Twitter influence operation with Taiwan-focused disinformation elements to show you how it works | Continue reading

by Scott Stedman and Jackie Singh This piece originally appeared in Forensic News on August 1, 2022. | Continue reading

…And what was she doing in the office of Twitter's CEO? Dear Reader, As is typical for me, I was skimming a dataset, and something unusual jumped out at me. In today’s case, I won’t bore you with too many investigative details, since I’m not sure they really matter at this junctu … | Continue reading