Elon Musk, X Fought Surveillance While Profiting Off Surveillance

"While it was unclear whether, under Musk, X would continue leasing access to its users to Dataminr — and by extension, the government — the emails from the Secret Service confirm that, as of last summer, the social media platform was still very much in the government surveillanc … | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 month ago

Questions and answers about the new social media network Bluesky that you don’t need an invite to see. First, Jack Dorsey is not an owner. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 11 months ago

Twitter Aided the Pentagon in its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign

Twitter executives have claimed for years that the company makes concerted efforts to detect and thwart government-backed covert propaganda campaigns on its platform. Behind the scenes, however, the social networking giant provided direct approval and internal protection to the U … | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Testemunhas dizem que equipe de Tarcísio matou homem desarmado

Relatos contrariam versão narrada em boletim da polícia e do candidato a governador de São Paulo. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Oakland Cops Hope to arm Robots with Lethal Shotguns

While official language condoning killer robots is shelved for now, Oakland police are still pursuing the option. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

CIA Thought Putin Would Quickly Conquer Ukraine. Why Did They Get It So Wrong?

High-tech surveillance may have blinded the U.S. to how corruption has weakened the Russian military. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

The Chinese Government’s Growing Surveillance State

Artificial intelligence is making China’s expansive surveillance technologies more efficient. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Dark Odds Facing Mahsa Amini Protesters in Iran

The overthrow of the Iranian regime would be just, but if recent history has taught us anything, its collapse is unlikely to be pretty. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

CIA Just Invested in Woolly Mammoth Resurrection Technology

While skeptics doubt the prospects for de-extinction, the CIA’s venture capital firm deems powerful genetic manipulation tools worth the money. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Iron Mountain CEO Says He’s Been “Praying for Inflation”

As corporate profits reach record high, Iron Mountain executive tells Wall Street inflation is great for “the bottom line” | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

No, Elon Musk's Starlink Probably Won’t Fix Iranian Internet Censorship

The satellite internet technology probably won’t connect Iranian protesters, but Musk already got his PR coup with a two-word tweet. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Former NSA Chief Signed Deal to Train Saudi Hackers Before Khashoggi’s Murder

Retired Gen. Keith Alexander’s company IronNet signed an agreement with a Saudi Arabia cyberwarfare institute led by the official who oversaw Khashoggi’s killing. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Why No One Cared That Al Qaeda Honcho Zawahiri Got Droned

That Zawahiri’s killing went so quietly suggests that the cultural and political behemoth that was the war on terror had long preceded him into the grave. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri Would Have Made a Great American Pundit

Zawahiri’s rhetorical style would have fit right into the U.S. political spectrum. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

A Manchin Miracle Brings Biden’s Climate Agenda Back from the Dead

Did Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer just fool Mitch McConnell? | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Biden Administration Plans for Legal Psychedelic Therapies Within Two Years

A letter from the Health and Human Services Department discloses the anticipated FDA approval of MDMA and psilocybin treatments. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

The Cost of Saying No to the FBI

The FBI wanted him to become an informant. After he said no, his life was ruined. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

The Brooklyn Hologram Studio Receiving Millions from the CIA

In-Q-Tel — the CIA’s venture capital arm — and the military are investing heavily in the metaverse. There are growing concerns they’re wasting taxpayer money. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Nimbus

Google employees, who have been kept in the dark about the “Nimbus” AI project, have concerns about Israeli human rights abuses. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Was Yellowstone’s Deadliest Wolf Hunt in 100 Years an Inside Job?

A veteran ranger who killed a park wolf claims he’s the target of a “witch hunt.” | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Secret Service Deleted Jan 6 Text Messages After Officials Requested Them

Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2022/07/14/jan-6-texts-deleted-secret-service/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32102279 Points: 50 # Comments: 3 | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Amazon Admits Giving Police Ring Footage Without Consent

In response to recent questions from Sen. Ed Markey, Amazon stated that it has provided police with user footage 11 times this year alone. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Green-Colored Glasses

Defense contractors, fossil fuel companies, and pharmaceutical giants have also used superficial measures like diverse boards to earn inclusion in so-called socially conscious ESG funds. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

How The Pentagon Uses a Secret Program to Wage Proxy Wars

Exclusive documents and interviews reveal the sweeping scope of classified 127e operations. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Coinbase is reportedly selling geolocation data to ICE

ICE is now able to track transactions made through nearly a dozen different digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Facebook Labels Abortion Rights Vandals as Terrorists Following Roe Reversal

Any discussion of Jane’s Revenge, which is responsible for a series of vandalism attacks and threatening statements, is now subject to Facebook’s most stringent restrictions. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Anti-Trans Campaigns Set the Stage for Far-Right Attacks on Pride Festivities

Threats against pride events and reports of suicide attempts by trans kids are only the first violent consequences of the far right’s campaign. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Sen. Ed Markey Calls on Ring to Make Itself Less Cop-Friendly

In a new letter to Amazon, Markey pushed the company to implement pro-privacy reforms and limit its collaboration with police. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Meltdowns Have Brought Progressive Advocacy Groups to a Standstill

Locked in a cycle of Slack callouts and healing retreats, left-wing groups — from reproductive rights to climate to racial and economic justice — have brought themselves to a grinding halt. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

The FBI Tried to Ambush My Source. Now I’m Telling the Whole Story

I’ve been reluctant to write what I know about the FBI’s scheme because the tale is so complicated that I’m still not sure I fully understand it. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

The Lab-Leak Theory Is Looking Stronger by the Day

A panel of journalists discuss the latest revelations regarding the theory that Covid-19 originated in a Chinese laboratory. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 1 year ago

Russia Is Losing a War Against Hackers Stealing Huge Amounts of Data

Dozens of Russian companies and government agencies have been hacked in apparent retribution for the invasion of Ukraine. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago

American Phone-Tracking Firm Demo’d Surveillance Powers by Spying on CIA and NSA

Anomaly Six, a secretive government contractor, claims to monitor the movements of billions of phones around the world and unmask spies with the press of a button. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago

Burned Bodies Found at Site of Alleged War Crime

Ukraine’s commitment to the laws of war is being tested by how it responds to video that appears to show its forces shooting Russian prisoners. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago

Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”

Also: “Grievance,” “slave labor,” “This is dumb,” “living wage,” “diversity,” “vaccine,” and others. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago

“Obtaining My Personal Data from Amazon Was a Nightmare”

I asked Amazon to provide the data it had collected on me. The process was a labyrinthine endurance test. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago

Not One Bloc or the Other: Ukraine War Shows Emerging Post-American World

Despite being browbeaten by the U.S., a growing number of Asian, African, and Latin American countries are charting a neutral path. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago

What Biden Got Right About Arming Ukraine – and Wrong About Sanctioning Russia

As effective as sanctions are at driving Russians into poverty, it’s uncertain whether they will affect the course of the war in Ukraine. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago

Russian Biologists: Russia Is Lying About Evidence of Bioweapons Labs in Ukraine

Russian scientists who have looked at the documents Russia calls proof of “bioweapons labs” in Ukraine say there is no evidence for such claims. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago

Will the United States Empower Zelenskyy to Negotiate an End to the War?

The Intercept asked the White House if the United States would respect Ukraine’s sovereignty in negotiating with Russia. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago

As U.S. Focuses on Ukraine, Yemen Starves

Biden vowed to stop supporting the Saudi-led war. A year later, Yemen’s humanitarian crisis is worse by many accounts than when Trump was president. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago

U.S. Intelligence Says Putin Made a Last-Minute Decision to Invade Ukraine

The U.S. likely relied in part on intercepted communications among senior Russian government and military officials. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago

Peter Daszak Answers Critics and Defends Coronavirus Research

“Scientists disagree over an issue where there’s no definitive proof,” said the EcoHealth Alliance president on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago

Facebook unbans certain Azov posts

The reversal raises questions about Facebook’s blacklist-based content moderation, which critics say lacks nuance and context. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago

NIH Sent The Intercept 292 Redacted Pages in FOIA Response over Virus Research

The NIH continues to withhold critical documents that could shed light on the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago

IRS, DHS contracted firms that sells location data harvested from dating apps

The company formerly known as X-Mode is now part of a federal government contractor that sells location data quietly harvested from apps. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago

Elon Musk Reveals Jaw-Dropping Ignorance About Social Security

Musk’s blathering illustrates how the people at the top of U.S. society just repeat what are essentially billionaire urban legends. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago

Amazon Co-Owns Airline Accused of Operating Torturous Deportation Flights

Activists are pressuring Amazon to divest from Omni Air International, a company at the center of ICE’s deportation machine. | Continue reading


@theintercept.com | 2 years ago