2022-08-25
“The accounts behind the operation often posed as news outlets or took on the personas of people who didn't exist, posting content in at least seven languages, including Russian, Arabic and Urdu.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
Stanford Internet Observatory
Researchers detail a pro-US, five-year influence operation on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms in the Middle East and Central Asia
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2021-11-25
Thank you @Apple: “The steps we're taking today will send a clear message: in a free society, it is unacceptable to weaponise powerful state-sponsored spyware against those who seek to make the world a better place.” (and @NSOgroup are criminals). https://www.middleeasteye.net/ ...
New York Times
Apple sues NSO Group in US federal court, seeking to ban NSO from using Apple products and alleging NSO illegally targeted Apple users with surveillance tools
2020-08-25
Gulf States buying #NSO software well known but buying at 10x markup and needing Israeli spies to help them sort the data is both funny and not funny... https://haaretz.com/ https://www.haaretz.com/...
Haaretz
Sources detail NSO Group's sales in Gulf states, where it has made deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the past few years for its Pegasus spyware
Chaim Levinson / Haaretz : Tweets: @billmarczak , @kyleworton , @sarahleah1 , @congo_red_jr , @marwasf , @ruslantrad , @avischarf , @agnescallamard , and @lorenzofb Tweets: Bill M...
2020-06-13
Today they shut down #China activists; tomorrow who else? @zoom_us Zoom shuts down pro-democracy activists at request of Chinese govt. https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @technology
Bloomberg
Zoom says it deactivated accounts of US-based activists due to China's demands, won't allow such requests to impact users outside mainland China “going forward”
- Company shut down video meetings to remember Tiananmen Square — Zoom's in the middle of a free speech and censorship clash
2019-11-02
The problem here is not really the apps that allow “selling” a domestic worker in #Kuwait - the apps just make the exploitation and abuse of the sponsorship system totally transparent. What needs to be abolished is employee “sponsorship” of workers. https://www.bbc.co.uk/...
BBC