technology

Facebook Flags, Censors NPR Report on Inflated Gov’t School Shooting Statistics

Facebook has the right to censor whoever they want, but this kind of clumsy, partisan censorship practice is just begging for government intervention. (FEE) — Earlier this week, NPR reported on the high number of school shootings alleged by the U.S. Department of Education. The 240 school shootings detailed in the department’s report on the 2015-2016 school year […]

China Unveils Breakthrough in Electromagnetic Rocket Technology

(ZHE) — Chinese state media has revealed a technological breakthrough in electromagnetic rocket design amid US regional security concerns in North Korea and the South China Sea. The new and more powerful electromagnetic rocket uses catapult rocket artillery technology rendering the weapon more powerful than any conventional artillery in the world. The Global Times reported that Han Junli, a research fellow at […]

Facebook’s Secret ‘User-Reputation Score’ Exposed

(ZHE) — In a hideous reflection of China’s already-prevalent ‘Social Credit’ system – which is a rating assigned to each citizen based on government data regarding their economic and social status – The Washington Post reports that Facebook has begun to assign its users a reputation score, predicting their trustworthiness on a scale from zero to one. Under the guise of its effort to […]

A US Company Is Injecting RFID Microchips Into Employees… and “They Love It”

(ZHE) — Wisconsin technology firm Three Square Market has injected 80 employees with their own brand of RFID microchips over the last year, and according to MIT Technology Review, “they love it.” The implant, which is about the size of a grain of rice, utilizes Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, also found in credit cards, debit cards, key fobs, and […]

Trump Delegates Military More Authority for Offensive Cyber Attacks

(ANTIWAR.COM) — This week, President Trump signed a new order delegating additional powers to the Pentagon to carry out offensive cyber attacks against America’s “adversaries.” The order greatly pares back limitations in place under the Obama Administration. This is the latest in a series of orders designed to not only increase US cyber attack capabilities, but also to obscure […]

Facebook and NATO Unite to Censor News They Dislike

(ZHE) — This is not at all comforting: during a week that witnessed Alex Jones’ social media accounts taken down by Facebook, Apple, Spotify and Google, and what appears to be a growing crackdown against alternative media figures including several prominent Libertarians, notably the Ron Paul Institute director, and the Scott Horton Show, who found their Twitter accounts suspended — we learn that the Atlantic Council is […]

Cooperate or Die: In Private Meeting, Top Facebook Exec Threatened News Outlets

(CD) — During a closed-door and off-the-record meeting last week, top Facebook executive Campbell Brown reportedly warned news publishers that refusal to cooperate with the tech behemoth’s efforts to “revitalize journalism” will leave media outlets dying “like in a hospice.” Reported first by The Australian under a headline which read “Work With Facebook or Die: Zuckerberg,” the social media giant has […]