Category: ecuador

Twitter bans thousands of state-backed accounts spreading misinformation

Post author By Randall
Post date September 20, 2019
Categories In accounts, ban, China, ecuador, egypt, Facebook, gear, Internet, misinformation, Politics, removes, Saudi Arabia, Security, spain, state-sponsored, Tech, Twitter, uae, united arab emirates

[ad_1] This is part of Twitter’s ongoing effort to sweep state-backed misinformation accounts from the platform. In June, Twitter removed nearly 4,800 accounts with ties to the Iranian government, and in August it banned nearly 1,000 accounts managed by the Chinese state and aimed at Hong Kong protests. In addition to targeting state-backed misinformation, Twitter […]

Ecuadorian President blocks extradition of alleged Facebook fraudster

Post author By Randall
Post date June 10, 2019
Categories In ecuador, Facebook, Internet, julian assange, Mark Zuckerberg, personal computing, personalcomputing, Politics, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] Paul Ceglia, a wood pellet salesman from Wellsville, is accused of creating a fake contract in 2010 saying Zuckerberg had agreed to give him half of Facebook while he was a student at Harvard. Ceglia was subsequently charged with mail and wire fraud in 2012. However, months before the start of his trial in […]

Fame, infamy and incarceration: The Julian Assange story

Post author By Randall
Post date April 12, 2019
Categories In assange, ecuador, extradition, gear, julian assange, Politics, Security, Tech, wikileaks

[ad_1] WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was removed yesterday from the Ecuadorian embassy in London after having his asylum revoked; he was then immediately arrested. Talk of extradition to the US began immediately. But if you haven’t been paying extremely close attention over the last decade or so, you might not quite recall exactly how Assange […]