Astroturfing

Online journalist Maria Ressa, Class of 1986, knows the best and the worst of social media.  It helped drive the Philippines-based news site she co-founded, called Rappler, to 300% growth rates in its early years. Today, she warns that the weaponization of so…

By Aaron Kesel Videos utilizing Deep Fake technology, are spreading at a rampant rate online, as social media users are finding themselves questioning whether something is real or edited by the tech. In recent weeks, there was a Facebook scandal where the c…

Proposed amendments to Hong Kong extradition laws sparked protests by as many as a million people on Sunday. On Wednesday, a smaller contingent, still in the tens of thousands, successfully derailed a planned legislative debate on the amendments in the face o…

Asa WinstanleyThe Electronic Intifada12 June 2019 Act.ILs Israeli headquaters in Herzliya. (Act.IL/Facebook) A global influence campaign funded by the Israeli government had a $1.1 million budget last year, a document obtained by The Electronic Intifada sho…

Alvin Y.H. Cheung is a J.S.D. candidate at New York University School of Law and an affiliated scholar at NYU's US-Asia Law Institute. He previously worked in Hong Kong as a barrister and as a lecturer in the Law & Public Affairs Department at Hong Kong B…

It was the middle of winter, two days after Barack Obama's inauguration, when David Berman sat down at the computer in his Nashville home, typed out a post titled "Silver Jews End - Lead Singer Bids his Well-Wishers Adieu" and published it on his record label…

By Helen Buyniski | Aletho News | June 7, 2019 The neoliberal establishment is wringing its hands in the wake of European elections that proved a resounding victory for populist parties across the continent, casting around for someone to blame but utterly in…

The neoliberal establishment is wringing its hands in the wake of European elections that proved a resounding victory for populist parties across the continent, casting around for someone to blame but utterly incapable of realizing their own interference has …

This article is based on an Earth Day week presentation that I made at the Events Center at Chabot College in Hayward on April 25 at the invitation of physics professor Nick Alexander. On Earth Day 2019, fifteen activists from the Extinction Rebellion carryi…

Minnesotans for Line 3, a group established last year to advocate for an Enbridge oil pipeline project, presents itself as a grassroots organization consisting of thousands of members. But a DeSmog investigation has found that behind the scenes, the Calgary-…