Recently, Senator Richard Pan of the California State Legislature introduced legislation entitled ‘False Information Strategic Plans,’ a bill that would task all social media sites that have a physical presence…
To say that Donald Trump has been bombastic about his plans to complete the erection of a wall along the Mexican border would be an understatement. Whether or not he…
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, the NYPD’s Real Time Crime Center and Facial Identification Sections would like to get full and unfettered access to the state’s database…
A Toronto Sun article from last August entitled ‘It’s Time for a Tax Revolt in Canada’ is illuminating in terms of how mainstream media is sometimes employed to play the…
Soon after 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018, a group known as Never Again MSD emerged on social media.…
Facebook’s decision to suspend the account of whistleblower Christopher Wylie on March 19 is an interesting test case for the reach—and overreach—of our social media giants. Recall that the former…
As I was reading a March 12th article in The New Yorker entitled “The Gun-Control Debate After Parkland,” a subscription pop-up appeared rather serendipitously, leading with the line “Fighting Fake…
