Category: state-backed

Twitter ‘Transparency Center’ shows government data requests by country

Post author By Randall
Post date August 19, 2020
Categories In data, gear, government requests, News, Research, state-backed, Tech, transparency, transparency center, transparency reports, Twitter, visualization

[ad_1] About every six months, Twitter releases a transparency report detailing things like how many state-backed accounts it has suspended and the number of government requests for information on account holders. Today, Twitter is unveiling a centralized hub for those reports and the data they contain. The new Twitter Transparency Center is now live. The […]

Twitter removes 170,000 state-backed accounts based in China

Post author By Randall
Post date June 12, 2020
Categories In accounts, archive, banned, China, communist party of china, gear, hong kong, Information, News, prc, removed, Russia, state-backed, Tech, turkey, Twitter

[ad_1] The accounts linked to the PRC focused heavily on Hong Kong. They also promoted messages about the coronavirus pandemic, Taiwan and an exiled Chinese billionaire, Reuters reports. The accounts reportedly had ties to another state-backed operation that Twitter, Facebook and YouTube removed last year for spreading misinformation about Hong Kong. We’re disclosing new state-linked […]

Google says state-backed hackers are targeting Trump and Biden campaigns

Post author By Randall
Post date June 4, 2020
Categories In biden, Campaign, China, Election, gear, Google, hackers, iran, News, phishing, staff, state-backed, Tech, tomorrow, Trump

[ad_1] Google’s security researchers say state-backed hackers from Iran and China have targeted the Trump and Biden presidential campaigns, respectively. The state-backed actors sent phishing scam attempts to the personal email accounts of campaign staff. According to Google, there are no signs that the attempts were successful, and Google has notified both campaigns. Recently TAG […]