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Facebook, Social Media Under Pressure from Brands to Address Hate Speech
July 01, 2020
Big retailers, including Starbucks, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Hershey, Honda, Eddie Bauer, The North Face, Levi's, Ben & Jerry's, and Verizon, are withholding advertising to pressure Facebook and other social media platforms to better monitor online hate speech.
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WastedLocker: Symantec Identifies Wave of Attacks Against U.S. Organizations
June 26, 2020
Symantec, a division of Broadcom, has identified a string of attacks against dozens of U.S. corporations, including eight Fortune 500 companies, by attackers attempting to deploy the WastedLocker ransomware on their networks.
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Apple: iOS Update Will Warn Users about Location Tracking and Data Collection
June 24, 2020
Apple announced that the next version of iPhone software, iOS 14, will include new privacy features that show an itemized list of data that user apps are gathering, including location.
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FP: New Report Exposes Brutal Methods of Russia’s Wagner Group
June 17, 2020
According to a report in Foreign Policy, a network of private military security operatives, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, serves as the tip of the spear in Russia’s global influence efforts with almost no accountability.
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WaPo: Twitter Combats Chinese Propaganda Operations
June 14, 2020
In an attempt to combat false narratives from the Communist Party of China on Twitter, the social media company deleted nearly 170,000 accounts related to Chinese propaganda operations.
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