Chris White Current and former Facebook employees who are responsible for heading off cyber attacks say the Silicon Valley giant is replacing them with machines, according to a new report. Facebook is shaking up its security team, with the company dissolving large chunks of the team over the past two years, The New York Times…
F Chris White on February 5, 2019 Facebook removed more than 20 pages tied to Internet provocateur Alex Jones and InfoWars Tuesday after the Silicon Valley giant updated its policies to prevent banned accounts from resurfacing in different forms. The company’s decision comes several months after the company banned four of Jones’ pages August — Twitter and YouTube followed shortly…
Chris White on January 16, 2019 A recent popular meme comparing the past and current profile pictures of people on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter could be a technique designed to capture a user’s personal data, experts warn. The so-called “10 Year Challenge” that invites people to compare their first profiles from a decade ago to their…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Eric Lieberman Venture capitalist and tech guru Marc Andreessen reportedly said Tuesday that Silicon Valley is so liberal that it doesn’t understand most of America. “Silicon Valley is extremely left-wing, extremely liberal,” Andreessen said during a conference, according to TechCrunch. “It’s really hard for a lot of people in…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Will Racke A Silicon Valley man who provided logistical support and recruited for al-Qaida had his U.S. citizenship revoked by a federal judge Thursday. Egyptian-born Khaled Abu Dahab, 57, confessed to being a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, an al-Qaida affiliate, and said he had personal ties to Osama…
Casey Harper Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s main super PAC, Priorities USA Action, is struggling to convince Silicon Valley‘s mega donors she is worth their cash and political insiders agree securing Silicon Valley donors is key to a Democratic presidential bid. “The fear is that once the [Republicans] decide to turn the guns on, they’re not…