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BuzzFeed News: Hackers Breaking Into Sites and Adding Links to Game Google
Read more: BuzzFeed News: Hackers Breaking Into Sites and Adding Links to Game GoogleGoogle made the link a valuable commodity, so hackers are compromising sites and then getting paid to inject links. ICYMI, here’s my latest byline for BuzzFeed News Via “Hackers Are Breaking Into Websites And Adding Links To Game Google” by Craig Silverman and Dean Sterling Jones, BuzzFeed News, December 18, 2019: …Websites of all types…
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Who Asked Google to Delist Negative News Reports About Trump’s Pseudoscientific Urine Test Marketing Scheme?
Read more: Who Asked Google to Delist Negative News Reports About Trump’s Pseudoscientific Urine Test Marketing Scheme?Between May and August 2018, someone anonymously sent Google at least eight legal complaints in an effort to scrub the Internet of negative reporting about The Trump Network, a scammy multi-level marketing scheme that sold customised urine tests. Trump is currently being sued for his involvement in the scheme source President Donald J. Trump is…
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WordPress Rejects Second Legal Request to Remove Photoshopped Image Mocking Indian PM
Read more: WordPress Rejects Second Legal Request to Remove Photoshopped Image Mocking Indian PMMumbai’s cyber police department seeks to remove content hosted on this blog, BuzzFeed, Google Blogger, Amazon CloudFront, Tumblr, and Flickr In August, my hosting provider, WordPress, rejected a legal request by Mumbai cyber police to censor a clearly photoshopped image I republished from BuzzFeed last year. The image, which depicted Indian prime minister Narendra Modi…
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Russian Law Being Used to Prevent the Disclosure of Banned Websites
Read more: Russian Law Being Used to Prevent the Disclosure of Banned WebsitesRussia’s media regulator is preventing Google from disclosing thousands of URLs that were banned under so-called “VPN law” For the past week or so, Google has been embroiled in a censorship war over Russia’s attempts to ban instant messaging service Telegram. Russia’s media watchdog Roskomnadzor banned Telegram after the company refused to hand over encryption…
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Erdoğan Censorship Demand Links Him to ISIS
Read more: Erdoğan Censorship Demand Links Him to ISISTurkey’s authoritarian president demands U.S. social media giants censor critical posts, tweets, and satirical cartoons linking him to Islamic terrorism. In 2016 and 2017, I blogged about takedown demands sent by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, targeting satirical cartoons and “humiliating” news reports comparing him to Hitler. Turkey’s censorial circus continues with yet another round…
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Fake News Ban Targets Political Speech, Sexual Content
Read more: Fake News Ban Targets Political Speech, Sexual ContentGermany’s recent fake news ban is already being abused by would-be censors The Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (NetzDG) law, which came into force in October, requires social media websites to remove “fake news” and “hate speech” or risk fines of up to 50 million euros (40 million pounds). While intended to stop the spread of disinformation and hateful…
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Bad Fan Fiction
Read more: Bad Fan FictionMichael Jackson’s estate targets erotic fan fiction with series of copyright complaints According to the Lumen Database, Jackson’s estate recently hired self-proclaimed “Web Sheriff,” British IP lawyer John Giacobbi, to scrub a blogger’s erotic fan fiction about the late singer. John Giacobbi (source) The targeted blog, MJ Fan Fictions, includes “semi-erotic adventures” about Jackson and…
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Snopes Chews Up False Cheeseburger Emoji Story
Read more: Snopes Chews Up False Cheeseburger Emoji StoryAward-winning fact-checking website Snopes cites my blog post debunking Fox News “cheeseburger emoji controversy” source Earlier this week I debunked claims that Fox News failed to report former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s indictment in favour of a story about cheeseburger emojis. The post has been cited by award-winning fact-checking website Snopes. From the “About” page…
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Seryan Mirzakhanyan©
Read more: Seryan Mirzakhanyan©Medicare scammer claims copyright of his name, life story, and criminal record in effort to convince Google to delist reports about $5.4 million fraud conviction from U.S. Department of Justice website Seryan Mirzakhanyan, a 32-year-old Armenian-born scammer from California, who in 2016 was convicted of defrauding Medicare of $5.4 million, has filed at least three…
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Stockholmies
Read more: StockholmiesCharity for self-exiled Turkish journalists living in Stockholm cites my blog post re: legal efforts by Turkey’s First Lady to scrub negative news stories about herself from the web Earlier this week I blogged about legal efforts by Turkey’s First Lady Emine Erdoğan to scrub negative news stories about herself from the web. The story has…
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