Cyber Archives

Four U.S. Ambassadors Misused Social Media, Watchdog Finds 0
- Cyber, Digital Diplomacy
- 15th April 2019
At least four U.S. ambassadors overseas ran afoul of State Department guidelines by posting unofficial “personal” items on social media, an inspector general found. In a just-released “management assistance report,” the watchdog called for clarity in State’s policy after performing a review based on allegations sent to its whistleblower hotline. The Facebook and Twitter accounts of 138
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Pucnjava na Novom Zelandu: Uloga društvenih mreža 0
- Cyber, Public diplomacy, Tekstovi na srpskom
- 15th March 2019
Video koji je snimio muškarac osumnjičen za ubistvo najmanje 49 i ranjavanje 20 osoba u pucnjavama u dve džamije u gradu Krajstčerču, masovno se proširio društvenim mrežama. Incident još jednom pokazuje kako se digitalne platforme odnose prema ovakvom sadržaju. Iako su Fejsbuk, Tviter, Redit i Jutjub požurili da obrišu snimak, nisu uspeli da spreče njegovo
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Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them 0
- Cyber, digital 2016, Magazine, Public diplomacy, Relax for Digital Diplomacy, Urednikov ugao
- 31st January 2019
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and
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Rat vlasti i opozicije za brojnost na Fejsbuku i Tviteru 0
- Cyber, Magazine, Public diplomacy, Tekstovi na srpskom
- 28th January 2019
Uprkos tome što se smatra da su građani političi neaktivni zbog toga što „ljudi ostave svoj komentar na internetu i misle da su završili posao“, čini se da su Tviter i Fejsbuk umnogome doprineli omasovljenju okupljanja, kao i njihovom širenju na gradove diljem Srbije. Piše: M. D. Miljković14. januara 2019. To je bilo najočiglednije nakon
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Meeting Kosovo’s clickbait merchants 0
- Cyber, Diplo Learning Corner, Technology
- 13th November 2018
Two weeks ago, I was sitting in a dark bar in a small town an hour’s drive from Kosovo’s capital, Pristina. In front of me, a man was nervously hunched over, his face turned away from the camera. He was a fake news merchant and he agreed – eventually – to talk about how he
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Diplomacy dies in darkness: Europe and information manipulation 0
- " Just Oppinion ", Cyber, Diplo Learning Corner, Public diplomacy, Technology
- 27th October 2018
“Information manipulation” or just plain “fake news”? How France is grappling with a very modern threat Whether it is the refugee crisis, Catalonia, or last year’s French and German elections, most European leaders have had to confront the manipulation of information that is central to the post-truth world we now inhabit. France has been especially
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