Cyber Archives

Facebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them 0
- Cyber, digital 2016, Magazine, Public diplomacy, Relax for Digital Diplomacy, Urednikov ugao
- 31st Jan 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 Jan 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 Nov 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 Oct 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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Russian operatives celebrate Trump’s birthday with new fake news site 0
- "Classic " Diplomacy, Cyber, Digital Diplomacy, Relax for Digital Diplomacy, World
- 7th Jun 2018
A new propaganda website linked to Russia’s troll factory has rolled out just in time for Trump’s birthday — and they’re inviting Americans to the White House to celebrate. Russian operatives associated with the notorious St. Petersburg-based troll factory known as the Internet Research Agency (IRA) have rolled out a new fake news website just
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How digital is your country? Europe needs Digital Single Market to boost its digital performance 0
- " Just Oppinion ", Cyber, Digital Diplomacy, Slider
- 6th Jun 2018
European Commission published the results of the 2018 Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), a tool which monitors the performance of Member States in digital connectivity, digital skills online activity, the digitisation of businesses and digital public services. According to it, the EU is getting more digital, but progress remains insufficient for Europe to catch
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