John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

One year ago this week, a small group of journalists launched a completely reimagined approach to covering the news. We started with a single product focused on politics. Our promise was simple: We’ll deliver the news quickly and free of the b t and bad faith that was drowning out our national discourse.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

As 2021 subsequently rolled by, I stashed away news items that might prove (or disprove) those predictions – knowing that this week, I’d take a look at how I did. A year later, that Big Lie has spawned countless others, culminating in one of the most damaging shifts in our nation’s politics since the Civil War.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 5, 2020

Facebook bans microtargeting on specific kinds of political advertising. The new policy will probably roll out after Super Tuesday (sparking all manner of conspiracies about how the company didn’t want to impact its Q1 growth numbers in the US). likely not in the US?—?where So…here we go. While Zuck & Co.

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

s Alison Skoyles et al talk about a conference they organised to round up some of the most effective strategies to tackle fake news. THE Information Skills Advisers at London South Bank University decided to host a conference around the topical issue of fake news. t take on fake news. Fake news ninjas. Algorithms can?t

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Most of my career has been spent evangelizing the power of technology to positively transform business, education, and politics. Two years ago, in the aftermath of an election that I believe will prove to be the political equivalent of the Black Sox scandal , the world began to wake up to the same thing. How might they be connected?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 12, 2008

Hyatt, who runs the company day to day, also serves on the board of HP and the Brookings Institute, and has been quite involved in politics, serving as National Finance Chair for the Democratic Party in 2000. What are the financing options for a large media play like Current in this environment? What does it portend?

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KnowBe4

APRIL 4, 2023

Join us TOMORROW, Wednesday, April 5, @ 2:00 PM (ET) , for a live demo of how KnowBe4 introduces a new-school approach to security awareness training and simulated phishing. Get a look at THREE NEW FEATURES and see how easy it is to train and phish your users. Watch Trailer Now: [link] [PODCAST] "CyberHeist News.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The benefits are enormous, as digital communication facilitates exchanges and searches, and enhances consumer choices not only in purchasing consumer goods, but also in finance, healthcare, and producing industries from manufacture to agriculture. 13-14), not unlike traditional newspapers, which were known to be left or right.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 14, 2023

Political scientist Amy McKay coined the term. She studied the 564 amendments to the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) considered by the Senate Finance Committee in 2009, as well as the positions of 866 lobbying groups and their campaign contributions. Training data is available.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

These are the stuff of our daily news briefings and indeed of much of our work at CILIP. These values, whether we express them out loud or not, are what allow us to change the lives of the people we serve. But much as the future is already with us, it just hasn?t s us, based on our professional values and ethics.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

“The Russians have shown themselves to be incredibly ingenious and creative in terms of how they come up with targets that seem to catch us by surprise. ” That’s good news, according to Jim Lewis , director of the public policy program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. .”

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Why data monetization matters According to McKinsey in the Harvard Business Review , a single data product at a national US bank feeds 60 use cases in business applications, which eliminated $40M in losses and generates $60M incremental revenue annually. Code generation “co-pilot” tools (e.g.,

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The FTC claims that spy phones secretly harvested and shared data on people's physical movements phone news online activities through a hidden hack. I mean I agree that there's some technical research at Black Hat that is useful that helps the community further that's also important. And that's what I think most of us strive for sure.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

Presidential campaign season is officially, officially , upon us now, which means it's time to confront the weird and insidious ways in which technology is warping politics. One of the biggest threats on the horizon: artificial personas are coming, and they're poised to take over political debate.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 26, 2019

reportedly knocked out computing systems controlling Iranian rocket and missile launchers, thus arresting global attention for several news cycles. cybersecurity vendors CrowdStrike and FireEye point to Iran-backed hacking collectives targeting US government agencies, as well as finance and energy companies with spear-phishing emails.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 4, 2023

We’re on the lookout for foreign governments that spread misinformation because we were traumatized by the 2016 US presidential election. And even some of the most stupendous potential impacts of AI on politics won’t be all bad. Like everyone else, political campaigners and pollsters will turn to AI to help with their jobs.

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