Earlier in the year, some in Veles experimented with left-leaning or pro–Bernie Sanders content, but nothing performed as well on Facebook as Trump content. “People in America prefer to read news about Trump,” said a Macedonian 16-year-old who operates BVANews.com. BuzzFeed News’ research also found that the most successful stories from these sites were nearly all false or misleading.
Source : How Teens In The Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake News – BuzzFeed News
While Facebook could not provide demographic breakdowns of the users who registered, the social network is more popular among female internet users than male users, and the same is true for young users compared with older users, according to 2015 data from the Pew Research Center. Both groups — women and younger adults — tend to lean Democratic.
Source : Facebook Helped Drive a Voter Registration Surge, Election Officials Say – The New York Times
WikiLeaks a l’intention de dévoiler des documents au cours des dix prochaines semaines. Parmi les cibles du site figure Google. Julian Assange accuse la firme de Mountain d’être devenue une puissance diplomatique au service de Washington.
Source : WikiLeaks met Google dans son collimateur – Politique – Numerama
Upon first glance, this photo appears to show presidential candidate Hillary Clinton being ignored by a crowd of people pointing their phones at something out of view to the left. But nope… what you see is selfie culture.
Source : This Hillary Clinton Photo is a Snapshot of the Selfie Generation
The Senate Commerce Committee sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg asking him to answer questions about Facebook’s Trending Topics feature. Trending Topics..
Source : Senate committee asks Facebook to answer questions about its Trending Topics
“If the government can circumvent the process merely by buying vulnerabilities, then the process becomes a farce. The FBI is not interested in cybersecurity.’’
Source : FBI Plans to Keep Apple iPhone-Hacking Method Secret – WSJ
Mark Rosekind, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, told reporters that Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will be in Detroit to talk about administration efforts to speed the introduction of self-driving vehicles. There is not yet a clear legal framework governing the presence of driverless cars on U.S. roads.
Source : Obama administration to announce efforts to boost self-driving cars
I may be known to tiny corners in the tubes of the Internets, but I am not well-known to the American public generally
Source : Lessig quits presidency bid, blames political system he wanted to change | Ars Technica
He is a luminary in the world of cyberlaw, a star Harvard professor with a résumé a hundred pages thick, and a sensation on the thought leader circuit. But even though he has raised more than $1 million for his presidential bid, Lawrence Lessig, who is mounting a quixotic campaign for the Democratic nomination, is struggling to get noticed.He was excluded from his party’s first debate on the grounds of weak poll numbers, while many surveys have not bothered to ask voters about him.
Source : Lawrence Lessig’s Presidential Bid Endures in Relative Obscurity – The New York Times
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