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Updated 2024-11-22 00:16
Silicon Valley Has a Caste Discrimination Problem
Dalit Indians working at U.S. tech companies tell VICE News they try to hide their identities to avoid caste-based discrimination they thought they had left behind.
Big Tech’s Morality Police Are Going After Adult Content
“We got no warning, no violation warning or anything like that. It just was gone the next day.”
Jeff Bezos Has No Idea How Often Amazon Rips Off Its Sellers
The Amazon CEO testified before Congress that the tech giant has a policy against using third party seller data to help its private label business, but couldn't guarantee it had never been broken.
GOP Congressman Turns Antitrust Hearing Into Personal Tech Support Session
"My parents, who have a Gmail account, aren’t getting my campaign emails," Rep. Greg Steube told Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Sex Workers to Host Self-Destructing Digital Variety Show Against EARN-IT
On August 21, E-Viction will feature live performances to raise awareness of legislation that harms marginalized communities.
Astrophysicists Have Made the Largest-Ever 3D Map of the Universe
This is the result of a 20-year collaboration of several hundred scientists from around 30 different institutions worldwide.
China's Great Firewall of Censorship Is Already Going Up Around Hong Kong
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Zoom have all said they will stop complying with government orders to hand over data. And that's exactly what Beijing wanted.
Inside the Plot to Kill the Open Technology Fund
This U.S. program provides encryption technologies to journalists and activists living under repressive regimes. But a Trump appointee wants to tear it all down.
Discord Just Shut Down the Biggest ‘Boogaloo’ Server for Inciting Violence
Discord determined the server violates their community guidelines for “threatening and encouraging violence” after VICE News reported its existence.
Online Drug Markets Are Entering a 'Golden Age'
VICE News analysis shows darknet drug markets are emerging from coronavirus lockdown stronger than ever, with increased sales and more robust defences against hackers.
Happn, Universal and Other Brands Accused of Misusing Data to Advertise On Facebook
An investigation by Privacy International showed that some companies are advertising on Facebook using the data of people they have never interacted with.
How to Protest Without Sacrificing Your Digital Privacy
How to keep your digital devices and accounts safe when exercising your right to peaceably assemble.
Five Things to Expect From the NHS Track and Trace Coronavirus App
We spoke to people from the Isle of Wight who have been using the app for the last month.
She Was Lured into Sex Slavery Through Facebook. Now She Wants to Stop Mark Zuckerberg From Making Victims ‘Invisible.’
A shareholder activist group wants Facebook to take steps to protect children from sexual abuse before implementing end-to-end encryption.
Twitter Won’t Stop Trump From Tweeting Conspiracies About Joe Scarborough's Dead Congressional Aide
“Nearly 19 years ago, my wife, who had an undiagnosed heart condition, fell and hit her head on her desk at work,” Timothy Klausutis wrote in a letter to Twitter.
We Joined a Ramadan Celebration in Animal Crossing
There were no Muslim holiday references in Animal Crossing... until now.
Somehow This Wild Hoax Bill Gates Anti-Vaxx Video Doesn't Violate YouTube's Policies
The video is obviously faked, but it's still setting the anti-vaxx internet on fire.
White Supremacists Built a Website to Doxx Interracial Couples — and It's Going to Be Hard to Take Down
Racists have published a hate-filled database targeting white women dating black and brown men as “traitors” — and some are being harassed online.
Elon Musk Is Offering Tesla Workers a Deal: Violate California's Stay-at-Home Order or Don't Get Paid
“If you do not feel comfortable coming into work, you can stay home and will be on unpaid leave,” Musk wrote in an email obtained by The Guardian.
Elon Musk Is Literally Asking to be Arrested for Reopening His Tesla Factory
"If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me."
A Broadband Engineer Was Spat on by a 5G Conspiracy Theorist. Then He Got Coronavirus.
The attacks on network workers are getting more frequent, brazen, and violent.
'WHERE IS THE REST OF MY LAUNDRY??'
Cleanly, a snazzy laundry startup, promised NYC nurses and doctors "the gift of clean laundry." Instead, it created a COVID-19 underwear catastrophe.
Nearly 50% of Twitter Accounts Talking about Coronavirus Might Be Bots
Twitter is dealing with a pandemic of bots jamming the platform with misinformation about COVID-19.
Leaked Amazon Memo Details Plan to Smear Fired Warehouse Organizer: ‘He’s Not Smart or Articulate’
Written notes from the meeting, attended by CEO Jeff Bezos, detail Amazon's strategy to fight union organizing, as well as efforts to obtain COVID-19 tests and protective masks for workers.
A Homeless Person In Silicon Valley Has Now Died of Coronavirus
He’s the first confirmed homeless person to die of an illness that advocates and experts warn could be uniquely devastating to the nation’s 567,000 homeless people.
Iran Launched an App That Claimed to Diagnose Coronavirus. Instead, It Collected Location Data on Millions of People.
“They can actually track you. If you move your device from location A to B, they can actually see that in real time.”
Why It's a Big Deal that Foodora Workers Can Unionize
It’s the first instance of app-based workers winning the right to join a union in Canada, and it could be a game changer for all gig economy workers.
Musicians Algorithmically Generate Every Possible Melody, Release Them to Public Domain
Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin generated and saved every possible melody to a hard drive, then turned it back around to the commons.
Here's How China Is Hunting Down Coronavirus Critics
Post something about coronavirus online? Expect a visitor at your door.
Want to Transition? There's an App for That
Solace is a one-stop resource for people who know that they're trans but don't know where to start.
Did Twitter Help Vox Media Steal a Clippers Twitter Account From a Sports Blogger?
A Vox Media executive took over a writer's Twitter account; Twitter won't say if they helped them do it.
Here’s How China Is Silencing Coronavirus Critics in the U.S.
As Chinese tech companies have gone global, so has China’s ability to censor communications outside of the mainland.
Anti-Vaxxers Are Back on Instagram Thanks in Part to #MAGA
Anti-vaxx accounts are piggybacking on political hashtags like Joe Biden's #nomalarkey.
How Instagram and GoFundMe Got Tangled Up in U.S. Sanctions Against Iran
GoFundMe reinstated two fundraisers for Canadian victims of the Tehran plane crash after verifying the funds wouldn’t go to individuals covered under sanctions.
A New 'Robotic Massager' Wants to Replace Your Vibrator—And Your Partner
Osé, the big toy at CES, seems both completely dystopian and completely hot.
One of America's Largest Unions Gets Serious About Organizing Game Developers
The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union has embarked on an ambitious national campaign to transform the tech and game industries for workers.
Iran Has Already Hacked the U.S. At Least 4 Times — and Could Do It Again
Over the past decade, Iran has launched attacks on the NYSE, a dam in New York, a Las Vegas casino, and the city of Atlanta.
Michael Bloomberg Is Spending ‘Insane’ Money to Own Trump Online. Literally.
The former New York City mayor has spent almost $200 million, and he still has billions left in his account.
Photos of the First Known Collection of Webcam Covers
Artist Jason Lazarus is looking for your submissions of what he calls the "world's smallest protest sign."
Amazon Conference Badges Tracked Attendees' Movements
AWS said the data was anonymous and to help understand attendance at certain events.
Facebook Is Literally Hiring People to Just Google Stuff
No previous fact-checking or journalism experience required.
Snoop Dogg Is Starring In a Scam Debt-Relief Ad Campaign Pouring Millions Into Facebook
A network of debt "relief" companies operate Facebook pages that collect data on people in financial trouble.
Bestiality, Stabbings, and Child Porn: Why Facebook Moderators Are Suing the Company for Trauma
“My first day on the job, I witnessed someone being beaten to death with a plank of wood with nails in it and repeatedly stabbed.”
Indiana Helped Amazon Sweep a Worker's Death Under the Rug While Gunning for HQ2
Phillip Lee Terry died after a forklift crushed him at an Amazon warehouse in September 2017.
Dell Has Made $15 Million Working with ICE This Year
Yet the company says it supports "comprehensive immigration reform."
It's Never a Bad Day to Not Text Back
Try it today, love.
Uber CEO on Saudi Arabia’s Murder and Dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi: We All Make Mistakes
Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund is the fifth-largest investor in Uber.
Airbnb Promises to Verify All 7 Million Listings After VICE Report Exposes Scam
The company's CEO said in an email that the company would undertake a year-long project to ensure every listing is advertised accurately.
This Trippy T-Shirt Makes You Invisible to AI
This adversarial design could be printed on a shirt to fool object recognition algorithms.
What It’s Like to Be Stuck Inside the Wreckage of WeWork
"Nobody is running the day-to-day business. It's such a shit show," said one current employee.
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