YOU LIKELY REMEMBER that, in May, then congressional candidate Greg Gianforte body-slammed a reporter for The Guardian for asking too many questions. You may not have heard, though, that as part of Gianforte’s ultimate settlement, Montana’s newly elected representative made a $50,000 donation to the Committee to Protect Journalists. And now that money has been funneled directly into the US Press Freedom Tracker, a newly launched website that intends to document press freedom violations in a place that hasn’t historically required it: the United States.

I samband med en Twitterdebatt mellan riksdagspolitikerna Daniel Riazat (V) och Hanif Bali (M), skickade en man från Västerbotten privata meddelanden till Riazat med rasistiskt innehåll. När Riazat lade ut delar av den privata konversationen offentligt, hotade mannen att döda honom. Nu åtalas den 26-årige mannen för olaga hot.Det var i september förra året som, den nu åtalade, mannen via Twitter skrev till Riazat att han skulle döda honom om han inte tog bort de meddelanden han publicerat offentligt.Enligt åklagaren som lämnat in åtalet till Umeå tingsrätt, så har hotet varit ägnat att hos Daniel Riazat framkalla allvarlig fruktan för egen person.

Activist and writer Ijeoma Oluo is the latest to suffer for Facebook’s inability — or perhaps unwillingness — to improve its reporting and moderation infrastructure. After receiving hundreds of racist and threatening messages in response to a joke she made on Twitter, Oluo began posting screenshots when it was clear that days of reporting did nothing. Facebook’s response was to suspend her account.You can read Oluo’s account of things here, including some screenshots of the type of abuse she was receiving. Twitter, she said, was responsive. Facebook, not so much.Facebook later reinstated her account, calling the suspension a “mistake.” I’ve asked the company for the rationale behind the suspension.

TORONTO (Reuters) – Costly cyber attacks are having a bigger impact on corporate earnings and are becoming a fact of life for companies as Oreo cookie maker Mondelez, drug maker Merck and others said that a destructive ”worm” attack in the last week of the second quarter disrupted operations.Mondelez International Inc (MDLZ.O), the world’s second-largest confectionary company, reported a 5 percent drop in quarterly sales on Wednesday, blaming shipping and invoicing delays caused by the June 27 attack of the worm, known as NotPetya.

I received a call Monday night from Roger Stone, the infamous political prankster and Donald Trump confidant. He wanted to talk about Anthony Scaramucci, whose 10-day tenure as White House communications director had just ended in ignominy.Stone said that Scaramucci reminded him of “a suicide bomber,” then switched centuries for his next metaphor. “The administration is like the French Revolution,” Stone said. “You never know who will be beheaded next.”But Stone didn’t believe that Scaramucci would stay far from the president for long. “As you know, none of us are ever really gone. He still has the president’s cellphone, the president’s private number. Just because he’s not in the White House, no one should think his influence has gone.”

Amazon said it’s suspending sales of Android phones made by Blu following a presentation last week that said that three of the manufacturer’s models sent sensitive personal information to third parties in China. Last week’s presentation at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas by security firm Kryptowire came eight months after the same company first warned about Android devices sold by Blu. That earlier report said the low-cost phones sent massive amounts of personal data about the phones and their users’ activities to servers that were owned by AdUps Technologies, a China-based firmware update provider.