A Reckoning After Trump’s Border Separation Policy: What Kind of Country Are We?

av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 23, 2018 | Lästips

Presidents have many jobs, and one is telling us who we are.

For the first 240 years of U.S. history, at least, our most revered chief executives reliably articulated a set of high-minded, humanist values that bound together a diverse nation by naming what we aspired to: democracy, humanity, equality. The Enlightenment ideals Thomas Jefferson etched onto the Declaration of Independence were given voice by Presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama.

Källa: Time

American media keeps falling for Russian trolls

av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 22, 2018 | Lästips

Russian trolls posing as an American college student tweeted about divisive social, political and cultural issues using an account that amassed thousands of followers — and appeared in dozens of news stories published by major media outlets — as recently as March.

More than 50,000 people followed @wokeluisa, an account that featured a photograph of a young black woman who called herself Luisa Haynes and claimed to be a political science major from New York. Twitter has identified @wokeluisa as the work of the Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll farm and propaganda operation linked to the Kremlin.

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Försvarsexpert: Så enkelt kan man hyra ett botnätverk

av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 18, 2018 | Lästips

Den politiska diskussionen på Twitter drivs delvis av misstänkta botar. Tekniken är i dag tillgänglig för i princip vem som helst och Försvarshögskolans expert, Björn Palmertz, manar nu till stor vaksamhet.

Botar är i grunden automatiserade konton som används för att sprida information. Användningsområdet är brett och tekniken kan – helt legitimt – användas i allt från att bevaka särskilda ämnen till att bedriva marknadsföring.

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Hands off my data! 15 more default privacy settings you should change on your TV, cellphone plan, LinkedIn and more.

av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 17, 2018 | Lästips

Källa: Washington Post

See What’s Happening!

av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 15, 2018 | Lästips

 

 

People come to Twitter to see and discuss what matters to them — from breaking news to the day’s events and memes. This is because whatever is happening in the world, is happening on Twitter — with real-time conversation. There’s no better example than #NBATwitter. Check it out!

Right now if you want to follow #NBATwitter, or any news, you have to find the relevant accounts, hashtags, or Moments to follow. But this could be easier. We’ve been working to change how you discover all the information around news, events, and stories, and today, we’re sharing a few steps forward. It’ll be easier to find and follow the big events and stories you care about in your timeline, notifications, and Explore. Also, there’s a new look and feel for Moments showing everything you’d want to see.

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Twelve South AirFly review: Connect Bluetooth headphones to any wired source

av Mikael Winterkvist | jun 14, 2018 | Lästips

”It’s a beautiful day for flying,” the captain said, his introductory message piped through my Libratone Track+ headphones. I don’t usually hear these messages: I’ve long since stopped using wired headphones on airplanes, preferring an Apple Music playlist on noise-cancelling earbuds to patchy satellite audio through a set of EarPods.

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