[nonostantement #50] - fortnite cleaning stolen money / security checklist / seven companies controlling beauty
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Adolescents influenced by the American Nazi Party
harass Dion Diamond during a civil rights sit-in
at the Cherrydale Drug Fair in Arlington, VA June 10, 1960.
Covington Catholic Students Wearing MAGA Hats Taunt Native Americans
"A white teenager from a Kentucky Catholic school, surrounded by laughing and jeering classmates and reportedly chaperones egging them on, and wearing a Make America Great Again hat taunts a Native American during the Indigenous People’s Day March in Washington D.C. Friday."In the Fake News Era, Native Ads Are Muddying the Waters
"Online experiment finds that less than 1 in 10 people can tell sponsored content from an article"Own the Entire Supreme Skateboard Collection, Now Open for Bidding
"Bidding starts at 500.000USD"[Video] - Sacha Baron Cohen Tells US City It's Getting New Mosque And They Don't Take It Well
How children playing Fortnite are helping to fuel organised crime
"Stolen credit card details are being used to purchase V-bucks – the virtual currency used to buy items in the game – from the official Fortnite store. By selling V-bucks at a discounted rate to players, the criminals are effectively able to 'clean' the money."Facebook Algorithms and Personal Data
"Overall, however, 74% of Facebook users say they did not know that this list of their traits and interests existed until they were directed to their page as part of this study."[Video] - A CIA-Issued Rectal Tool Kit For Spies
"This CIA-issued tool kit was issued to CIA officers during the height of the Cold War. It was a way for spies to get themselves out of sticky situations: to pick a lock, carve a tunnel, etc."How An Elaborate International Scam Is Making The Rounds Amongst Instragrammers & Photographers
"Our total loss was around $7,500 USD"securitycheckli.st
"An open source checklist of resources designed to improve your online privacy and security. Check things off to keep track as you go."These 7 companies control almost every single beauty product you buy
"These seven mega-companies - Estée Lauder Companies, L'Oréal, Unilever, Procter and Gamble, Shiseido, Johnson and Johnson, and Coty - employ thousands of people around the world and make billions of dollars in revenue every year. They also are responsible for controlling advertising and the way we all think about beauty every day."How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.
"For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event 'the Inversion.'"Why 1984 Isn't Banned in China
"[...] for a time last year Chinese citizens could not type 19, 80, and four in sequence—but they could, and still can, buy a copy of 1984, the most famous novel on authoritarianism ever written. Prefer Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World? They can buy that text, too, just as easily, although its title also joined the taboo list last winter."
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