Tomi Masters was a 23-year-old from Indiana who moved to California with dreams of making it big in the cannabis business. Then she met a hacker who introduced her to a dark new world of digital manipulation, suspicion, paranoia, and fear — one that swallowed her alive and left her floating in a river in the Philippines.So many strange things float in the Pasig River. The 15-mile-long waterway, which bisects Manila, is so polluted ecologists in the 1990s declared it “biologically dead” — unable to support marine life. At times and in places, blankets of waste thick enough to stand on cover...…Tomi Masters was a 23-year-old from Indiana who moved to California with dreams of making it big in the cannabis business. Then she met a hacker who introduced her to a dark new world of digital manipulation, suspicion, paranoia, and fear — one that swallowed her alive and left her floating in a river in the Philippines.So many strange things float in the Pasig River. The 15-mile-long waterway, which bisects Manila, is so polluted ecologists in the 1990s declared it “biologically dead” — unable to support marine life. At times and in places, blankets of waste thick enough to stand on cover...WW…

There’s no evidence that the app is uploading your whole camera roll to Russia. We ran the tests.FaceApp — the photo-transforming smartphone app that recently went viral after Drake, LeBron James, the Stranger Things cast, and many more shared AI-aged selfies on social media — has had a hell of a week.On Wednesday, the Democratic National Committee to 2020 presidential campaigns, urging them to delete the app “immediately” over concerns that there was no way to know what FaceApp was doing with the data. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to the FBI and the Federal Trade Commission, asking...…There’s no evidence that the app is uploading your whole camera roll to Russia. We ran the tests.FaceApp — the photo-transforming smartphone app that recently went viral after Drake, LeBron James, the Stranger Things cast, and many more shared AI-aged selfies on social media — has had a hell of a week.On Wednesday, the Democratic National Committee to 2020 presidential campaigns, urging them to delete the app “immediately” over concerns that there was no way to know what FaceApp was doing with the data. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to the FBI and the Federal Trade Commission, asking...WW…

AdvertisementDuring the 2016 presidential election, , Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms to spread to divide the American electorate. Since then, the social media companies have spent billions of dollars and hired tens of thousands of people to help clean up their act.But have the platforms really become more sophisticated at handling ?Not necessarily.People are engaging more on Facebook today with news outlets that routinely publish misinformation than they did before the 2016 election, from the German Marshall Fund Digital, the digital arm of the public policy think tank....…AdvertisementDuring the 2016 presidential election, , Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms to spread to divide the American electorate. Since then, the social media companies have spent billions of dollars and hired tens of thousands of people to help clean up their act.But have the platforms really become more sophisticated at handling ?Not necessarily.People are engaging more on Facebook today with news outlets that routinely publish misinformation than they did before the 2016 election, from the German Marshall Fund Digital, the digital arm of the public policy think tank....WW…