«Pope backs Trump», «Hillary sold weapons to ISIS», «FBI Agent Suspected in Hillary
Email Leaks Found Dead» - these fake headlines all went viral on Facebook in the run up to the election, gaining such high engagement that BuzzFeed published an analysis on how they had outperformed real news on Facebook.
Here are few actual headlines that went viral during the election season: «Pope Francis shocks world, endorses Donald Trump for president»; «FBI agent suspected in Hillary
email leaks found dead in apartment in murder - suicide»; «Pence: Michelle Obama is the most vulgar First Lady we've ever had».
Not exact matches
This summer, the
leak of internal DNC
email correspondences by WikiLeaks, an organization
founded by Julian Assange, revealed a bias against Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
12:29 - Cameron has
found a strong line of attack by calling Balls a «nightmare» of a shadow chancellor - citing the
email response to Balls in that
leaked chain.
News organizations» abilities to build trust with sources and gather sensitive information have been called into question by recent disclosures about surveillance: the U.S. Department of Justice's admission that it secretly obtained phone records from the Associated Press, Microsoft's admission that it read a blogger's personal Hotmail account to
find a source of an internal
leak and criminal investigations that have used
email traces to identify and prosecute anonymous sources.
Scientists have unexpectedly
found themselves at the heart of this debate, as the latest round of
leaked climate
emails makes abundantly clear.
Hunt also
found a large number of
email addresses ending with «@mobile.badoo.com» in the
leaked data, which Badoo attributed to an internal
email address system which is used when people sign up using their mobile number.
They
leak out their
email address, phone numbers, or even IM contact only to
find the person lived close and appeared without warning.
The
leaked image was
found in an
email to COD fans before being removed, but obviously at that point it was too late.
I've noticed that some of the disinformation being spread about the CRU hack (called Swifthack or Climategate — lots of info here) is starting to creep into reports on climate change on the ABC, for example this morning some radio reports regarding the WMO's
finding that the last decade has been the hottest on record has been qualified by mentions of the hack, when there is no credible reason to believe that the
leaked emails indicate a problem with the instrumental record — I note that the online version of the story doesn't do this though).
There was «Climategate», the
leak from the University of East Anglia of compromising
email discussions between climate researchers; questions about the provenance of reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); concerns about the competence of IPCC chair, Rajendra Pachauri; and the failure to
find a successor to the Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen.
Which is why we can totally
find references to researchers blocking climate change skeptics from publishing in all of those
emails that got
leaked, amirite?
Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, who
found himself at the centre of the «Climategate» scandal over
leaked emails three years ago, would not normally be expected to agree with her.
The
email addresses, including nearly 80,000 from the Magic Circle, have been
found by cybersecurity specialist RepKnight as part of a campaign to raise awareness of the huge number of
leaked and hacked credentials circulating on the dark web.
LastPass
finds a list of
email addresses in your database and asks if you want to check whether they've ever appeared in any
leaks.
They didn't use keyloggers or compromise the game's servers — they just tried logging in using
email address and password combinations
found on lists of
leaked passwords.
If you're curious whether your
email address appears on one of these
leaked password lists, you don't have to
find a shady download site and download the lists yourself.