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WhatsApp Channels: Meta’s Trojan Horse for Encrypted Platform Surveillance

WhatsApp's "Channels" feature launched in 2023 as a broadcast tool for one-to-many messaging. Meta positioned…

Venmo’s Social Feed: How Payment Transparency Enables Financial Surveillance

Venmo's social feed displays millions of peer-to-peer transactions in real-time—who paid whom, when, and ostensibly…

The 2026 Gubernatorial Races: Testing Ground for AI-Generated Campaign Messaging

The 2026 gubernatorial races will mark the first election cycle where artificial intelligence-generated campaign messaging operates at scale within platform recommendation systems designed to amplify emotional manipulation. This isn't a…

How AI Resume Screeners Build Discrimination into Hiring

LinkedIn's recruitment AI screens 300 million resumes annually, ranking candidates through algorithms that measure "culture fit," "coachability," and "leadership potential"—metrics…

Google’s Gemini Memory Feature: The Industrial Consolidation of Cambridge Analytica’s Playbook

Google announced a new "Memory" feature for Gemini that stores user preferences, personal facts, and interaction patterns across Gmail, YouTube,…

Britain’s Post-Brexit Privacy Collapse: How the UK Abandoned Cambridge Analytica’s Lessons

The UK's decision to weaken GDPR compliance post-Brexit represents something more dangerous than regulatory rollback—it's institutional amnesia about what behavioral…

The FTC’s $5 Billion Facebook Settlement: Why Zuckerberg’s Punishment Actually Validated Cambridge Analytica’s Business Model

The Federal Trade Commission's 2019 settlement with Facebook—a record $5 billion fine—was presented as historic accountability. In reality, it was…