Since 15 September, IFTAS has been tracking a coordinated network of accounts operating across Mastodon. These accounts are engaged in a high-volume propaganda campaign, promoting pro-Russian narratives and linking to Telegram channels associated with known state-aligned disinformation operations. We became aware of a related investigation by the Antibot4Navalny research team that observed these accounts bridging […]| IFTAS Blog
The IFTAS CCS project was a pilot project to provide CSAM detection and reporting for Mastodon servers. The bulk of the project ran for 26 weeks, and while we cannot afford to maintain the service …| IFTAS Blog
I work on problems with networks because I am an ordinary person and I care about ordinary people. Sometimes caring about ordinary people means finding new ropes to pull on and throwing your weight into it. For those of us inside the US but outside the VIP lounge of American| wreckage/salvage
The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.| wreckage/salvage
What even are these systems in which we live and work and—stripping away the ideologies of what corporations or technologies cannot possibly be expected to do—how should they function?| wreckage/salvage
