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Brad Parscale, Donald Trump’s former data guru and campaign manager. Photo: Tom Brenner (Getty Images)Conservative politicians, energy industry groups, Fox News, and think tanks funded by oil and gas donors have answered recent critical coverage of Texas’ power failures with full-throated condemnations of renewable energy. They inaccurately blame rising consumer prices and reduced reliability on green power sources. Beneath that loud braying, though, is a more insidious, less obviously conservative network of websites…

Digital infrastructure services provider Cloudflare announced a $1.25 billion 'Workers Launchpad Funding' programme to help startups grow their businesses.The company partnered 26 leading venture capital firms to help startups building applications on Cloudflare Workers, a highly-scalable serverless computing platform that allows developers to build or augment apps without configuring or maintaining infrastructure."While we can provide the technology, we're thrilled to partner with some of the leading venture capital…

Photo: Aonprom Photo (Shutterstock)Self-described involuntary celibates lurking in the community’s largest forum are escalating their violent rhetoric according to a new report released by the Center for Countering Digital Hate. The report found terms and keywords associated with acts of mass violence on the forum shot up 59% over the past year while approval of sexual violence against women on the site were nearly universal.CCDH researchers analyzed more than a million posts over the past 18 months on the internet’s…

Internet forum Kiwi Farms was working to get back online Monday after a breach by hackers, in the wake of being blocked by internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare due to potentially dangerous rhetoric.The online forum, known as a hub for organising harassment campaigns, particularly targeting women or people in the LGBTQ community, announced the breach in a blog post telling users to assume their passwords and email addresses were stolen."The forum was hacked," Kiwi Farms said in a post updated on Monday."I need to…

The online hate forum Kiwi Farms has tried and failed to find refuge on an internet that just isn’t interested in facilitating its harassment campaigns. Photo: sarocha wangdee (Shutterstock)Smashing rotten fruit is fun, as long as you’re not afraid of getting detritus all over your clothes. But do you know what’s even more fun? Try standing at a distance and watching two pieces of putrid produce repeatedly slam into each other until they’re nothing but a gross paste.Vice first reported Friday on Jim Watkins’ making an…

Photo: Jimmy Tudeschi (Shutterstock)Period tracking app Flo ishoping its newly released “Anonymous Mode” will give users the confidence to continue using their product even as state law enforcement authorities around the country appear increasingly interested in soliciting data from apps to prosecute alleged abortion seekers. Privacy experts speaking with Gizmodo welcomed Flo’s update but warned it still falls short of meeting the definition of fully anonymous. Similarly, the experts said privacy-preserving features like…

Today let’s talk about Kiwi Farms, Cloudflare, and whether infrastructure providers ought to take more responsibility for content moderation than they have generally taken. I. Kiwi Farms is a nearly 10-year-old web forum, founded by a former administrator for the popular QAnon wasteland 8chan, that has become notorious for waging online harassment campaigns against LBGT people, women, and others. It came to popular attention in recent weeks after a well known Twitch creator named Clara Sorrenti spoke out against the…

Digital infrastructure services provider Cloudflare announced that it has blocked US-based Internet forum Kiwi Farms over "imminent threats to human life".The platform said that visitors to any of the Kiwi Farms sites that use any of Cloudflare's services will see a block page and a link to this post.Kiwi Farms may move their sites to other providers and, in doing so, come back online, but Cloudflare said it has taken steps to block their content from being accessed through our infrastructure."This is an extraordinary…

Cloudflare has removed support for Kiwi Farms known for hosting relentless online harassment campaigns after a surge in users making violent threats on the platform. The American internet services company said Kiwi Farms posed an “immediate threat to human life,” citing an increase of “targeted threats” over the past two days. Cloudflare's decision came as harassment campaigns against transgender YouTuber and Twitch streamer, Clara Sorrenti (called Keffals) were intensified. Sorrenti has been leading a campaign to…

SAN FRANCISCO — Citing an “immediate threat to human life,” Cloudflare has dropped the notorious stalking and harassment site Kiwi Farms from its internet security services following an online campaign started by transgender Twitch streamer Clara Sorrenti to pressure it to do so. “This is an extraordinary decision for us to make and given Cloudflare’s role as an Internet infrastructure provider, a dangerous one that we are not comfortable with,” CEO Matthew Prince wrote in a blog post Saturday in an about-face after…