Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 4/29/23
New firms tackle misinformation, Biden's spyware order is the first step, Better OSINT needed to spy on China, Latin America views cybersecurity as secondary, We're all soft targets on Twitter now
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These Online Detectives Have Raised $300 Million to Keep Lies From Triggering the Next Bank Run
Bloomberg’s Margi Murphy looks at how companies like Alethea and Graphika, which wade through the “online muck” using AI software, help organizations protect themselves from misinformation and social media manipulation.
Venture capital firms and private investors committed more than $300 million to these kinds of startups from 2018 to 2022, according to data company PitchBook. Last year alone, Microsoft bought Miburo, founded by counter-extremism researcher Clint Watts, who now leads its Digital Threat Analysis Center; Sp…
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