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Fake online news from Macedonia: who’s behind it?
Channel 4 News reveals a cottage industry producing fake online news stories from an unexpected location. But who is behind them and what motivates them?
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Ella Whelan and Claire Wardle on fake news
Joining us is Ella Whelan, assistant editor at Spiked Online, who doesn’t want to see news regulated by social media host sites. Claire Wardle, an academic at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, dedicates her research to verifying sources and understanding the algorithms that make the spread of fake news online possible.
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Berlin tries to lure tech firms
They’re young, they’re smart and they’re tech-savvy, but could they be heading to Germany? Amid all the uncertainty about doing business and working in post-Brexit Britain, Berlin is over here, trying to lure tech sector talent over there.
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Geoff White
Arrests at TalkTalk subcontractor over personal data breaches
Indian police have arrested three employees of a sub-contractor of TalkTalk, who are accused of stealing customers’ data and using it to con them out of thousands.
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Tim Peake: British astronaut carries out first spacewalk
Tim Peake becomes the first “official” British astronaut to carry out a spacewalk at the International Space Station.
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Paul Mason
Kellingley: mourn the loss of a way of life, not deep coal mining
Were my father and grandfather alive, while regretting the way it’s been done, both of them would have raised a glass to the end of deep coal mining.
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Tim Peake: UK astronaut blasts off into space
Tim Peake is set to become the first British astronaut to join the crew of the International Space Station after blasting off on a rocket from Kazakhstan.
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Geoff White
Bitcoin ‘inventor’: the key facts
What would you do for £300m? That’s the current worth of the Bitcoin stash allegedly due to Dr Wright.
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Geoff White
How scammers conned TalkTalk customers out of thousands of pounds
A Channel 4 News investigation has identified two of the people behind the scamming of British customers of the telecoms giant TalkTalk.
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Half a million UK families hit by kids’ computers hack
Half a million British families, including 750,000 kids, have been affected by the massive hack of Vtech, a manufacturer of electronic devices and toys for children, Channel 4 News has learned.
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Geoff White
Is Isis planning murderous cyber attacks?
I’ve been covering cyber security for several years, but very, very rarely come across incidents that directly resulted in physical harm, let alone death.
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TalkTalk hack – new details emerge
It was one of the biggest hacks in recent history – more than a million people’s sensitive data stolen and tonight – we’ve got inside information about how it could have been carried out.
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Theresa May: surveillance bill has ‘strong safeguards’
Unveiling a draft Investigatory Powers Bill, Home Secretary Theresa May tells MPs it represents a “significant departure” from previous proposals dubbed the snoopers’ charter by critics.
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TalkTalk receives ‘ransom demand’ over hacked data
TalkTalk has received a ransom demand from someone claiming to be responsible for a cyber attack, the company has said.
