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Stop journalism from becoming 'weaponized' Journalism itself has become weaponized.
These companies weaponized attention, and then Russia weaponized the platforms.
"You guys are weaponized, you are totally weaponized by the CIA," the Trump supporter claimed.
So, they weaponized the tools -- I know, and they weaponized -- we need to get back to that.
They have weaponized the First Amendment, they have amplified and weaponized, and they are digital arms dealers.
Connecticut cops may be first in U.S. to get weaponized drones Connecticut cops may be first in U.S. to get weaponized drones Connecticut cops could soon have a new crime-fighter in their arsenal: weaponized drones.
CARTER: Sean, it matters because they weaponized -- they weaponized our tools of law enforcement, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, and everything else.
That's been weaponized, and the underlying fears propelling all of this stuff have been weaponized as well, and that's something PatriotHole relentlessly parodies.
I mean, you can think of one weaponized ... Yeah.
How was photography weaponized as a tool for LGBT activism?
Each of these objects hurtling around Earth became instantly weaponized.
That's why marine biologists refer to this as weaponized insulin.
Drug cartels were plenty dangerous before they weaponized flying robots.
It could be weaponized and lead to conflict between nations.
As a result, countless ordinary household objects have become weaponized.
And it could also be weaponized, giving soldiers superhuman powers.
Democracy is at risk because social media's weaponized the bubble.
Crypto and blockchain has weaponized nerds in an unprecedented way.
Social media, as I said yesterday, has become highly weaponized.
It's just weird that it's been weaponized by the internet.
They're just abstractions to be weaponized to maintain white supremacy.
Because, as I said in my remarks, it was weaponized.
Pakistan has used weaponized drones in combat against domestic terrorists.
" Elizabeth Warren has said that China has "weaponized its economy.
But the topic here was wolves, and that weaponized everything.
It's the wrath of their obedient, weaponized minions I fear.
Mr. Bloomberg's negatives could not be weaponized by the president.
" But such beliefs, Farrell argues, are "vulnerable to weaponized bullshit.
They have the most advanced weaponized technology we've ever seen.
He weaponized that rhetoric into real policy impacting Muslim communities.
Although some might argue that the social media's become weaponized.
"You have to think not will it be weaponized, but how long would it take for it to be weaponized?" said Renee Murphy, a principal analyst at Forrester focusing on governance, risk and compliance.
Moscow is also widely seen to have "weaponized" the migrant crisis.
Perhaps we are on the verge of a new weaponized pejorative.
First, understand that crypto is a technical product weaponized by cash.
But there's definitely the potential for such technology to be weaponized.
Experts had never heard of the disease being weaponized that way.
"We know that Facebook is going to be weaponized," Taye said.
They weaponized the power of intelligence to use against this president.
That's why I wrote in the Times, they have weaponized everything.
There's nothing that doesn't get amplified or weaponized in some fashion.
Our Justice Department has been weaponized for pure partisan political gain.
A bill there would let cops use weaponized drones on you.
Newt Gingrich weaponized warfare politics in a methodical and sustained way.
Here's a video called "Billy Corgan Warns of Weaponized Zombies," though.
Facebook could still be weaponized again for the 2018 midterms Rep.
Weaponized fear and bigotry are the central projects of this administration.
Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.
Perhaps they can be weaponized or used to advance military capability.
The program's origins may have been relief, but Saddam weaponized it.
Your opponent has weaponized the ultimate blunt force object: the floor.
Social media's become weaponized in many ways in the same way.
He took his outsider citizenship as a subject and weaponized it.
Listen: Are artists responsible when their fan armies can be weaponized?
At Prada and Moschino, the clichés of femininity are being weaponized.
"It felt like it was weaponized against one industry," she said.
The unique texture of their hair was immediately derided and weaponized.
And we have weaponized it as part of our political system.
Other times, their lust is weaponized for the sake of drama.
Is the dystopian future of shoestrong budget weaponized drone attacks here already?
Let's take a look at a hypothetical timeline of a weaponized virus.
They have weaponized the Internet against our democracies using these same tactics.
"Deceptive claims have been weaponized to shut down free speech," he concluded.
And if he reversed course, it may suddenly be weaponized against him.
They have weaponized it, using it to jam up the other side.
The case, filed in May of last year, has weaponized Uber's secrecy.
Brown said she felt Parker had "almost weaponized" their faith against her.
If he doesn't, he'll become a vehicle for weaponized hate and regression.
Yet in a weaponized information environment, crowdsourcing appears unproductive and even ominous.
By turning the dossier into hard news, that leak weaponized malicious gossip.
The basic concept is that consumer data is being weaponized against us.
Not to mention weaponized vehicles, stabbings, and many other instruments of violence.
The UFC star actually weaponized the Irish colors at the Mayweather vs.
Now, it seems, all of those early tools have finally been weaponized.
The language of "realism" is weaponized pragmatism—but it isn't actually pragmatism.
They have weaponized social media, and we are all paying the price.
Secret Service passes for working White House journalists should never be weaponized.
There are even hints of weaponized dinosaurs being sold to the military.
What was fascinating about it is the way that they were weaponized.
He said that Democrats "weaponized" the shutdown back then for political purposes.
Republicans have weaponized the judicial nomination process as a purely partisan exercise.
"I was comfortable that it wasn't going to be weaponized," he added.
"The Americans" crossed several Rubicons this week: • Stan Beeman is now weaponized.
They can and will be weaponized, falsely regurgitated and twisted beyond recognition.
Between the lines: O'Rourke knows how this can be weaponized against Democrats.
They've weaponized the House of Representatives to investigate incessantly their political opponent.
The same technology that is making your life easier is being weaponized.
By 2016, the C.I.A. had 24 weaponized Android "zero day" software programs.
It's not weaponized and can reach speeds of up to 27 knots.
It often feels like Trump has stolen our ideas and weaponized them.
Extremists have exploited these platforms and have weaponized them to great effect.
At their worst, these videos revel in the weaponized power of online reviews.
It could be weaponized, or run amok in an accidental grey goo scenario.
"He isn't going to allow his record to be weaponized," an official said.
Zora's one-track mind is weaponized in Umbrae, an unstoppably fast killing machine.
"He isn't going to allow his record to be weaponized," the official said.
Again, differentiating from the movies, weaponized explosives don't produce those mushroom cloud explosions.
Sustainability doesn't have to be a box-ticking exercise, it can be weaponized.
Along with Iraq, several Middle Eastern states have purchased China's weaponized drone technology.
The weaponized form of chlorine can cause suffocation and death within 30 minutes.
And it all adds up to one thing: Trump weaponized nastiness and bullying.
"I *refuse* to have these normal human marks weaponized against me," she said.
Countries weaponized social media against the world in a war against truth itself.
Now, Trump's race-baiting is being weaponized on the campaign trail once again.
Be cognizant of how your whiteness could be weaponized against Black people. i.e.
Once you understand how liberating her youthful insight was — sex can be weaponized!
"Everything now gets weaponized," said David Axelrod, a former adviser to President Obama.
These terms are best understood as signs of our time: paranoid, weaponized, online.
"Weaponized Shitposting," the #1 tool of the Australian army and Internet Trolls everywhere.
And lawmakers in Australia and New Zealand want to ban "weaponized" social media.
That the collection took fashion's penchant for escapism via clothes and weaponized it.
But Trump's weaponized disinformation is corrosive to democracy no matter whom it targets.
Low Tide Rated R for a fired gun and a weaponized baseball bat.
A bumptious brew of mockery, sarcasm, even juvenile humor, weaponized for propaganda purposes.
These images weaponized childhood innocence, transforming it into a tool of racial domination.
Not many today even try, when culture is weaponized and nature is sentimentalized.
And by the way, clean up Obama's weaponized Justice Department, FBI and IRS.
All hummingbirds fight, including females, but only a few species have weaponized bills.
"The law, the judiciary, the bureaucracy, the police are being weaponized," she said.
However, no U.S. police departments currently use weaponized drones, according to NBC News.
I noted this in my very first column for The Times almost a year ago, when I called social media giants "digital arms dealers of the modern age" who had, by sloppy design, weaponized pretty much everything that could be weaponized.
"The other thing that really rang true in that film is when someone at a press conference asks the character who works for the CDC if this virus had been weaponized, and his response is, 'Mother Nature weaponized it,'" McNamara said.
He's now weaponized the tariffs to use them for other things other than trade.
China, Iran, and the United States are all enthusiastic exporters of large, weaponized drones.
A clip of her remarks has also been taken out of context and weaponized.
Militants for ISIS have been using weaponized drones that drop grenades or other explosives.
In so doing, Georgian culture has tailored itself to a sort of weaponized hospitality.
This scheme may be further weaponized against associates who opt not to take VTO.
He sees Prigozhin as an example of how Putin has weaponized Russia's wealthy elites.
Oxitec's "weaponized" mosquitoes kill way more insects than pesticides do, without the environmental downsides.
The ironic thing about Literal Nazis is that they have weaponized taking things literally.
There, it has been so thoroughly weaponized that users ought to have a permit.
"We live in a new reality where autonomous vehicles can be weaponized," he said.
And it's all taking place on Twitter, which has been weaponized by Donald Trump.
Oxitec's "weaponized" mosquitoes kill way more insects than pesticides do, without the environmental downsides.
In his fear, he became both perpetrator and victim, weaponized by his own country.
There's a fragility in the notion of truth when we have weaponized information systems.
Having a weaponized campus is going to make it feel that much less welcoming.
Fentanyls are so deadly they have been weaponized and are classifiable as chemical weapons.
If zeal could be weaponized in wartime, the Confederacy might have had a chance.
Like her idol Solanas, Chu produced a slender work weaponized with jokes and urgency.
Then, according to the police, the man weaponized the beverage bin beneath the window.
There's truth in these clichés, but also something that is all too easily weaponized.
However, the American president has weaponized falsehoods to the detriment of journalism, she said.
It also has important military uses, like helping a weaponized drone find its targets.
Russia made "gay propaganda" illegal and weaponized social media to meddle in Western elections.
He believes the harm is in how the phrase is weaponized against black people.
It is investigating reports that weaponized chlorine was used in the town of Saraqib.
Mr. Obama prohibited transfers of weaponized vehicles, certain large-caliber ammunition and other equipment.
Of course ignorance hasn't prevented the scant news from being weaponized by interested parties.
Nor will we ever accept that refugees are weaponized and used to blackmail us.
But some of the aggressive culture that made Uber was it was, was weaponized.
Now the deadly weaponized virus kills 210 Chinese & no foreigners & becomes Emperor Shithole's Chernobyl!
Censorship grows out of political correctness, weaponized by each aggrieved person against everyone else.
According to the report, Weinstein weaponized friendships with power players in journalism, Hollywood and politics.
I don&apost like it on either side, it&aposs been weaponized against President Trump.
But how will the United States' weaponized drone programme change under President-elect Donald Trump?
Now, however, there are more questions about how intelligence is being weaponized by the President.
The White House subsequently said there was "irrefutable evidence" the regime had used weaponized chlorine.
"What good is it to develop facial analysis technology that is then weaponized?" says Buolamwini.
According to a recent report, one of the biggest 2017 cybersecurity threats is weaponized drones.
Does using machine learning to analyze surveillance footage for the military count as "weaponized AI"?
Other dishes are served in ration tins and can all be weaponized if need be.
In truth, my dyslexia had been weaponized against me by family members, classmates, and exes.
During my visit, those militia, piled into weaponized pickup trucks, were ubiquitous throughout the capital.
The only difference is that, in Anna's case, it was her enemies that weaponized her.
These white supremacists have not only weaponized free speech, but also have normalized hate speech.
Why this matters: Bannon once said he successfully weaponized a human being in Matt Boyle.
It's now essentially admitting that those standards are too weak in instances of weaponized hate.
Newt Gingrich, in the early 1990s, weaponized warfare politics in a methodical and sustained way.
Across the West, Russia has weaponized social media in disinformation campaigns, most notably during elections.
For weaponized weirdness, consider the accomplished and influential elder Nayland Blake, who is fifty-seven.
These are manicures of carnal danger, of weaponized sex appeal, of "erotics" as intimidation tactic.
And when it is weaponized for political purposes, the integrity of our judicial system suffers.
The term is not a weaponized talking point, however; it is a principle of justice.
We've already seen some instances of facial recognition software being weaponized as a stalking tool.
The right wing, led by a fantastically wealthy coterie of industrialists, has essentially weaponized policy.
The subsequent Saudi blockade of food and fuel weaponized human suffering in an unacceptable manner.
No other surgical procedure is weaponized so effectively, and in so many ways, against women.
It reflects how China "has essentially weaponized tourism," according to Adam Sacks, an industry consultant.
It's not only police militarization where Americans' pervasive real-world play acting has been weaponized.
To prevent water from becoming weaponized, diplomacy and development to increase water security are required.
It probably is a ChiCom laboratory experiment that is in the process of being weaponized.
Shelton says Agility Robotics will sell to these customers but only for non-weaponized functions.
And Shelton says there's an "ethical argument" for using non-weaponized robots in the military.
Sadly, the Trump administration has distorted and weaponized religious liberty to attack the LGBTQ community.
" ---- Everything depends on what we do now By Emma Thompson "We have weaponized our planet.
Islamic State militants previously used weaponized drones and showed video of its bomb-dropping UAVs.
At some point, however, the concept of deterrence has to be weaponized to mean something.
Your information will be stolen and then weaponized against you in the most pernicious ways.
That is: Clothes speak as loudly as many words, and they can be weaponized accordingly.
Recently, phishing has been weaponized to varying degrees of sophistication with a key technique: impersonation.
Or when it weaponized the FBI and CIA to paint Trump's campaign as a Russian agent?
Exceptions like Palantir succeed by arming governments with data science that can be weaponized against citizens.
This is how a meme that starts off as harmless fun is easily and quickly weaponized.
The UK government's pressure on tech giants to do more about online extremism just got weaponized.
His catsuit is topped by a massive clear dome helmet that ostensibly protects Mysterio's weaponized brain.
They weaponized the FBI and DOJ to attack the duly elected President of the United States.
Perhaps there's a technological barrier that can't be surmounted, such as artificial superintelligence or weaponized nanotechnology.
Thunberg has since weaponized this in meetings with political leaders and with billionaire entrepreneurs in Davos.
Planes full of weaponized herbicide destroyed everything except the coca, which is used to make cocaine.
Such demonization makes it easier to increase irrational fears that can be weaponized for political purposes.
This kind of leads into the idea of weaponized language, something introduced in the first issue.
Perhaps my work is a gob of goo on the slippery slope towards weaponized image fabrication.
" By contrast, Kavanaugh's authentic anger at being smeared was weaponized to argue he lacked "judicial temperament.
And in doing so, the Dixie Chicks weaponized the chip on their shoulder: She's with us.
A Navy helicopter launched from the Truman then determined that the unmanned aerial vehicle wasn't weaponized.
Is it out of anger, borne from some deep-seated rage only weaponized shit can fix?
Those are rarely fatal, making mustard relatively less lethal than other weaponized chemical agents like sarin.
Santamarta also discovered ways a hacked system could be weaponized to exert harmful radio frequency broadcasts.
People have (lazily) compared it to a Renaissance painting when it really is a weaponized meme.
First, we learned that Facebook was weaponized by Russia to try and sway the 2016 election.
But you know, they've weaponized and amplified in a way that is way beyond anything else.
But maybe the commercial exploitation of political anger is what has concentrated and weaponized that anger.
They might sit harmlessly onscreen in Act I. But they'll be fully weaponized by Act III.
Even the memory of Auschwitz — where 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered — has been weaponized.
"It would be very unwise for them to use weaponized gas," Mattis said, according to Reuters.
Republicans, however, fully weaponized Senate rules by routinely deploying them against President Obama and the Democrats.
Growing deficits are being weaponized as reasons to not create, expand, or fund vital government programs.
Both have accused the other party of weaponized leaks from closed-door interviews and private documents.
But, but, but: Other experts say space is already being weaponized, and the U.S. is behind.
They weaponized teleportation to use it to put troops precisely where they were needed on the battlefield.
But he has continuously stoked resentment and anger—particularly, if not exclusively, among whites—and weaponized it.
Everyone loves an indoor tree for the holidays, but what if you want some weaponized kyber crystals?
I refused to let the best of this nation be debased and weaponized against truth and justice.
Amid growing fears of biased and weaponized AI, Google is already struggling to keep the public's trust.
Even if face recognition tech becomes less biased, it can still be weaponized against people of color.
The Houthi experience shows that the technology can be acquired, smuggled into a rebel region, and weaponized.
"I have seen firsthand what happens when such a process is weaponized against an accuser," she said.
That was a concern among YouTubers as the controversy arose, along with comments being weaponized against creators.
Food has been weaponized in the last couple of decades in that very specific way, for sure.
If not, we risk producing and reproducing stereotypes, generalizations, and inequalities that can be weaponized against us.
After basic math weaponized shots from beyond the arc, teams are now averaging over 28 per game.
Twitter has been fully weaponized by hate groups who descend on users for ideological differences with impunity.
It has also begun serial production of a noiseless drone, which could be weaponized in the future.
I learned that racism can be weaponized: It has the power to level you at any moment.
Added together, there's a fear that the law could be weaponized by the government to silence critics.
Historically, weaponized spoilers have been a tool of those who just want to watch the world burn.
HEMINGWAY: It was actually weaponized by the federal government and used to spy on an American citizen.
"We're steering away from any kind of weaponized version, but we are interested in surveillance," said Bibby.
After all, the term has become weaponized against real news in an attempt to delegitimize the truth.
As the nation and the world now knows, a car was weaponized in the name of terrorism.
His rise toward the presidency threatened Democrat power — so liberals deployed their usual worn-out, weaponized arguments.
Because it's not just ... People in the past have tried to upset elections, but this is weaponized.
But in recent years, Facebook has been weaponized by nasty political operations, strongmen, and even genocidal campaigns.
But did you know that tennis serves, laughter, paperwork and Midwestern niceness can also, apparently, be weaponized?
There is a god damn weaponized rubber disc whipping around the ice that can change direction instantly.
But with Terrifyer, I think it's the closest thing to weaponized sound that we've come up with.
There was no indication that something we'd been conditioned to do would be quickly weaponized against us.
""Having private photos of personal moments weaponized against me has been an appalling invasion of my privacy.
But it "shouldn't only be weaponized for political purposes when the suspected killer is white," he said.
On the Runway What if online call-out culture could be weaponized with humor instead of anger?
It stated that the "The Democrat Party," not "The Democratic Party," had weaponized subpoenas for political use.
Instead, America has weaponized this interdependence, twisting Swift and the dollar clearing system to strangle its adversaries.
" He cited what he called a data industrial complex "that's being weaponized against us with military efficiency.
Too often the important issues aren't so much weighed as weaponized in the war against new development.
He has weaponized free agency, or the mere threat of it, orchestrated his departures, staged his decisions.
Price notes, accurately, that Whiterose weaponized Angela's regrets against her in a similar fashion, then destroyed her.
For one, the terror group managed to make its own armored vehicles and to create weaponized drones.
Gamergate was a harassment campaign against women in the game industry, and it weaponized the retweet button.
The Christian Science Monitor interview "described that these terms have been weaponized by the left," King said.
But some British Jews are wary of seeing the cause weaponized in the heat of an election.
It means generating explosive hearing moments that can be weaponized on social media and lead news broadcasts.
As Ruth, a profoundly lonely expectant mother, Alice Lowe (who also wrote and directed) personifies weaponized gestation.
She started to see "creepy, weaponized" mathematical models being deployed, largely against people who were already struggling.
These devices have been weaponized, however, as seen with US military bomb bots fitted with machine guns.
Last year, North Dakota became the first state to legalize nonlethal, weaponized drones for its police officers.
Still, when I asked them if it's fair to say they represent the weaponized wing of the resistance movement (literally weaponized in the case of the black bloc), they said it was—but were quick to point out their motivations extend well beyond opposition to the current president.
The "bathroom bill" movement was perhaps first weaponized by North Carolina, but it remains prevalent across the country.
Our own information, from the everyday to the deeply personal, is being weaponized against us with military efficiency.
If it were to be weaponized in a court-packing scheme, its rulings might suddenly stop being obeyed.
Third and finally, Trump's inflammatory rhetoric was being weaponized by some sports fans months before he was elected.
We've also changed the cultural value of "toe-stepping," which is one that many had mentioned was weaponized.
These cuts have left it with inadequate methods for coping with the weaponized information of our digital era.
Just as "weaponized" surveillance cameras could be abused, cancer data could be misused by insurance companies and employers.
In the hands of a cool, rational, efficient actor, cruelty can be weaponized and harnessed to policy ends.
I spent a lot of my adolescence viewing my body as something that could be weaponized against me.
Since weaponized chlorine is considered a chemical weapon, Syria's use violated UN resolutions and the US-Russia agreement.
But among the various forms of election hacking, weaponized propaganda is the most common and the least effective.
I know first-hand how groups of weaponized Americans can act around Muslims, and it isn't always pleasant.
The creators of this deepfake don't intend to publish their method out of concern it could be weaponized.
Motor Wars also ropes in GTA Online's "Weaponized Veicles," which were introduced in the game's previous "Gunrunning" update.
So she takes matters — and a hefty, weaponized shovel — into her own hands, like any badass mom would.
Last week we reported on the rise of "weaponized" consumer drones in the hands of the Islamic State.
Criticizing Medicaid as a welfare program gone amok illustrates how words have been weaponized, focusing on negative connotations.
Mitchell writes about emotional information: who controls it, and how it is squandered or hoarded, withheld or weaponized.
And people are sick of it because we know it's weaponized to keep people in a cultural plantation.
For revenge, the Beyhive began flooding the C.M.A. Instagram with its weaponized emojis of choice: lemons and bees.
Anti-Semitic caricatures had persisted for centuries; Der Stürmer's anti-Semitic cartoons had to be weaponized by Hitler.
As we stood under chemtrails and waves of weaponized 5G waves in the parking lot, Watsun Atkinsun agreed.
Contemplating this history is excruciating in part because of the way it has been weaponized against Hillary Clinton.
By Demanding an Investigation, Trump Challenged a Constraint on His Power 'Chain Migration' Has Become a Weaponized Phrase.
As long as this technology continues to progress from a strictly non-weaponized perspective, there's nothing to fear.
Even better: Congress could amend current human trafficking laws to prevent them from being weaponized in this way.
Both loving and barbed, it uses a kind of weaponized casualness to criticize, but with complete plausible deniability.
All these aircraft are much easier to hide in plain sight than huge, weaponized C-130 Hercules airplanes.
The lawsuit stated that the "The Democrat Party," not "The Democratic Party," had weaponized subpoenas for political use.
" • Quotation of the day "Identity is the ultimate digital currency, and it's being weaponized at an industrial scale.
For them, Mr. Trump is a "fighter," and politics needs to be weaponized in order to be enjoyed.
"Bigots are planning to intimidate through weaponized fear this Saturday at noon," one of them wrote on Reddit.
"Before it was weaponized in the years following 1979, the Sunni-Shia schism lay mostly dormant," Ghattas notes.
The group that owns Faro may continue to conquer Bushwick, Brooklyn, with weaponized Sichuan noodles at General Debs.
All laid out — sometimes in graphic detail — ways that abusive partners and sexual predators have weaponized the web.
The core algorithm of the company's News Feed was weaponized by Russian operatives and purveyors of fake news.
Experts said swarm-like attacks using weaponized drones is a growing threat and likely to only get worse.
This movie feels like it could be weaponized by those who want to sow distrust of the media.
Yet now casually weaponized in executive orders, those same ideas are alienating American allies and damaging the presidency.
Consumer marketing tools "now have been weaponized by politicians," said Kip Cassino, a senior vice president at Borrell.
Not only has conspiratorial hate spread from the internet to real life; it's also weaponized to go viral.
In the age of information, memes can be weaponized, even if they are literally just Matt Furie cartoons.
Related: Weaponized Islamic State Ebola, Obama's Marijuana Auctions, and the Art of Fake News You can't manufacture virality.
But I loved the way "Night" framed June's pregnancy as something that finally weaponized her, in a way.
That means that cops will once again have access to tanks, bayonets, grenade launchers, weaponized aircraft, and ammunition above .
"They could weaponize this system the same way they've weaponized their own system against their own citizens," he said.
Reporting shows social media companies have been aware for years that their platforms can be weaponized by bad actors.
Cuomo gave the people Wi-Fi, and they turned around and weaponized it to fight for a better subway.
This photo was clearly saved to be weaponized as one of the most effective thirst traps in modern history.
Russia's suspected cyber attacks fell into the category of normal state spying, Hayden said, until Moscow "weaponized" the information.
There are legal options, like requiring drones to broadcast their operator's identity, or to make "weaponized" consumer drones illegal.
"When these technologies become weaponized, they can be used for surveillance, manipulation and self-generating propaganda," Neudert tells Axios.
They weaponized the powerful tools of intelligence, turned it on us and they are now politicizing differences, political differences.
But how do you see how it was weaponized, and it begs the questions, why weren't you weaponizing it?
So if it's any comfort, we also had an election decided by an election day weaponized social media case.
So whether a tipline can offer a robust check against weaponized political disinformation very much remains to be seen.
And researchers see the very technology being weaponized to create a fake image as a way to detect it.
The CIA had 24 "weaponized" exploits for Android which it obtained from GCHQ, the NSA and cyber arms contractors.
Political disagreement, instead of being ritualized and weaponized, could become the basis for more authentic engagement with fellow Americans.
The Twitter revolution of the Arab Spring weaponized the Internet, freeing information and empowering organizing on an unprecedented scale.
As for laws on the use of robots by police, numerous states already have bans on the weaponized drones.
And so long as it is weaponized for fear and terror, we need to confront it and defeat it.
The report noted law enforcement cannot use the funds for bayonets, weaponized aircraft or food purchases, among other things.
The cost of limiting AI intelligence being weaponized could vastly exceed all of our nuclear proliferation efforts to date.
Politicians like Mr. Wilders appear to have learned "how effectively xenophobia and bigotry can be weaponized," Mr. Hussein said.
Narrator: The 1950s, for example, saw the launch of Operation Big Itch, an experiment that was testing weaponized fleas.
In this instance, a glitchy or weaponized device can mean a hunk of metal accidentally soaring into your face.
All of the outreach she has done with women of all colors would be weaponized by conservative-leaning networks.
This is about an organization and police agency that has become highly politicized and weaponized by this White House.
No president since Richard Nixon has embraced the weaponized rhetoric of "law and order" as avidly as Mr. Trump.
And "The Lying Detective's" primary plot twist hinged on a female character who cleverly weaponized her invisibility, her interchangeability.
Sanders and Warren are your first lines of defense — and they must be weaponized to attack, especially on China.
The Trump administration's latest move is in line with a long tradition of weaponized conservative outrage toward affirmative action.
In the age of the Information Wars, everything is weaponized for political purposes — and Epstein's death was no different.
Even the memory of Auschwitz — where 1.1 million men, women and children, mostly Jews, were murdered — has been weaponized.
So you see that enduring threat on the counterintelligence side, it is just now newly weaponized by cyber techniques.
Rush Limbaugh is under fire for claiming the coronavirus is a 'common cold' being 'weaponized' to bring down Trump
All of them, with the brave exception of Mitt Romney, weaponized the letter of the law against its spirit.
In an age when the political lie is being weaponized to increasing effect, it's an oversight Congress should redress.
But when religion is weaponized to express hostility on the basis of sexual identity, it leads to predictable consequences.
"History has perhaps taught Mr. Wilders and his ilk how effectively xenophobia and bigotry can be weaponized," he said.
Critics say Trump has "weaponized" foreign aid to pursue specific political objectives, and that it has had little success.
China has also weaponized its economic prowess to induce foreign companies and even governments to erase Taiwan's international presence.
The technology could revolutionize policing, medicine, even agriculture, but its applications can easily be weaponized— should we be worried?
This week, conservatives weaponized Jewish suffering to divert discussion from the massive human rights abuses occurring at our border. Rep.
What's clear is the male-dominated industry might not have predicted how their creations could be weaponized by domestic abusers.
His order banned certain supplies from reaching local police entirely — including tracked, armored vehicles; weaponized vehicles; firearms and ammunition of .
"They weaponized fake news to justify the illegal blockade of Qatar," said Jassim Al Thani, Qatar's Washington-based media attaché.
"Our own information — from the everyday to the deeply personal — is being weaponized against us with military efficiency," warned Cook.
"Welcome To The Age of Weaponized Social Media," said a strategy document Sullivan prepared for Stone and seen by Reuters.
Instead, its first section is full of grimly wry near-future speculation, starting with a massive, weaponized fake news event.
"Our personal information is being weaponized against us," Ayden Férdeline, a tech policy fellow at the Mozilla Foundation, told CNBC.
Whereas The Handmaiden focuses on how sexuality can be weaponized, Spa Night explores how it can be sheltered and closeted.
"Our research shows proof that even non-military robots could be weaponized to cause harm," Apa said in an interview.
But it isn't wealth that is weaponized so much as the desperate maintenance of an inflexible version of Asian tradition.
Nationalism was out of fashion — at least in Western Europe — and weaponized Twitter didn't yet exist to galvanize political change.
The "Me Too" movement — which is completely important and legitimate — appears to many to have been weaponized for political gain.
After the game, Hader engaged in the typical apology one rolls out after being the subject of weaponized digital archaeology.
Third, there is nothing extreme about ending a practice so weaponized that its Senate champions change based on election results.
It has weaponized its natural gas exports to Europe, turning off the tap when countries dare go against its wishes.
It's becoming clearer by the day that Obama's DOJ, FBI, State Department and even the CIA were weaponized against Trump.
Not only has social media shaped the ways in which people socialize, it is now being weaponized toward political ends.
Their youth, their penchant for Day-Glo themes and avoidance of intricate rhyme schemes have all been weaponized against them.
They could also be weaponized, used to try to claim that something one finds politically offensive is triggering and traumatic.
According to the study, the number of weaponized sets and parts has been steadily on the rise since the 1980s.
Macy's In this piece of weaponized wistfulness, Macy's wields their most iconic holiday institution to go straight for the jugular.
The big picture: The leaks come in all shapes and sizes: small leaks, real-time leaks, weaponized leaks, historical leaks.
The virus used in the simulator, Variola Chimera, is a fictional weaponized version of the naturally occurring smallpox, Variola Major.
Molly is a fixer and an assassin whose nails, skin, and glands have been weaponized against the world around her.
Yes, their friendship is exactly as fantastic as it sounds, so prepare yourself for five solid minutes of weaponized cuteness.
But a bow and arrow can be handmade, shot from a distance, and weaponized when the story transitions into warfare.
The "public interest" definitions are so vague, they add, that the legislation could be weaponized to target the government's critics.
Those are our best parts, not the other ones, and Sterling weaponized them against all the women who worked there.
Tim Cook: Our own information, from the everyday to the deeply personal, is being weaponized against us with military efficiency.
A weaponized judiciary poses real dangers to the legitimacy of the federal courts, and there's no point in pretending otherwise.
Saudi clerics had never weaponized the podium of the prophet at the Grand Mosque so brazenly to serve the monarchy.
Democrats have weaponized the impeachment process and are using it as another political tool against an opponent they cannot beat.
There is an element of non-violent protest being weaponized against an opponent when you're running it via an app.
Mulvaney said "the Obama administration weaponized the shutdown in 2013" for political purposes by closing popular attractions like national parks.
The prospect of our own NSA, CIA and FBI becoming politically weaponized has been shrouded by untruths, accusations and justifications.
Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook showed some promise until we all realized that social media had been weaponized to destroy democracy.
The tweet came after Limbaugh aired fears that the virus was being "weaponized" against Trump on his Monday radio program.
Her life in self-help, which had brought her fame and the loyalty of millions, was being weaponized against her.
In what once was a call to the #MAGA-minded, lefties now saw an absurdity just begging to be weaponized.
None want to see their faces -- or their words -- weaponized by Trump in a campaign ad this summer or fall.
Karadzic weaponized history and identity to stoke hatred and fear and turn the people who listened to him into killers.
This plays out most vividly on social media, where Trump opposition and support are marshaled and weaponized to absurdist degrees.
"Weaponized Narrative Is the New Battlespace," blared a January headline on Defense One, a website that covers national-security news.
A lot of people feel that social media, like myself, has weaponized and amplified a lot of what's going on.
The deal is for 12 weaponized drones to aid Kenya in its fight against the Somali militant group al-Shabaab.
And she has a theory about how Hallmark has weaponized a particular trait of Christmas entertainment to spur its success.
Burton has company among Obama alums, many of whom remember how Republicans weaponized Obamacare in the 2010 and 2014 midterms.
It's a hedge and a dodge, at once overly punctilious and contemptuously dismissive; it's contingent, euphemistic, underhanded and easily weaponized.
That breach, weaponized by Russia in the midst of a presidential contest, illustrates well the ambiguous nature of such intrusions.
"Secret Service passes for White House journalists should never be weaponized," Fox News President Jay Wallace said in a statement.
"I want to make sure that the IRS is not weaponized like it was in the Nixon administration," Mnuchin said.
HB 4066 clarified and modified some drone definitions and made it a class A misdemeanor to operate a weaponized drone.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has weaponized those lies, turning them into a potent tool for probing Trump's links to Russia.
The possibility of false allegations weaponized by the right is a troubling one, and Democrats should be aware of it.
The Moria video was also immediately weaponized by other far-right internet personalities like Stefan Molyneux, Raheem Kassam, and Cassandra Fairbanks.
"Secret Service passes for working White House journalists should never be weaponized," Fox News president Jay Wallace wrote in a statement.
It may feel like we're living in times when the written word is both more weaponized and endangered than ever before.
The gang's police force carries giant riot shields; the military drive tanks; another squad stomps into fights with weaponized heavy machinery.
The agency seems to have had more success targeting Android devices, with roughly 24 weaponized exploits, compared to 14 for iOS.
And we're actually surrounded by a thousand weaponized Boston Dynamics robots that are going to express their view on this question.
He just made some ground rules, like barring law enforcement from receiving armored tactical vehicles, weaponized aircraft, firearms and ammunition measuring .
When weaponized, this could allow callers to repeatedly dial 911 without knowing, clogging up call centers and putting lives at risk.
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Nerdwriter goes as far as to call it weaponized intertextuality and his breakdown is pretty fascinating because the moments are cheapened.
"The PBOC has effectively weaponized the exchange rate, even if it is not proactively weakening the currency with direct FX intervention."
The bill authorizing police use of "deadly" weaponized drones passed 34-7 in the state legislature's joint Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Some police officers, such as Hartford Deputy Chief of Police Brian Foley, also expressed worries about the use of weaponized drones.
The tears of white women are often weaponized in this way, rendering the oppressor as victim, turning wrong-doer into saint.
Lastly, the judge says Chapo ain't getting his hands on anything from the commissary 'cause the items can be easily weaponized.
Authoritarians have weaponized information flows People who think about cybersecurity build on ideas about confrontations between states during the Cold War.
At least one Republican operative requested and received 2.5 gigabytes worth of documents from that hack, and effectively weaponized the information.
Call me a cynic, but most men will not act upon knowledge about sexual harassment until we have weaponized these networks.
Unclear what kicked off the skirmish ... but several members grabbed gym equipment and weaponized it, swinging it at each other wildly.
Throughout the world, civil liberties have been weaponized by both the right and the left in support of their ideological agendas.
Military maneuvers with allies are always useful, but political warfare is moving to the non-kinetic sphere of weaponized social media.
Some intelligence suggests that Beijing even helped with Pakistan's new frightening miniature "battlefield" nuclear weapons, and with its first weaponized drone.
There are now nearly eighty countries that use drones, more than a quarter of which have or are developing weaponized platforms.
Experts say the small weaponized drones could potentially fly into North Korea to attack rocket launchers, radar installations or communications infrastructure.
We live in an age of weaponized outrage, where bad faith actors use out of context statements to get people fired.
Joanne Van Saun, who runs the local agency, told CNN on Saturday she feels her agency was weaponized to threaten families.
It'll be interesting, but it does become weaponized in this thing and I think we're in for some trouble going forward.
And he was a little startled to see her keys thrust out, weaponized, as she'd just been taught not to do.
The Soviet Union weaponized Marburg virus in an aerosol form and noted its mortality rate could be as high as 90%.
"This is an intelligence operation carried out with intelligence capacity with weaponized, weapons-grade chemical agents," one senior European official said.
But his latest play, like Adam Rapp's, finds him in "Crime and Punishment" mode, anchoring his weaponized wit in profound questions.
Another section of the report, on the Islamic State's use of improvised explosives, included attacks with car bombs and weaponized drones.
Fifty weaponized off-the-shelf drones a day cross over into military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan alone, according to Lamprecht.
The new committee had the broadest oversight jurisdiction of any in Congress — a power Gingrich quickly weaponized against the Clinton administration.
Spirituality is not supposed to be mixed with politics on the left, even though religion is fully weaponized by the right.
In other words, we need to combat the spurious and politically weaponized doctrine that now goes by the name of originalism.
Moreover, hypersonics are a weaponized moral hazard for states with a taste for intervention, because they erase barriers to picking fights.
But several people told us they felt that system had been weaponized against them, used to keep their accurate complaints hidden.
The Russians weaponized social media to organize political rallies, both in support of and against certain candidates, according to the indictment.
Long gone are the days when they were mostly ignored by hackers as botnets and other automated attacks have been weaponized.
Within a year North Korea will manage to produce a few weaponized nukes and will sell them to anyone with money.
This is how Mr. Trump's rantings about "bad hombres" and alien rapist terrorists have now been weaponized, in cold bureaucratic language.
Clay Higgins (R-LA) used a map of counties Trump won while arguing that "weaponized impeachment" was brought about by socialists.
On Friday, Mattis said it was clear Syria has weaponized chlorine, but added that he doesn't have evidence of sarin use.
The Senate under the majority leader Mitch McConnell weaponized the filibuster to obstruct legislation, block judges and upend the policy process.
Right now especially in this election, and things like that, where social media has become weaponized, where there's real-world impact.
" He pointed to what he described as "case study of this happening in the past, where China has essentially weaponized tourism.
His 2023 "Saigon," a detonation of racist stereotypes, ruined bodies, and cartoon snark, was a kind of weaponized, offend-everyone Surrealism.
"It is not a tool to be weaponized against human rights activists or political dissidents," NSO said in an emailed response.
The incidents serve as a reminder that an overly broad 'rule,' even if rarely enforced, can be weaponized at any time.
It's all uncomfortable to watch in a way that celebrity interviews, with their easy banter and weaponized charm, usually are not.
Last year the Department of Defense sought an extra $20 million in funding specifically to counter the threat of weaponized drones.
"In each of our countries, Facebook has been weaponized by bad actors against our citizens," the coalition said in a statement.
Regardless, it is clear that Facebook was weaponized by people in Russia in the run-up to last fall's presidential election.
SARA CARTER, FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: This is one of the most dangerous moments in modern American history when you think about this, Sean, that the intelligence community was weaponized, weaponized to unseat a duly elected president, with the intention of impeaching him if he got elected, or to -- or to skew the election so that Hillary Clinton could win.
" On Twitter, Zenz described his findings as showing "detailed evidence for systematic, state-initiated parent-child separation, weaponized education (and) cultural genocide.
APT 29 hackers used a weaponized document targeting those with interest in October's Lion Air Boeing 23 crash, which killed everyone aboard.
Today, it's become clear it's done the opposite—by becoming a thunderously divisive tool weaponized by the leader of the free world.
Now you see these weaponized cars with no one behind the wheel, being controlled by Charlize Theron from a billion-dollar jet.
"Having private photos of personal moments weaponized against me has been an appalling invasion of my privacy," Hill said in the letter.
"Water has been weaponized by the ruling ANC [African National Congress] under the Presidency of Jacob Zuma," Turton said in an interview.
Big Tech and social media — weaponized for political purposes by Russia and others — have served as vehicles for sharpening the public divide.
"The policy itself has been weaponized by the politicians, by the PACS, by the newspapers and anybody with special interests," Hoffman said.
When Serena and Rachel meet, the latter's aura of no-bullshit, pro-woman straight talk is immediately weaponized against the Everlasting newbie.
The tick genome tells a tale of weaponized spit, expandable armor, and how to drink 100 times one's body weight in blood.
But that hasn't stopped space from becoming weaponized: after all, satellites orbiting Earth are key for communication, military surveillance, and weapons guidance.
If the scariest thing in the world is a weaponized woman, The Trespassers suggests that she shouldn't only be a soft weapon.
"[Zuckerberg] has not demonstrated ability, or will, to ensure the doomsday machine will not be weaponized (repeatedly) by bad actors," Galloway says.
It wasn't clear if the drone was supposed to represent a weaponized threat or merely a surveillance tool for the mock terrorists.
It was (and still is) about the phenomenon of weaponized nerds, radicalized young men (primarily white and western) terrorizing women over games.
Nicki has occasionally weaponized this loyalty by courting her fan base, her Barbz, her stans to combat any criticism made against her.
It was an unsettling insight into how what seems like harmless hanging on the web can be weaponized to undermine our democracy.
And a sentiment that has been not only voiced but weaponized, repeatedly, for political gain by the president of the United States.
And these crisis pregnancy centers have weaponized Google products for years through deceptive advertising practices on Google Maps and its Search engine.
The likely reason for these weaponized bills, said Rico-Guevara, is on account of more abundant competition between hummingbirds in the tropics.
His skittish, prickly, armed imagery, most evident in "Umbral" (28), prefigures the formal edginess of the weaponized letters in Rammellzee's Gothic Futurism.
Friendship is weaponized in the world of Girls—the show's comedy comes from the characters subtly pitting their insecurities against each other.
It's so sharply pointed that you'd be stopped from boarding a plane if you had this meticulously weaponized editing in your carryon.
Fake news isn't illegal, but it can be weaponized: There's no law that says the spreading of false information is technically illegal.
Islamic State's weaponized drones are now so ubiquitous that you can even buy replicas of the bombs they drop for training purposes.
It's another reminder of how foreign actors weaponized both general hate and vitriol, as well as legitimate issues affecting the American public.
These Trump officials have weaponized their religious beliefs, and by doing so they've demonstrated again that this administration is not an anomaly.
Studies indicate that a weaponized, resistant pathogen in just a single incident in the Washington, D.C. area could kill 3 million people.
Furthermore, a real danger is the seed, planted by ISIS in the cyber sphere, that has weaponized the internet against the West.
The tweets have been a known quantity for years, but they were weaponized by malicious actors to compel Disney into taking action.
"It was an agency that was weaponized against certain sectors of the economy," Mr. Pruitt said to applause at the Reagan dinner.
"Part of the narrative that has been built up is that Oberlin's administration weaponized students against Gibson's out of malice," he said.
Kamala Harris weaponized against him in the first Democratic debate — one of the few times he saw a dip in the polls.
President Trump has weaponized tariffs to upend the global rules of international trade — but can his policies withstand the peanut butter test?
But all of this goes unrecognized on Capitol Hill, where the very words "debt" and "deficit" have been weaponized for political ends.
So, it has come to this: We have weaponized the callous traumatization of children in the name of the promised immigration reform.
In America today you would say that the clans have polarized, the villages have been decimated and the tribes have become weaponized.
Gidley's statement drew a harsh rebuke from more than two dozen lawmakers, who argued that the response in fact weaponized anti-Semitism.
Even after minimizing any possible biases in facial-recognition systems, she said, "There are still different ways this technology can be weaponized."
Weaponized leaks of private information were used to great effect and fake news also provided leverage for the victorious Republican presidential campaign.
Cuban officials have told the FBI that they have found no evidence that the symptoms were the result of a weaponized attack.
Affectless armies of weaponized nihilists prepared to set the world on fire rather than share it with women and people of color.
Referring to the Affordable Care Act as Obamacare plays into the hands of the conservative right who have weaponized that shorthand label.
In fact, the use of chlorine, an industrial substance that is deadly when weaponized, has become fairly common on the Syrian battlefield.
Biddle weaponized the Bank of the United States in the exact same way the William Dudley is recommending to the Fed today.
The country has instead invested in "weaponized" information, using hacking, propaganda and other means to sow doubt and division in other countries.
We are fatally vulnerable to little brothers and yapping dogs — to all varieties of preening, needling, attention-mongering and weaponized self-regard.
But his firing demonstrates that alt-right activists have successfully weaponized journalists' old tweets in their fight against the "fake news" mainstream media.
Parties have weaponized the platforms to spread incendiary messages to supporters, heightening fears that online anger could spill over into real-world violence.
But privacy-conscious users may still find it worrying, especially in places where social media has been weaponized by authoritarian governments against activists.
However, Facebook signaled that forthcoming efforts to help prevent the platform from being weaponized by antagonistic nation-states would ding its future profits.
Last month, Cook warned that "our own information is being weaponized against us with military efficiency" while calling for comprehensive US privacy laws.
Helpfully suggested by the '90s revival, the witch aesthetic emerged as both a corrective and the next logical step forward for weaponized femininity.
Kaitlyn: A little bit of what we talked about with our other guest was when the concept of an archive is almost weaponized.
AIs are commonplace, the super-wealthy have the ability to prolong their lifespan well into their hundreds, and weaponized drones patrol the skies.
They've even been weaponized, in a sense—marshalled recently in a meme-soaked episode of a long running rivalry between China and Taiwan.
When people form Twitter mobs to harass others, they've weaponized these instruments — and we have to figure out how to deal with that.
As the dust settles on the election, you should expect to see reports coming out about the newest advances in weaponized digital propaganda.
For the males with weaponized bills, the adaptation is good for fending off rivals, but it comes at the cost of feeding efficiency.
But they haven't weaponized doubt and skepticism, deliberately attempting to obfuscate the idea of shared agreement on facts, in the way Russia has.
The same arms that once held and protected me were weaponized; night after night, I'd hide in a corner, terrified of being beaten.
They weaponized our social media feeds, employed content farms to create fake news, and used bots to disseminate false information and Russian propaganda.
Steve Rogers' best friend since childhood, who was presumed K.I.A. during the war but was actually saved and weaponized for terrorist organization Hydra.
A 2017 VICE UK article "Are Home Drug Testing Kits Actually Helpful?" has repetitively been weaponized against Auctor's efforts, particularly by event organizers.
The company is also in the process of revamping serveral of its cultural values that have become "weaponized," according to the Holder report.
The social network is now so casually weaponized that the wife of a Senate candidate spreading misinformation about serious allegations seems downright quaint.
But its brief existence made clear just how easily genetics research can get twisted and possibly weaponized in the era of enormous data.
Amy Jellicoe was as unlikable as heroines got on TV in 2011: a high-strung, self-obsessed do-gooder who exudes weaponized optimism.
It details how these individuals collected and weaponized stolen information to manipulate US politics, with the goal of furthering Moscow's foreign policy interests.
The weaponized nerve agents commonly called Novichok, VX and sarin "mostly possess the same chemical structure backbone of other organophosphate pesticides," Chai said.
Under interrogation, Mr. Afari told his captors how the group had weaponized sulfur mustard and loaded it into artillery shells, the officials said.
Seoul restaurant The Place has weaponized pizza by combining the DNA strands with that of a Baked Alaska to create the Pizza Bomb.
Pesticides are toxic by design — weaponized versions, like sarin, were developed in Nazi Germany — and have been linked to developmental delays and cancer.
The Chuck Berry-style core of "High Voltage" gets taken apart, X-rayed, turned inside-out and weaponized in this extended live performance.
And the idea that such a device could, perhaps, be weaponized in some way was also raised during smea's talk, if only briefly.
Their mission is simply to find and mark things, and then exit the area as quickly as possible; there are no weaponized dolphins.
More: China's recent sale of $20 billion in U.S. debt has raised fears that Treasury bonds may be weaponized in the trade war.
A gang of eight now, they sometimes aim invisible rifles, but less literal and more powerful is the way their bodies are weaponized.
This is nostalgia weaponized against an ex, and nearly everyone with a pulse has at one time or another gone down that road.
The Ravens weaponized him by designing an offense intended to make defenses wonder every play whether he will run, hand off or throw.
Synopsis: After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
But it really works because, for all its winks and callbacks and Netflix-y weaponized nostalgia, it also recognizes that things have changed.
The Russian tweeters, Facebook posters, and YouTube commenters who weaponized social media in 2016 weren't in it for the fun or the laughter.
Industry advocates said environmentalists and liberal activists have weaponized the law to sidelines capital-intensive projects like oil and gas pipelines and highways.
"It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump," Limbaugh said on his radio program.
"It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump," Limbaugh said during his Monday show.
"Cultural sites, religious sites are not lawful targets under the law of war unless they've been weaponized by the enemy," Graham told reporters.
These are not resurrected enemies but weaponized memories, living nightmares that need to be vanquished in order for the storyline to move forward.
"A key to making democracy work in the long run is that the parties recognize that institutions shouldn't be weaponized," Mr. Levitsky said.
Fears about human trafficking, and sex trafficking in particular, were weaponized against sex workers in 2018, when Congress passed the SESTA/FOSTA package.
Look no further than Cambridge Analytica, which saw Facebook profile page data weaponized and used against millions to try to sway an election.
"These are how stereotypes are weaponized against marginalized groups," Gillian Branstetter, media relations manager at the National Center for Transgender Equality, told Vox.
Now, our science reporter writes, they have a leading suspect for what caused the workers' sonic delusions and possibly brain damage: weaponized microwaves.
They are angry with many of Mr. Trump's policies, and frustrated because they feel their faith has been weaponized to support his agenda.
We're All in it Together America is vulnerable and government organizations shouldn't be the only ones to concern themselves with weaponized information hacking.
In other hummingbird species with weaponized beaks, males set up mating territories right on the richest patches of flowers, again fighting off rivals.
Denson claimed that Trump had "weaponized" the agreement to crush a $25 million discrimination lawsuit she filed against the Trump campaign last November.
Kissel also suggested that weaponized drones could be used to shoot and puncture the tires on a suspect's car, the Associated Press reported.
Rather than use Twitter as a place to educate, organize and inform, Trump has weaponized the platform to assault his enemies, foreign and domestic.
For centuries, housework has been weaponized by men like Peterson as a way of keeping women busy, in their homes, and out of trouble.
Finally, the configuration of weaponized apparatuses, deployments, and structures in "Autel pour Yemaya" seems to transcend the old dichotomy between technology and the natural.
Hackers essentially weaponized video cameras to send unmanageable amounts of traffic to Dyn's servers, causing much of the Internet to slow to a crawl.
This is a huge admission from one of the people best positioned to understand how AI and data tech can be weaponized by adversaries.
And now they have been weaponized by a president who doesn't just indulge these toxic conspiracies but gives them a validity they don't deserve.
It should not be overlooked that the blanket, in general, was an object weaponized by colonizers who used them as vehicles for spreading disease.
This is the first time, however, that YouTube's creator community has dealt with a popular phrase coined by one of their own being weaponized.
"Our own information, from the everyday to the deeply personal, is being weaponized against us with military efficiency," he said this week in Europe.
These soundbites have been weaponized by Twitter, made all the more powerful because they appeal to the deepest desires and fears of Trump's critics.
We've let people know that pain, even idiotic, senseless pain, can be weaponized and employed against hated opponents, whether college teachers or local conservatives.
New research suggests the "weaponized insulin" produced by these sea critters is far more efficient than conventional medicines used to treat high blood sugar.
As Facebook has tried to combat conspiracy theories and weaponized fake news, Instagram has also emerged as a platform where misinformation can quickly spread.
In fact, when deepfakes first entered the public consciousness, it was only a matter of time before the tech was weaponized against women online.
Lehman not only coined the term "Overton Window," he weaponized it, setting up training sessions on the concept for other right-leaning think tankers.
Section 20173 was inconsistently enforced, but police and others sometimes weaponized the law to harass, blackmail, or extort transgender or gay people — especially men.
"These platforms should not be weaponized for these purposes," Christan Porter, Australia's attorney general, was quoted as saying in a New York Times report.
The job of enforcing its own 'Community Standards' and preventing its platform being weaponized to amplify hate and harass the vulnerable, to be clear.
The House Intelligence Committee heard alarming testimony Thursday that deepfake videos could be weaponized by foreign adversaries to sow divisions in the United States.
The e-mails had been weaponized: what had seemed a passive form of spying was now "an active measure," in the parlance of espionage.
But more importantly, I don't believe that the tools in Amma's toolbox — weaponized femininity, emotional manipulation, and secret knowledge — are really joined with sociopathy.
I have seen firsthand what happens when such a process is weaponized against an accuser, and no one should have to endure that again.
Bach came to this advice with a spirit of empowerment, but it's been weaponized as a way to blame people for their own circumstances.
The revelation that Facebook was weaponized by the Russian government in an effort to influence the 20093 U.S. presidential election caused an internal crisis.
It's a slow-burn strategy that's been supercharged by the rise of social media and is now being weaponized and exported to the West.
The Islamic State is using weaponized drones — including some models that you can buy on Amazon (without the weapons), which they attach explosives to.
There, No More Deaths explained how remote terrain was being weaponized against people crossing the border, many of whom were fleeing poverty and violence.
Perhaps alarmed by Hollywood's open opposition to his ally Donald Trump, Indian PM Modi has arguably co-opted and weaponized the country's film industry.
The titular trio of agents (Kirsten Stewart, Naomi Scott from "Aladdin" and Ella Balinska) are assigned to prevent a new technology from being weaponized.
In this latest case, the right has weaponized social media to spread the president's message about his latest battle with Pelosi to his supporters.
"Drones are serious surveillance tools that can be weaponized," said Joo-Hyun Kang, the director of Communities United for Police Reform, an umbrella coalition.
While the technology may help catch criminals, it could also be weaponized against innocent civilians or people critical of the agencies that use it.
Political social bots have been stealing headlines ever since, described variously as "fake Americans," as "weaponized" and as "fake-news-disseminating" agents of Russia.
With these opportunities came risks: The more we posted and engaged, the more vulnerable we became, as our aggregated data was weaponized against us.
"I have seen firsthand what happens when such a process is weaponized against an accuser, and no one should have to endure that again."
Mr. Papadopoulos has posited that Mr. Mifsud was "an Italian intelligence asset who the C.I.A. weaponized" as part of the unsubstantiated "deep state" plot.
"There is a part of a humanity that loves to worry about robots taking over or being weaponized or something like that," says Raibert.
His pension changes provoked the longest transportation strike in French history — no small feat in a country where labor strikes are so readily weaponized.
"We keep seeing examples of the Department of Justice weaponized against Trump's political antagonists," Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica wrote, in response to the news.
"The McCain family believes it is unfortunate that the Senator's image is being weaponized this election season," said Julie Tarallo, spokeswoman for the family.
Trump weaponized taxpayer dollars to coerce a foreign leader to target U.S. citizens with a criminal investigation, aiming to affect an American presidential election.
"I just want to reiterate it would be very unwise for them to use weaponized gas," Mattis told reporters while en route to Oman.
Russian trolls farms like the Internet Research Agency, which weaponized social media to spread misinformation in 2016, are also making themselves difficult to monitor.
Gold ribbons are tied to handlebars, braided into horses' manes and woven through the filigree iron balconies that stand like sheets of weaponized lace.
RE: FIRST WORDS John Herrman wrote about the proliferation of the word "weaponized," which makes it difficult to figure out what to actually fear.
Reworking his stage adaptation of Ibsen's play — a study of weaponized truth — Mr. Stone concocts a predictable stew of ancient transgressions and undeserved recriminations.
The American people cast their ballots in the fog of fake news and under influence of stolen property weaponized as a tool of propaganda.
Russia is actively pursuing multiple paths to weaponize energy to hurt our economy the same way Moscow weaponized social media to assault our democracy.
Nothing. The real-world consequences of weaponized hatred are no concern for a man with a shameful incuriosity and a profound lack of empathy.
Experts and privacy hawks argue that zero-days should be disclosed to companies rather than weaponized by spy agencies, especially for widely-used technology.
No. The Senate Intelligence Committee published two reports from independent researchers Monday looking at how Russia weaponized social media to impact the 2016 election.
Though deepfakes have been weaponized most often against unconsenting women, most headlines and political fear of them have focused on their fake news potential.
Facebook The danger posed by Trump supporters going about their business armed with weaponized white fear is more Renisha McBrides and more Tamir Rices.
It was already known that Russia meddled in last fall's U.S. election, and that Facebook was weaponized to help spread misinformation during the campaign.
Should humanity embark upon an AI arms race with rival nations, a weaponized ASI could get out of control, either during peacetime or during war.
Also Robert Mueller has allegedly weaponized the information collected by the informants, spies in order to target President Trump and those connected to his campaign.
The vibrant society that once existed there is probably gone forever, however — a vivid illustration of the toll exacted when the environment itself becomes weaponized.
" No other message has been weaponized as succinctly and with such devastating injury against the LGBT movement in recent years as "men in women's bathrooms.
Russia had "weaponized" the migrant crisis by forcing tens of thousands of people to flee to Europe, he was quoted as saying by the BBC.
But I never thought my imperfections would be weaponized and used to try to destroy me and the community I've loved for my entire life.
In Russia, she needs President Vladimir Putin's cooperation, but his strategy is the undermining of a united Europe; a "weaponized" refugee flow achieves just that.
It started up this fall in dark corners of the internet, but quickly bubbled up through Facebook, which weaponized the meme with its sharing tools.
That's right – everyone's favorite tool for passive-aggressively leaving notes on a colleague's computer monitor is now weaponized with all the powers of IoT combined.
There are also indications that President Obama, who micromanaged every aspect of his government, may have even weaponized those institutions to undermine a political rival.
They're talking about them all the time, and the ideas are even being weaponized by the right to label the entire Democratic Party as socialists.
Six years later, our tweets are weaponized to an audience we don't know, thick with terms they understand differently, with the reference points completely absent.
But there's a deeper problem with saying political operatives weaponized The Last Jedi — a framing that Bay's paper and most reports on it have accepted.
In one instance, Wixey was able to scan WiFi and Bluetooth networks for vulnerable devices, and play the "weaponized sound" on the devices it identified.
Lynch has weaponized the TV frame itself, using color, motion, light, and sound to create a physical aggression in his images, and shock his audience.
So unaccountable money flowing in against me, against other Democrats, in a way that we hadn't seen and then attached to this weaponized information war.
Marque Cornblatt, CEO of Aerial Sports League If you look at fighting drones from a certain angle, they're one step away from a weaponized UAV.
"Weaponized information" was one of the key factors that swung the U.S. election, former presidential candidate and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.
Sean Spicer has weaponized the New England Patriots -- using his favorite NFL team to fire a shot at Hillary Clinton during a White House briefing.
Weaponized white nationalist frog militias dominated elections in the United States, as memes of Bernie cuddling tiny kittens climbed their way to the Tumblr top.
When major vulnerabilities show up in ubiquitous operating systems like Microsoft Windows, they can be weaponized and exploited, the fallout potentially impacting millions of devices.
Assorted jerks on the internet have weaponized the Unicode-based bug we reported yesterday to insta-crash apps running on an iPhone or a Mac.
He said Russia maintains tight control over its Novichok stockpile and that the agent is too complicated for a non-state actor to have weaponized.
The focus on disinformation, though important, is also backward-looking and may focus too strongly on the ways in which platforms were weaponized in 2016.
These bills weaponized copyright law, enabling private industry and government bureaucracy to join forces and strangle new platforms and modes of creativity and connection online.
A redditor discovered that the app would accept a simplistic picture of a pizza as a genuine pie, but a rival pizza place weaponized it.
It's a resource that we share, and the resource is impoverished when words are redefined, weaponized, or otherwise co-opted and bent out of shape.
A "No-Gun List" would prove as byzantine and opaque as its airline counterpart, and almost certainly weaponized by partisan bureaucrats into a confiscatory regime.
When humans mastered the skill of launching things into space, it did not take long for that technology to become weaponized, creating a fourth domain.
What shape Trump's Space Force will eventually take currently remains unclear, though any serious attempts to place weaponized systems into space will likely prove contentious.
Critics say Breitbart now has the potential to play an unprecedented role in a modern presidency, as a weaponized media adjunct for the White House.
" However, privacy advocates told the Post the program has worrisome implications and could potentially be weaponized by allowing users to flag innocent people as "suspicious.
"He has weaponized the institutions of our government for political purposes, subverting our national security for his own political gain," the former vice president said.
Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg said in an interview that aired Thursday on "Rising" that liberals have not weaponized social media the same way conservatives do.
Weaponized toxic chemicals could do tremendous harm to a localized target — say, if the toxins were released into the air or into the water supply.
The way the death penalty is carried out is painful, violent, and inhumane, and it is weaponized in this country disproportionately against communities of color.
Much of the disinformation pushed by the pro-Kremlin media claim the virus was created by humans and "weaponized" by Western countries, the report states.
Callimachi: These are the figures in the jihadist pantheon who have taken concepts out of Islam and essentially weaponized them to justify a violent jihad.
There are moments of almost fragile beauty interspersed between the harsh walls of cracking, looped noise, weaponized percussion, searing feedback, and Messing's own strangled bark.
If you've somehow managed to remain blissfully unaware, the QAnon conspiracy is the latest bout of weaponized insanity to emerge from the depths of internet.
Things like mannerisms, expressed interests, style of speaking, and other personal characteristics that had nothing to do with being gay could be weaponized against you.
"My fear is that the cultural worry could be weaponized to discredit [videos] and lead jurors to discount evidence that is authentic," she tells Axios.
He is hidden in a remote part of Afghanistan, spending a lot of money on things that might be weaponized in an elaborate terrorist scheme.
While that's the most weaponized scenario, Reddit is also specific in pointing out forgery and fake articles, and links are covered under this policy too.
"We will never accept that refugees are weaponized and used to blackmail us," European Council President Donald Tusk, who chairs EU summits, said on Twitter.
The campaign has not confirmed the e-mails' authenticity, emphasizing instead that the Kremlin has "weaponized" WikiLeaks in an effort to influence the U.S. election.
News analysis: "Fears are mounting that presidential impeachment might, like the filibuster, become a regular feature of America's weaponized politics," our chief Washington correspondent writes.
On co-opting religion for a political agenda Beck: Do you see religion being weaponized sometimes as just personal agenda and to make political points?
"It is so hurtful to see how every aspect of my life is weaponized against me, yet somehow asserted as false at the same time."
For all the fanfare we give the internet for freeing speech, when it is weaponized against you, it can also be used to stifle speech.
For we live in a time when language has been weaponized for high crimes and petty cruelties, while neutralized when it should state the obvious.
But thanks to a president with a fragile ego and a bottomless appetite for conspiracy theories, they have weaponized their paranoia at the federal level.
The authors were careful in defining "fake news," a term that has been weaponized by many, including President Trump, to dismiss real news they dislike.
But both it and that fight between the Waterfords are good examples of the way season two has weaponized its very existence against the characters.
Analysts at the Defense Intelligence Agency also showed parts of a weaponized motorboat that was recovered by Emirati forces last year in the Red Sea.
And all three have weaponized the new technology, hacking the U.S. and Europe and, in the case of Russia, even interfering with an American election.
But by creating this tool of mass connection, it became the nervous system of everything from commerce to news, and like everything else, it's weaponized.
Theory 1: As a novel about an "entertainment" weaponized to enslave and destroy all who look upon it, "Infinite Jest" is the first great Internet novel.
The film asks us to feel for the helpless, here in the form of guileless dogs, and consider how easily fear can be weaponized against them.
It's vital for these online services to understand the risks their most vulnerable users face, including how these platforms can be weaponized to sexually exploit minors.
NDAs have been weaponized by powerful figures — Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein used the agreements to hide his alleged sexual misconduct, ranging from sexual harassment to rape.
Mr. Moldowan's team is now conducting paternity tests to see if the large, mature and weaponized brutes sire more offspring each season than the younger males.
For instance, as the company pushed its groups products hard in recent years, the Kremlin-linked trolls saw this, built their own groups and weaponized them.
His ban didn't prevent police departments from purchasing military gear entirely, but specifically tracked armored vehicles (like tanks), weaponized aircraft, firearms and ammunition at or above .
The ruling BJP party has co-opted the classification of unfavorable coverage as "fake news," and weaponized WhatsApp to spread disinformation across millions of Indian residents.
The discussion of complete neutrality is now a quaint notion when nearly every discussion that takes place on these networks is weaponized toward a political end.
It's a lesser-known part of black history in the US, and perhaps one that Dolezal weaponized in her attempt to pass as a black woman.
Is it really so difficult to imagine a world where SCOTUS decisions against trans rights could be weaponized against cis gay men and lesbians as well?
"I'm very troubled by the fact that the Obama administration weaponized the FBI and they used the FBI to spy on a political campaign," he said.
Transmission: Zombie viruses are typically transmitted by human bite, although some outbreaks have been linked to insect vectors—most notably bedbugs—as well as weaponized bacteria.
Between the lines: If platforms work to root out accounts that engage in deceptive behavior, they can limit the spread of weaponized misinformation without policing content.
But, basically, what Clapper is saying is like, look, we weaponized the intelligence community to spy on a campaign, because we were concerned about the Russians.
Kremlin military and intelligence thinkers have long discussed freedom of information "in weaponized terms, as a tool to confuse, blackmail, demoralize, subvert, and paralyze," Pomerantsev writes.
But something goes seriously wrong, and a weaponized robot named Paladin is paired with a human agent to hunt Jack down in a globe-trotting chase.
The legislation was introduced as a complete ban on weaponized drones but just before the committee vote it was amended to exclude police from the restriction.
Everyone weaponized these reports for their own good and in this case, everyone on the right is saying look at this report, look at this report.
How themes like mental health, loss, and violence are subtly, and sometimes quite loudly, presented as mundane, only, out of nowhere, to be weaponized for shock.
Rappler's investigative reporting has included allegations that Duterte's government has "weaponized" social media, using it to discredit and generate online hate against his most vocal detractors.
And by doing that, you'll chip away at the incentive publishers have to create headlines and stories weaponized for the purpose of sharing on social media.
One important step that the FTC could take is alerting consumers to how hackers have weaponized the pirate websites where content thieves peddle their stolen movies.
A New Jersey congressman is asking the Pentagon to finally investigate a decades-old conspiracy that the government weaponized ticks — and ended up creating Lyme disease.
The argument that was constantly weaponized against her was that she was some kind of a hustler, and she was in it to turn a buck.
The flight back was overcrowded, filled with distended ho-ho's dressed in highway yellow and sweatpants grey, returning to the weaponized fart that is my country.
Ms. Bachelet added that she feared the public narrative in Australia about migration and asylum "has become weaponized by misinformation and discriminatory and even racist attitudes."
A small but vocal group of GOP members have suggested that the FBI weaponized the dossier in order to launch a trumped-up investigation into Trump.
These same people stayed home even with the fear of losing what meager government benefits they receive, as the regime has effectively weaponized the food supply.
He is a professional troll who weaponized Twitter as a tool for (racist, sexist, transphobic) harassment so effectively that Twitter was forced to permanently ban him.
Facebook, in particular, has come under fire for its partnership with Philippine President Rodrigue Duterte, who has weaponized the social media site to attack his critics.
The U.S. government and our regulators need to understand how digital platforms can be weaponized and misused against its citizens, and equally importantly, against democracy itself.
Saying the Russians have "weaponized" WikiLeaks, the Clinton campaign will not readily verify the authenticity of the emails, though it has not issued blanket denials, either.
Democrats pushed the measure through the House over unanimous Republican opposition, a move that Republicans fervently hope can be weaponized against Democrats in the coming elections.
Jerusalem (CNN)An Iranian drone shot down by an attack helicopter after it crossed into Israeli airspace in February was weaponized, the Israeli military said Friday.
It's an anxious film, but it's a pleasure to see how director Kim Joon-Sung imagines tactical, weaponized dream logic in the tradition of Korean thrillers.
Acid, which gained prominence in Europe during the Industrial Revolution due to its use in manufacturing processes, was first weaponized during the Victorian era in Britain.
For decades, the party ran scared of the label, which was weaponized by some conservatives as means of both challenging policy and, implicitly, a candidate's patriotism.
Laws like the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act mandated citizen feedback to new regulations, but Brill argues that interest groups have weaponized due process to guarantee gridlock.
As the ruthless mayor, Jacki Weaver is a weaponized Martha Stewart, masking the stink of mining-corporation corruption with the aroma of home-baked apple pies.
"Amid growing fears of biased and weaponized AI, Google is already struggling to keep the public's trust," the petition read, according to the New York Times.
Instead, what happened was that each side weaponized fact-checking, taunting the other for wallowing in lies without acknowledging its own part in all the fakery.
Maybe in societies deep through history, those qualities helped organize a world of chaos, but the antediluvian constructs of masculinity are easily weaponized in modern life.
"This is a case about character assassination and a public company that weaponized its powerful pen and used it as a terrible sword," his lawsuit says.
Breitbart saw the affair as proof that journalism, properly weaponized, could be used to destroy the institutions that cultural Marxists were using to ruin American society.
But times have changed, and the information provided by these new online databases aren't weaponized only by trolls, but also by stalkers, domestic abusers and criminals.
The report said the Islamic State's use of weaponized drones grew more frequent in the course of the battle for Mosul and "represented a new tactic."
While apologizing for his past crimes, he said he had faced "the entire Obama Justice Department weaponized against me" and vowed to return to public service.
The game offers a billion gun variations compared to Borderlands' mere 17.75 million, and they feature exotic new capabilities like secondary fire modes and weaponized hamburgers.
Others working on rival campaigns argue that such attacks only backfire, and are quickly weaponized into fund-raising appeals that flood the Sanders campaign with donations.
At the time, it would have been hard to imagine that the United States would soon join Russia as a source of weaponized untruth in Ukraine.
That's how backlash gets weaponized; trolls use the noise to flood every zone and drown out the signal, or the thoughtful, complex heart of any discourse.
"Sanders supporters have weaponized Facebook to spread angry memes about his Democratic rivals," by Craig Timberg and Isaac Stanley-Becker It's getting ugly (or uglier) online.
That disenchantment was only compounded when Claudia admitted that the Soviets had indeed weaponized the Lassa virus, naming the new strain Vitaly, after William's Russian name.
It is like watching a blush turn into the red of murderous fury: it seems impossible that the same mild medium could be so brutally weaponized.
Since the 2016 election, Facebook has been forced to reckon with the ways its platform can be weaponized to spread disinformation, undermine democracy, and influence politics.
Meritocracy and toe-stepping can empower individuals to speak truth to power, but if weaponized can lead to people getting stepped on — speaking power to truth.
In the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte weaponized rumors, fearmongering, and hate on the platform on his way to the presidency, as revealed by BuzzFeed News last year.
Armed with the weaponized resources of social media, Trump has radicalized this strategy in a way that aims to subvert our relation to reality in general.
Hindu nationalism is ascendant, and the political fortunes of a party like the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, have been built on a weaponized idea of history.
"It's such a shame that this has been weaponized and used as a smear, because this is a very real issue," he said of sexual assault.
The name came from the members' signature flat-caps that became "blinders," the probably apocryphal story goes, when weaponized with razor blades sewn into the peaks.
On more than one occasion, the former president has argued that some on the Left have weaponized political correctness to shut down debate, stifling legitimate arguments.
Each of the three sauces is agreeably thick: mellow mustard-yellow mango and sweet pepper; musky, smoky mahogany serrano and chipotle; and weaponized neon-orange habanero.
To help figure out why, a pair of paleontologists has pieced together a series of traits shared among extinct species that had weaponized their fifth extremity.
There's just one problem: There's no logical, possible way to get from the here and now to the dark imagined future of weaponized artificial intelligence (AI).
In addition to her bracelets and golden lasso, Wonder Woman wears a tiara – which she occasionally hurls at bad guys as a sort of weaponized royal accessory.
According to the report, the hacks of American political operatives represent Russia's "boldest yet" experiment with influencing elections — an experiment that weaponized the disclosure of private data.
" ----------------- March 221, 22016: "How Obama has weaponized wit" by Dean Obeidallah "Obama's humor is often delivered the way a comedian dealing with a heckler would do it.
We've seen numerous theories for what could cause these kinds of symptoms floated over the last year, including weaponized microwaves or radio waves and malfunctioning surveillance gear.
However, this developmental phenomenon is not likely to lead to a replacement for the larger, weaponized Reaper anytime soon – given its importance to strike and reconnaissance missions.
Nostalgia is normally a dirty word when we talk about music, but in the past few years two London-based acts have weaponized it as something revealing.
It's a vestigial organ that has been transformed from a rarely used protection of regional economies to a weaponized system for the right wing by Mitch McConnell.
The downloader/backdoor has been deployed against a wide range of diplomatic targets in the past, likewise spread using a weaponized document (typically a Microsoft Word file).
Facebook and the platforms it owns, including Instagram and WhatsApp, are often weaponized as forums for spreading misinformation and hate and inciting violence all over the globe.
Angleton had, in effect, weaponized this strategy of interpretation—convinced that any apparently straightforward reference in the world in fact meant something shadowier than it seemed to.
According to Beachler, they also incorporated the Basotho's expert horsemanship into the function of the Border tribe, though in Wakanda, the horses are replaced by weaponized rhinos.
Censors are responding to real problems: social media has increasingly been "weaponized," in Owono's words, to attack minority groups in countries like Myanmar, India, and Sri Lanka.
Wade, serve as a sickening reminder of the ways much of what I hold most sacred has been weaponized by the forces of the American religious right.
It takes them a full hour into the film to even conceive that someone's hacked and weaponized Dutchboy, and that those obliterated cities aren't just software glitches.
Aerial Sports League faced a scare earlier this year when the California legislature considered banning weaponized drones — a phrase that, when overly broad, can include sport quadcopters.
It's also worth noting that AI surveillance technology is being weaponized in more oppressive parts of the world as a way to identify and track ethnic minorities.
With nine nuclear weaponized countries, the paper argues for a disarmament proposal that would reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world to 900 or less.
For example, a fake video could be weaponized by making a world leader appear to say something politically inflammatory, meant to prompt a response or sow chaos.
So it's interesting to watch these people, who see pedophiles around every corner, and, like Yiannopoulos, have weaponized pedophilia accusations, scrambling to explain away Yiannopoulos's own comments.
Because DJI accounts for the largest number of drones sold in all price ranges worldwide, it's the company mentioned most often in press coverage on weaponized drones.
Gender has been historically weaponized to harm black and brown and indigenous folks, but we can continue to build with each other—build relationships and build resistance.
Then the elites struck back with their fake news, weaponized leaks and bogus investigations, and thought that Trump and his supporters would just take it sitting down.
Security analysts have warned that such a move could undermine the entire security system, from a privilege based on status and character to a weaponized political tool.
Increasingly the term has become weaponized by politicians who use it to undermine independent journalism in an effort to reach the public directly through their own channels.
As anti-corruption investigations crossed national borders, sweeping Latin America, critics alleged that the discourse of clean government was being weaponized to neutralize a progressive political agenda.
But the release to WikiLeaks adds another strange element, because it suggests that the intelligence findings are being "weaponized" — used to influence the election in some way.
Both center on allegations that secretive millionaires weaponized their philanthropic giving, cliques of connected friends, and private island paradises to prey on young victims and escape justice.
Conservative adviser Andi Bottner said in an interview that aired Thursday on "What America's Thinking" that immigration as a policy topic has been "weaponized" by both parties.
Along with this questionable way to make cash, the update includes new weaponized vehicles and a mobile operations center to spice things up in Southern San Andreas.
A chemical weapon like mustard agent is less dangerous than a weaponized biological agent like smallpox, which is in turn way less dangerous than a nuclear bomb.
A film full of references to Mexican culture from the papel picado intro to the grandmother's weaponized chancleta was initially evaluated by people unlikely to catch them.
To alleviate this pressure, and to force Europe to do more to help, it has weaponized refugees like Mr. al-Hussein by shunting them toward the Continent.
"He's weaponized uncertainty," said John Higginbotham, a senior fellow at Carleton University in Ottawa who was the second-highest-ranking Canadian diplomat in Washington for six years.
The Texans weaponized Clowney by matching him one-on-one with interior linemen, often out of five-man fronts and usually from a stand-up, roving position.
To keep the fights fair, the filmmakers created a fiercer, more weaponized Mothra, borrowing design elements from more intimidating members of the insect family (praying mantises, wasps).
"These platforms should not be weaponized for these purposes," said Christan Porter, Australia's attorney general, during a debate on the bill Thursday in the House of Representatives.
In fact, she had largely forgotten about Ms. Parker's email until Thursday, when a reporter called to say that the episode had been weaponized in the debate.
We need to be aware that the words, photos and captions we use as journalists can be weaponized in an already volatile national conversation around drug use.
"I think it's pretty clear they've weaponized and miniaturized," Bruce Klingner, a former head of the Central Intelligence Agency's Korea branch, recently told a group in Washington.
The killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani by a weaponized drone last week renewed efforts in the House and Senate to vote on a War Powers Resolution.
They should hurl Bibles or hot coffee, chairs or fire extinguishers, anything, he said, that can be weaponized if they are under attack and cannot safely escape.
It's all sportscasting, replete with countdown clocks and sleazy previews and promotions, offering the promise of zingers, punches landed, gaffes, put-downs, rehearsed scripts, weaponized sound bites.
They are lemmings, personified ignorance masquerading as wise fanboys who will be weaponized by a cowardly, hateful man who thrives on the widespread adoration of the people.
Fast Company speculated that Peloton is "trolling" us all with this 30-second spot, that the brand has weaponized its "lack of awareness" into a marketing tool.
Steve King said in a statement that the memo proves that under the Obama administration, the FBI and the Department of Justice were "weaponized" against political opponents.
"The Mermaid" is no ordinary fantastical rom-com though, encompassing as it does weaponized sea urchins, incredibly delicious roasted chickens, man-octopus self-mutilation and other comic oddities.
Opponents of the technology have suggested it could even be "weaponized", with a water-short country deploying the technology to improve its rainfall at the expense of neighbors.
Today's Facebook is almost hilariously parochial, with Zuckerberg spending more time in Blanchardville, Wisconsin than in the Philippines, where a murderous president has weaponized Facebook to chilling effect.
I feel kindred to them because I was also a man once—I know how masculinity can be weaponized, compelling you to conform or else risk losing everything.
Myanmar's government forces are employing a mixture of murder, weaponized sexual violence, and torture against minority Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's northwestern Rakhine State, according to two new reports.
Now, a new paper from UK researchers at the University of Exeter, led by Professor David Hosken, suggests female animals across most species have subtly weaponized their appearance.
" But she said, "Instead of working with schools on behalf of students, the prior administration weaponized the Office for Civil Rights to work against schools and against students.
At Uber's all-hands meeting today, Huffington went further on the values, asserting that some of them have been "weaponized," according to New York Times scribe Mike Isaac.
The ongoing series takes a look at how racist ideas are commodified, disseminated, and how they are intentionally weaponized to achieve particular goals and influence ways of thinking.
And the deep links that intelligence agencies have with these giants suggest this power can, with a flip of a few switches, be easily weaponized by the state.
The first is that it's massive, barely qualifying as a phone, with a 6.4-inch display and hard, chamfered edges that make it feel like a weaponized phablet.
Cam focuses less on the real ways technology can be weaponized, and more on how vulnerable people can feel when their online identities are ripped away from them.
The witch aesthetic emerged as a simultaneous evolution from and backlash against the aesthetic of weaponized femininity that rose to prominence in the late aughts and early teens.
A good example is the powerful and sophisticated Stuxnet virus, a weaponized worm developed by the US and Israeli military to infiltrate and target Iranian nuclear power plants.
In this case the adversary is targeting the organizations involved in the Winter Olympics by using several techniques to make it more tempting to open the weaponized document.
The legislation, approved overwhelmingly by the state legislature's judiciary committee on Wednesday, would ban so-called weaponized drones in the state but exempts agencies involved in law enforcement.
At the time, I was messaging with one of the abusers—who was using a fake profile—hoping to find out how they weaponized the group for harassment.
Rooting through the third account, they came across a link to the control panel of a Cerber ransomware operation, as well PDFs that had been weaponized with ransomware.
In humans, the technology is being tested to battle cancer — by removing patients' immune cells, editing them, and reinserting the weaponized cells into the body to hunt cancer.
While many scientists and government leaders approved the destruction of these final samples, smallpox was kept because of a Cold War-like stalemate: what if Russia weaponized smallpox?
More recently, the show weaponized its Trump-like figure by making one of his followers a bigot who planted a bomb in a church that killed eight people.
We're told it doesn't hurt when you're shot with one of these; we didn't volunteer to experience first-hand the equivalent of a weaponized slow-pitch softball machine.
In Wounds, they're weaponized against him, as his character is forced to reckon with the fact that under his superficially appealing exterior, there's no there there at all.
"This New Year's tragedy deserved the mass attention that it got, and it shouldn't only be weaponized for political purposes when the suspected killer is white," Merritt continued.
That said, I think one of the misunderstandings about diplomacy that gets exploited and weaponized against the State Department is this idea that these deals can be perfect.
But you are not living with them through this firestorm, facing the brutal onslaught of venom and hostility that has been directed their way on weaponized social media.
Following the "secret science" playbook, E&E Legal has weaponized transparency laws in hopes that it can uncover emails it can use to discredit and embarrass climate scientists.
Under the Putin regime, it has become increasingly clear that Russia's laws and judicial system cannot be counted on for protection and are being weaponized to crush dissent.
O'Connor's admission was weaponized by Republicans, who know Pelosi is toxic among right-of-center voters and highly motivating for lazy Republicans who sometimes miss off-year elections.
His time inside the department, far from co-opting him, had weaponized him after his blowup with the 911 captain: He knew even better which records to request.
Until then, and for as long as the CIA fires weaponized drones, the notion that "drone warfare" is keeping America safe is nothing more than a dangerous opinion.
Is it possible that Clinton is so unaware of what is going on that she didn't know that the Obama IRS has been weaponized against Tea Party groups?
Political carnage and carnage in the classroom, weaponized songs and weapons of war, snipers on the hockey rink and mass shooters — all blur together across our cognitive maps.
Trump is a mutated reality show host turned candidate that has been enabled through years of coded, hyperbolic and sensationalized language weaponized by the GOP for political gain.
What is not yet clear are the implications for companies like DJI, which simultaneously condemns the use of weaponized drones but likely supports the fight against Islamic State.
Blue Barge had been one of the final hubs operating, before Arkdia was appropriated by a weaponized and deranged DHS (before it itself was subsumed by the DoD).
A mind that views the pursuit of democratic freedoms and the long con of weaponized nationalism with subtlety and self-awareness is all too rare in any era.
The likelihood that such a disease will appear continues to rise in our interconnected world, he said, whether it happens naturally or is created as a weaponized disease.
These threats, Baker argues, are realized by fears of environmental destruction through violent indifference, racial animus that haunts the future, alternative facts, weaponized technology, and unbridled income inequality.
Read: Putin's archrival has weaponized YouTube and turned it against the Kremlin One reason for the smaller demonstrations this time, analysts said, might be Navalny's somewhat convoluted message.
The next year, the Obama administration prohibited police departments from obtaining certain weapons typically used in warfare, such as tracked armored vehicles, weaponized aircraft, grenade launchers and bayonets.
Vatican intrigue usually stays behind closed doors, but the ex-diplomat's letter publicly weaponized the church's child abuse crisis in the battle over the question of gay priests.
"It was becoming clear that one side had weaponized the internet, and one side hadn't," Curtis Hougland, the founder of MainStreetOne, a liberal Democratic messaging firm, told Hamby.
Either we must submit to this pervasive surveillance machinery – where our data is easily weaponized to manipulate and influence us – or forego the benefits of the digital world.
Written more than 2,300 years before the invention of the iPhone, Plato's The Phaedrus includes what has become one of the most weaponized examples of reactionary techno-skepticism.
The Obama administration weaponized the IRS to intimidate and silence evangelical groups with seemingly selective enforcement of Johnson Amendment rules prohibiting church and nonprofit involvement in electoral politics.
Cayt is a sympathetic antagonist, having been cruelly weaponized through applied racist pseudoscience, but she is utterly relentless, and she means to weaponize Lij in the same manner.
On the underground dark web, they said, another N.S.A. tool has been weaponized and offered for sale, and hackers are discussing how to use another dozen agency exploits.
Experts said the French leader had made a valid point, but warned that his words would be weaponized by Mr. Trump, who on Tuesday jumped at the opportunity.
Or the following year when everyone weaponized that dark animus by forcefully and collectively declaring their ardor for Bill Skarsgard's portrayal of Pennywise in the rebooted "It" movie?
And the unfortunate truth is that by design, business model and algorithm, Facebook has made it easy for it to be weaponized to spread misinformation and fraudulent content.
Related: Weaponized Islamic State Ebola, Obama's Marijuana Auctions, and the Art of Fake News The owner of Cartel Press is Pablo Reyes, a 26-year-old from Dallas.
In "Gray Ghost", Gotham is being terrorized by a criminal who uses weaponized gadgets from an old Hollywood serial about a Batman-like character named the Gray Ghost.
The Trump administration has weaponized the resettlement programs' labyrinthine bureaucracy, experts say, using red tape and enhanced security screenings to slow the flow of refugees to a trickle.
The bill was introduced in January as a measure to improve privacy regulations around drone use, but lawmakers amended the legislation to allow police to use weaponized drones.
In what for me is the best piece in the show, "Le Présent éternel" ("The Eternal Present," 1944), Lam makes flourish another compressed, weaponized plane of machine-like forms.
After being arrested on cyber libel charges in February, she told CNN it was an example of how the law is being "weaponized" against critics of the country's president.
The criticism weaponized against Ocasio-Cortez has often been sexist, classist, and racist instead of an intellectually honest effort to challenge her ideology as a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist.
President Obama signed an executive order in May 2015 that banned police from receiving deadly weapons like bayonets as well as senselessly serious equipment like tanks and weaponized aircraft.
The guerre di pugni actually had more in common with Pietro Monte and other Italian Masters of Defence than it did with its weaponized cousin, the guerre di canne.
"It's a role-playing setting that features everything and anything, including a fully-weaponized kitchen sink," Fannon says in Episode 254 of the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy podcast.
Would you argumentatively say, I have said this, I think you know this, that I felt like these companies have weaponized everything and amplified it at the same time.
According to researchers, the attack begins with a single weaponized document, which in turn retrieves malicious code via an email-based channel from its command and control (C2) server.
Meanwhile, thousands of Uber drivers, who are considered independent contractors rather than employees, have weaponized their arbitration clauses against the company in a gambit that could cost it millions.
"Without urgent intervention, we fear we will see hate speech weaponized into a trigger for large-scale communal violence," the report, being launched here at the RightsCon conference, says.
Breitbart was not yet so weaponized in 2010 on behalf of its preferred candidates, but O'Donnell still credits the website for helping her get as far as she did.
She's dedicated her career to studying race, and she's seen firsthand how free speech without basis in fact, particularly in academia, has been weaponized to oppress people of color.
It can result in even the most basic elements of what we depend on to sustain us—say, the food we consume simply to survive—being weaponized against us.
"It's certainly possible that China will continue to reduce their Treasury holdings over time, but we don't necessarily think that they will be weaponized, so to speak," he said.
Maybe no one anticipated that Dutchboy could be weaponized, but the programmers sure as hell anticipated that they'd need themselves some kind of highly detailed, graphics-intensive geostorm warning.
Click here to view original GIFI'm a total sucker for watching old tools get turned into badass blades, because seeing random objects get weaponized is such silly dangerous fun.
That is, their campaigns hire lawyers and investigators who scour all the forgotten corners of their lives, looking for any questionable activities that could be weaponized by the opposition.
" The company writes in its statement, "The investigation confirmed that Kaspersky Lab has never created any detection of non-weaponized (non-malicious) documents in its products based on keywords.
Spoiler: Mossad agent Robert Shaw dies while saving the day, as he flies the weaponized blimp away over the ocean, where it blows up and sinks into the sea.
A term to know: Pharmacoterrorism refers to drugs originally produced for therapeutic benefit being abused in terror attacks for morale building or hypervigilance or to therapeutic drugs being weaponized.
Facebook has been so thoroughly weaponized that it's hard to view this all that differently from what your tin-hat wearing uncle or deranged high school friend might post.
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Some researchers are now concerned that the platform has been "weaponized" by the Russian government, which is widely believed to have been behind the theft of the DNC documents.
He came pretty close in an autobiography he released in 2007, where he broadly alleged that liberal groups had weaponized Hill's allegations because of Thomas's perceived views on abortion.
Instead, in an environment of weaponized memes and isolated by social media, human beings become more entrenched in their positions and driven by a fear for their personal survival.
NON was founded in 2015, and in this relatively short lifespan, has already made significant strides in challenging the music world's status-quo via weaponized ambient and club mutations.
We've seen fidget spinners that distractingly show Mario running, we've seen weaponized fidget spinners, and now we have the most distracting model of all: a spinner with programmable LEDs.
His campaign has also falsely claimed Abrams encouraged undocumented immigrants to vote and dismissed as "outside agitators" critics alleging that he weaponized state law to suppress the minority vote.
Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg said in an interview that aired Tuesday on "What America's Thinking" that immigration has been politically weaponized in the U.S. ahead of November's midterm elections.
But when asked if the IFP's deployment of weaponized consumer drones could pave the way for other police forces around the world using such tactics, Waters dismissed the idea.
Trace that logic out a bit, and you arrive at a kind of weaponized incompetence: Your husband isn't good at certain tasks, so he shouldn't have to do them.
"It has essentially weaponized ad technology designed for consumer products and services," said Sarah Golding, the president of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, an industry organization in Britain.
Whatever your specialty — race, gender, sex, religion, class, fashion, family, food — the granny in the floral dress with the weaponized purse will give you a lot to work with.
There is, on the one hand, a weaponized effort to make government seem bad at doing things, but also there are times when government is bad at doing things.
We live less in an "age of wonder" than we do in an age of anger, anxiety and fear; the age of the weaponized tweet and horrific push notification.
His lawyer has appeared on Fox Business and Sean Hannity's radio program to argue that bureaucrats have weaponized the security clearance process against government workers who are Trump supporters.
This makes them easier to be weaponized by small units (like North Korea) and individuals so they can have outsize impacts through deep fake, deep surveillance, deep cyber theft.
Some Democrats have actually weaponized the tax package against their opponents, including Danny O'Connor, a Democrat running in a tight race against a Republican incumbent, Troy Balderson, in Ohio.
A volatile political climate, where news is weaponized for political gain — a state further exacerbated by black-box algorithms protected as corporate secrets that dictate the information we see.
"Democrats and their media cronies have decided to weaponize fear and also weaponized suffering to improve their chances against Trump in November," Ingraham said during her Wednesday night program.
"Democrats and their media cronies have decided to weaponize fear and also weaponized suffering to improve their chances against Trump in November," she said during her Wednesday night program.
"There are concerns shared by many governments that fake news could become weaponized," said Damian Collins, a British politician in charge of a new parliamentary investigation examining the phenomenon.
They have weaponized the bully pulpit of social media, propagating false narratives and branding public debate as heresy in order to restrict liberty of thought and robustness of discourse.
This isn't even the first time someone has weaponized an otherwise innocuous Apple product—a MacBook Air, for example, can also evidently be used as a knife-like blade.
Mike Parson's administration has weaponized the regulatory process, even to the point of tracking patients' menstrual periods in a spreadsheet to try to eliminate abortion access in the state.
One must observe only how Facebook was abused in the 2016 election to see that two of the greatest strengths of America — innovation and free speech — have been weaponized.
Read: Putin's archrival has weaponized YouTube and turned it against the Kremlin The firm will continue to conduct election polls but won't publish results during the campaign, Gudkov said.
John Kissel, co-chair of the Judiciary Committee, said he anticipated weaponized drones would be used in "very limited circumstances," such as a school shooting situation or a kidnapping.
Do you think that if people had responded differently to Gamergate, we could have prevented the sort of weaponized trolling that the alt-right has used over the past year?
Looking ahead, we're going to have to deal with such developments as massive technological unemployment, the rise of autonomous killing machines (including weaponized drones), AI-enabled hacking, and other threats.
This all-too-true story is then "weaponized" against that kingdom's crown prince by a Turkish rival whose own record for muzzling free speech is a matter of public record.
Since most users rarely change default usernames or passwords, it quickly grew into a powerful assembly of weaponized electronics, almost all of which had been hijacked without their owners' knowledge.
In Muscat, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said it would be "very unwise" for Syrian government forces to use weaponized gas, citing unconfirmed reports of chlorine attacks in eastern Ghouta.
In the case of Cambridge Analytica, the social network let a big chunk of that data be weaponized in the 2016 election of Donald Trump and the UK Brexit referendum.
Honestly, at this point, the GOP has to go to the wall for Kavanaugh or the Dems will have fully weaponized mere allegations as a method to destroy credible nominees.
They now sit at the center of an ongoing battle between two of the biggest pop stars in the world, weaponized by both in their quest for global pop dominance.
Rapp's account has started a difficult conversation, given that accusing gay men of sexual misconduct can be weaponized by anti-LGBT groups to "prove" that all queer people are deviants.
No, with swiftboating, birtherism, voter fraud, anti-vaxxing, Pizzagate, crisis actors, false flags, and alternative facts, the conspiracy theory has clearly been weaponized in the most cynical and partisan way.
The assessments are typically an estimate of the amount of plutonium and enriched uranium North Korea has in its inventory rather than how much of that material has been weaponized.
Although Wallace says that objectivity "emerged for many of the right reasons," he argues that it was just as quickly "weaponized," as it was ideologically used to police journalism's bounds.
Researchers say these are some of the latest examples of how WhatsApp has been weaponized by propagandists to deliver fake news and hate speech during an already divisive election season.
Swift in her "Blank Space" video — tapping her red nails together as her hapless boyfriend chokes and cooing, "Darling, I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream" — is performing weaponized femininity.
But the whole premise of the movie — that some sort of weaponized CRISPR concoction can infect animals and change their bodies as well as their behavior — is incredibly far-fetched.
U.S. intelligence agencies estimated that more than a thousand Syrians were killed by weaponized sarin gas near Damascus in August 2013, in an attack carried out by the Syrian government.
It's terrific that those who used their power in the industry for systematic exploitation and abuse are being exposed, and are facing censure and loss of the power they weaponized.
It was already on its way to becoming one of the most successful Spanish singles of all time, but you could say that Bieber—to paraphrase Scotty T—weaponized it.
It's hardly surprising that protestors would turn around and use the very tools weaponized against them to protect their own identities while outing those who are engaging in apparent misconduct.
These failures do not amount to a recipe for success or longevity for Bannon, and the fanfare he generated by acting as "Trump's brain" is now being weaponized against him.
Rubio feels someone's been sitting on this information for a while, and it's only being weaponized now to hurt the former Veep, ahead of his expected 2020 run for Prez.
Moon also talked of his own "red line" with the North, saying the North Koreans would cross it if they completed an ICBM and weaponized it with a nuke. 3.
Bombshell bite news is coming out of Mike Tyson's podcast, where the guy Mike famously bit admitted he ALSO weaponized his mouth during a boxing match back in the day!
Either President Obama and congressional Democrats are the dumbest legislators in the modern era (unlikely), or they willfully weaponized 20 percent of the American economy against the American middle class.
Ariana Grande is being targeted by so called alt-right and pro-Trump trolls — for previous liberal statements she made — with weaponized memes, out-of-context quotes and hate comments.
But fear of pedophiles can be weaponized and used to whip up mobs that don't want to wait for solid evidence of wrongdoings to emerge, lest unspeakable horrors go unchecked.
Vehicular terrorism is on the rise, but technology under development by the U.S. Department of Defense could save lives by disabling a weaponized car before it ever reaches its target.
"Weaponized AI is probably one of the most sensitized topics of AI — if not THE most," Li, who called the Project Maven contract a "big win" in the emails, wrote.
Recently, Ms. Conway even weaponized her own alleged sexual assault in service to her boss by discouraging women from feeling empathy with Christine Blasey Ford or anger at Judge Kavanaugh.
Thurman's rage is palpable yet contained, conveying not just the tempestuous depths of #MeToo but a profound understanding of the ways that female anger is received and weaponized against women.
How the media has responded to the story of the hoax rehearses this very tendency and reveals something about how identity politics is being weaponized in the service of tribalism.
If you look at what happened to Hillary, I mean, look at what she said about the '94 crime bill and how that was weaponized to depress African-American turnout.
If you look at what happened to Hillary, I mean, look at what she said about the '22009 crime bill and how that was weaponized to depress African-American turnout.
" They need mental health care, and the idea that these instances where children like Kevin finally get access to "the care they need," only to have it "weaponized against them.
Bolstered by steampunk inventions both familiar (dirigibles) and beautifully strange (clockwork prosthetic hands that can be weaponized), the citizens of Everfair wage a successful war to drive out Leopold's minions.
In the absence of new ideas, old ones recycled from last week's sketch were simply amped up: The wad of chewing gum was bigger, the weaponized rostrum was now motorized.
Uranium is a radioactive element that, if its isotopes are separated and some enriched to a higher level of purity, can constitute weaponized fissile material for a potential nuclear weapon.
There's a lot of good intent behind our values, but each is a two-sided coin that can be misappropriated or misinterpreted — or, as many of you have said, weaponized.
Aja: The moment that got me, or maybe the series of moments, was absolutely the way that Cinna, Katniss's image consultant, weaponized her dresses throughout the start of the competition.
What we are talking about is that the FBI was turned -- was weaponized, turned into a political weapon and went after a political opponent at the height of a presidential campaign.
On one level, the KGB Spy Museum delivers exactly what you might expect: innumerable recording and transmission devices, uniforms and regalia, weaponized umbrellas and lipsticks, and dozens of discreet camera mechanisms.
This scene is just a taste of how food here has become politicized—in ways, even weaponized—and a microcosm of the forces and interests shaping Gaza's violence and humanitarian crises.
Their anonymity, once the crucial factor that allowed internet culture to proliferate freely and unashamedly, has become a weaponized feature that allows trolls to multiply and harass their targets more effectively.
Lawmakers are demanding an investigation into an old conspiracy theory that the government weaponized ticks and caused the spread of a debilitating disease that infects an estimated 300,000 Americans each year.
GA: Yes, how woven the immigration debate is into the American dream, and how weaponized it's become, has led into this right or this aspiration to fiercely protect what is yours.
Much like Jones or Hannity, Nunes successfully weaponized the pro-Trump media and its online viral outrage machine, ultimately forcing the country to obsess and speculate over a largely political document.
No one was willing to fess up when the Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr first reported that Cambridge Analytica had weaponized Facebook for political ends — so she went looking for ex-employees.
In November, we saw a glimpse of what this data dump might contain: memes weaponized to stoke the racial, religious, and political tensions of the country around the 2016 presidential election.
But those photos are often weaponized — one in 25 Americans say they've been the victim of "revenge porn," or malicious sharing of photos without their consent, according to a 20203 report.
"I don't want to dismiss ethical concerns here, but I worry that 'conflict of interest' gets overly weaponized in our politics," Thiel told the New York Times in a recent interview.
Russian "troll farms" were caught sowing discord around the 2016 presidential election, and The Last Jedi was a divisive film, so it wasn't surprising that they might have weaponized that division.
We also see some hints that they not only have those weaponized dinosaurs that were created, but they're now out in the world where they can't possibly escape or be misused.
We were talking backstage and I think this was the first election where tech sort of got weaponized in a way that directly affected the outcome of the election ... I agree.
I think that the raining cars, the weaponized vehicles, all controlled by Cipher who's played by Charlize Theron, I think that's one of the most unique action sequences you'll ever see.
It suggests that whenever a government attorney is criticized by a president or some other high ranking official, suddenly confidential or nonpublic information can be weaponized for use in the media.
So if you're like me, your heart probably shattered into a billion pieces when these Very Good Boys returned to the scene as weaponized, armored war rhinos in the final battle.
I remember hearing of good lives destroyed, of individuals fully committed to serving the military whose entire existence would be upended when their secrets were discovered and then weaponized against them.
Even Republicans know the House version was merely the first draft, albeit one that took several miscues to complete and will be weaponized against incumbent lawmakers in the 2018 midterm elections.
"The US government and our regulators need to understand how digital platforms can be weaponized and misused against its citizens, and equally importantly, against democracy itself," he wrote at the time.
For the second time in three months, the Obama administration took dirt on Trump from a foreign ally — this time, from one in Europe — and weaponized it for a criminal investigation.
Yet, no one in the FBI seemed to tap the brakes, noticing the obvious: Its counterintelligence apparatus was being weaponized with political opposition research from one campaign against its rival. Leaking.
"The investigation confirmed that Kaspersky Lab has never created any detection of non-weaponized (non-malicious) documents in its products based on keywords like 'top secret' and 'classified,' " the report said.
It means Zuckerberg won't be hearing about Facebook's next data scandal through the press first, as he did when Cambridge Analytica weaponized the data of as many as 87 million users.
But the president's defenders have weaponized them to suggest that Joe Biden acted corruptly as vice president and Ukraine — opposite of Russia — meddled in the 2016 election on Hillary Clinton's behalf.
But the real story underlying this interest is that China has long understood the relationship between commercial infrastructure projects and global power, and it has weaponized many of its commercial relationships.
The House has called for an investigation into whether the Department of Defense experimented with weaponized ticks decades ago and if it affected the spread of Lyme disease across the country.
The Montana law blocks state and local police departments from receiving certain equipment from the 1033 Program, namely weaponized drones, aircraft configured for combat, grenade launchers, silencers, and militarized armored vehicles.
The drone, with two turboprop engines, is planned to enter into service in the middle of next decade and will mainly focus on surveillance although a weaponized version is an option.
But all that's meant is that Facebook's products function as coded even at enormous scale, not that they're built any slower or with more caution for how they could be weaponized.
Their race is the latest example of how contentious and far-reaching voting issues have become in American politics, where once largely nonpartisan issues have been weaponized to gain an edge.
So while Brennan and Clapper's criticisms of Trump are cogent, Trump has weaponized the intelligence community's lack of credibility and turned it on his critics, with a fair amount of success.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) had set conversion rates at their weakest in a year, a move suggesting that currencies may be weaponized in a flaring U.S.-China trade conflict.
One was the popularity of websites that at their best democratize the reviewing of movies, restaurants and businesses and at their worst can be weaponized for score-settling or political grudges.
Whoever conducted the attack likely had the cyber capability to do far more damage and may have conducted this to prove a capability that could be further weaponized if so desired.
"We hope that this hearing is fair and not another weaponized attack on a woman who has come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against a powerful man," Ms. Katz said.
Swift doesn't mince words as she sings about male privilege, specifically throwing shade directly at men in Hollywood who are given a pass for the same behavior that's weaponized against her.
And it's easy to see how any aspect of infrastructure could be weaponized on Election Day, from causing a run on banks or a fire in a strategically chosen factory. 2.
There is a myriad of Democratic challengers who have declared their candidacies, many with higher name recognition, more experience and accomplishments — but also with records that can be scrutinized and weaponized.
After Gingrich, came George W. Bush's political adviser Karl Rove, who saw that some Americans were uncomfortable with granting their gay neighbors equal rights and weaponized this anxiety to benefit Bush.
Almost all of the guests he highlighted during his speech were from ethnic minorities, in an apparent bid to belie the reality of a presidency that has often weaponized racial rhetoric.
Thanks to the internet of things (IoT) and 5G communication technologies, computers that hear and see the world the way we do can also be weaponized to provide surveillance at scale.
The coming decade will be a test of how we will balance the many positive impacts of this capability on productivity and quality of life with its harmful or weaponized aspects.
The report is certain to be weaponized by Republicans who have been battling back weeks of bad headlines about the President's pressure campaign against the Ukrainians and an ongoing impeachment inquiry.
"It is also highly possible for personality scores to be weaponized within an organization and used to justify either progress or lack of progress at a company level," Dr. Gaither explained.
But ruling out CFAA charges is a big deal, because the CFAA can be broadly weaponized against anybody who uses a computer in a way a company or government disagrees with.
Medical information could be weaponized against immigrants, they say, for example through the administration's "public charge" rule — which would deny migrants green cards if they use public insurance or welfare programs.
Among the weaponry: "Hillary Clinton's popular-vote victory," history, social media, protest and "Trump's incendiary anti-Muslim election rhetoric" (which was "weaponized" in court arguments against the travel restrictions he ordered).
"It is also highly possible for personality scores to be weaponized within an organization and used to justify either progress or lack of progress at a company level," Dr. Gaither explained.
Long hair has always been seen as a symbol of feminine power and sexuality, so cutting it is an attempt to strip Cersei of those things which she has always weaponized.
White supremacists have effectively weaponized the psuedo-anonymous nature of the internet to their advantage, organizing online and staging rallies far from home to offset the risk of their identities being exposed.
Right now, miles above your head, there are fleets of robotic, weaponized satellites poised to do battle as the world's superpowers await the opening salvo in a very real cosmic chess match.
Stephen Colbert and Samantha Bee launch weaponized jokes from a baseline of anger; John Oliver sputters panicked warnings; Seth Meyers and Trevor Noah impart the gravity of their words with grim deadpans.
If men can passively ignore every pejorative weaponized against women in a genre still dominated by men, turning a blind eye to rape is a cakewalk we never hesitate to scurry down.
"A white hat hacker friend of Kevin's developed a tool to bypass two-factor authentication using social engineering tactics – and it can be weaponized for any site," said Stu Sjouwerman, KnowBe4 CEO.
In A Quiet Place, the family patriarch's effort to DIY a hearing aid for his deaf child ultimately becomes a way to defeat the enemy, loving care weaponized against an external threat.
As all of us who were involved in the listening sessions heard from so many of you, many of Uber's 14 cultural values, while well-intended, had been allowed to be weaponized.
Yes, you can use white phosphorus, a weaponized chemical agent banned for use near civilians under the rules of the Geneva Convention, as a killstreak reward item in the game's competitive multiplayer.
They are operating in wholly separate universes, each armed with its own sets of facts, fomented by a White House–led war on the media and amplified by easily weaponized social platforms.
This spring, thousands of employees petitioned the company to cease work on a Pentagon-backed military artificial intelligence project, leading Google to pledge that it would stay out of weaponized AI work.
On paper, this might look in line with the kind of disbelieving "can you believe this shit?" vibe The Daily Show has weaponized since Jon Stewart took his place behind the desk.
" The way Frum sees it, in our current social media dystopia that is fueled by half-truths and straight up lies, "We are all vulnerable to weaponized falsehoods that exploit our prejudices.
And like weaponized femininity, there's an undercurrent of anger to the witch aesthetic: You don't declare yourself a witch if you don't think the world has screwed you over a little bit.
It doesn't appear they will be able to complete (this) in the next one or two years, but the intelligence authorities said it may be able to be weaponized sooner than expected.
Read: Putin's archrival has weaponized YouTube and turned it against the Kremlin Now, Oleg is designing tattoos from behind bars as an underground protest against Putin and the Russia he stands for.
It may feel like the last thing the world needs right now is an international weaponized duel, but leave a little room in your heart for the joy of giant robot battles.

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