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Byline: Craig Timberg, Ellen Nakashima, Hannes Munzinger and Hakan Tanriverdi Russian intelligence agencies worked with a Moscow-based defense contractor to strengthen their ability to launch cyberattacks, sow disinformation and surveil [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg The world has long seen the destructive effects of Russian hacking and disinformation campaigns, but rarely has there been much insight into how these operations occur. That's [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima and Craig Timberg The Biden administration is warning that a potential deal between a major American defense firm and NSO Group, a blacklisted Israeli spyware company, to [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski and Craig Timberg WASHINGTON - The Biden administration arrived in Washington with an ambitious agenda for taming Big Tech, which it portrayed as concentrating too much power [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell, Josh Dawsey and Craig Timberg Former president Donald Trump has said he wouldn't rejoin Twitter, even if Elon Musk completes a $44 billion takeover of the company [...]

Byline: Joseph Menn, Cat Zakrzewski and Craig Timberg Social media industry safety professionals and outside experts who've spent years trying to slow the empowerment of tyrants and violent mobs by [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg, Matt Viser and Tom Hamburger Thousands of emails purportedly from the laptop computer of Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden's son, are authentic communications that can be verified [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg The kind of forensic examination that security experts conducted on data purportedly from the laptop computer of Hunter Biden, at The Washington Post's request, can help establish [...]

Byline: Matt Viser, Tom Hamburger and Craig Timberg The deal was years in the making, the culmination of forging contacts, hosting dinners, of flights to and from China. But on [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg The Washington Post asked two computer security experts to review a portable hard drive that purportedly contained data from Hunter Biden's MacBook Pro computer. The Post obtained [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg, Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Souad Mekhennet, Ellen Nakashima and Shane Harris A Ukrainian effort to acquire the powerful Pegasus spyware system was blocked by Israeli defense officials out of [...]

Byline: Gina Harkins and Craig Timberg One person was killed and at least two dozen injured in a shooting outside a car show Saturday night in southeast Arkansas, police said. [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg WASHINGTON - Sen. Richard Durbin on Sunday defended the record of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson after Republican criticism of her handling of child pornography cases [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg In the days after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Aleksandr Zaldostanov, the leader of a pro-Putin biker club gang, the Night Wolves, turned [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg Thirty five Internet experts on Thursday proposed creating an international committee that could impose targeted sanctions against Russian military and propaganda websites without knocking ordinary civilian sites [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg, Ellen Nakashima and Joseph Menn Lumen, a leading American Internet provider to Russia, announced Tuesday that it was severing business relations in the country, a move likely [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg, Cat Zakrzewski and Joseph Menn Advocates of an open, globally connected internet long have worried that a major country or region would break away from the web [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg and Joseph Menn A leading American internet service provider, Cogent Communications, said it was severing relations with Russian customers on Friday, a move that gives Ukrainian officials [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg and Joseph Menn A leading American internet service provider, Cogent Communications, is preparing to sever relations with Russian customers on Friday, according to people familiar with the [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg The world runs largely on American tech: Intel's chips, Microsoft's code, Google's searches, Apple's phones, Amazon's cloud. And this fact can give the United States extraordinary leverage [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg and Drew Harwell Oliver Alexander, a Danish businessman working in a beachfront apartment in southern Portugal, is watching war play out more than 2,000 miles away in [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg The surveillance company NSO Group offered to give representatives of an American mobile-security firm 'bags of cash' in exchange for access to global cellular networks, according to [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg Human Rights Watch official Lama Fakih was at a meeting in Beirut, where she lives and works, when a strange message appeared on her iPhone on Nov. [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg and Tom Hamburger WASHINGTON - Congressional investigators on Thursday issued subpoenas to Twitter, Reddit and the parent companies of Facebook and YouTube and accused them of failing [...]

Byline: Mary Beth Sheridan and Craig Timberg At least 22 journalists from the independent Salvadoran news site El Faro were targeted with telephone spyware, investigators announced Wednesday, in one of [...]

Byline: Jeremy B. Merrill, Jeff Kao, Craig Silverman and Craig Timberg Data analyzed for the ProPublica-Washington Post examination of Facebook posts was collected from over 100,000 public Facebook groups tracked [...]

Byline: Jeremy B. Merrill, Jeff Kao, Craig Silverman and Craig Timberg Data analyzed for the ProPublica-Washington Post examination of Facebook posts was collected from over 100,000 public Facebook groups tracked [...]

Byline: Craig Silverman, Craig Timberg, Jeff Kao and Jeremy B. Merrill WASHINGTON - Facebook groups swelled with at least 650,000 posts attacking the legitimacy of Joe Biden's victory between Election [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg Facebook is notifying nearly 50,000 users in more than 100 countries that they may have been targets of hacking attempts by surveillance companies working for government agencies [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin, Will Oremus, Craig Timberg and Nitasha Tiku Earlier this year, as Twitter raced to roll out Spaces, its new live audio chat feature, some employees asked how [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg, Drew Harwell and Ellen Nakashima WASHINGTON - Apple has alerted 11 U.S. Embassy employees that their iPhones had been hacked in recent months by Pegasus spyware from [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg, Reed Albergotti and Drew Harwell Apple announced Tuesday that it has sued Israel-based NSO Group over the use of its Pegasus spyware to attack Apple devices, the [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin, Nitasha Tiku and Craig Timberg Last year, researchers at Facebook showed executives an example of the kind of hate speech circulating on the social network: an actual [...]

Byline: Will Oremus and Craig Timberg In June 2020, a group of men in military-style camouflage, armed with assault rifles, confronted protesters who wanted to topple a statue of a [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg Facebook's parent company, Meta, announced Tuesday that it will begin limiting how political and issue advertising can be targeted at its users, removing the ability in most [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell, Ellen Nakashima and Craig Timberg The United States on Wednesday added the Israeli spyware company NSO Group to its 'entity list,' a federal blacklist prohibiting the company [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg, Elizabeth Dwoskin and Reed Albergotti Relief flowed through Facebook in the days after the 2020 presidential election. The company had cracked down on misinformation, foreign interference and [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg A new whistleblower affidavit submitted by a former Facebook employee Friday alleges that the company prizes growth and profits over combatting hate speech, misinformation and other threats [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg Around the same time Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen was downloading tens of thousands of revealing company documents, another researcher from her division quit amid [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin and Craig Timberg After four years of almost continuous scandal, Facebook is approaching its latest controversy over political polarization and the toxic effects of social media in [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell, Hannah Allam, Jeremy B. Merrill and Craig Timberg In the real world, Joshua Alayon worked as a real estate agent in Pompano Beach, Fla., where he used [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell, Craig Timberg and Hannah Allam Epik long has been the favorite Internet company of the far-right, providing domain services to QAnon theorists, Proud Boys and other instigators [...]

Byline: Taylor Telford, Robyn Dixon and Craig Timberg Apple and Google removed an opposition voting app from their online stores Friday just as balloting began in Russia's parliamentary election, bowing [...]

Byline: Taylor Telford, Robyn Dixon and Craig Timberg Apple and Google removed an opposition voting app from their online stores on Friday as Russia's parliamentary election began, bowing to pressure [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg Facebook on Thursday announced a new enforcement policy for groups that coordinate online to spread misinformation, hate and 'social harm' but do not violate traditional company standards [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg, Drew Harwell and Reed Albergotti Spyware researchers have captured what they say is a new exploit from NSO Group's Pegasus surveillance tool targeting iPhones and other Apple [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg WASHINGTON - A Pentagon program that delegated management of a huge swath of the internet to a Florida company in January - just minutes before President Donald [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg, Robyn Dixon and Reed Albergotti Russia's Internet censor threatened Thursday to fine Google and Apple if they don't remove an app built by opposition leaders that encourages [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg and Jay Greene Amazon late Friday disabled a website used by a propaganda arm of the Islamic State that celebrated the suicide bombing that killed at least [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg and Jay Greene A propaganda arm of ISIS that celebrated the suicide bombing that killed at least 170 people in Kabul on Thursday maintains a web site [...]