www.nybooks.com > Rumaan Alam
Return of the Nameless Man
13 may. 2021 - The wit and exuberance of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer and its sequel, The Committed, entice the reader to reflect on colonialism, war, and racism.
 · colonialism · communism · france · vietnam

web.br.de > Ann-Kathrin Wetter, Hakan Tanriverdi, Kai Biermann, Max Zierer and Thi Do Nguyen
Lined up in the sights of Vietnamese hackers
8 oct. 2020 - A group of Vietnamese hackers has been systematically spying on dissidents for years, including in Germany. The victims feel left alone by authorities as an investigation by BR and Zeit Online is able to show.
 · cybersecurity · freedom-of-the-press · germany · phishing · vietnam

www.buzzfeednews.com > Craig Silverman and Ryan Mac
Facebook Gets Rich Off Of Ads That Rip Off Its Users
10 dec. 2020 - Facebook is on track for record ad revenue this year. That’s partly due to its lax approach to stopping scammers, hackers, and disinformation peddlers who buy ads that rip off and manipulate people, say former and current workers.
 · advertising · china · cybercrime · disinformation · facebook · fraud · scams · targeting · tiktok · vietnam

www.oneworld.nl > Hassnae Bouazza
‘In deze soep zit de hele geschiedenis van Vietnam’
11 dec. 2020 - Kookboekenschrijver Mai Nguyen voelt zich Nederlands, maar verlangt ook naar Vietnam. 'Zodra ik het vliegtuig uitstap, ruik ik het: een mengeling van vissaus, straatlucht, hitte en vochtigheid.' Ze neemt je mee naar haar thuisland met haar beste pho-recept.
 · pho · recipes · vietnam

www.nybooks.com > James Gleick
Simulating Democracy
8 oct. 2020 - Jill Lepore is a brilliant and prolific historian with an eye for unusual and revealing stories, and her new book If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future is a remarkable saga, sometimes comical, sometimes ominous: a “shadow history of the 1960s,” as she writes, because Simulmatics stumbled through the decade as a bit player, onstage for the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the Great Society, the riots and protests. It began with grand ambitions to invent a new kind of predictive behavioral science, in a research environment increasingly tied to a rising defense establishment amid the anxiety of the cold war. It ended ignominiously, in embarrassment and bankruptcy.
 · advertising · algorithmic-regulation · behavioral-modeling · cambridge-analytica · cybernetics · disinformation · elections · facebook · feedback-loops · profiling · simulmatics · targeting · united-states · vietnam · weather-forecasting