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Social Media

Online censorship is toppling statues that haven’t been built yet: op-ed

Tim Hinchliffe2 years ago

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To the victors go the spoils, they say, but in the siege of online censorship over freedom of thought, the...

Social Media

Exposing echo chambers to eradicate the plague of propaganda

Tim Hinchliffe3 years ago

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Five years after Dmytro Potekhin's 48 horrendous days in captivity at the hands of pro-Russian terrorists in Ukraine, the civic activist...

Social Media

Who discerns what is fake news and why don’t we decide for ourselves?

Navanwita Sachdev4 years ago

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Governments across the world are implementing policies and practices to control the fake news monster of social media. However, who...

Web

Adblock Plus maker eyeo launches free browser extension to spot fake news

Tim Hinchliffe4 years ago

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Today, Adblock Plus maker eyeo launches a free web browser extension called Trusted News to help web surfers spot fake news sources. Currently...

Social Media Technology

‘Selfitis’: Obsessive selfie taking as a real disorder and the fake news stories that inspired its research

Sam Brake Guia5 years ago

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We can all relate to one person on our news feeds that loves taking selfies just a little too much....

Social Media Technology Web

Tech sector issues: 4 ways big tech grew up this year

Ben Allen5 years ago

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Tech sector issues have been numerous and significant this year and appear to have amounted to the industry having traversed...

Web

How to put out the fake news wildfire

Zac Laval5 years ago

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In a recent survey from Pew Research Center, two-thirds of Americans (67%) were found to use social media as a...

Business Social Media Technology

Has technology broken the media? How valuable content can triumph over fake news

Ben Allen5 years ago

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Since the Great Fake News Elections of 2016, the media has often been said to be in crisis, but it’s...

Technology

Social bots and fake news: A reminder to protect your online brand

Zac Laval5 years ago

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Social bots – one of the main “social media villains” – have recently been discovered to “play a key role...

Technology

The better angels of tech making progress in the face controversy and cynicism

Ben Allen5 years ago

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The policies of the tech community are obviously not with out controversy, but here are five ways that the community is...

Web

Who was the late German journalist who claimed CIA controlled European media?

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Controversial German journalist, fake news participant, and alleged CIA whistle blower, Udo Ulfkotte, dies of a heart attack at the...

Web

Google, Facebook control 99% of ad growth; how does this affect journalism?

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Google and Facebook dominate digital ad growth, accounting for 99% of all revenue in 2016. How does this affect the...

Technology

Is there nothing that can’t be faked with vocal, facial manipulation?

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Between Adobe Voco and Stanford University's Face2Face technologies, virtually any person dead or alive can be imitated with vocal and facial...

Social Media

Facebook to rely on unnamed third-party fact checkers for fake news

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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Under scrutiny for being a platform that distributes so-called fake news, Facebook will rely on third-party fact checkers to determine if...

Web

Propaganda Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: The Govt Infiltration of US Media

Tim Hinchliffe6 years ago

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The US Government pays $500 million to PR firm for fake news propaganda on Iraq as intelligence agencies rationalize the impersonation...

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One week before the pandemic hit, unaware of what was about to take place worldwide, Taylor Hersom quit his job as a Chief Information Security Officer for a local firm in Austin, Texas in the hopes of finding a similar position elsewhere.

Between working at Deloitte where he advised Fortune 500 companies on compliance and security tactics, and his more recent position at the local firm, Hersom didn’t anticipate finding a new job to be a difficult feat.

However, as the pandemic set in, his interview offers dried up, and he turned to UpWork in pursuit of a job. In the beginning, he applied for as many posts as he could find in order to build up his review score.

He began taking on clients and quickly realized that startups needed a lot of help with security and compliance, and he knew this could become a genuine business for him. But what he didn’t realize was just how in demand his services would be.

As time went on, Hersom moved away from UpWork and took on staff to build a team in order to meet demand. Shortly after this, on January 1, 2021, his new company Eden Data was born.

In today’s episode of the Brains Byte Back podcast, Hersom, CEO and Founder of Eden Data, shares how the team has grown in such a short period of time by taking a positive approach to security instead of the traditional fear-based approach.

In other words, instead of securing customers using fears tactics such as telling prospects if they get hacked they will be fined, receive bad PR, or be hated, Hersom advocates that strong security can show prospects that you care about them and their data, which can successfully close more deals.

Hersom also shares how their subscription approach to security and compliance has helped them stand out in this market, allowing them to scale alongside the startups they work with.