Millions of the comments posted during public debates like the FCC's net neutrality repeal process have been faked by political operatives using false identities
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US Attorney General and officials from UK and Australia will ask Facebook to halt plans for end-to-end encryption in its messaging apps
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All hands on deck—In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government
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The internet is overrun with images of child sexual abuse. What went wrong?
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Facebook has taken down the huge "Police Lives Matter" page after being revealed as a Kosovo-based operation pushing misinformation about US cops
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Stamos on legal issues for US tech companies sharing with foreign governments
@alexstamos: It's really early on a Sunday, so while I sip my coffee I'm also going to try to clear up a lot of confusion about the CLOUD Act created by poor reporting by The Times (of London) and Bloomberg. Here is the original, incorrect story: https://t.co/1l8tgH1r4s
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An interview with the Ukrainians who created the "I Love America" Facebook page
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Icelandic company Flygildi has been developing a drone in the shape of a bird – which caught the attention of US investors during Mike Pence's recent visit
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Is the era of the $100+ graphing calculator coming to an end?
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More control over your conversations now available in Japan and the US
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Google's Wing will test deliveries using drones from FedEx Express, Walgreens, and Sugar Magnolia in Christianburg, Virginia
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Colorado town offers 1 gbps for $60 after years of battling Comcast
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Coalition of fifty US attorneys general launch antitrust investigation into Google
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Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules
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DMVs Are Selling Your Data to Private Investigators
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Google and YouTube will pay record $170 million for alleged violations of US children’s privacy law
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US Senator says Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg should face ‘possibility of a prison term’
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Virtual Cards by Privacy
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Silicon Valley is building a Chinese-style social credit system
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Twitch suspends popular leftist streamer after controversial 9/11 comments
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Inside America’s dysfunctional trillion-dollar fighter-jet program
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Amazon ends controversial practice of using tips to meet drivers’ wage guarantees
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'Where's the line of free speech – are you removing voices that should be heard?': As YouTube struggles with extreme content, Susan Wojcicki talks about her role as the internet’s gatekeeper
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The crowdfunded Dragonfly Futurefön scammed backers for over $725,000, but was only the last step in a decade-long multi-million dollar fraud
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The US Navy will replace its touchscreen controls with mechanical ones on its destroyers
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Twitter unlocks Mitch McConnell’s campaign account after pressure
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A draft executive order from the White House would have the FTC and FCC police alleged social media censorship
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US Republican Party boycotting Twitter ads over Mitch McConnell’s campaign Twitter lock
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Facebook hit with new questions over Cambridge Analytica
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US FTC announces that people who chose the $125 option from the Equifax breach will receive "nowhere near" that, and has removed it as an option
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Ordinary Americans are using armies of phones to generate extra income for beer, diapers, and bills through ad fraud
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Proposed US law would ban infinite scroll, autoplaying video
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GitHub restricts developer accounts based in Iran, Crimea, and other countries under US sanctions
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What you should know about the Equifax data breach settlement
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In an apparent first, genetic genealogy aids a wrongful conviction case
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Justice Department to open broad, new antitrust review of Big Tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple
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What you should know about the Equifax data breach settlement
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Is it okay to laugh at Florida Man? What it’s like to go viral as one of the Internet’s biggest memes — and the moral complications of laughing along
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Former Microsoft software engineer charged with mail fraud for using test Microsoft Store accounts to steal more than $10 million in digital currency
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Google is trying to convince Congress that there's competition in the search industry, but recent statistics show it owns 92% of the market
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How US tech giants are helping to build China’s surveillance state
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Highlights from Facebook's Libra hearing with the Senate Banking Committee
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Exploring Computer Reset, a massive retro computer warehouse
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US FTC approves Facebook fine of about $5 billion
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Can Racist Algorithms Be Fixed?
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Florida city to pay $600K ransom to hacker who seized computer systems weeks ago
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YouTube under US Federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy
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Nifty US govt chemical disaster investigation YouTube channel
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8chan is raided by the FBI regarding California synagogue shooter
@swodinsky: lmaooooooo 8chan just got search warranted
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San Francisco says it will use AI to reduce bias when charging people with crimes
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