Additional steps Twitter is taking ahead of the 2020 US Election
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US House Democrats say Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple enjoy ‘monopoly power’ and recommend big changes
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Time to pardon Edward Snowden?
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President Trump is continuing his war on Section 230 and the right for the open internet to exist
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Court blocks Trump’s WeChat ban from taking effect today
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Reddit CEO defends their intention to run Trump ads ahead of election, outlines their plans to move comments on ads into subreddits
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The clean network: A US Department of State proposal to provide 5G free of China's interference
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Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveout
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US President Donald Trump issues executive orders taking effect in forty-five days that ban "transactions" with Chinese owners of TikTok (ByteDance) and WeChat (Tencent)
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The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 million per week on Facebook ads, almost assuredly making it the platform's largest advertiser
@Judd Legum: The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 MILLION PER WEEK on Facebook That's a $280 million annual rate.The Trump campaign is almost certainly Facebook's largest advertiser In 2019, Home Depot was the largest advertiser, spending $178.5 million pic.twitter.com/4BjWknL73H
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US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirms TikTok is under review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US following national security concerns
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Here’s Donald Trump’s plan to regulate social media
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Twitter disables video in Trump retweet after Linkin Park files copyright complaint
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US officials are ramping up criticism of the GDPR, which they say protects cybercriminals
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EU digs in on digital tax plan, after US quits talks
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Andrew Yang is pushing Big Tech to pay users for data
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Twitter labels Donald Trump video tweet as "manipulated media" as it cracks down on misinformation
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We mapped where Customs and Border Protection drones are flying in the US and beyond
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One Twitter account is reposting everything US President Donald Trump tweets. It was suspended within three days.
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Facebook employees stage virtual walkout to protest US President Donald Trump posts
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Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for 'glorifying violence'
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US President Donald Trump signs executive order designed to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies from liability for the content users post on their platforms
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US President Donald Trump's executive order isn't only about Twitter; it's also attempting to ensure that Facebook won't change their own approach in the lead-up to the election
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US President Donald Trump has accused Twitter of "completely stifling free speech" after the social media company flagged some of his tweets with a fact-check warning
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California police used military surveillance tech at grad student strike
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Facebook is helping to set up a new pro-tech US advocacy group
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Political consultant suggests rallying dems with giant, 'Fortnite-style' holographic Biden
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Joe Biden’s first virtual town hall was an absolute technical nightmare
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EARN IT act is a direct attack on end-to-end encryption
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Bogus automated copyright claims by CBS blocked Super Tuesday speeches by Bernie Sanders, Mike Bloomberg, and Joe Biden
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Here's how Biden and Sanders stack up when it comes to how they would govern the tech industry
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Are social networks polarizing? A Q&A with Ezra Klein | The Interface with Casey Newton, Issue #464, Feb 27
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Twitter is suspending 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts, citing ‘platform manipulation’
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The app that broke the Iowa Caucuses was sent out through a beta testing platform
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A Guardian investigation of 218,100 Facebook ads reveals how Donald Trump campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative US voters
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The Yang Gang and its bots
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Biden wants to get rid of law that shields companies like Facebook from liability for what their users post
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What tech companies need to do before ‘solving’ urban problems
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The law that helped the internet flourish now undermines democracy
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Showdown in Wisconn Valley: Why won’t Foxconn tell Wisconsin what it’s building?
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San Diego to suspend face recognition program, limits Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to criminal justice data
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Four US congressional reps ask Bill Barr to restart his war on porn
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New Hampshire lawmaker blocks device repair bill, tells constituents to just buy new $1k phones
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NSO exploited WhatsApp to hack at least 1400 phones and spy on top government officials at US allies
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This sure looks like Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account—Meet “Pierre Delecto”
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Elizabeth Warren calls out Facebook for allowing lies in US political ads by lying in a Facebook political ad
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US blacklists Chinese tech firms over treatment of Uighurs
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NSA whistleblower dropped from Australian cyber conference at the last minute
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Millions of the comments posted during public US debates like the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality repeal process have been faked by political operatives using false identities
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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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