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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The war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats
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Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown
@Twitter Safety: We've been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to lead to offline harm. In line with this approach, this week we are taking further action on so-called 'QAnon' activity across the service.
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Against hackerism
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Twitter disables video in Trump retweet after Linkin Park files copyright complaint
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United Kingdom to ban Huawei equipment in 2021 and remove it from 5G networks by 2027
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This is why Indian teens kept spamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Instagram with thirsty comments
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Can our electronic ballots be both secret and secure? A mathematician's quest to make American elections more trustworthy
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Google, Facebook, and Twitter halt government data requests after new Hong Kong security law
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Indian government bans fifty-nine Chinese apps for security reasons
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I joined Parler, the right-wing echo chamber’s new favorite alt-Twitter
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India bans fifty-nine Chinese apps, including TikTok, ShareIt, UC Browser
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Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire receives far more Facebook engagement per article than any other publisher, largely driven by a network of deceptive and toxic pages that systematically promote it
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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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New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China
Article: New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China Also: 'Cyber attacks' point to China's spy agency, Ministry of State Security, as Huawei payback,...
Article: New South Wales government was the target of major cyber attack operation linked to China
This is a follow-up to these articles posted yesterday:
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Exposing Secondary Infektion: Forgeries, interference, and attacks on Kremlin critics across six years and 300 sites and platforms
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'Facebook doesn't care': Activists say accounts removed despite Mark Zuckerberg's free-speech stance
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Obscure Indian cyber firm spied on politicians, investors worldwide
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One Twitter account is reposting everything Trump tweets. It was suspended within three days
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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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Zuckerberg dismisses fact-checking after bragging about fact-checking
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California police used military surveillance tech at grad student strike
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Anatomy of an internet shutdown
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Political consultant suggests rallying dems with giant, 'Fortnite-style' holographic Biden
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The coder and the dictator
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Inside the pro-Donald Trump Facebook group where first responders call coronavirus a hoax
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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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Tech was supposed to improve caucuses. Instead, it may have doomed them
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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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EU Commission to staff: Switch to Signal messaging app
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Policy vs technology
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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 the Trump campaign’s sophisticated social media machine targets conservative voters
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Mastodon, my saviour: Why the left should ditch ad-verse social media
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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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Facebook's Ad Library, one of its main tools for election transparency, is riddled with issues and lost 74,000 ads just before the UK election
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