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Sources: an internal Facebook probe into QAnon shows the size of the conspiracy theory's community: millions of members and followers across thousands of Groups
Internal docs: Facebook removed "strikes" so that at least 2 conservative pages, from PragerU and Diamond & Silk, dodged penalties under misinformation policies
Trump issues order barring U.S. firms from doing business with TikTok’s parent company
Facebook removes troll farm posing as African-American support for Donald Trump
Facebook removes Trump post over coronavirus misinformation
A look at Election Cyber Surge, which aims to bolster US election cybersecurity by matching local election officials with cybersecurity experts who want to help
Trump says he’s banning TikTok in the U.S.
Dark money and PAC’s coordinated ‘reopen’ push are behind doctors’ viral hydroxychloroquine video
Sources: Facebook ceased research into racial bias in Instagram's moderation tools after finding problematic results; Facebook says the methodology was flawed
Palantir's federal pandemic contracts worth $42M+ raise fears that its work sharing information with ICE makes it a poor guardian of sensitive medical records
Twitter bans 7,000 QAnon accounts, limits 150,000 others as part of broad crackdown
Profile of Child Rescue Coalition, whose tech is used in 96 countries including the US to help police triage child porn cases, as experts raise privacy concerns
Cybersecurity firm finds more spyware hidden in Chinese tax software
Report: US DOD and federal law enforcement have thousands of previously unreported contracts with Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Dell, IBM, HP, and Facebook
‘Same old defense’: Civil rights groups hammer Facebook after meeting | The virtual summit came weeks after the civil rights groups launched the "Stop Hate For Profit" initiative that has spurred more than 900 companies to halt advertising with Facebook.
Supreme Court won’t throw out ban on robocalls to cellphones
From Mercury to Artemis: The evolution of the spacesuit
Facebook says it's removed 220 FB "Boogaloo" groups and 95 Instagram accounts, weeks after feds said group members planned the murder of a federal agent on FB
Tech worker group calls for facial recognition ban citing ‘technical and ethical’ reasons
Months before it starts, Facebook’s oversight board is already under fire
TECH NEWS Reddit bans hundreds of subreddits for hate speech including Trump community
Spyware hidden in Chinese tax software was probably planted by a nation-state, say experts
Facebook just lost one of the biggest advertisers in the world for the rest of 2020
Google says it will keep less browser history and location data by default
Twitter gives workers day off to vote in national elections
Facebook commits $200M to support US Black-owned businesses, plans to double Black and Latinx staff by 2023, and add "Lift Black Voices" section to app
‘Facebook doesn’t care’: Activists say accounts removed despite Zuckerberg’s free-speech stance
Former eBay employees harassed couple who wrote critical newsletter articles, prosecutors say – The company allegedly harassed the people behind the newsletter and then offered to help stop the harassment.
US efforts to deploy COVID-19 contact tracing apps have fallen flat, as most states retreat from earlier interest and the few with an app struggle with adoption
Sources detail Google's lackluster response to the BLM movement, which was to "corral and isolate the black employees" to vent without making structural changes
California regulatory agency for transportation formally rules that it considers Uber and Lyft drivers as employees of those companies under AB5 state law
Google is sued in U.S. for tracking users’ ‘private’ internet browsing
White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter: Other misinformation and misleading claims spread across Twitter on Sunday night and into Monday related to the protests.
Facebook says it banned anti-vaccination news site Natural News for using content farms from Macedonia and the Philippines, not for the content it posted
Apple’s iOS update is here — and it includes coronavirus contact tracing
Restaurants rebel against delivery apps as cities crack down on fees
Facebook says it will start allowing many of its 50,000 employees and new recruits to work from home permanently
Pompeo's elite taxpayer-funded dinners raise new concerns
Lyft partners with anti-sexual violence organization RAINN to provide free rides to individuals who contact RAINN hotline in select, undisclosed US cities
iPhone spyware lets police log suspects’ passcodes when cracking doesn’t work
Current and ex-employees allege Google drastically rolled back diversity and inclusion programs
These disinformation researchers saw the coronavirus 'infodemic' coming | NBC News
Unreleased White House report shows coronavirus rates spiking in heartland communities
Twitter employees can work from home forever, CEO says
Shanghai Disney theme park reopens amid new rules to prevent coronavirus spread
Report: Facebook posts from 2012 show Iran's national broadcaster trialed a US political influence campaign via 300+ fake accounts, years earlier than thought
Cheap oil? A pandemic? No big deal for renewable energy, experts say
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos called to testify before House antitrust panel
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