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Right-wing extremists move to encrypted channels to plan for Inauguration Day violence
Amazon removes QAnon merchandise from its marketplace
Reddit · 7 days ago
Twitter bans Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell in QAnon account purge
Boeing charged with criminal conspiracy and fined $2.5 billion for coverup over 737 Max crashes
Google employees form workers’ union in United States
Google told its scientists to ‘strike a positive tone’ in AI research, documents show
Insecure wheels: Police turn to car data to destroy suspects’ alibis
Major climate change measures included in Covid aid bill
Can public transportation survive the pandemic? Experts warn of ‘death spiral’
Zoomification of society: Tech’s influence (and necessity) was impossible to ignore in 2020
Silicon Valley’s hunger problems grow during a time of record profits
Second top Black female Google employee says she was recently ousted
Τrump downplays Russian hack in first comments on massive breach, implicates China
Facebook and Apple are in a fight. Your browsing history is in the middle.
Texas and nine other U.S. states sue Google for abusing market power
Google spied on employees and fired them for unionizing, U.S. labor board says
YouTube suspends OANN for violating its Covid-19 policy | YouTube removed an OANN video for violating a policy prohibiting the posting of content that spreads coronavirus misinformation.
Criminals launder coronavirus relief money through Venmo, Cash App, PayPal and other apps; so far 80 have been charged with trying to steal $240M+ from the PPP
Almost 60 percent of business closures are now permanent, new Yelp data shows
Conservatives are flocking to a new ‘free speech’ social media app that has started banning liberal users
Report: most major tech companies in Silicon Valley have kept paying their thousands of unionized blue-collar workers for now, but future remains uncertain
A Twitter for conservatives? Parler surges amid election misinformation crackdown
TikTok won’t be forced to shut down for now, Commerce Department rules
Frustrated by internet service providers, cities and schools push for more data – Major ISPs won’t say how many families have signed up for low-income options.
Facebook and Twitter don’t censor conservatives. They hire and promote them.
How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge
Twitter says it will place messages it calls "pre-bunks" at the top of users' feeds to pre-emptively debunk false info about voting by mail and election results
As voters weigh Prop 22, a California appeals court upheld a lower court ruling ordering Uber and Lyft to stop classifying drivers as independent contractors
Quibi is shutting down just months after launching The short-form video streaming service from Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman failed to win over consumers in the numbers needed to thrive.
Lawyers say they can't find the parents of 545 migrant children separated by Trump administration
Cyber firm finds hacker selling info on 186 million U.S. voters
US intelligence director says Iran was behind threatening emails to FL Democratic voters demanding they vote for Trump; voter info was likely publicly available
YouTube bans conspiracy theory content, such as QAnon or Pizzagate, that justifies "real-world violence", but stops short of banning QAnon content outright
Thousands of Amazon workers demand time off to vote
Reddit · 3 months ago
Facebook says it will ban anti-vaccination ads
Young conservative group tied to fake accounts that attacked Biden, Facebook says
Facebook bans QAnon across its platforms | The change is a significant escalation over its previous actions targeting QAnon and one of the broadest rules the social media giant has put in place in its history.
Facebook says it will ban QAnon across its platforms, removing all "Facebook Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts" that represent QAnon
Netflix indicted in Texas over ‘lewd’ depiction of children in ‘Cuties’
You don't own your Kindle books, Amazon reminds customer
Hacker News · 4 months ago
U.S. patchwork of state, county election computer networks still vulnerable to cyberattacks – "A lot of good stuff has been done," said one expert. "But let’s face it, we’ve got 54 states and territories. The risk landscape is pretty broad."
Snap says it helped 1M Snapchat users register to vote on the app, of which over half are first-time voters and 80% are under 30
Interviews with 40 Amazon employees and government documents: Amazon's COVID-19 response lacks oversight and transparency with inadequate worker safety policies
Techmeme · 4 months ago