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Tech group files first lawsuit against Trump over executive order targeting social media, saying it threatens to “curtail and chill constitutionally protected speech" across the web.
A bipartisan group of Senators say they plan to introduce a bill regulating contact-tracing and exposure-notification apps
Publishers sue Internet Archive over scanning of books
Supreme Court says state may enforce some restrictions on religious gatherings
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Sources: Trump is planning to sign an executive order Thursday that could threaten punishment for Facebook, Google, and Twitter over content moderation
Arizona sues Google over allegations it illegally tracked Android smartphone users’ locations
Whistleblowers say Facebook has not warned investors about illegal activity, in new SEC complaint
Profile of Charli D'Amelio, a 16-year-old from Connecticut who's become TikTok's biggest star after joining in 2019, thanks to a fun and relatable persona
A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression
Twitter labels Trump’s tweets with a fact-check for the first time | The action comes after years of criticism that social media companies have allowed the president to push misinformation unchecked
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Chicago-based game studio Level Ex is updating two titles, widely-used by medical professionals to hone their skills, to include COVID-19 content
A look at webcam supply chain issues as ecommerce tracking firm CommerceIQ finds 78% of views on webcam product pages showed out of stock in the week of May 9
Instacart, Amazon Flex, Shipt, and Doordash added hundreds of thousands of jobs to meet delivery demand – The Washington Post
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The Atlantic lays off dozens of staff members as pandemic hits media budgets – The Washington Post
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Perspective | One of the first contact-tracing apps violates its own privacy policy
Copyright bots and classical musicians are fighting online. The bots are winning
Why are we trusting a company with ties to ICE and intelligence agencies to collect our health information?
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The Technology 202: Democrats introduce bill to protect data collected in coronavirus pandemic
Facebook helps set up American Edge to battle antitrust push – The Washington Post
Sources say the USPS has launched a review of its package delivery contracts with companies like Amazon, amid Trump's growing power over the service
Adapted excerpt from the book Dark Mirror by Barton Gellman, one of the reporters who received top-secret documents from Snowden about NSA's mass surveillance
Facebook, YouTube, and Vimeo say they are removing a viral 26-minute trailer for "Plandemic", a conspiracy film that features well-known anti-vaxxers
The Washington Post: In early days of pandemic, U.S. turned down offer to manufacture millions of N95 masks in America
A number of cybersecurity companies form an alliance to offer free help to 87 hospitals and four national health services in Europe, with plans to expand to US
A history of Nintendo's success through times of global strife as it weathered world wars, a great depression, recessions, natural disasters, and now a pandemic
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The housing market faces its next crisis as May rent and mortgages come due
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Companies are turning to intrusive monitoring of work-from-home employees, with always-on webcam rules, daily check-ins, and not-so-optional company happy hours
House Judiciary Committee demands Jeff Bezos testify at a hearing on Amazon's alleged misuse of third-party seller data or face a potential subpoena
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