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AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, and seven other US carriers announce an agreement with 51 attorneys general to implement new tech to block robocalls
Facebook's conservative bias "audit" draws criticism from both sides after relying on interviews with 130 unnamed conservatives over internal data
As criticism from Trump and Democrats mounts, Amazon is courting US policymakers of all stripes with warehouse tours, which are later posted on social media
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Group of top CEOs redefines corporations’ purpose, moves away from ‘shareholder primacy’ – The Washington Post
The quantum revolution is coming, and Chinese scientists are at the forefront
Autopsy finds broken bones in Epstein’s neck, deepening questions around death
Hackers were told to break into U.S. voting machines. They didn’t have much trouble.
Extreme climate change has arrived in America
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Black families once lived off their southern farmland. Their descendants are struggling to hold onto it. – The Washingto…
Thousands of tardigrades crash-land on the moon. Did they survive?
Video games don't cause violence, but toxic gamer culture, which has become a fertile recruitment ground for white supremacists and misogynists, does
Sources: WH explored ways to predict mass shootings by scanning social media posts, at a meeting with Facebook, Twitter, and others, who raised privacy concerns
11 current and past YouTube moderators say popular creators like Logan Paul often get special treatment in the form of looser interpretations of guidelines
Google and Amazon list gun accessories for sale, in apparent violation of their own policies
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White House says it will hold a summit with tech companies on Friday to discuss violent online extremism, but does not say which companies are attending
Investigation finds Amazon and Google listing firearm and gun accessories, such as ammunition, as recently as Monday, despite policies banning such items
Techmeme · 2 weeks ago
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We shouldn’t take peer review as the ‘gold standard’
Capital One announces breach affecting ~106M US and Canadian customers, with most info accessed from credit card applications; FBI has arrested suspected hacker
The Washington Post's bestseller lists have been wrong
Walking Britain’s ‘deadliest path’
Never-Googlers: Web users take the ultimate step to guard their data
Did Big Tech Get Too Big? More of the World Is Asking
Inside Chris Hughes's campaign to break up Facebook, including meetings with a dozen lawmakers and regulators, sometimes on his own
Major automakers strike climate deal with California, rebuffing Trump on proposed mileage freeze
Content moderators at YouTube, Facebook and Twitter see the worst of the web — and suffer silently
It’s not just the Russians anymore as Iranians and others turn up disinformation efforts ahead of 2020 vote
Current and former moderators in Manila describe how tech companies like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter outsource the trauma that comes with content moderation
Analysis: following Trump's "social media summit", 15 attendees critical of social networks for alleged censorship gained a combined 197,000 Twitter followers
Facebook announces features aimed at reducing the spread of misinformation, such as reviewing little-known websites whose articles get surges of traffic
Fake accounts, pages, and groups purporting to represent or sell Libra digital currency have sprung up across Facebook and Instagram
‘He always doubles down’: Inside the political crisis caused by Trump’s racist tweets
Facebook deceived users about the way it used phone numbers, facial recognition, FTC to allege in complaint
Officer suggests Ocasio-Cortez should be shot, after he read fake news on Facebook
Microsoft settles with the SEC and the DoJ for $26M over potential bribery and corruption related to software sales in Hungary
Inside FTC's 16-month Facebook probe that ended in a $5B fine; sources: FTC initially considered imposing more direct liability for Zuckerberg and a bigger fine
Sources: the FTC has finalized a multimillion dollar settlement with Google in an investigation into YouTube for violating federal data privacy laws for kids
The panic over FaceApp highlighted how public attitudes about the internet have changed amid a widespread reckoning over data privacy and election interference
How to Dress for Space
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