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A pair of Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday introduced the latest bill proposing to amend Section 230 of the…
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Oct 16
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Twitter claimed it was reversing course late Thursday and would no longer forbid users from tweeting links to…
Oct 15
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has announced that he plans to “move forward with a rulemaking”…
Oct 15
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A group of Democratic lawmakers on Thursday urged the government’s privacy and civil liberties watchdog to launch an…
Oct 15
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U.S. Lawmaker, Citing Snowden, Seeks Probe Into NSA Targeting of Congressional, Supreme Court Emails
The acting intelligence community inspector general, Thomas Monheim, has been asked to investigate claims that…
Oct 12
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By 2009, Facebook had established its first content moderation team known internally as the “porn cops.” The…
Oct 7
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Facebook will temporarily disable all ads focused on political and social issues after polls close on Election Day…
Oct 7
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The first telephone was invented in 1861. The underlying technology evolved greatly over the next 100 years, but it…
Oct 2
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President Donald Trump disclosed via Twitter on Friday morning that he and his wife, Melania, had tested positive…
Sep 24
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The Justice Department released—and later retracted—a statement on Thursday saying it had opened an inquiry into the…
Sep 18
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The Trump administration has barely even bothered to back up its case that its use of emergency powers to strong-arm…
Sep 16
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Controversial changes ordered by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy caused an estimated 85 million more packages to…
Sep 16
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Over the course of five years, Facebook executives received numerous warnings that event pages were being used to…
Sep 11
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By Thursday evening, more than 10 percent of Oregon’s 4.2 million residents were under an evacuation order,…
Sep 9
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At time of writing, the novel coronavirus has killed more than 190,000 Americans.
Sep 8
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One consequence of being named head of a federal agency is that a slew of reporters will inevitably begin digging…
Sep 4
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USA Today reports that in a recent, previously unpublicized memo, the Pentagon’s acting director of Defense Media…
Sep 3
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On Thursday, President Trump doubled down on the instructions he had given voters the day before: that those who…
Sep 2
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When Ella’s monthly supply of modafinil didn’t arrive in the mail in late August, she wasn’t sure what to do.…
Sep 1
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Citing the unprecedented strain the coronavirus has wrought on the U.S. election system, Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday…