World leaders have gathered in the seaside realm of Cornwall, England for the G7 Summit, where they’re discussing big issues around global trade, managing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and climate change. G7 leaders are also expected to agree to donate 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to low-income...
Twitter’s Nigerian users face a dilemma: Leave the platform or tweet and be arrested. On Friday, Nigeria banned Twitter — yes, the entirety of Twitter — from the country. The move comes after Twitter deleted a tweet from Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday. The company also suspended...
The SolarWinds hackers are at it again. And they’re weaponizing Donald Trump’s Big Lie to carry out their attacks. Microsoft is warning of a new “sophisticated” email attack it has uncovered from the Russia-linked actors behind last year’s massive SolarWinds hack, Nobelium....
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How can you complain about “cancel culture” if you’re also going out of your way to “cancel” things you don’t like? That’s the question posed in Seth Meyer’s latest “A Closer Look” segment on Late Night, as the host examines the recent actions...
We now have the digital receipts and it appears Florida GOP Congressman Matt Gaetz and his former tax collector friend don’t understand the concepts of “consequences,” “technology,” “digital paper trails,” the “laws of the United States of America,”...
TikTok’s recommendations algorithm is sending users down a far right wing rabbit hole QAnon. Patriot Party, Oath Keepers. Three Percenters. Videos promoting these far right wing movements are all banned on TikTok. Yet the viral app’s recommendations algorithm keeps pushing accounts that promote...
Tech CEOs are appearing (remotely) before congress again, and the question is still whether the event will be more spectacle or substance. The House Energy & Commerce Committee announced Thursday that it is hauling in Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai...
Clubhouse didn’t officially release in China and it was also banned just days ago, but the app’s creators are still nervous enough to take action. Sometime during the long U.S. holiday weekend, developer Alpha Exploration Co. will make backend changes that will boost the service’s encryption...
Project Veritas won’t be able to spread its deceptively edited videos on Twitter any longer. The conservative activist group, founded by right-wing provocateur James O’Keefe, has been permanently banned from Twitter. O’Keefe’s personal account has been temporarily suspended by the company as well....
