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....
QAnon’s favorite Congresswoman just gave a little insight into how she came to believe far right conspiracy theories. “I started looking up things on the internet, asking questions like most people do every day, use Google,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in a speech on the House floor...
Up in the crow’s nest of the internet, Twitter users will soon be able to call “misinformation ahead”! Twitter announced a new crowdsourced fact-checking initiative called “Birdwatch” Monday. The idea is that everyday Twitter users will be able to add contextual notes to tweets...
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Out with the old, and in with the new. The brand-new Biden administration has its work cut out for it in its efforts to undue the damage of the Trump years, but it wasted no time making one small but meaningful change to the official White House website. As of Jan. 20, Joe Biden’s first […]
When an employee of GitHub was fired after alluding to the fact that Nazis were out and about in Washington, D.C. on Slack on the day of the assault on the U.S. Capitol building, as Business Insider reported on Tuesday, coworkers rallied to his defense, appealing to the Microsoft-owned company. The decision...
After a day that saw a violent mob of Donald Trump supporters breaching the U.S. Capitol and the president blocked from social media after appearing to encourage them, Seth Meyers wanted to put things as plainly as possible. “I think it’s important, as the first draft of history is being...
The U.S. election season isn’t over yet. With two runoff elections in Georgia deciding which party has control of the Senate, all eyes are now on the state. Unfortunately, that includes nefarious actors and misinformation spreaders. A new study by the nonprofit activist organization Avaaz found that...
