Enlarge / Police hold back Trump supporters outside the US Capitol’s Rotunda on January 6, 2021. Getty Images | Olivier Douliery/AFP reader comments 136 with 0 posters participating Share this story Former US President Donald Trump yesterday petitioned Facebook owner Meta to restore his account, two years after he was banned for egging on his ..
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Getty Images reader comments 128 with 0 posters participating Share this story The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has rejected a Republican National Committee (RNC) complaint claiming that Google violated US law by using Gmail’s spam filter on Republican campaign emails. Republicans had claimed Gmail’s spam filtering amounted to “illegal in-kind contributions made by Google to ..
reader comments 118 with 0 posters participating Share this story The United Kingdom wants to become the safest place for children to grow up online. Many UK lawmakers have argued that the only way to guarantee that future is to criminalize tech leaders whose platforms knowingly fail to protect children. Today, the UK House of ..
Enlarge / Elon Musk’s personal equity investment in Twitter of about $26bn would be effectively wiped out in the event of a bankruptcy. FT Montage/Bloomberg reader comments 336 with 0 posters participating Share this story The bill for Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter is coming due, with the billionaire facing unpalatable options on the company’s ..
Enlarge / Twitter is blocking many third-party clients’ access to its API while continuing to provide no explanation. Ryan J Lane/Getty Images reader comments 87 with 0 posters participating Share this story Twitter has not yet explained why third-party clients like Twitterific and Tweetbot stopped working late last week. But a new report and testing ..
reader comments 67 with 0 posters participating Share this story The weekend delivered some disappointing news for laid-off Twitter employees who launched a class-action lawsuit in November against the social media platform immediately after CEO Elon Musk kicked off the first round of layoffs at the company. On Friday, a US district judge ruled that ..
reader comments 129 with 0 posters participating Share this story For years, YouTube has been accused of enabling terrorist recruitment. This allegedly happens when a user clicks on a terrorist video hosted on the platform, then spirals down a rabbit hole of extremist content automatically queued “up next” through YouTube’s recommendation engine. In 2016, the ..
Aurich Lawson | Youtube reader comments 454 with 0 posters participating Share this story Elon Musk is headed to trial next week over his infamous tweet claiming he had secured funding to take Tesla private at $420 a share. A 10-day civil trial with jury selection scheduled for Tuesday, January 17, is set to begin ..
Enlarge / Many third-party Twitter clients, apps the social network has been seeking to diminish since 2012, are suddenly not working, with no update or outreach from Twitter. Nathan Coppen/Getty Images reader comments 191 with 0 posters participating Share this story Tweetbot, Twiterrific, Echofon, and other third-party Twitter clients have failed to work for many ..
reader comments 132 with 0 posters participating Share this story As president, Joe Biden has made it clear that he wants to lead the charge to change how Big Tech operates in the US. In a rare op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Biden heavily criticized tech companies while outlining three broad areas of regulatory ..
