Enlarge / Gigi Sohn answering questions on December 1, 2021, at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on her nomination to the Federal Communications Commission. reader comments 40 with 0 posters participating Share this story President Joe Biden yesterday renominated Gigi Sohn to the long-empty fifth spot on the Federal Communications Commission in hopes that the ..
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reader comments 142 with 0 posters participating Share this story Online advertising on social platforms is changing. Google and Meta no longer hold majority control over advertising dollars, according to The Wall Street Journal, with Amazon and TikTok cutting in to sway advertisers to other platforms. Twitter is also hungry to redirect ad dollars to ..
Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto reader comments 141 with 0 posters participating Share this story The Elon Musk-owned Twitter is facing another lawsuit alleging that it failed to pay its bills. The plaintiff in the latest case is Columbia REIT-650 California, LLC, the landlord of the 650 California Street office tower in San Francisco. Exhibit A in the ..
reader comments 41 with 0 posters participating Share this story Google is developing a free moderation tool that smaller websites can use to identify and remove terrorist material, as new legislation in the UK and the EU compels Internet companies to do more to tackle illegal content. The software is being developed in partnership with ..
reader comments 111 with 0 posters participating Share this story New York state governor Kathy Hochul has signed the Digital Fair Repair Act into law, months after it had passed both chambers of the state’s legislature with overwhelming bipartisan majorities. The bill had originally passed in June, but it was only formally sent to Hochul’s ..
reader comments 52 with 0 posters participating Share this story An appeals court has revived a lawsuit that accuses Google, YouTube, DreamWorks, and a handful of toymakers of tracking the activity on YouTube of children under 13. In an opinion released Wednesday, the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act ..
Enlarge / Founder Eugen Rochko said Mastodon would not “turn into everything you hate about Twitter.” NurPhoto via Getty Images reader comments 210 with 0 posters participating Share this story Twitter rival Mastodon has rejected more than five investment offers from Silicon Valley venture capital firms in recent months, as its founder pledged to protect the ..
Getty Images | Smith Collection/Gado reader comments 44 with 0 posters participating Share this story Internet service provider horror stories have been a longtime staple at Ars Technica, and over the past 12 months we detailed some of the most horrific broadband customer experiences we’ve ever heard of. Comcast, the largest home Internet provider in ..
reader comments 43 with 0 posters participating Share this story TikTok will no longer be allowed on any device managed by the US House of Representatives. On Tuesday, the House’s Chief Administrative Office announced the ban of the popular video-sharing app, a move that comes just a week after legislation that would bar TikTok from ..
reader comments 243 with 0 posters participating Share this story Ever since The Verge reported that Twitter shut down its communications office, it’s been harder to confirm information about the company, which seems to be the way that CEO Elon Musk likes it. However, increasingly, Twitter trust and safety chief Ella Irwin seems more willing ..
