Enlarge / Conspiracy theorist QAnon demonstrators protest child trafficking on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, August 22, 2020. Kyle Grillot | Getty Images reader comments 304 with 102 posters participating Share this story Google-owned YouTube has become the latest social media platform to crack down on the pro-Trump conspiracy theory QAnon ahead of November’s ..
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reader comments 360 with 138 posters participating Share this story Facebook and Twitter today are facing criticism from all sides after taking rare action to suppress an apparent attempt at blatant disinformation being spread three weeks before the election. Both social media platforms are deprecating or outright blocking the sharing of a link to a ..
Enlarge / Richmond, the capital of Virginia, looking scenic as seen from across the James River. reader comments 249 with 127 posters participating, including story author Share this story Today is the last day to register to vote in the commonwealth of Virginia, so of course the official website for updating or managing voter registration ..
Enlarge / Facebook’s Menlo Park, California, headquarters as seen in 2017. reader comments 170 with 92 posters participating Share this story Facebook today is, once again, theoretically ramping up enforcement against hate speech, this time with a new policy prohibiting Holocaust denial on the platform. The change is due to a “well-documented rise in anti-Semitism ..
Getty Images reader comments 29 with 25 posters participating Share this story The FBI and the cybersecurity arm of the Department of Homeland Security said they have detected hackers exploiting a critical Windows vulnerability against state and local governments and that in some cases the attacks are being used to breach networks used to support ..
Enlarge / Microsoft sign at the entrance of their Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, California. reader comments 198 with 112 posters participating Share this story Microsoft this week adopted a whole slew of “fairness principles” for its Windows app store. The list of principles does look like a decent set of guidelines for both ..
Enlarge / Facebook’s “voter information center” as seen in July 2020. reader comments 132 with 60 posters participating Share this story It seems fair to say that, here in the United States, this is an election season unlike any other, with tensions running exceptionally high. Facebook, which through its collection of apps reaches the vast ..
Enlarge / The United States Capitol Building, the seat of Congress, on the National Mall in Washington, DC. reader comments 177 with 95 posters participating, including story author Share this story Last June, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law began an in-depth investigation into four major firms—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. ..
Enlarge / Supporters of President Donald Trump wearing “QAnon” T-shirts wait in line before a campaign rally at Freedom Hall on October 1, 2018, in Johnson City, Tennessee. reader comments 110 with 66 posters participating Share this story Facebook is banning the QAnon conspiracy-theorist group, expanding on a policy that previously led to the removal ..
Enlarge / A Florida man wears a sticker indicating that he registered to vote. reader comments 143 with 70 posters participating Share this story Florida’s secretary of state has extended the deadline for voter registration to 7pm today. Registration officially closed last night at midnight, but problems with the state’s website prevented some Floridians from ..
