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Could Better Data Protections Reduce Big Tech's Polarizing Power? 39
FCC Votes To Restore Net Neutrality Rules 54
China Will Use AI To Disrupt Elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft Warns 157
FCC To Vote To Restore Net Neutrality Rules 60
Can Apps Turn Us Into Unpaid Lobbyists? 73
Hillary Clinton, Election Officials Warn AI Could Threaten Elections 255
Users Shocked To Find Instagram Limits Political Content By Default 58
India Will Fact-Check Online Posts About Government Matters 32
5-Year Study Finds No Brain Abnormalities In 'Havana Syndrome' Patients 38
CIA Used Chinese Social Media In Covert Influence Operation Against Xi Jinping's Government 114
Google Restricts AI Chatbot Gemini From Answering Queries on Global Elections 53
Police Now Need Warrant For IP Addresses, Canada's Top Court Rules 36
Scientists Propose AI Apocalypse Kill Switches 104
New Bill Would Let Defendants Inspect Algorithms Used Against Them In Court 47
Tech Companies Plan To Sign Accord To Combat AI-Generated Election Trickery 82
Instagram and Threads Will Stop Recommending Political Content 19
Commerce Secretary 'Very Worried' About AI Being Used Nefariously in 2024 Election 60
Pakistan Cuts Off Phone and Internet Services On Election Day 36
OpenAI Suspends Developer Behind Dean Phillips Bot 36
Removal of Netflix Film Shows Advancing Power of India's Hindu Right Wing 110
FCC Plans Shutdown of Affordable Connectivity Program As GOP Withholds Funding 134
Biden Administration To Unveil Contractor Rule Set To Upend Gig Economy 213
Biden Administration Unveils Hydrogen Tax Credit Plan To Jump-Start Industry 104
Meet Ashley, the World's First AI-Powered Political Campaign Caller 104
Republican Presidential Candidates Debate Anonymity on Social Media 174
White House Threatens Patents of High-Priced Drugs 151
Meta Will Enforce Ban On AI-Powered Political Ads In Every Nation, No Exceptions 15
2024 is the Biggest Election Year in History 392
Ramaswamy Is the Only GOP Candidate With a Crypto Plan 196
Five Republican Presidential Candidates Call for TikTok to Be Banned in America 194
US Conservatives Are Trying To Kill Government's Top Cyber Security Agency 267
Why Switzerland's E-Voting System Is a Bad Idea 65
Argentina's Presidential Front Runner Vows To Slash Science Funding 151
UK Opposition Leader Targeted By AI-Generated Fake Audio Smear 49
New Group Attacking iPhone Encryption Backed By US Political Dark-Money Network 52
SBF Considered Paying Trump $5 Billion Not To Run For President 173
Republican Presidential Candidates Criticize TikTok as 'Dangerous', 'Controlled by Communist China' 167
Foxconn Founder Terry Gou Announces Run For Taiwan Presidency, Pledging To Fix China Ties 63
Is 'CS In Every School' the 2024 Presidential Campaign's 'Chicken In Every Pot'? 104
Judge Tears Apart Republican Lawsuit Alleging Bias In Gmail Spam Filter 184
Political Polarization Toned Down Through Anonymous Online Chats 293
SBF Used $100 Million In Stolen FTX Funds For Political Donations 107
Conservatives Bombarded With Facebook Misinformation Far More Than Liberals In 2020 Election, Study Suggests 424
US Presidential Candidate RFK Jr. Announces Plan to Back Dollar With Bitcoin, End Bitcoin Taxes 265
Democrats Call On DOJ To Investigate Tax Sites For Sharing Financial Information With Meta 29
After Riots In France, Macron Partially Blames Video Games On Violence 108
Judge Rules White House Pressured Social Networks To 'Suppress Free Speech' 246
Turkish Presidential Candidate Quits Race After Release of Alleged Deepfake 38
Parler Shuts Down As New Owner Says Conservative Platform Needs Big Revamp 214
Ukrainian Hackers Compromised Russian Spy Who Hacked Democrats In 2016 72
Researcher Builds 'RightWingGPT' To Highlight Potential Bias In AI Systems 224
1,100 Scientists and Students Barred From UK Amid China Crackdown 36
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Hit With Four New Criminal Charges 45
The Raucous Battle Over Americans' Online Privacy is Landing on States 19
Republican Bill In Idaho Would Make mRNA-Based Vaccination a Crime 518
Sen. Hawley Wants To Create Legal Age To Be Allowed on Social Media 143
Google To Stop Exempting Campaign Email From Automated Spam Detection 94
GOP-Led House To Probe Alleged White House Collusion With Tech Giants 269
McCarthy's Fast Start: Big Tech is a Top Target 312
Democrats Plan To Return Over $1 Million From FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried 69
Facebook's Fact-checkers Will Stop Checking Trump After Announcement of Presidential Bid 297
Trump Posted Classified Satellite Imagery On Twitter As President 342
California Voters Weigh New Tax On Rich To Boost EV Adoption 133
Russia Reactivates Its Trolls and Bots Ahead of Tuesday's Midterms 289
New Hampshire Set To Pilot Voting Machines That Use Open-Source Software 111
RNC Sues Google Over Spam Email Filters 213
Rishi Sunak To Be UK's Next Prime Minister 173
Liz Truss Says She Will Resign as UK Prime Minister 271
A New Danish Political Party Is Being Led By An AI 99
Election Software Executive Arrested on Suspicion of Theft 220
House Democrats Debut New Bill To Limit US Police Use of Facial Recognition 50
Democrats Demand FTC Probe Amazon-iRobot Deal 47
TikTok To Ban All Political Fundraising On Its Platform 40
Gmail Launches Pilot To Keep Campaign Emails Out of Spam 138
US Approves Google Plan To Let Political Emails Bypass Gmail Spam Filter 94
Biden Signs China Competition Bill To Boost US Chipmakers 78
US Senate Finally Passes Its Massive Climate Bill 401
Biden Adviser Tim Wu To Leave After Shaping Antitrust Policy 4
Boosters of US Climate Bill Included Clean Energy Companies, Nuclear Developers - and Bill Gates 42
America's 'Transformative' Climate Bill Would Fund EV Purchases - While Penalizing China 141
Senate Moves Forward With EV Tax Credit Reform 220
$79B to Boost US Semiconductor Production Opposed by 31 Republican Senators - and Bernie Sanders 129
Democrats Prepare Bill That Would Codify Net Neutrality 226
More Than 200 Congressional Staffers Urge Pelosi and Schumer To Act on Climate 261
Gmail Users 'Hard Pass' On Plan To Let Political Emails Bypass Spam Filters 62
Company Behind Trump's Truth Social Under Investigation By Federal Prosecutors 170
Connecticut Will Pay a Security Analyst 150K To Monitor Election Memes 140
In Private, Vulnerable Senate Dems Back Off Tech Bill 79
Facebook Opens Political Ad Data Vaults To Researchers 3
US Senator Introduces Bill To Strip Disney of Special Copyright Protections 406
Senate Confirms Bedoya To FTC, Establishing Democratic Majority 55
Trump Says He Won't Return To Twitter 215
No 10 Suspected of Being Target of NSO Spyware Attack, Boris Johnson 'Told' 23
Social Media Made Us Stupid - and How to Fix It 141
US President Invokes Emergency Authority Prioritizing Pursuit of EV Battery Minerals 199
Elizabeth Warren's Anti-crypto Crusade Splits the Left 123
The New Silent Majority: People Who Don't Tweet 128
Twitter's Algorithm Favors the Political Right, Study Finds 270
Texas Governor Candidate Plans To Make Texas the 'Citadel For Bitcoin' 284
Congress's Big Tech Stock Stakes Make Regulation Awkward 60
Democrats Unveil Bill To Ban Online 'Surveillance Advertising' 146
USPS Built and Secretly Tested a Blockchain-Based Mobile Voting System Before 2020 60
Two US Senators Urge Federal Investigations Into Facebook About Safety - and Ad Reach 6
The Head of Instagram Agrees To Testify as Congress Probes the App's Effects on Young People 13
A Three-Party Alliance is Set To Govern Germany 88
US Joins Global Cybersecurity Partnership 16
New Book Warns CS Mindset and VC Industry are Ignoring Competing Values 116
Trump's Truth App Bans Criticism of Itself - and Also 'Excessive Use of Capital Letters' 225
Facebook Accused of Tolerating Dangerous and Criminal Behavior to Preserve Profitability 196
Donald Trump To Launch Social Media Platform Called Truth Social 387
Andrew Yang Suggests Power May Affects Politicians' Brain Neurons 157
Facebook Whistleblower Speaks, Shares Documents on Deliberate Lies and Disregard of Misinformation, Contacts US Regulators 151
Senate Democrats Call on FTC To Fix Data Privacy 'Crisis' 33
WSJ: Facebook's 2018 Algorithm Change 'Rewarded Outrage'. Zuck Resisted Fixes 54
Google and Apple, Under Pressure From Russia, Remove Voting App 60
New Texas Law Tries Making it Illegal for Social Media Sites to Ban Users Over Political Viewpoints 469
Facebook Said To Consider Forming An Election Commission 75
Senate Democrats To Introduce Legislation That Would Tax Energy Companies Responsible For Major Greenhouse Gas Emissions 207
'Disinformation for Hire' is Becoming a Booming Industry 148
Democratic Bill Would Suspend Section 230 Protections When Social Networks Boost Anti-vax Conspiracies 282
Biden To Name Google Foe Jonathan Kanter as DOJ Antitrust Chief 25
Report Finds Big Telecom Spends $230,000 on Lobbying Every Day 32
Fired Covid-19 Data Manager is Now Running for Congress 214
Biden Says Platforms Like Facebook Are 'Killing People' With COVID-19 Misinformation 259
Republicans Call For Amazon To Testify On Pentagon Relationship 40
Gov. Newsom Asks Californians To Cut Water Use By 15% Amid Drought 173
Hackers Scrape 90,000 GETTR User Emails, Surprising No One 75
Russian State Hackers Breached Republican National Committee 80
Former Trump Aide Jason Miller To Launch New Social App 'Gettr' Backed by Fugitive Chinese Billionaire 170
Putin Signs Law Forcing Foreign Social Media Giants To Open Russian Offices 58
After Repeatedly Promising Not To, Facebook Keeps Recommending Political Groups To Its Users 32
White House Launches Task Force To Address Supply Chain Disruptions 73
Microsoft Teams Up With Voting Machine Maker To Let Voters Track Ballots 108
Texas Governor Knew of Natural Gas Shortages Days Before Blackout, Blamed Wind Anyway 265
Biden Blocks Trump's Gig-worker Rule 109
Trump's Facebook Ban Should Not Be Lifted, Network's Oversight Board Rules 328
Basecamp Sees Mass Employee Exodus After CEO Bans Political Discussions 251
'Facebook Knows It Was Used To Help Incite The Capitol Insurrection' 384
European MPs Targeted By Deepfake Video Calls Imitating Russian Opposition 16
US Unveils Plan To Protect Power Grid From Foreign Hackers 55
Report: Facebook Loophole 'Lets World Leaders Deceive and Harass Their Citizens' 39
Tech Industry Group Funded by Amazon, Facebook and Google Says It Supports a Corporate Tax Hike 92
Gensler Confirmed as Top Wall Street Cop, Bringing New Era of Tough Scrutiny 47
The Global Business of Professional Trolling 108
Why is Amazon Taunting Politicians? 110
San Francisco Fed President Dismisses Silicon Valley 'Exodus' 70
Biden Lets Trump's H-1B Visa Ban Expire 167
Apple's Tim Cook Says Voting 'Ought To Be Easier Than Ever' 351
Amazon Argues With US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on Twitter 255
Democrats Plan To Bombard Big Tech With Series of Antitrust Bills 99
White House Reportedly Plans To Name Amazon Foe Lina Khan To FTC 153
India Threatens Jail for Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter Employees 77
Facebook Lifts Political Ad Ban 27
Did Facebook Change Its Rules to Placate the Right? 152
Facebook Blames 'Technical Issues" for Its Broken Promise to the US Congress 37
Facebook will start showing some of its users less political content 45
Why the Owner of TheDonald.win Finally Pulled the Plug 232
Voting Technology Company Files $2.7 Billion Lawsuit Against Fox News and Others 314
Internet Blackouts Skyrocket Amid Global Political Unrest 51
AOC, Ted Cruz Slam Robinhood for Freezing Some Trades Amid GameStop Volatility 154
Personal Experiences Bridge Moral and Political Divides Better Than Facts, Research Finds 162
Andrew Yang Proposes a Local Currency, Sees Growing Support for Universal Basic Income 196
Facebook Refers Its Trump Ban To Its 'Supreme Court' 123
Biden Names Jessica Rosenworcel Acting FCC Chair 102
Trump Seeks To Curb Foreign Cyber Meddling on Last Day in Office 76
Facebook Has No Plans To Lift Trump Ban, Report Says 297
Amazon Begins Removing QAnon Goods For Sale 169
Twitter Temporarily Suspends Account of US Representative 358
Anti-Mask Protesters Proudly Filmed Their Confrontation With a Grocery Store's Manager 304
Online Far-Right Movements Fracture, as 'Gullible' QAnon Supporters Criticized 233
US President-Elect Biden Starts New Twitter Account, Criticizes Policy on POTUS Account 237
Facial Recognition Reveals Political Party In Troubling New Research 275
Andrew Yang Kicks Off NYC Mayoral Run With Basic Income Promise 155
House Votes To Impeach President Trump a Historic Second Time 557
Stripe 'Will No Longer Process Payments' For Trump's Campaign Site 584
Twitter Permanently Bans Trump, While Reddit Bans r/donaldtrump Forum For Inciting Violence 485
Facebook Bans Trump From Posting For Remainder of His Term in Office 345
In Georgia, Facebook's Changes Brought Back a Partisan News Feed 107
McConnell Ties Full Repeal of Section 230 To Push for $2,000 Stimulus Checks 455
MIT Electrical Engineer Selected For US Senate 120
Electoral College Certifies Biden's Victory, As Trump Still Refuses To Concede 550
Twitter Disabled 'Likes' and 'Replies' on False Trump Tweets. Inadvertently. 191
What Hunting Bigfoot Taught a Republican Congressman about Misinformation, Political Extremists, and Grift 180
Biden's Top Tech Adviser Makes Regulation More Likely 96
Election Misinformation Often Evaded YouTube's Efforts To Stop It. 203
Trump Fires Election Security Director Who Corrected Voter Fraud Disinformation 587
YouTube Criticized For Not Removing Post-Election Misinformation 183
Election Was Most Secure In American History, US Officials Say 423
Trump Eyes Digital Media Empire To Take on Fox News 230
Trump Will Lose His Twitter 'Public Interest' Protections In January 375
Uber and Lyft Will Push For More Laws Classifying Drivers as Independent Contractors 73
Election-Related Misinformation on Social Media Still 'Readily Viewable' - If It's In Spanish 44
How Ex-Facebook Data Experts Spent $75 Million On Targeted Anti-Trump Ads 78
Defeating Trump, Joe Biden Declared Winner of US Presidential Election 958
Facebook Can't Seem To Do Anything About 'Stop the Steal' Groups 399
Facebook Will Announce Presidential Election Result in Facebook and Instagram Notifications 189
Sportsbet Says It Will Pay Out Early On Biden As US President 245
Portland, Maine Votes in Favor of Facial Recognition Ban 38
Trump Attacks Legitimate Vote-Counting Efforts and Claims Fraud Without Basis 691
Oregon Becomes First State To Legalize Psychedelic Mushrooms 111
Election Hoax Spreading Through Text Messages In Michigan 78
Inside Facebook The Day Before The Presidential Election 76
Why You Can't Rely on Election Forecasts 376
Russian Hackers Targeted California, Indiana Democratic Parties In Repeat of 2016 Attacks 58
Facebook Says Technical Glitches Improperly Blocked Campaign Ads 49
Wisconsin Republican Party Says Hackers Stole $2.3 Million 162
Poll Shows Bipartisan Support For Tech Antitrust Action 51
Facebook Approves Trump Ads That Violate Its Pre-Election Rules 102
Facebook Tells Academics To Stop Monitoring Its Political Ads 63
YouTube Will Warn Users That Election Day Results 'May Not Be Final' 351
Ransomware Hit a Georgia County. That Didn't Stop Its Ballot Counting. 58
The U.S. Health Department Tried to Offer Early Vaccines to Shopping Mall Santas 92
National Guard Called In To Thwart Cyberattack in Louisiana Weeks Before Election 31
Expensify's CEO Emailed Users To Encourage Them To 'Vote For Biden' 328
Iran Behind Supposed 'Proud Boys' Voter-Intimidation Emails, Feds Allege 95
YouTube Is So Flooded With Political Ads It Can't Place Them All 84
Senate Republicans Vote To Subpoena Facebook and Twitter CEOs About Alleged Censorship 343
AOC's Debut Twitch Stream Is One of the Biggest Ever 120
Employers Warn of Rising Political Tensions At Work 579
Trump Scrambles To Loosen America's Biometric Data and Gig Worker Regulations 184
FCC Will Move To Regulate Social Media After Censorship Outcry 325
There's Another Huge Right To Repair Fight Brewing In Massachusetts 117
Virginia's Voter-Registration Site Goes Offline on Last Day To Register 112
Fake Campaign Mail Masquerades as Bernie Sanders Endorsement for Uber/Lyft Ballot Measure 27
New England Journal of Medicine Resoundingly Endorses Biden 363
Sixty Coinbase Employees Take Buyout Offer Over 'No Politics' Rule 93
Twitter Will Turn Off Some Features To Fight Election Misinformation 97
Facebook Widens Ban On Political Ads As Alarm Rises Over Election 105
House Democrats Tackle Big Tech 'Monopolies' 119
Facebook Bans QAnon Across Its Platforms 302
Facebook Removes Trump Post Falsely Saying Flu is More Lethal Than Covid 468
At White House's Urging, Republicans Launch Anti-Tech Blitz Ahead of Election 148
Facebook Will Ban Ads That Wrongly Claim Election Victory 145
NASA Reveals How Astronauts Will Vote From Space 50
Biden Campaign Blasts Facebook for 'Regression' 198
Ransomware Attacks Take On New Urgency Ahead of Vote 37
Google To Block Election Ads After Election Day 70
Foreign Hackers Cripple Texas County's Email System, Raising Election Security Concerns 51
Louisiana Shuts Down Voter Registration Site For 'Scheduled Maintenance' On National Voter Registration Day 233
Senators Introduce Bipartisan 'Unplug Internet Kill Switch Act of 2020,' Preventing a President From Denying Access To the Internet 82
Facebook Vows To Restrict Users if US Election Descends Into Chaos 151
US Teens Are Being Paid to Spread Disinformation on Social Media 204
Computing Pioneers Endorse Biden, Citing Trump Immigration Crackdown 310
Bill To Tear Down Federal Courts' Paywall Gains Momentum in Congress 82
FBI Director: It's a Mistake To Get Election Information on Social Media 77
Voice Assistants Are Doing a Poor Job of Conveying Information About Voting 72
Scientific American Endorses Joe Biden For Its First Presidential Endorsement In 175 Years 646
A Bug In Joe Biden's Campaign App Gave Anyone Access To Millions of Voter Files 83
Long Before Cambridge Analytica, Simulmatics Linked Data and Politics 9
Biden Campaign Firm Hit By Suspected Kremlin Hacking Attack 177

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