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Google Blocks Search Suggestions To Stop Election Misinformation 83
NSA and CIA Have Classified Evidence the Russians Had Placed Malware in the Election Registration Systems of at Least Two Florida Counties, Bob Woodward Reports 291
Facebook Will Pay Users To Log Off Before 2020 Election 67
Zuckerberg Warns of Post-Election Violence 356
Facebook Won't Accept New Ads The Week Before The Election -- But Older Ads With Lies Are Still OK 240
Russians Again Targeting Americans With Disinformation, Facebook and Twitter Say 249
Microsoft Releases Deepfake Detection Tool Ahead of Election 63
Joe Biden's Team Brings Digital Campaign Signs To 'Animal Crossing' 133
In Alarming Move, CDC Says People Exposed To COVID-19 Do Not Need Testing 352
After 48 Years, Democrats Endorse Nuclear Energy In Platform 385
Trump Asks Supreme Court To Let Him Block Critics on Twitter 245
Klobuchar, Microsoft's Smith Warn of Election Interference 186
Safest Voting Method Is Using Paper, Leading Cyber Expert Says 169
US Tightening Restrictions on Huawei Access To Technology, Chips 60
DNC, RNC To Test Limits of Virtual Events as Election Enters Final Stage 88
YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information That Could Interfere With the Election 238
Facebook Launches Hub To Help Users With US Poll Related Information 28
Silicon Valley Game-Plans For a Messy Election Night 286
What Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's VP Pick, Means For Tech 521
Belarus Has Shut Down the Internet Amid a Controversial Election 120
EPA To Rescind Methane Regulations For Oil and Gas 118
US Now Offers $10 Million Reward For Election Interference Tips 163
YouTube Bans Thousands of Chinese Accounts To Combat 'Coordinated Influence Operations' 187
Instagram Displayed Negative Related Hashtags For Biden, But Hid Them For Trump 242
Microsoft in Talks To Buy TikTok, as Trump Weighs Curtailing App 49
GOP Congressman Turns Antitrust Hearing Into Personal Tech Support Session 136
Top Antitrust Democrat: There's a Case To Break Up Facebook 175
Trump Suggests Delaying Election Amid Fraud Claims, But Has No Power To Do So 546
Twitter Temporarily Limits Donald Trump Jr.'s Account 270
Election Officials Are Vulnerable To Exim Security Vulnerability, Report Shows 41
Trump and Biden Attack Social Media - By Running Ads on Social Media 168
Trump Campaign Angry That Cell Carriers Blocked Company Texts To Voters 103
House Votes To Ban TikTok on Federal Devices 41
Marco Rubio Hopes UFOs Are Aliens, Not Chinese Planes 144
Zuckerberg: No Deal With Trump 206
Facebook Considers Political-Ad Blackout Ahead of US Election 59
Asia IT Giant's CEO Warns Trump's Visa Curbs Will Cost US 157
How Google Docs Became the Social Media of the Resistance 129
Political Protests Are Now Happening in Videogames 184
To Keep Trump From Violating Its Rules...Facebook Rewrote the Rules 372
House Democrats Pass DC Statehood Bill 249
Facial Recognition Bill Would Ban Use By Federal Law Enforcement 56
Democrats Pitch $100 Billion Broadband Plan, Repeal of State Limits On Muni Networks 213
Republicans Push Bill Requiring Tech Companies To Help Access Encrypted Data 182
K-Pop Stans' Trump Prank Ratchets Up the Internet Wars 346
As Videogames Respond To Protesters, Fortnite Removes Police Cars 209
Facebook Advertising Boycott Targets Misinformation and Hate Speech 95
AMC Theaters Changes Course and Will Require Customers To Wear Face Masks 120
Facebook Takes Down Trump Ads Featuring Symbol Used By Nazis To Mark Political Prisoners 440
Facebook To Let Users Turn Off Political Ads 58
Super Secretive Russian Disinfo Operation Discovered Dating Back To 2014 102
On Twitter, President Trump Tries -- and Fails -- To Target Comcast 232
FCC Republican Voices Doubts About Trump's Executive Order 133
Biden Prepares Attack on Facebook's Speech Policies 171
Why Facebook Staffers Won't Quit Over Trump's Posts 131
Some States Have Embraced Online Voting. It's a Huge Risk. 338
Obscure Indian Cyber Firm Spied On Politicians, Investors Worldwide 16
IBM Gets Out of Facial Recognition Business, Calls On Congress To Advanced Policies Tackling Racial Injustice 70
Facebook Moderators Join Criticism of Zuckerberg Over Trump Stance 221
Joe Biden Formally Clinches Democratic Nomination 422
Facebook To Block Ads From State-Controlled Media Entities In the US 36
Snapchat To Stop Promoting Trump's Content 254
Zuckerberg Defends Hands-Off Approach To Trump's Posts 128
Senator Ted Cruz Calls For Criminal Investigation of Twitter 161
Joe Biden Doesn't Like Trump's Twitter Order, But Still Wants To Revoke Section 230 223
Twitter Flags Trump and White House Tweets About Minneapolis Protests for 'Glorifying Violence' 603
Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Networks Should Not Be Fact-Checking Political Speech 217
Proposed Bill Would Ban Microtargeting of Political Advertisements 120
Trump Threatens To Shut Social Media Companies After Twitter Fact Check 682
House Leaders Strike Deal To Protect US Web Browsing Data From Warrantless Surveillance 38
Twitter Refuses To Delete Trump's Baseless Claims About Joe Scarborough 335
Is Now The Time to Make a Deal With Our Robot Overlords? 90
Is Support Now Growing for a Universal Basic Income? 238
The Atlantic Warns About 2020 Election Security Holes and Possible Russian Interference 250
Trump, Unveiling Space Force Flag, Touts What He Calls New 'Super-Duper Missile' 218
U.S. Moves To Cut Huawei Off From Global Chip Suppliers 95
Trump Extends Order That Curbs Huawei's Access To US Market 49
Senate Defeats Amendment To Shield Browsing Histories in FISA Searches 70
Democrats Try To Ban Internet Shutoffs Until Pandemic Is Over 271
Fauci Warns 'Little Spikes' of Coronavirus Might Turn Into Outbreaks if States Reopen Too Soon 401
Facebook is Quietly Helping To Set Up a New Pro-tech Advocacy Group To Battle Washington 35
Trump and Chip Makers Including Intel Seek Semiconductor Self-Sufficiency 77
US Unemployment Rate Soars To 14.7%, the Worst Since the Depression Era 166
White House Blocks CDC Guidance Over Economic and Religious Concerns 377
As States Move to Reopen, 2 Projections Show Deaths Rising 445
President Trump Just De-Funded a Research Nonprofit Studying Virus Transmissions 231
Trump's Disinfectant Talk Trips Up Sites' Vows Against Misinformation 332
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Says 'Guaranteed Income' Is Worth Considering For Coronavirus Recovery 367
Former Labradoodle Breeder Was Tapped To Lead US Pandemic Task Force 175
Trump Muses About Light as Remedy, but Also Disinfectant, Which Is Dangerous 670
Medical Staffing Companies Cut Doctors' Pay While Spending Millions On Political Ads 132
Trump Will Temporarily Suspend Immigration Into the US For 60 Days Due To Coronavirus Fears 336
Bill Gates, Lancet, UN, and Many Others Lambast America's Withholding of Funds from the WHO 373
Paycheck Protection Program Out of Money: Thousands of Small Businesses Shut Out 277
Trump Halts US Funding For World Health Organization As It Conducts Coronavirus Review 580
Bernie Sanders Drops Out of the 2020 Race, Clearing Joe Biden's Path To the Democratic Nomination 701
Trump Threatens To Withhold Funding For World Health Organization 641
Trump Won the Internet. Democrats Are Scrambling to Take It Back. 417
What Happens When Epidemiologists are Undermined By Politics? 504
Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Is Making Its Software Open Source 54
Virginia Is the First Southern State With a 100 Percent Carbon-Free Electricity Goal 100
UK Coronavirus: Boris Johnson Announces Strict Lockdown Across Country 134
US Senator Rand Paul Has Tested Positive for Coronavirus 320
Search for Coronavirus Vaccine Becomes a Global Competition 137
Russian Election Meddling is Back -- via Ghana and Nigeria -- And in Your Feeds 91
DHS Official Claims 2020 Will Be 'Most Secure' Election in US History 122
US Pledges More Testing as Trump Hints at Aid For Workers 177
Andrew Yang Launches Nonprofit Aimed At Promoting Universal Basic Income 197
Judge Rejects Tulsi Gabbard's 'Free Speech' Lawsuit Against Google 175
Silicon Valley Leaders' Plea to Democrats: Anyone but Sanders 459
A Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial in Scientific Research 382
Major Republican Donor Seeks Ouster of Twitter's CEO 164
Google's Black Box Algorithm Controls Which Political Emails Land in Your Main Inbox 122
Senate Unanimously Approves Bill To Ban Purchase of Huawei Equipment With Federal Funds 53
Bernie Sanders Has an Audacious -- and Hugely Expensive -- Climate Plan 586
A High School Student Created a Fake 2020 Candidate. Twitter Verified It 64
Russian Trolls Now Just Push Divisive Content Created By Others 213
We've Just Seen the First Use of Deepfakes In an Indian Election Campaign 39
This Could Be Microsoft's Most Important Product in 2020. If it Works 142
Facebook Says Political Candidates Can Use Paid Memes 21
Nevada Democrats To Use iPads Loaded With Google Forms To Track Caucus 145
MIT Researchers Disclose Vulnerabilities in Voatz Mobile Voting Election App 38
Analysis Shows Andrew Yang Was Snubbed By Mainstream Media in its Coverage 194
Trump Signs Order To Test Vulnerabilities of US Infrastructure To GPS Outage 165
Andrew Yang Drops Out of Presidential Race 329
FTC Will Review Past Mergers by Facebook, Google and Other Big Tech Companies 35
Personal Data of All 6.5 Million Israeli Voters Is Exposed 28
Trump's 2021 Budget Drowns Science Agencies in Red Ink, Again 413
Amazon Wants Trump To Testify in Battle Over $10 Billion Pentagon Contract 82
Twitter and Facebook Criticized For Not Removing False Claims About Iowa Voters 109
Shadow's Cancelled Nevada Caucus App Had Errors, Too 81
Google and Facebook Turn Their Backs On Undersea Cable To China 30
The Iowa Caucuses App Could Have Been Hacked 120
Motherboard Publishes 'Shadow' App That Blew Up the Iowa Caucus 222
Split Senate Acquits Trump of Impeachment Charges 690
How a Bad App Plunged Iowa Into Chaos 269
Iowa Caucus Debacle is One of the Most Stunning Tech Failures Ever 439
User-Error Problems With Iowa Caucus App Cause Online Confusion 349
West Virginia Poised To Allow Smartphone Voting For Disabled Voters 47
YouTube Reinforces Guidelines on Fighting Misleading Election Content 125
Andrew Yang Warns Against 'Slaughterbots' and Urges Global Ban on Autonomous Weaponry 99
F-35's Gun That Can't Shoot Straight Adds To Its Roster of Flaws 171
Study of YouTube Comments Finds Evidence of Radicalization Effect 265
Pinterest Bans Misinformation About Voting and the Census 122
357 Amazon Employees Launch Mass Defiance of the Company's Communications Policy 139
Facebook, Amazon and Apple Set Records in Annual Spending on Lobbying 57
Seattle-Area Voters To Vote By Smartphone In 1st For US Elections 115
71-Year-Old William Gibson Explores 'Existing Level of Weirdness' For New Dystopian SciFi Novel 81
Biden Wants To Get Rid of Law That Shields Companies like Facebook From Liability For What Their Users Post 263
FBI Changes Policy for Notifying States of Election Systems Cyber Breaches 32
Cloudflare is Giving Away Its Security Tools To US Political Campaigns 24
Facebook Says It Won't Back Down From Allowing Lies in Political Ads 154
Massive New Cambridge Analytica Leak Will Show Global Voter Manipulation on 'Industrial Scale' 148
Should Coal Miners Learn To Code? 318
Spotify Joins Twitter in Suspending Political Ads in 2020 54
'Fox News Is Now a Threat to National Security' 772
Mike Bloomberg Is Plowing Millions of Dollars Into a Secretive Tech Firm Called Hawkfish 62
Facebook, Twitter Shutter Pro-Trump Network That Used AI To Create Fake People and Push Conspiracies 136
House Impeaches President Trump For Abuse of Power, Obstruction of Congress 1183
Most of the Largest US Voting Districts Are Vulnerable To Email Spoofing 19
Google Halts Political Ads In Singapore As Election Looms 12
2020 US Census Plagued By Hacking Threats, Cost Overruns 66
Dutch Politician Faces 3 Years In Prison For Hacking iCloud Accounts, Leaking Nudes 31
How Russian Trolls Spread Propaganda Using Uplifting Tweets 164
Only a Few 2020 US Presidential Candidates Are Using a Basic Email Security Feature 88
Democrats Propose Sweeping Online Privacy Laws 118
Defecting Chinese Spy Offers Information Trove To Australian Government 82
How Lax Oversight Of Electronic Health Records Puts Patients At Risk 26
No, That Mac Factory in Texas Is Not New 310
Google To Limit Targeting of Political Ads 76
Researchers Warn That Your Political Ideology May Affect Job Offers 261
'Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is a Coward' 96
Senators Ask Zuckerberg To Explain Why Facebook Still Tracks Users' Location Even When They Have Asked it Not To 39
Facebook, Google Donate Heavily To Privacy Advocacy Groups 30
Andrew Yang Wants To Tax Digital Ads, Launch a New Algorithm Regulator 126
Facebook Says Government Demands For User Data Are at a Record High 31
A US Federal Court Finds Suspicionless Searches of Phones at the Border is Illegal 127
Mozilla Hits Google, Facebook For 'Microtargeting' Political Ads 31
Trump CTO Addresses AI, Facial Recognition, Immigration, Tech Infrastructure, and More 26
GitLab Considers Ban On New Hires In China and Russia Due To Espionage Fears 41
Facebook Rebrands To 'FACEBOOK' As Calls For Government-Led Breakup Continue 62
'I Worked on Political Ads at Facebook. They Profit By Manipulating Us.' 190
Zuckerberg Doubles Down on Facebook Political Ads Policy After Twitter Ban 177
Text Editor Releases 'Free Uyghur' Edition, Gets Swamped With Chinese Spam 245
Twitter Is Banning Political Ads 100
A Google Staffer Helped Sell Trump's Family Separation Policy, Despite The Company's Denials 223
Dissent Erupts at Facebook Over Hands-Off Stance on Political Ads 123
Just 6% of US Adults On Twitter Account For 73% of Political Tweets, Study Finds 80
Andrew Yang Wants a Thorium Reactor By 2027 256
New Facebook Features Fight Election Lies Everywhere But Ads 47
Is Andrew Yang Wrong About Robots Taking Our Jobs? 159
'How Andrew Yang Would Fix The Internet' 100
Russian Cyber-Espionage Group Controlled Its Malware Partly Through Reddit Posts 18
GitLab Won't Exclude Customers On Moral Grounds, Says That Employees Should Not Discuss Politics At Work 175
For Now Women, Not Democracy, Are the Main Victims of Deepfakes 86
US Carried Out Secret Cyber Strike on Iran in Wake of Saudi Oil Attack 85
The Simmering Debate Over Big Tech Explodes on the Democratic Debate Stage 115
Twitter Says It Will Restrict Users From Retweeting World Leaders Who Break Its Rules 76
Should Facebook Ban Campaign Ads? 98
Elizabeth Warren Mocks Facebook's Ad Policy By Lying About Mark Zuckerberg 269
Blizzard In Hot Water With Lawmakers For Hearthstone Player's Ban 170
Today's Politics May Be Bad for Your Health 203
Facebook Rejects Biden Campaign's Request To Remove Trump Ads Containing False Information 314
California Bans Political Deepfakes During Election Season 168
Bipartisan Senate Report Calls For Sweeping Effort To Prevent Russian Interference in 2020 Election 330
Microsoft: Iranian Hackers Targeted a 2020 Presidential Campaign 100
FBI Investigating Alleged Hacking Attempt Into Mobile Voting App During 2018 Midterms 23
Researchers Easily Breached Voting Machines For the 2020 Election 123
Warren Proposes Investing in Congressional Tech Expertise To Diminish Lobbying Power 138
Politicians Can Break Our Content Rules, YouTube CEO Says 102
Facebook Confirms Its 'Standards' Don't Apply To Politicians 89
Trump Impeachment Inquiry Opens as Call Transcript Is Released 704
Amazon Will Soon Let You Make Campaign Contributions Through Your Alexa Device 47
Trump Will End California's Authority To Set Stricter Auto Emissions Rules 514
EPA Rolls Back Obama-Era Regulations On Clean Water 206
Andrew Yang Announces Universal Basic Income Pilot Program At Debate 379
Is Microsoft a Digital Nation and Does It Have a Secretary of State? 24
Trump Says He Fired National Security Advisor John Bolton -- But Bolton Says He 'Offered To Resign' 241
NYC Mayor and Presidential Hopeful Bill De Blasio Wants a Tax On Robots 88
Nearly Every State Is Launching An Antitrust Investigation Of Google 38
Study Shows Some Political Beliefs Are Just Historical Accidents 237
The Plan To Use Fitbit Data To Stop Mass Shootings Is One of the Scariest Proposals Yet 244
DOJ: Former FBI Director James Comey Violated Policy On His Trump Memos -- But Won't Be Prosecuted 197
Brazil Says It Will Reject Millions in Amazon Aid Pledged at G7 240
Bernie Sanders Thinks We May Want to Tax Silicon Valley to Save Journalism 189
US Officials Fear Ransomware Attack Against 2020 Election 147
Google Doesn't Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore 301
Bernie Sanders Wants To Ban Facial Recognition Use By Police 154
YouTube's Algorithms Blamed For Brazil's Dangerous Conspiracy Video-Sharing on WhatsApp 69
Google Criticized For Vulnerability That Can Trick Its AI Into Deactivating Accounts 49
Judge Orders Georgia To Switch To Paper Ballots For 2020 Elections 120
Trump Administration Asks Congress To Reauthorize NSA's Deactivated Call Records Program 59
The Video Game Industry Claims Its Products Avoid Politics, But That's a Lie. 108
US Holds Off On Huawei Licenses As China Halts Crop-Buying 131
Critical US Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online 128
Democratic Senate Campaign Group Exposed 6.2 Million Americans' Emails 105
US Formally Withdraws From Nuclear Treaty with Russia and Prepares To Test New Missile 407
A New Bill Aims To Protect US Voters From the Next Cambridge Analytica 124
John McAfee Released From Jail in the Dominican Republic 117
Russian Hack of Elections System Was Far-Reaching, Senate Intel Committee Report Finds 365
Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Sues Google For $50 Million Over Suspension of Ad Account 236
Justice John Paul Stevens, Dead At 99, Promoted the Internet Revolution 90
Jet-Powered Flyboard Soars Over Paris For Bastille Day Parade 127
The 'Vast Majority' of America's Voting Machines Use Windows 7 or Older Systems 152
Ross Perot, Founder and Former CEO of Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems, Dies At 89 149
Trump Can't Block Critics From His Twitter Account, Appeals Court Rules 552
John McAfee Hides in Cuba, Touts Cryptocurrency For Evading US Government's Sanctions 305
House Votes To Block Ajit Pai's Plan To Kill San Francisco Broadband Law 57
Andrew Yang Explains How His Plan For Universal Basic Income Would Work; Complains His Microphone Was 'Not On' at Times During Democratic Debate 432
Twitter Says it Will Label Tweets From Trump and Other Leaders That Break Its Rules 473

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