Politics Stories for 2019

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
Reddit Quarantines Pro-Trump Forum Because of Threats 743
After Republican Protest, Oregon's Climate Plan Dies 565
US Bill To Force Tech Giants To Tell Users How Much Their Data is Worth 46
Bernie Sanders Proposes Forgiving the Student Debt of 45 Million Americans 1514
A Group of Microsoft Employees Is Fighting the Company's Political Action Committee 113
Bernie Sanders Supports Video Game Workers Unions 323
Top Voting Machine Maker Reverses Position on Election Security, Promises Paper Ballots 184
Google Must Face Lawsuit Alleging Hiring Bias Against Conservatives, Judge Rules 258
Congress To Investigate Deepfakes 165
Congress Scraps Provision To Restrict IRS From Competing With TurboTax 106
Software Vendor May Have Opened a Gap For Hackers in 2016 Swing State 83
The Small Macedonian Town That Runs Hundreds of Fake US Politics Websites 231
47 Democrats Cave On Net Neutrality After GOP Calls Bill 'Dead On Arrival' 178
Theresa May, Undone by Brexit, To Resign as UK Prime Minister 808
Tim Cook Says His Era Has Failed by Over-Debating Climate Change 427
Bankrupt US Coal Producer Was Funding Climate Change Denial 256
Facebook Shuts Down An Israeli Firm's Effort To Influence Politics In West Africa 69
White House Launches Tool To Report Political Bias On Social Media Sites 402
Microsoft Offers Software Tools To Secure Elections 98
Why Won't Twitter Treat White Supremacy Like ISIS? Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too. 925
West Virginia Will Allow 'Blockchain Voting' In the 2020 Election 89
Why Juul and Republican Lawmakers Want To Raise the Minimum Vaping Age To 21 198
The Mueller Report 679
Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou To Run For President of Taiwan 44
Presidential Candidate John Delaney Wants To Create a Department of Cybersecurity 71
Are Silicon Valley Workers Abandoning Libertarianism For Socialism? 611
Top US Congressman Says Silicon Valley's Self-Regulating Days 'Probably Should Be' Over 110
Washington State Commits To Running Entirely On Clean Energy By 2045 82
Andrew Yang Plans To Use a 3D Hologram For Remote Campaigning 156
Net Neutrality Bill Sails Through the House But Faces an Uncertain Political Future 233
Congress is About To Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing 449
Mitch McConnell: Democrats' Net Neutrality Bill is 'Dead on Arrival' in Senate 209
House Democrats Refuse To Weaken Net Neutrality Bill, Defeat GOP Amendments 127
Justice Department Warns Academy About Changing Oscar Rules To Exclude Streaming 140
Google Employees Are Lining Up To Trash Google's AI Ethics Council 155
Huawei Tops $100 Billion Revenue For First Time Despite Political Headwinds 39
Senators Demand To Know Why Election Vendors Still Sell Voting Machines With 'Known Vulnerabilities' 169
Trump Administration Dims Rule On Energy Efficient Lightbulbs 428
Mueller Report 'Summary' Delivered to US Congress 794
Jared & Ivanka: Couple 'Continues To Use' Private Messaging For White House Business, Top Democrat Says 252
Facebook Knew of Cambridge Analytica Data Misuse Earlier Than Reported 70
Many People Think AI Could Make Better Policy Decisions Than Politicians 288
California Reintroduces 'Right To Repair' Bill After Previous Effort Failed 171
Trump Blockade of Huawei Fizzles In European 5G Rollout 280
House Democrats Plan April Vote On Net Neutrality Bill 140
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation 470
Beto O'Rourke's Secret Membership in America's Oldest Hacking Group 343
DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System 232
Researchers Find Critical Backdoor In Swiss Online Voting System 69
Trump Endorses Permanent Daylight Savings Time 376
Salon: Republicans Are Launching Fake Local News Sites To Spread 'Propaganda' 539
To Disrupt America's 2020 Elections, Russian Internet Trolls Amplify Divisive Messages, Assemble 'Massive' Followings 331
Elizabeth Warren Calls To Break Up Facebook, Google, and Amazon 414
Democrats Introduce 'Save the Internet Act' To Restore Net Neutrality 174
Disputed NSA Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says 117
Democrats Will Introduce Bill To Bring Back Net Neutrality 291
Facebook, Twitter, and Google Still Aren't Doing Enough About Disinformation, EU Says 110
Prominent New Yorkers Are Trying To Get Amazon To Bring Back HQ2 275
'Prism, Prism on the Wall, Who is the Most Trustworthy of Them All?' Huawei Hits Back at US Over 5G Security Claims 170
US Cyber Command Operation Disrupted Internet Access of Russian Troll Factory on Day of 2018 Midterms: Report 121
FCC Says Gutting ISP Oversight Was Great For Broadband 141
European Governments Approve Controversial New Copyright Law 96
President Trump Wants US To Win 5G Through Real Competition 129
Montana Legislator Introduces Bills To Give His State His Own Science 339
Microsoft Says Discovers Hacking Targeting Democratic Institutions in Europe 71
Proposed Bill Would Force Arizonians To Pay $250 To Have Their DNA Added To a Database 357
House Opens Inquiry Into Proposed US Nuclear Venture In Saudi Arabia 155
Trump Directs Pentagon To Create Space Force Legislation for Congress 259
Australia's Major Political Parties Targeted by 'Sophisticated State Actor', Prime Minister Says 61
The Internet, Divided Between the US and China, Has Become a Battleground 176
Swiss E-voting Trial Offers $150,000 in Bug Bounties To Hackers 33
Texas Lawmaker Wants To Ban Mobile Throttling In Disaster Areas 106
Amy Klobuchar Calls For Net Neutrality 'Guarantee' In 2020 Presidential Announcement 161
Trump's Border Wall Could Split SpaceX's Texas Launchpad In Two 179
Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings 158
House Democrats Tell Ajit Pai: Stop Screwing Over the Public 320
Mozilla Writes To European Commission About Facebook's Lack of Ad Transparency 64
Twitter Might Punish Users Who Tweet 'Learn To Code' At Laid-Off Journalists 418
FBI Arrests Trump Associate Roger Stone Over His Communications With WikiLeaks 486
Trump Offered NASA Unlimited Funding To Put People on Mars by 2020, Report Says 600
Supreme Court Won't Hear a Lawsuit Over Defamatory Yelp Reviews 70
Oceans Are Getting Louder, Posing Potential Threats To Marine Life 127
Apple's Security Expert Joined the ACLU To Tackle 'Authoritarian Fever' 92
We'll Likely See a Rise in Internet Blackouts in 2019 58
Russian Hackers Allegedly Attempted To Breach the DNC After the 2018 Midterms 127
Michael Cohen Says He Tried To Rig Online Polls 'at the Direction' of Donald Trump 552
Federal Shutdown May Send Millennial Workers To Exits 284
People Older Than 65 Share the Most Fake News, Study Finds 403
Politicians Cannot Block Social Media Foes, US Appeals Court Rules 220
Government Shutdown is Putting a Damper on Science in Seattle and Elsewhere 443
FBI Investigating Fake Texts Sent To GOP House Members 54
Hundreds of German Lawmakers Targeted in Mass Cyber Attack 88
Ajit Pai Thanks Congress For Helping Him Kill Net Neutrality Rules 215