Politics Stories for 2020

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
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