Politics Stories for 2021

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