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Policy, State & Local

Online child safety law blocked after Calif. argued face scans not that invasive

September 19, 2023

Via: ArsTechnica

A California law requiring a wide range of platforms to estimate ages of users and protect minors from accessing harmful content appears to be just as unconstitutional as a recently blocked law in Texas requiring age verification to access adult […]


Editorial

Are Social Media Platforms Harming Our Democracy?

September 30, 2021

Via: Natalie Dunn

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the world by storm and ultimately changed the way people work, live, and interact with each other. As working remotely became a fact of life in the new normal, social media platforms also became more […]


Uncategorized

Facebook and Twitter seem to only care about hacked material when it hurts Democrats

October 15, 2020

Via: BGR

Everyone in politics and media has been in an uproar over a decision Wednesday by Facebook and Twitter to suppress a New York Post story that purported to reveal emails from Joe Biden’s son Hunter that cast the former Vice […]


Cybersecurity

Justice Department: No evidence of vote hacking during 2018 election

February 5, 2019

Via: Tech Crunch

There is “no evidence to date” that any foreign government had a material impact on voting machines or infrastructure during the 2018 midterm elections, according to a new classified report sent to the president. That’s the view from the Justice […]