A congressional investigation led by Senator Elizabeth Warren finds popular tax filing tools “recklessly” sent data, like income, to Meta and Google for years
https://www.cnn.com/... Mastodon: Paul Cantrell / @inthehands@hachyderm.io : Just beating my old drum: — The fines involved could tip some of these companies into bankruptcy. — That's good. — Co...
Twitter says it stopped enforcing its civic integrity policy in March 2021 regarding lies about the 2020 US election as Biden had been president for over a year
(CNN)Twitter quit taking action to try to limit the spread of lies about the 2020 election, the company said on Friday … Tweets: @ddale8 , @martinsfp , @donmoyn , @davelapandc , @joshuahol , @aurorabl...
An anti-fascist researcher says Twitter suspended her account after someone reported a 2019 tweet of hers following Twitter's updated Private Information Policy
to curb the misuse of media to harass or intimidate private individuals,” @Twitter told @b_fung https://www.cnn.com/... If it's being used to harm, revert. https://twitter.com/... Erica Joy / @ericajo...
Google said it shut down a hacking group in January but didn't disclose that it was an active counter-terrorism operation by a US ally, raising ethical concerns
The decision to block an “expert” level cyberattack has caused controversy inside Google after it emerged that the hackers in question were working for a US ally. Tweets: @normative , @howelloneill , ...
Some Facebook employees say internal forum admins froze comments on at least three threads in which employees discussed removing Trump from the site
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @dellcam , @themadstone , @zacharylipton , @parismarx , @johnpaczkowski , @b_fung , @iancoldwater , @kathbarbadoro , @notdetails , and @techwontsaveus Tweets: Dell ...
Trump downplayed the massive cyberattack on the US government, claiming that China may be responsible and the “Fake News Media” is exaggerating its extent
President Trump downplayed a massive cyberattack on U.S. government departments and agencies and private companies on Twitter Saturday … Tweets: @realdonaldtrump , @oliverdarcy , @pwnallthethings , an...
Facebook now has a “partly false information” label on the video of Joe Biden posted by White House staff and shared by Trump, following fact checkers' input
- Facebook labeled a video shared by President Trump as “partly false information” after the Joe Biden campaign put the company on blast. Tweets: @b_fung See also Mediagazer Tweets: Brian Fung / @b_fu...