Memo: the Trump admin pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls requiring all foreign students applying to study in the US to undergo social media vetting
Social Media Posts Could Block Your Entry Jennifer Hansler / CNN : State Department orders embassies to pause new student visa appointments as it moves to expand social media vetting Ed Morrissey / Ho...
The White House unveils six proposals for tech policy reform aimed at competition, algorithms, and safety on social platforms, and suggests Section 230 changes
for a Good Reason Alfonso Maruccia / TechSpot : White House consults experts, lays down a six-point plan to increase Big Tech accountability GovTech : White House Outlines Guiding Principles for Big T...
In a letter, Ukraine's vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov urges Tim Cook to halt Apple's product sales in Russia and shut down its App Store in the country
everyone? https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/... Jeff Moss / @thedarktangent : I've been talking about “app diplomacy” the past year or so where India bans Chinese apps from in retaliat...
WSJ publishes six internal Facebook documents it used for its report about Instagram's negative impact on teen girls, after Facebook published two of the docs
and genuinely see ways in which they can—do good. I'm really saddened by how readily the company is throwing these researchers under the bus. Jeff Horwitz / @jeffhorwitz : So here is a selection of th...
Governments around the world are moving to limit the power of tech companies with an urgency and breadth that no single industry had experienced before
Never before have so many countries, including China, moved with such vigor at the same time to limit the power of a single industry. Tweets: @satariano , @davidakaye , @nytimes , @ron_fournier , @kat...
Sources: after the election, Zuckerberg agreed to temporarily tweak Facebook's algorithm to make authoritative news like CNN and NYT appear more prominently
Good morning! This Wednesday, markets are booming … Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1437: new Honor phones to struggle for chips, UK government accused of blocking FOI, Covid's smart muta...
How Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter plan to handle Election Day and the subsequent days, clamping down on falsehoods and highlighting accurate information
So, it's going to be a big week — or weeks. Alexander Hall / Newsbusters : Mark Levin: Facebook Censored My Page on Eve Before Election; ‘I Will Not Be Intimidated’ David Gilbert / VICE : Current Face...
Sources: Turkey is working on a law requiring social media companies with 1M+ Turkish DAUs to appoint local representatives or get bandwidth slashed by 95%
Ali Kucukgocmen / Reuters : Tweets: @cyberrights , @mattgoldstein , @aylushka_a , and @davidakaye Tweets: Yaman Akdeniz / @cyberrights : Social media companies providing services in Turkey beware. Yo...
[Thread] Twitter will stop accepting all political and issue ads on its platform globally starting on November 22
but not the sense that will get them banned. https://onezero.medium.com/... https://twitter.com/... @jack : Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-...
Facebook says it will ban white nationalist and white separatist content, pointing users to nonprofits, after initially only banning white supremacist content
Today we're announcing a ban on praise … Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : It shouldn't take a tragedy for tech companies to fight hate on their platforms Reuters : Facebook bans white nationalism, w...