After leaving Meta, Brandon Silverman, co-founder of Facebook-acquired CrowdTangle, has helped craft a bipartisan bill to boost social networks' transparency
The co-founder of CrowdTangle has been working with Congress on legislation to make tech companies disclose their inner workings. Tweets: @benyt , @lauraedelson2 , @apmckay , @elipariser , @aaschapiro...
Book review of An Ugly Truth: an effective examination of every major Facebook scandal and shortcomings in Facebook's leadership, structure, and accountability
k, how did we miss this?’ An upcoming book reveals new details about the meeting where Mark Zuckerberg learned Russia had infiltrated Facebook Tweets: J.D. Vance / @jdvance1 : I can't get over how man...
Critics and competitors argue that Google's massive web index, far surpassing its rivals in size, should be the focus of antitrust scrutiny
As regulators seek ways to curb the company's power, there is more focus on the vast index — hundreds of billion of web pages — behind its search engine. Tweets: @nkulw , @techwontsaveus , @dmccabe , ...
How the big companies like Marriott, Disney, and IBM, are pushing to limit Section 230 of the CDA, challenging Facebook, Google, and the internet as we know it
David McCabe / New York Times : Tweets: @edbott , @david_boaz , @mchui , @nxthompson , @riana_crypto , @ktummarello , @nytimesbusiness , @mathewi , @annemariebridy , @nytimesbusiness , @gigibsohn , @...
During a hearing, Republicans led by Sen. Ted Cruz continue to say big tech companies are stifling conservative speech even as experts say no evidence exists
Republicans led by Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday pilloried Facebook, Google and Twitter over allegations they censor conservative users … Tweets: @oneunderscore__ , @willsommer , @tonyromm , @natijomarti...
Recap of Pichai's testimony before Congress, where he said Google had 100+ people working on a Chinese search engine but has no plans to launch it “right now”
does it? Washington Post : Google CEO Pichai says in Post interview the company is still figuring out China and hate speech … Ina Fried / Axios : Google's Pichai on antitrust: There's more internation...
Overview of the Senate hearing on foreign influence in social media, which heard testimony from Sheryl Sandberg and Jack Dorsey
Facebook and Twitter Finally Face the Music Matt Binder / Mashable : Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweets opening testimony during congressional hearing Don Reisinger / Fortune : Watch Here: Twitter and Fac...
Mark Zuckerberg's prepared testimony says Facebook dealt with several Russian threats, including from APT28, before the 2016 US election
here are the tough questions we'd ask WRAL TechWire : Was your data harvested? Facebook begins alerting affected users David Meyer / Fortune : Facebook Co-Founder Says It's ‘Shocking’ the Company Didn...
FCC's website has been flooded with 128K+ identical fake anti-net neutrality comments via its public comment system API
Not John Oliver — Crashed Its Website. But Nobody Seems To Believe Them David McCabe / Axios : Net neutrality comments already dogged by controversy Aaron Pressman / Fortune : FCC Buried By Fake and ...
Google pitches its consumer surveys product to campaigns and journalists involved in 2016 election campaign to gain foothold in political polling industry
David McCabe / The Hill :