Facebook Oversight Board upholds Trump's suspension, but asks Facebook to review the decision within six months to determine a penalty consistent with its rules
For Now Kari Paul / The Guardian : Facebook ruling on Trump renews criticism of oversight board Donald J. Trump : Donald Trump calls the actions of “corrupt social media companies” like Facebook, Twit...
Twitch expands its misconduct policy to ban users who harass members of its community, even when that harassment takes place off Twitch
Patreon had this rule years ago and it made a lot of sense for what was largely an intermediary system. https://www.theverge.com/... Emily Dreyfuss / @emilydreyfuss : This is exactly what I have been ...
Twitter and Facebook's ban on Trump is not censorship, and demanding clear rules for social media moderation is “stupid” because the context is always changing
every case is different. https://www.techdirt.com/... And inciting an attack on your own government that leaves five people dead is a far graver assault on free speech than anything you're complaining...
How one researcher is using Facebook's anonymized data sets and new colocation maps to identify social distancing habits
Facebook's mapping tools are helping researchers in California track whether people are following social distancing orders. — As the COVID-19 outbreak continued … Tweets: @emilydreyfuss , @issielapo...
Elizabeth Warren changed the discussion about tech companies through her call to break up big tech, influencing debate even after her withdrawal from the race
that the big tech companies had grown too big and too anticompetitive — as given” https://www.protocol.com/... Emily Dreyfuss / @emilydreyfuss : I wrote about how Elizabeth Warren may be out of the ra...
Legal chatbot DoNotPay introduces Free Trial Card, a service that lets users sign up to free trials anonymously and declines payment after the trial period ends
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Q&A with Melinda Gates on why the tech industry must embrace women's empowerment, how we can get more women and people of color to enter tech, and more
FOR ALMOST 20 years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to make the world better. When she and her husband launched the Bill … Tweets: @wired , @wired , @caitlin__kelly , and @emilydreyfuss Tweets: ...
Profile of Venezuela Hasta Los Tuétanos, a channel on the walkie-talkie like app Zello, that Venezuelans turn to in search for food, medical supplies, and truth
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired : Tweets: @zello and @zello Tweets: @zello : Since January 23, when opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself the rightful president of Venezuela, downloads of Zello insid...
Spammers are emailing businesses, schools, and other locations in the US, Canada, and New Zealand, demanding bitcoin as ransom to not detonate a supposed bomb
and a ‘Terrible Strategy’ Francisco Memoria / CryptoGlobe : US Government Advises Bitcoin Bomb Threat Victims to Ignore Ransom, Inform the FBI Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada Blog : Bitcoin Scammers ...
Sue Gordon, the principal deputy director of national intelligence, explains the need for a new partnership between the intelligence agencies and Silicon Valley
Emily Dreyfuss / Wired : Tweets: @john_sipher Tweets: John Sipher / @john_sipher : “I think there's a lot of misconception about those of us who work in national security and intelligence. We swear t...