Elon Musk amplifies false claims that the FBI “paid Twitter millions” to “censor info from the public”; law enforcement reimburses companies for data requests
telecoms, banks, whatever—request reimbursement from the FBI and other agencies for time spent processing law enforcement's legal requests. This email is saying that Twitter had not collected that rei...
Former Trump spokesman Jason Miller leads GETTR, a Twitter-like service that bills itself as a “non-bias social network”, in the newest pro-MAGA tech venture
won't have any financial stake or participation, I'm told. Apparently the ex president still has plans for a separate platform. Unclear what exactly. Will Sommer / @willsommer : QAnon fans were initia...
The presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden does not have a top adviser for tech policy and lacks the tech policy infrastructure of his Democratic predecessors
or lack therefore of by @birnbaum_e. Will be interesting if he picks a VP with more tech policy chops https://www.protocol.com/... Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e : “Nobody's talking to Joe Biden about t...
Analysis of Joe Biden's YouTube, which has just 32,000 subscribers, shows his weakness against Trump's online presence, especially as campaigning goes virtual
The coronavirus has forced the Democrats' presumptive presidential nominee into an all-digital campaign, and he's struggling to break through. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @asemota , @ryangrim , @nytime...
Sources: Shadow, a company affiliated with Democratic digital nonprofit ACRONYM, built the Iowa caucus app that contributed to delays in reporting results
show’ a year ago Wall Street Journal : Iowa's Tally-by-App Experiment Fails Zeynep Tufekci / The Atlantic : Who Needs the Russians? Jeff Bercovici / Los Angeles Times : Tech firm started by Clinton ca...
[Thread] Democratic campaign tech projects suffer from one-off startup-like funding with no money for further development, lack of trust between campaigns, more
complicating processes that would otherwise manage just fine 👇 https://twitter.com/... Christina Holland / @americanwombat : This is a really detailed account of specific companies and people and deci...
Senate Intelligence Committee report acknowledges that Russia targeted election systems in all 50 states in 2016, but key lessons for 2020 were redacted
not just Russia but “many more countries.” Exhibit A: Iran. Now will America finally listen? https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Liam Martin / @liamwbz : A proposed bill would require the use of backu...
Bitcoin transactions tied to real purchases and email addresses used by Russian spies in Mueller's indictments show the limits of the cryptocurrency's anonymity
The indictment filed today against 12 Russian officials accused of, among other things, hacking the DNC and undermining Hillary …
How the Trump campaign increased its Facebook ad purchasing power with provocative content and mastered ad tools like Custom Audiences and Lookalike Audiences
Why Russia's Facebook ads were less important to Trump's victory than his own Facebook ads. — IT'S NOT EVERY day that a former … Tweets: @nycsouthpaw , @mollymckew , @maxkennerly , @mikeisaac , @par...
Facebook's focus on Groups, and the tools to build and promote them, can be easily exploited by bad actors like Russia, Mueller indictment shows
except Russia — in his weekend Twitter tirade Catherine Shu / TechCrunch : Facebook will verify the location of US election ad buyers by mailing them postcards Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Facebook will u...