Facebook's Oversight Board is taking public comments on Facebook's decision to ban Trump and if it complied with “freedom of expression and human rights”
especially as outside pressure mounted for it to do so. It evolved into a common law-like system of governance over speech, and people started to notice, and (obviously) people got angry. 4/ Howard De...
Sources describe how Mark Zuckerberg, who was once uninterested in politics, transformed himself into an active political operator during the Trump era
with sign-off from Zuckerberg himself—retooled their algorithm to throttle traffic to high-value progressive news orgs, @MotherJones IN PARTICULAR https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... @clar...
As the scandal of Khashoggi's disappearance grows, Silicon Valley is mostly quiet on its connections to Saudi Arabia, the largest funding source for US startups
AI Is Getting Baked Into Everything From Tech Companies Tweets: Ragp Soylu / @ragipsoylu : SIGNIFICANT #Khashoggi updates: • Turkish official tells CNN that Khashoggi was cut into pieces • Turks to AJ...
State Department has spent $0 of the $120M allocated by Congress since late-2016 to counter foreign efforts to meddle in elections or sow distrust in democracy
WASHINGTON — As Russia's virtual war against the United States continues unabated with the midterm elections approaching … Tweets: @amy_siskind , @govhowarddean , @natashabertrand , @wjcarter , and @d...