Analysis: 196 members of the new Congress accepted donations from Sam Bankman-Fried or other FTX senior executives, including Kevin McCarthy and Chuck Schumer
The session began with 196 U.S. lawmakers who took direct contributions from Sam Bankman-Fried and other former FTX executives …
Sources: after Kevin McCarthy made concessions for the speakership, the GOP plans a subcommittee and hearings to investigate Big Tech, like the “Twitter Files”
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Filing: Google asks the US FEC to green light a program that would exempt campaign emails from spam; the GOP alleges Gmail unfairly flags its emails as spam
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to steer my ship.” Tweets: Nate Silver / @natesilver538 : I barely use email tbh and this might be the thing to get me to swear off it for good. https...
Dismissals of FTC and state AGs suits against Facebook shows the difficulty of making antitrust charges stick and could spur lawmakers to toughen antitrust laws
and how Facebook's big court win could actually help it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller : “This is going to strengthen the case for legislation,” said Herbert Hoven...
The Oversight Board's decision on Trump's Facebook ban failed to send a clear message that a powerful public official can't use Facebook to endanger the public
and heated — reactions to Trump's suspension Siva Vaidhyanathan / The Guardian : Facebook is pretending it cares how its platform affects the world Marietje Schaake / Los Angeles Times : Op-Ed: Facebo...
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy says VC-backed startups will become eligible for $350B in small business loans guaranteed via the CARES Act
In a world that everything counts, everybody matters Tweets: Biz Carson / @bizcarson : This week @ShakeelHashim asked the simple question: should the government bail out startups? Why not VCs? The sim...