An in-depth look at Lifeline, an underused US program to help low-income people pay their phone and internet bills, which has been mismanaged for years
how the federal Lifeline program has failed by @TonyRomm https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Tony Romm / @tonyromm : NEW: The U.S. government's primary program to help low-income Americans pay their p...
Internal postings show Ankhi Das, a top Facebook exec in India, supported “strongman” Modi's party before he was elected in 2014 and disparaged its main rival
and never spoke up about blatant election misconduct on the platform. This is FB India, but it matters here, too. https://www.wsj.com/... Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf : Reminder: What happens with Facebo...
A look at Life360, a location-sharing app aimed at families, and conversations with teens who installed the app and their concerns about privacy and autonomy
@lmatsakis in @Wired https://www.wired.com/... Ted / @tedonprivacy : 1. This is child abuse 2. If you feel the need to do this to your *16 year old*, you seriously failed at parenting https://twitter....
Child stars on Instagram and YouTube aren't being protected by child labor laws, which were designed to prevent exploitation by parents and employers
‘Kidfluencers’ are earning millions on social media, but who owns that money? — They open boxes, play with toys, pull pranks and make slime. Tweets: @juliacarriew , @juliacarriew , @juliacarriew , @...
Google plans to reach five million schoolchildren with a digital citizenship education program, but critics say it should be disqualified from doing so
The tech giant is positioning itself in schools as a trusted authority on digital citizenship at a moment when the company's data-handling practices are under growing scrutiny. Tweets: @samueljscott ,...
Three recent books argue that big tech became powerful not because of “software disruption” but by ducking regulation, squeezing workers, strangling competitors
A FEW YEARS after the Great Recession, you couldn't scroll through Google Reader without seeing the word “disrupt.” Tweets: @nitashatiku , @robinwauters , @ruchowdh , @chrisalensula , @lam_barrett , @...