With 3M+ people filing for unemployment benefits last week, US states are seeing their aging tech systems get overwhelmed and experts say it will only get worse
Laid-off workers struggle to file claims for unemployment benefits; economists say the situation will likely get worse. Tweets: @nxthompson and @parismartineau Tweets: Nicholas Thompson / @nxthompson ...
A look at WikiProject Medicine, a collection of ~35,000 English Wikipedia articles checked rigorously by ~150 editors with public health and medical expertise
many with medical degrees and expertise — are closely monitoring and scrutinizing edits to articles about COVID-19. Here's how @WikiProjectMed operates to protect the facts and keep misinformation off...
An overview of the COVID-19-related work Google is doing, and how it falls far short of the comprehensive testing system implied by President Trump on Friday
Did we call? If you're interested in fighting misinformation, this would be a good place to start. https://twitter.com/... Daniel Dale / @ddale8 : False. Media outlets contacted Google. Google said si...
Twitter is suspending 70 accounts linked to Michael Bloomberg's campaign for violating its policies, citing platform manipulation and duplicative content
hate speech, millions of fake accounts, russian trolls, trump lies & bigotry & incentivized violence are all ok — but Bloomberg sock puppets? hey THAT'S WHERE WE DRAW THE LINE. #FiddlingWhileRomeBurns...
Analysis: among the 10K most popular sites, right-leaning outlets placed 227 cookies in a user's browser, versus 131 for their left-leaning counterparts
Andy Greenberg / Wired : Tweets: @wired , @nxthompson , and @janelytv Tweets: @wired : A recent analysis of news outlets found that the median popular right-wing site planted 73 percent more cookies ...
How the big companies like Marriott, Disney, and IBM, are pushing to limit Section 230 of the CDA, challenging Facebook, Google, and the internet as we know it
David McCabe / New York Times : Tweets: @edbott , @david_boaz , @mchui , @nxthompson , @riana_crypto , @ktummarello , @nytimesbusiness , @mathewi , @annemariebridy , @nytimesbusiness , @gigibsohn , @...
Interview with US CTO Michael Kratsios on the government's recent regulatory framework for AI, the potential for an AI cold war with China, and more
In a WIRED Q&A, the US chief technology officer warns against overregulating tech, underestimating the Chinese, and losing America's lead in quantum computing. Tweets: @sarahnemerson , @wiredbusiness ...
Q&A with Twitter's head of product Kayvon Beykpour about how Twitter is trying to stop incentivizing toxic behavior, giving users a “troll score”, more
Kayvon Beykpour, Twitter's head of product, admits the platform can still incentivize toxic behavior. Tweets: @nxthompson , @ppmerino , @jason_pontin , @mattnavarra , and @jenlucpiquant Tweets: Nichol...
Facebook says it will more prominently label content that fact-checkers deem false on Facebook and Instagram, will ban ads suggesting voting is pointless
three from Iran, one from Russia. more than 50 takedowns in 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/... Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy : Really don't think a press release authored by a lifetime Republican operat...
A behind-the-scenes account of a cyberattack that disrupted the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics, which was tied to a specific unit of Russia's GRU
How digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big attack will be even harder to crack. Tweets: @matonis , @securitybeard , @a_greenberg , @a_greenberg , @nxthompso...