Sources: DOGE plans to build a centralized database with troves of personal info about millions of US residents, violating or disregarding security protocols
www.washingtonpost.com/business/ 202... @galetstrong : Federal data is now along the lines of something you might find in The National Enquirer, not actual data. — Donald Trump's Information Warfare...
A look at the five-person Gen Z team running Kamala Harris' TikTok account @KamalaHQ, capitalizing on the VP's viral moments and averaging 6M views per post
The Harris digital comms team has 175 staff — Her TikTok account is run by a team of 5 Gen-Zer's — @kamalahq's TikTok account has published 65 posts in 20 days — They generated 385M views, avera...
Q&A with Barack Obama on regulating social media, privacy bills, Biden's EO on AI, incumbents asking for AI regulation, generative AI and IP issues, and more
Nilay Patel / The Verge : Threads: @ezra , @reckless1280 , and @reckless1280 . X: @bkcharvard . Forums: r/technews Threads: Ezra Mechaber / @ezra : It's almost annoying how deep Barack Obama can go o...
Twitter disrupts a China-based influence campaign ahead of the US midterms, spanning nearly 2,000 accounts; two networks skewed right and another left
Washington Post : Tweets: @josephmenn , @naominixwrites , @dfrlab , @drewharwell , and @maxboot Tweets: Joseph Menn / @josephmenn : As Musk was preparing to take control of Twitter, Chinese and Irani...
Right-wing users are celebrating Elon Musk buying Twitter not for his “free speech” promises but because he could make the platform serve their populist agenda
Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. For a paltry sum of $44 billion … Gabrielle Bienasz / Insider : Cofounder Jack Dorsey was reportedly whispering in Elon Musk's ear that Twitter should be taken privat...
In a speech on disinformation, Obama said social media firms' design choices contribute to polarization, and called for more transparency and Section 230 reform
including over the First Amendment—I didn't expect to find much to agree with in this speech. But it's actually very good, and worth reading, even if I don't agree with all of it. THREAD https://techp...
In a speech on disinformation, Obama said social media firms' design choices contribute to polarization, and called for more transparency and Section 230 reform
- Former President Barack Obama criticized social media companies for contributing to polarization through design choices on their platforms.
How a Citigroup tech executive's news site, with an estimated 10M visitors/month, helped QAnon go mainstream with widespread political implications
Jason Gelinas lived a normal suburban life with a plum Wall Street gig. He also ran the conspiracy theory's biggest news hub. Tweets: @williamturton , @williamturton , @danbeucke , @clairehoworth , @...
Interviews with 40 Amazon employees and government documents: Amazon's COVID-19 response lacks oversight and transparency with inadequate worker safety policies
NBC News : Tweets: @cfarivar , @sallyshin , @hashtagmolotov , @jonschuppe , @tonyajoriley , @adielkaplan , @lowerformofwit , @brandyzadrozny , @adielkaplan , @adielkaplan , @cfarivar , @cfarivar , @a...
A look at the tight links between employees at big tech companies and Joe Biden's campaign, despite his criticism of the Silicon Valley giants
While Joe Biden has criticized the largest tech companies, his campaign and transition teams have welcomed allies of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple onto its staff and policy groups. Tweets: @awins...