The political landscape in 2020 now seems less ominous for tech giants, as critics Warren and Sanders drop out and COVID-19 ramps up need for tech platforms
Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg : Tweets: @ericnewcomer and @misyrlena Tweets: Eric Newcomer / @ericnewcomer : With Bernie Sanders out of the race, the candidates calling to break up Big Tech have faded aw...
Analysis: one-third of donations from employees at big tech firms went to Sens. Warren and Sanders, despite a lack of enthusiasm from tech executives
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Analysis: one-third of donations from employees at big tech firms went to Sens. Warren and Sanders, despite a lack of enthusiasm from tech executives
Financial Times :
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter workers contributed ~$270K to the Bernie Sanders campaign, more than any other presidential candidate, in Q4 2019
Sanders, an avowed democratic socialist, has been highly critical of tech companies. Their employees don't seem to mind. Tweets: @pinboard , @bykowicz , @teddyschleifer , @teddyschleifer , and @teddy...
A look at Clearview AI, a facial recognition app claiming it scraped 3B+ images from sites like Facebook, YouTube, and that 600+ law enforcement agencies use it
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : FBI in Possession of Software Able to Profile Anyone Using Just a Picture Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1225: the facial ...
Report prepared for the Senate analyzes Russian disinformation that supported Trump across millions of posts on YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and more
For years, Russia has leveraged … Wired : How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America New York Times : Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media Sara Fisch...
Facebook's focus on Groups, and the tools to build and promote them, can be easily exploited by bad actors like Russia, Mueller indictment shows
except Russia — in his weekend Twitter tirade Catherine Shu / TechCrunch : Facebook will verify the location of US election ad buyers by mailing them postcards Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Facebook will u...