Sources: China told local brokers and think tanks to stop promoting stablecoins by publishing research or holding seminars, aiming to prevent market instability
China told local brokers and other bodies to stop publishing research or hold seminars to promote stablecoins, seeking to rein in the asset class to avoid instability.
How effective altruism, branded by some as a cult obsessed with AI doomsday, influences the White House's, Congress', and think tanks' approach to AI regulation
or rather, it works on the same sort of psychological impulses that have led to millenniarian cults across recorded history 2) For EA to still play an effective and even necessary role in making sure ...
In a legal campaign, GOP lawmakers accuse Wikimedia, Graphika, universities, and others of colluding with the government to suppress conservative speech online
A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccines and other hot political topics. Twitter: @anneapplebaum , @jswatz , @m...
Elon Musk amplifies false claims that the FBI “paid Twitter millions” to “censor info from the public”; law enforcement reimburses companies for data requests
telecoms, banks, whatever—request reimbursement from the FBI and other agencies for time spent processing law enforcement's legal requests. This email is saying that Twitter had not collected that rei...
A look at tech political advocacy group American Edge, founded by Meta, as it tries to create the appearance of grassroots opposition to antitrust reform
Records show Facebook-funded American Edge backed minority interest groups, conservative think tanks and small business groups to create … Tweets: @cat_zakrzewski , @jonscollins , @deborahblum , @cat_...
The US Senate Judiciary Committee approves the Open App Markets Act, which would allow app sideloading and let developers use their own in-app payment systems
in the face of millions in Big Tech lobbying and assaults from all the think tanks they pay — would have been unimaginable three years ago. Probably even two years ago. You love to see it. Alex Harman...
Sources: Meta is quietly explaining its metaverse vision to conservative think tanks and nonprofits, seeking to blunt expected criticism from lawmakers in DC
Mark Zuckerberg has a problem money can't fix: convincing Capitol Hill that the metaverse — whatever that is — isn't evil.
Analysis: Google, Amazon, Meta, and Apple donated at least $1.2M to four US foreign policy think tanks in 2019-2020, up from $625,000 in 2017-18
Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple battle Washington's move towards stricter regulation using anti-China lobbying
Microsoft and cybersecurity company Mandiant say state-backed hacking groups linked to China, Iran, North Korea, and Turkey are exploiting the Log4j flaw
some of these groups have been known to target think tanks, academic institutions, and NGOs. Assume compromise and back up your files frequently. https://twitter.com/... Dustin Volz / @dnvolz : New: H...
Baseless claims about Democrat-led coup on Facebook and Twitter are riling up Trump supporters and raising concerns about election-day violence
Baseless claims are circulating online about a Democrat-led coup, inflaming tensions in an already turbulent election season. Tweets: @meanprogress , @ronrosenbaum1 , @puiwingtam , @daveyalba , @davey...