2025-08-27
President Trump: “This is something given to me by Mark Zuckerberg...This is AI. I never understood, because I built shopping centers...this is one he's building in Louisiana. That's Meta, Facebook...That's the size of Manhattan...I think they said 81% of Manhattan.” [video]
Bloomberg
President Trump says Meta plans to spend $50B on its “Hyperion” data center under construction in Louisiana; earlier, Meta said the investment would exceed $10B
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2024-11-06
Republican Bernie Moreno Wins Ohio Senate Race: “Today starts a new wave. We talked about wanting a red wave. I think what we have tonight is a red, white and blue wave in this country...this is a new dawn of American leadership.” [video]
Financial Times
Elon Musk's gamble on Donald Trump pays off, as Trump wins the race; Trump gave Musk a lengthy shout out in his victory speech, calling him “a super-genius”
“A star is born: Elon,” said Donald Trump in a lengthy shout out to his biggest donor while claiming victory in the US presidential race on Wednesday morning.
2024-09-25
CrowdStrike Senior Vice President for Counter Adversary Operations Adam Meyers: “We let our customers down...On behalf of everyone at CrowdStrike I want to apologize. We are deeply sorry and we are determined to prevent this from ever happening again.” [video]
CyberScoop
CrowdStrike SVP Adam Meyers apologizes before Congress over the company's faulty update that caused a global IT outage, to largely sympathetic House lawmakers
House lawmakers struck a sympathetic tone toward the company at a hearing where they nevertheless said nothing like that could happen again.
2024-04-22
The Senate voted 60-34 early Saturday morning to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), just after authority for the controversial spy program had lapsed at midnight.
The Verge
President Biden signs the bill reauthorizing FISA's Section 702, extending the controversial warrantless surveillance program through 2026
60-34: Senate approves two-year reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The bill now heads to the White House. [image]
The Verge
President Biden signs the bill reauthorizing FISA's Section 702, extending the controversial warrantless surveillance program through 2026
2024-04-21
60-34: Senate approves two-year reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The bill now heads to the White House. [image]
The Verge
President Biden signs the bill reauthorizing FISA's Section 702, extending the controversial warrantless surveillance program through 2026
The Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a controversial program that allows warrantless spying …
The Senate voted 60-34 early Saturday morning to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), just after authority for the controversial spy program had lapsed at midnight.
The Verge
President Biden signs the bill reauthorizing FISA's Section 702, extending the controversial warrantless surveillance program through 2026
The Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), a controversial program that allows warrantless spying …
2024-04-20
60-34: Senate approves two-year reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The bill now heads to the White House. [image]
The Verge
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse
The Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) …
The Senate voted 60-34 early Saturday morning to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), just after authority for the controversial spy program had lapsed at midnight.
The Verge
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse
The Senate has passed a bill reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) …
2024-03-14
Happening Now: U.S. House vote on requiring TikTok to divest from China or face U.S. ban, needs 2/3 Majority to pass - LIVE on C-SPAN https://www.c-span.org/...
Washington Post
The US House passes a bipartisan TikTok bill that forces a sale or ban of the app; the legislation faces an uncertain Senate path without a companion measure
Happening Now: U.S. House vote on requiring TikTok to divest from China or face U.S. ban, needs 2/3 Majority to pass - LIVE on C-SPAN https://www.c-span.org/...
Bloomberg
Memo: TikTok is “disappointed” that the US House passed the TikTok divestment bill, and reiterates its plans to lobby the Senate not to pass the legislation
TikTok told employees the company isn't planning to change its approach to protecting user data even after US lawmakers passed …
2024-02-01
Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC: “Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, I know you don't mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. You have a product that's killing people.” [video]
TechCrunch
Microsoft and X say they support the Kids Online Safety Act; Meta, Discord, and TikTok demur, citing criticism from groups or supporting only some parts of KOSA
how much they care & the promises—are empty. It is the voices & stories of the advocates who joined me today that will create real change. We will win this fight for the Kids Onlin...
Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC: “Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the companies before us, I know you don't mean it to be so, but you have blood on your hands. You have a product that's killing people.” [video]
Washington Post
A recap of the US Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on kids' online safety, with testimony from the CEOs of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap, and Discord
2024-01-31
Sen. @JudiciaryDems @SenJudiciaryGOP hearing on Online Child Sexual Exploitation WITNESSES: Mark Zuckerberg (@Meta) Linda Yaccarino (@lindayaX @X) Evan Spiegel (@Snap) Shou Chew (@tiktok_us) Jason Citron (@Discord) LIVE at 10am ET on C-SPAN3 https://www.c-span.org/... [image]
Financial Times
Ahead of a US Senate hearing, Mark Zuckerberg calls for requiring Apple and Google to verify ages via app stores; Linda Yaccarino and Evan Spiegel support KOSA
Heads of Meta and X are among five social media chief executives to face Congress grilling — The chief executives of five …
2021-10-07
Frances Haugen: “Facebook changed those safety defaults in the run-up to the election because they knew they were dangerous. And, because they wanted that growth back, they wanted the acceleration of the platform back after the election, they returned to their original defaults.” https://twitter.com/...
Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg says that Facebook does not prioritize profit over safety and well-being and argues that many of Frances Haugen's claims don't make sense
I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company. — Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you.
2021-10-06
Frances Haugen: “Facebook changed those safety defaults in the run-up to the election because they knew they were dangerous. And, because they wanted that growth back, they wanted the acceleration of the platform back after the election, they returned to their original defaults.” https://twitter.com/...
YouTube
Video of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee
Frances Haugen: “Facebook changed those safety defaults in the run-up to the election because they knew they were dangerous. And, because they wanted that growth back, they wanted the acceleration of the platform back after the election, they returned to their original defaults.” https://twitter.com/...
Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg says that Facebook does not prioritize profit over safety and well-being and argues that many of Frances Haugen's claims don't make sense
I wanted to share a note I wrote to everyone at our company. — Hey everyone: it's been quite a week, and I wanted to share some thoughts with all of you.
2020-10-17
Sen. @tedcruz: “Twitter is actively blocking, right now this instant, stories from the New York Post...on Tuesday, the Judiciary Committee, the full committee, will be voting on subpoenas to subpoena @Jack Dorsey to come before our committee.” https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Twitter says it is now letting the NY Post link be shared because the info had spread so widely that it can no longer be considered private
The latest change underlined how rapidly social media platforms are shifting their positions in the days leading up to the election.
Sen. @tedcruz: “Twitter is actively blocking, right now this instant, stories from the New York Post...on Tuesday, the Judiciary Committee, the full committee, will be voting on subpoenas to subpoena @Jack Dorsey to come before our committee.” https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Senate Republicans say the Judiciary Committee will issue a subpoena to Jack Dorsey about Twitter's blocking of a New York Post article
2020-10-16
Sen. @tedcruz: “Twitter is actively blocking, right now this instant, stories from the New York Post...on Tuesday, the Judiciary Committee, the full committee, will be voting on subpoenas to subpoena @Jack Dorsey to come before our committee.” https://twitter.com/...
@vijaya
[Thread] Twitter updates Hacked Materials Policy, says it won't remove content unless shared by hackers themselves and will label tweets instead of block links
Over the last 24 hours, we've received significant feedback (from critical to supportive) about how we enforced our Hacked Materials Policy yesterday. After reflecting on this feed...