2023-07-08
Congress has lost its ability to address the most pressing problems facing the country, Steven Pearlstein writes. “The prime suspect in this legislative murder mystery is Big Tech itself.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
A look at the US' bipartisan push to pass Big Tech antitrust bills in 2022, derailed by industry lobbying, ads, PR, donations, and congressional dysfunction
Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post : Twitter: @postopinions , @christinebannan , @mrmeador , and @sherman1890 Twitter: @postopinions : Congress has lost its ability to address th...
2021-04-28
“Social media algorithms don't have a conservative or liberal bias, but they know if we do,” @Malinowski and @RepAnnaEshoo write. “Their bias is to reinforce ours at the cost of making us more angry, anxious and afraid.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
TechCrunch
An overview of Tuesday's Senate hearing on algorithms and Section 230 reform, where lawmakers focused less on sound bites and crawled closer to solutions
should be more useful than performative yelling at CEOs. I'll be live-tweeting key takeaways, starting with a rare point for FB: FB sent content policy chief, Monika Bickert. YT & ...
2020-10-19
It would be the height of irresponsibility to simply broadcast these dubious allegations without first verifying their veracity and provenance, @MaxBoot writes https://www.washingtonpost.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
2020-08-23
It's clear that Facebook has no intention of holding hate-mongers accountable and that the safety of users is not a priority, writes @RanaAyyub https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
In India, like in Myanmar and the Philippines previously, Facebook has no issue aiding dishonest and hateful authoritarian leaders to increase its market share
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2020-08-22
It's clear that Facebook has no intention of holding hate-mongers accountable and that the safety of users is not a priority, writes @RanaAyyub https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Washington Post
In India, like in Myanmar and the Philippines previously, Facebook has no issue aiding dishonest and hateful authoritarian leaders to increase its market share
On Aug. 14, the Wall Street Journal published a damning story about Facebook's complicity in aiding and abetting Prime Minister …