What Will Happen to the Far-Right After Trump? As president-elect Biden’s inauguration approaches, experts are keeping an eye on extremist groups. Source: www.wired.com What Will Happen to the Far-Right After Trump?

Trump Broke the Internet. Can Joe Biden Fix It? From privacy to big tech monopolies, here’s an early look at what might actually happen in tech policy under a divided government. Source: www.wired.com Trump Broke the Internet. Can Joe Biden Fix It?

Trump’s campaign website hacked by cryptocurrency scammers President Trump’s campaign website was briefly and partially hacked Tuesday afternoon as unknown adversaries took over the “About” page and replaced it with what appeared to be a scam to collect cryptocurrency. There is no indication, despite the hackers’ claims, that “full access to trump […]

The GOP Makes an Unlikely Closing Pitch: Amend Section 230 Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey will testify Wednesday on a niche internet law less than a week before Election Day. How did we get here? Source: www.wired.com The GOP Makes an Unlikely Closing Pitch: Amend Section 230

Tech for Campaigns, created to get Democrats elected, on the parties’ biggest differences Yesterday, a 450-page “investigation on competition in digital markets” was published by the House based on 16 months of evidence gathering, including interviews with employees and past employees and others with first-hand knowledge of the inner workings of Facebook, […]

The Pence-Harris Debate Is Over—but Let’s Talk About the Fly As soon as an insect landed on the vice president’s head Wednesday, Twitter collectively lost its mind. Source: www.wired.com The Pence-Harris Debate Is Over—but Let’s Talk About the Fly

Twitter flags Republican leader’s video as ‘manipulated’ for altering disabled activist’s words Twitter flagged an inflammatory video by House Republican Whip Steve Scalise on Sunday for altering footage of a conversation between progressive activist Ady Barkan and Joe Biden. The video is now labeled as “manipulated media” in a tweet from Scalise, […]

On Facebook, Trump’s next false voting claim will come with an info label As part of its effort to steel its platform against threats to the 2020 election, Facebook will try surfacing accurate voting info in a new place — on politicians’ own posts. Starting today, Facebook posts by federal elected officials […]

Twitter plans to expand its misinformation labels—but will they apply to Trump? President Trump is again testing Twitter’s stomach for misinformation flowing from its most prominent users. In a flurry of recent tweets, Trump floated conspiracy theories about the death of Lori Klausutis, an intern for former congressman Joe Scarborough who was […]