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Concerns over social media effects on teenagers are overblown and lack...
Concerns over how social media impacts teenagers’ wellbeing and quality of life have been overblown and are not supported by solid evidence, according to...
Attorneys General to Move Forward With Antitrust Probe of Big Tech
Investigation would add additional scrutiny to an industry already under a federal spotlight
A group of state attorneys general is preparing to move forward with...
Twitter, Facebook Target Accounts Spreading Misinformation on Hong Kong Protests
Twitter cites evidence of ‘a coordinated state-backed operation’ to discredit the protesters and their aims
Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. took down accounts believed to...
Google closes ‘incognito’ loophole, leaving publishers to rethink paywalls
The New York Times, The Washington Post and others will no longer be able to identify when a reader is in private-browsing mode
Google is...
Facebook’s content oversight board plan is raising more questions than it...
Facebook  has produced a report summarizing feedback it’s taken in on its idea of establishing a content oversight board to help arbitrate on moderation decisions.
Aka the ‘supreme...
Global Feedback & Input on the Facebook Oversight Board for Content...
There are lots of calls, every day, for Facebook to take down, leave up, or put back up some piece of content on its...
Facebook Outlines Its Early Efforts to Protect the 2020 US Census
The social network released the second update on its civil rights audit
Facebook said it plans to treat the 2020 census in the U.S. like...
Google Axes Lobbyists Amid Growing Government Scrutiny
Tech giant fires lobbying firms, shuffles leadership of its policy-influencing operations
Google has fired about a half-dozen of its largest lobbying firms as part of...
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