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EU Agrees on Landmark Law Aimed at Forcing Big Tech Firms to Tackle Illegal Content
The European Union agreed on new digital regulations Friday that will force tech giants like to police illegal content on their platforms more aggressively.
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Staten Island Amazon Workers Vote to Unionize
Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, have voted to become the company’s first unionized facility in the U.S., which stands to disrupt the company’s control over productivity and wages.
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AOC Calls to Break Up Facebook Again – How Would That Work?
Facebook is in the hot seat again after a whistleblower said the social media site downplayed its platforming of extremism. Meanwhile the recent outage has Americans, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, again contemplating how much we rely on the app – AOC has called for the company to be broken up. Legal analyst Danny Cevallos talks us through what a hypothetical...
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Mark Zuckerberg Faces Down Bipartisan Support to Regulate Facebook
A day after an outage that lasted several hours, whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before the U.S. Senate about Facebook’s platforming of extreme views and reports that it and Instagram created body image issues among young people. CNBC Reporter Lauren Feiner explains why there’s support on both sides of the aisle to regulate the Big Tech company.
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Microsoft Exec: Federal Law Enforcement's Secret Targeting of Americans' Data ‘Routine'
The relationship between law enforcement and Big Tech has drawn scrutiny recently after the revelation that federal prosecutors obtained phone records belonging to journalists and members of Congress
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Online Speech Shield Under Fire as Trump Facebook Ban Stays
Lurking beneath Facebook’s decision on whether to continue Donald Trump’s suspension from its platform is a far more complex and consequential question: Do the protections carved out for companies when the internet was in its infancy 25 years ago make sense when some of them have become global powerhouses with almost unlimited reach
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@POTUS Resets as Twitter Juggles Presidential Accounts
It’s a Twitter user’s worst nightmare: Wake up to find most of your followers gone.
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AP Exclusive: Selena Gomez: Big Tech ‘Cashing in From Evil'
Selena Gomez is laying much of the blame for the violent attack on the U_S_ Capitol at the feet of Big Tech_ The singer told the leaders of Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube that they’ve allowed “people with hate in their hearts” to thrive and therefore “failed all the American people.”
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Extremists Exploit a Loophole in Social Moderation: Podcasts
Major social platforms have been cracking down on the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol
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How Social Media Companies Like Facebook Have Profited from Anti-Vaccine Advertisements
Facebook recently announced that they would ban any advertisement that portrays COVID-19 vaccines as unsafe or ineffective. The CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, Imran Ahmed, explains how social media companies have profited from this misinformation.
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Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple Have ‘Monopoly Power,' Dems Say
A Democratic congressional staff report recommends changes to antitrust laws and enforcement that could result in major changes for Big Tech companies like spinning off or separating parts of their businesses or making it harder to buy smaller companies.
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Big Tech's Capitol Hill Hearings: Congressional Oversight or Just Political Theater?
The leaders of big tech companies Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google were interrogated by Congress on Capitol Hill this week for misusing their market power. Erik Gordon, a professor at University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, joined LX News to discuss how much power Congress really has to rein in these digital giants.
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Apple Previews New iPhone Software, Changes to Mac Chips
Apple on Monday provided a glimpse at upcoming software changes designed to make the iPhone even easier to use and announced underlying hardware changes to its line of Mac computers.