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Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
2020-06-20

United Allied States (UAS) Shares Vision to Build a Global Nation of Sovereign States

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The United Allied States (UAS) is announcing the formation of its new sovereign government. "The founding principles of UAS are fre...
2019-03-28

Facebook says it will ban white nationalist and white separatist content, pointing users to nonprofits, after initially only banning white supremacist content

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Today we’re announcing a ban on praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism on Facebook and Instagram, w...
2018-11-06

Facebook says it has blocked 115 accounts on its services that may have been engaged in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” ahead of the US midterm elections

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Facebook : As part of our efforts to prevent interference on Facebook during elections, we are in regular contact with law enforcement, o...
2018-10-02

US Justice Department moves to sue California in order to quash its new net neutrality law

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The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against the state of California alleging that Senate Bill 822, an Internet regulation bill si...
2018-06-12

US Army awards Raytheon $130 million for TOW missiles

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Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN ) received a $129.9 million U.S. Army contract for continued production of the tube-launched, optically-tracke...

Pentagon and Lockheed Martin Deliver 300th F-35 Aircraft

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The F-35 Joint Program Office and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] delivered the 300th production F-35 aircraft, demonstrating the program&...
2018-03-21

EU proposes major new tax on big tech companies

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The European Commission proposes a 3% tax on EU revenues of companies with global annual revenues of €750M+, like Google, Facebook, an...
2018-03-13

Trump blocks Broadcom's attempted takeover of Qualcomm

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Broadcom Limited (NASDAQ: AVGO ) ("Broadcom") today issued the following statement: Broadcom is reviewing the Order. Broadcom st...
2018-03-02

EU to tech companies: you have one hour to remove terrorist content

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EU announces guidelines mandating that tech firms remove terror content within one hour of it being flagged by law enforcement or Euro...
2018-01-24

AT&T calls for net neutrality laws after fighting to end FCC rules

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AT&T CEO pushes for an “Internet Bill of Rights”, a net neutrality law covering ISPs and tech firms, in a series of full-page ads ...
2018-01-22

Facebook Says Social Media Is Not Always Healthy for Democracy

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Facebook lets inside and outside contributors weigh in on effect of social media on democracy, discusses people's draw to info tha...
2018-01-21

EU says tech companies show “continued improvement” at removing hate speech

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EU says social networks remove 70% of hate speech, up from 59% in May, review 81% of reported content within 24 hours; Instagram and G...
2018-01-17

Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality

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Today, Mozilla filed a petition in federal court in Washington, DC against the Federal Communications Commission for its recent dec...
2018-01-06

Twitter says Trump, other world leaders can tweet what they want

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Twitter says it does not block or remove controversial tweets of world leaders because it would hide important information people shou...
2017-12-18

Facebook's government data requests continue to rise

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Facebook transparency report for first half of 2017: account data requests rose 21% globally YoY to 78,890; 57% of data requests in US...

Kaspersky Lab sues the Trump administration in US court

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Kaspersky Lab sues the Trump administration in US court, arguing it was deprived of due process rights when DHS banned its software fr...
2017-10-27

Facebook reveals new political ad policies in wake of U.S. election

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Facebook's update on ad transparency: tests start in Canada in Nov., in US and elsewhere by summer, will show all ads running, arc...
2017-10-25

Twitter just announced some big changes around political ads

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Twitter will now label political ads with sponsors, including spending and targeting disclosures, and establish a Transparency Center ...
2017-09-20

Twitter banned almost 1 million accounts over the last 2 years for promoting terrorism

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Twitter removed 300K terror-related accounts in first half of 2017, a 20% decline from previous six months, with 75% suspended before ...
2017-09-07

Facebook says $100,000 in ad buys during U.S. election came from fake accounts out of Russia

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Facebook says it sold ~$100K of ads on politically divisive topics to Russia-linked accounts from 6/15-5/17; sources say FB told Congr...