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Oversight Board calls for more Facebook transparency (Axios)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 09/21/2021 - 16:33The Washington Post launches digital ad network (Axios)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Tue, 09/21/2021 - 11:00Minute Media and FanDuel expand partnership with new funding (Axios)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Tue, 09/21/2021 - 10:59Governments around the world are increasingly regulating tech companies
Governments are limiting or banning applications, content and connectivity itself — and Big Tech companies, rich and powerful as they are, can't or won't fight back. From the Arab Spring to the Black Lives Matter protests, the internet has helped organizers build popular movements and even, on occasion, overthrow governments.
Facebook's social balance is in the red
Thanks to a multipart Wall Street Journal series this week, we have learned about a number of the company's challenges based on internal reports and documents written by Facebook employees sounding alarms. Facebook has argued that the Journal's information is ou
Sen Klobuchar introduces bill to provide funding for the deployment of Next Generation 9-1-1
Co-chair of the Senate Next Generation 9-1-1 Caucus Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Sen Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) announced a bill to create a $10 billion federal grant program for upgrades to the US's 911 centers (S.2754). Expanding 911 to accept more kinds of digital data would add more resiliency to a system that's still built around a copper-based telephone network. A next-generation 911 would allow the nation's 6,000 911 centers to accept texts, videos and photos.
Former US national security officials claim antitrust could hurt US in China tech race
Twelve former top US national security officials are urging Congress to hit pause on a package of antitrust bills in order to consider how breaking up tech companies could harm the US