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Cambridge Analytica-linked academic spurns idea Facebook swayed election
Aleksandr Kogan, the academic researcher who harvested personal data from Facebook for a political consultancy firm said that the idea the data was useful in swaying voters’ decisions was “science fiction.”
Facebook renews promise to lawmakers: we're ready for elections
Facebook is sending a signal to Capitol Hill that it's taking the integrity of its social network seriously during the US primary election season. One of the main messages aimed to be delivered to Capitol Hill: Facebook is taking serious steps to protect its network, flush with 2.2 billion users, from misinformation and other political ploys on the platform.
Google says it will focus diversity efforts on black, Hispanic women (USA Today)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 06/14/2018 - 18:56What Facebook told Congress: It even knows when you need to charge your phone (USA Today)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 06/12/2018 - 06:08Common Sense Media urges FTC to probe Facebook's data sharing policies with teens (USA Today)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 06/11/2018 - 06:36200,000 trillion calculations per second: US launches the world’s most powerful supercomputer (USA Today)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 06/11/2018 - 06:35AT&T wouldn't let phone rivals run ads on its DirecTV; then, tiny Mint Mobile cried foul
The CEO of a small wireless carrier that offers consumers an alternative to the major cell phone companies says AT&T refused to run its ads on AT&T's DirecTV service as a way to suppress competition with the telecom giant's own wireless service. AT&T, which is fighting an anti-trust suit brought by the Department of Justice that aims to halt its $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner, now says it's changed the policy that kept Mint Mobile's ads off its pay TV service.