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President Trump Threatens To Shut Down Social Media After Twitter Adds Warning To His Tweets
Tensions between President Donald Trump and Twitter escalated as he threatened to "strongly regulate" or shut down social media platforms, which he accused of silencing conservative viewpoints. President Trump's threat came the day after Twitter added a fact-check warning to his tweets claiming that mail-in ballots are fraudulent. "Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices," President Trump tweeted the morning of May 27. "We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen.
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America's surprising breeding ground for inequality: The internet
Life has moved online during the coronavirus pandemic, and access to the internet has shone a new light on America's inequality crisis. Nearly 15% of American households do not have a home internet subscription, including dial-up, broadband or a cellular data plan, according to US Census estimates from 2018.
Twitter disputes State Department claims China coordinated coronavirus disinformation accounts (CNN)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 05/08/2020 - 17:17CNN sends Trump campaign cease-and-desist letter for misleading ad (CNN)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 05/05/2020 - 11:54Why rural Americans are having a hard time working from home
More than 18 million Americans -- about 5.6 percent of the US population -- lack access to high-speed internet, according to the Federal Communications Commission. And now that the pandemic is demanding most Americans do their jobs, complete schoolwork and access healthcar
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The FCC says all Americans are gaining advanced Internet access. It's wrong.
On April 24, the Federal Communications Commission released the nation's 2020 Broadband Progress Report. It concludes that broadband is being delivered to all Americans in a reasonable and timely way. But from where I sit, nothing could be further from the truth. I refused to offer my support for the 2020 Broadband Progress Report. That's because, in this crisis, it has become painfully clear that not everyone in the US has adequate Internet access. The evidence is all around us. We need to set broadband baseline standard to 100 megabits per second.