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The next vaccine challenge: Building a workable 'passport' app (NBC)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 04/02/2021 - 06:37If you build it, they will learn: Why some schools are investing in cell towers
A growing number of school districts across the country, spurred in part by the coronavirus pandemic, are going into the cell tower business. Many school districts have tried for years to provide internet service to needy families with mixed success.
Why Big Tech isn't dominating the vaccine rollout (NBC)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 14:18How Facebook and Twitter decided to take down Trump's accounts (NBC)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 01/15/2021 - 12:35Extremists move to secret online channels to plan for Inauguration Day in DC (NBC)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 17:34Twitter bans Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell in QAnon account purge (NBC)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 01/10/2021 - 10:29Frustrated by internet service providers, cities and schools push for more data
Months into the school year, the one thing many families have learned is how much they rely on a functioning internet connection to access remote classrooms. So education equality experts who are trying to chip away at the many challenges families are struggling with through the pandemic are starting by simply trying to identify which students aren't connected to make sure those households have access to affordable packages. But even though most internet service providers, or ISPs, offer affordable packages, they refuse to say how many customers they have signed up for the programs.
Twitter launches 'pre-bunks' to get ahead of voting misinformation (NBC)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 10/26/2020 - 15:45Democracy activists stranded after Trump administration pulls funding for anti-censorship tools
The Trump administration has undercut democracy activists in Belarus and Hong Kong by abruptly ending funding to a US internet freedom organization that provides technological tools to evade censorship and surveillance, according to cyber experts and lawmakers.