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Senate Judiciary Committee approves Jonathan Kanter to lead the Justice Department's antitrust division (New York Times)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Fri, 10/29/2021 - 12:26Facebook tells employees to preserve all communications for legal reasons. (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 10/28/2021 - 06:20Facebook tells employees to preserve all communications for legal reasons (New York Times)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 10/27/2021 - 14:20Anonymity No More? Age Checks Come to the Web. (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 10/27/2021 - 06:31Opinion: Face It, Facebook Won’t Change Unless Advertisers Demand It (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 10/27/2021 - 06:30
White House to Name Rosenworcel as FCC’s First Female Leader
President Joe Biden is expected to nominate Jessica Rosenworcel, the acting chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission, to the permanent job, putting her on track to become the first woman to lead the agency. If she is confirmed by the Senate, Rosenworcel would lead an agency whose responsibilities include ensuring that millions of Americans have internet access. President Biden is also expected to nominate progressive net neutrality advocate Gigi Sohn, a former FCC official, to the open Democratic seat on the commission.
Facebook Faces a Public Relations Crisis. What About a Legal One?
The most pressing questions is whether the Securities and Exchange Commission — the federal agency where Ms. Haugen sent the documents — will significantly add to Facebook’s woes. Whistle-blowers have filed at least nine complaints to the agency, which has oversight of public companies like Facebook, using a selection of the internal documents to argue that Facebook misled investors with a rosier picture of the company than they knew to be true.