New York Times
How Rupert Murdoch Is Influencing Australia’s Bushfire Debate (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/09/2020 - 06:29Facebook Says It Won’t Back Down From Allowing Lies in Political Ads (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/09/2020 - 06:28
Inside the Billion-Dollar Battle Over .Org
A group of respected internet pioneers and nonprofit leaders is offering an alternative to Ethos Capital’s bid for .org: a nonprofit cooperative corporation. The incorporation papers for the new entity, the Cooperative Corporation of .ORG Registrants, were filed in California. The goal of the group is not only to persuade the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees internet domain names, to stop the sale.
Op-ed -- It is very difficult for Iran to launch cyberattacks that would affect a significant portion of the American population (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 01/08/2020 - 06:49US and France Race to Conclude Digital Tax Talks as Tariff Threat Looms (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 01/08/2020 - 06:48
Don’t Tilt Scales Against President Trump, Facebook Executive Warns
On Dec. 30, Andrew Bosworth, the head of Facebook’s virtual and augmented reality division, wrote on his internal Facebook page that, as a liberal, he found himself wanting to use the social network’s powerful platform against President Donald Trump. But citing the “Lord of the Rings” franchise and the philosopher John Rawls, Mr. Bosworth said that doing so would eventually backfire. “So what stays my hand?