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Rep Schiff, Sen Feinstein are demanding to know if Russian trolls or bots have tried to ‘manipulate public opinion’ on Facebook and Twitter again
House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) are calling on Twitter and Facebook to launch investigations of potential Russian-linked accounts pushing for the release of a controversial congressional memo. Rep Schiff and Sen Feinstein sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asking that they “provide a public report to Congress and the American public by January 26” on the matter.
Here’s why people on Twitter are seeing news alerts that they didn’t ask for (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 01/23/2018 - 06:21Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google spent nearly $50 million — a record — lobbying in 2017 on immigration, net neutrality, taxes (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 01/23/2018 - 06:20Netflix now has nearly 118 million streaming subscribers globally (Vox)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 01/22/2018 - 16:18Trump’s White House website is one year old. It’s still ignoring LGBT issues, climate change, and a lot more (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 01/21/2018 - 16:06Here’s the chart that explains why CBS and Viacom want to merge (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 01/19/2018 - 06:29Matthew Yglesias: President Trump’s biggest political weakness is on regular policy issues (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/18/2018 - 11:14
President Trump Hands Out ‘Fake News Awards'
President Donald Trump — who gleefully questioned President Barack Obama’s birthplace for years without evidence, long insisted on the guilt of the Central Park Five despite exonerating proof and claimed that millions of illegal ballots cost him the popular vote in 2016 — wanted to have a word with the American public about accuracy in reporting.
Washington’s next big tech battle: closing the country’s digital divide
President Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress are forging ahead with new plans to boost high-speed internet around the country, hoping that their signature crusade — deregulation — might help spur better web access in the country’s hardest-to-reach rural areas. The bid to boost broadband is expected to become a small but critical component of infrastructure reform, a still-evolving proposal that could set aside $200 billion in federal funds to upgrade the guts of the United States — including aging roads, bridges and tunnels.