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On social media, vaccine misinformation mixes with extreme faith (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 02/16/2021 - 06:26Editorial: This harrowing story should force lawmakers to reform Section 230 (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 02/14/2021 - 15:41US eyes flurry of new taxes on Amazon, Facebook and Google, trying to force tech to pay its ‘fair share’ (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 02/12/2021 - 06:36President Biden asks for pause in Trump’s effort to ban WeChat (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 02/11/2021 - 14:20Big Russian hack used a technique experts had warned about for years. Why wasn’t the U.S. government ready? (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 02/09/2021 - 12:04Lacking a Lifeline: How a federal effort to help low-income Americans pay their phone bills failed amid the pandemic
The coronavirus has reinforced the Internet as the fabric of modern American life, a luxury-turned-necessity for a generation now forced to work, learn and communicate primarily through the Web. But it also has laid bare the country’s inequalities — and the role Washington has played in exacerbating these long-known divides.
Dominion Voting tells Facebook, Parler and other social media sites to preserve posts for lawsuits (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/04/2021 - 19:23Victor Pickard | The Fairness Doctrine won’t solve our problems — but it can foster needed debate (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 02/04/2021 - 15:53Comcast suspends Internet data limits, fees for Northeast customers
Comcast will suspend its new fees on heavy home Internet users in more than a dozen Northeastern states, reversing course on a policy that threatened higher bills for some families amid the coronavirus pandemic. Comcast will postpone the new charges after Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D-PA) raised concerns that Comcast’s policy threatened to disproportionately harm cash-strapped Americans who are learning, working, and communicating primarily online.