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Tension grows between Congress and the administration over how White House cyber policy should be run (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 18:13Silicon Valley-backed groups sue Maryland to kill country’s first-ever online advertising tax (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 18:03A quarter of Trump’s 6,081 Facebook posts last year featured misinformation or extreme rhetoric (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/18/2021 - 06:31On 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.