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Former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Wednesday “weaponized information” was a major reason she lost the election to President Donald Trump. When the former secretary of state and US senator was asked during Recode’s Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, if she and her campaign staff could’ve done anything differently, Clinton said time wasn’t …

Oh, lord. Robocalls may be going stealth. And your voicemail could become useless as a result. The Republican Party and others are pushing the Federal Communications Commission to clear the way for robocalls that would go straight to your voicemail without your mobile phone ever ringing, says a Wednesday report by Recode. Yeah, he’s holding a landline. (Remember those?) But …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, with a nearly religious zeal, has said for years his mission is “making the world more open and connected.” But in the last few weeks, that more open and connected world has led to headlines about violence, murder and, most recently, revenge porn shared on his social network. People have used Facebook Live, the company’s video …

Sweden has dropped a rape investigation against Julian Assange, potentially paving the way for the WikiLeaks founder to finally leave self-imposed exile. Prosecutors began investigating Assange in 2010. Two years later, he sought sanctuary in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and has lived in the tiny building ever since. In that time, WikiLeaks has continued to release classified information, prompting …

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai says he wants to fix the agency’s net neutrality rules. The FCC is set to vote on a proposal this month that will revisit the rules governing net neutrality, once again opening up the issue for debate. Pai, a Republican appointed in January as chairman by President Donald Trump, says he supports the principles …

It was a bombshell. Operatives from two Russian spy agencies had infiltrated computers of the Democratic National Committee, months before the US national election. One agency — nicknamed Cozy Bear by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike — used a tool that was “ingenious in its simplicity and power” to insert malicious code into the DNC’s computers, CrowdStrike’s Chief Technology Officer Dmitri Alperovitch …

Let’s face it, one of the best ways to follow US President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office has been through Twitter. As Saturday’s milestone approached, the social network compiled a list of Trump’s most memorable tweets and moments since he took office on Jan. 20. The president still prefers using his @realDonaldTrump account instead the @POTUS handle he …

Being a WhatsApp group chat admin is getting riskier in Malaysia. The country’s government may use an existing law to investigate group admins at the popular messaging app if they fail to curb the distribution of fake news (factually incorrect or misleading information), said Johari Gilani, the country’s deputy minister of Communications and Multimedia. This is particularly so if the …

As British voters prepare to head to the polls in six weeks, a member of Parliament is calling for Facebook to tackle fake news that could influence the election. Conservative MP Damian Collins, chairman of the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee, said Facebook should act faster to remove or label fabricated stories shared by users. Speaking …

Federal Communications Chairman Ajit Pai has started to roll back Obama-era net neutrality regulation, setting up a showdown between tech companies and broadband providers. In a speech in Washington on Wednesday, Pai outlined his plan for eliminating the utility style regulatory framework the FCC adopted in 2015, while still keeping principles to prevent broadband and wireless providers from favoring their …