Hillary Clinton criticized Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the social network on Saturday, saying he is unwilling to battle disinformation and propaganda on his own platform and calling his reasoning “authoritarian.” “I feel like you’re negotiating with a foreign power sometimes,” the former Democratic presidential candidate told The Atlantic during an interview at the Sundance …
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Twitter will stop selling ads concerning candidates for office, elections or political issues such as climate change and immigration, the company’s CEO said Wednesday, staking out a position that sets the social network apart from industry giant Facebook. In a series of 11 tweets, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey unveiled the changes, which will take effect next month. He argued that …
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Google denied accusations made on Monday by President Donald Trump that the search giant “manipulated” millions of voters against him in the 2016 election. Google said Trump seemed to be referring to an old report claiming to prove that it generated at least 2.6 million votes for Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton, but said the report has been “debunked since it was made.” …
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Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder more accustomed to publishing others’ secrets, has apparently become the subject of a new leak that shows him favoring the Republican Party a year before Donald Trump was elected. In a private Twitter chat group, Assange called Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton a “bright, well-connected, sadistic sociopath” and said, “We believe it would be much …
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Here’s just the latest nugget to surface as a result of congressional probes of tech platforms used by Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election: Russia-linked accounts shared Donald Trump’s tweets almost half a million times in the run-up to Election Day. In a document posted by the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday (PDF), Twitter revealed that Russian bots retweeted Trump …
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday aimed at making it easier for companies to deploy high-speed broadband networks in rural areas. Speaking at the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Nashville Monday, Trump unveiled and then signed a presidential order that expedites federal permitting to allow broadband expansion in rural areas and makes it easier …
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One of the strangest eBay auctions of the year will end tonight, with the seller in a jail cell. Of course, anyone following the life of Martin Shkreli, popularly nicknamed “Pharma Bro,” may not be all that surprised by the situation. Enlarge Image Shkreli’s listing as of Friday afternoon. eBay, Martin Shkreli Shkreli, a pharmaceuticals entrepreneur who rose to infamy …
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You can never have too many emojis. Unicode’s president and co-founder Mark Davis announced that 67 new emojis have been marked as “draft candidates” for 2018. This means that they will be voted on in the upcoming months with final candidates included in the Unicode 11.0 launch June 2018. The emoji candidates come in a wide array. You’ve got your …
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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 on their side. “The overriding …
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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 …
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