Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus says there was no legal or regulatory angle for the government to kill its Libra project and “it was 100% a political kill”
For reasons you can guess at, debanking has been the topic du jour in my Twitter feed. Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News : FinTech CEOs Expose How Feds Colluded In ‘Debanking’ Schemes After Andreessen ‘Op...
After leaving Meta, Brandon Silverman, co-founder of Facebook-acquired CrowdTangle, has helped craft a bipartisan bill to boost social networks' transparency
The co-founder of CrowdTangle has been working with Congress on legislation to make tech companies disclose their inner workings. Tweets: @benyt , @lauraedelson2 , @apmckay , @elipariser , @aaschapiro...
How Internet Association's influence in DC is waning, driven by internal dysfunction and industry divides; IA's members include Google, Amazon, and Facebook
in a way that protects Facebook market share — while newer groups like Internet Works are more willing to hold firm. https://www.politico.com/... @politico : The declining prominence of the Internet A...
Some Facebook employees say internal forum admins froze comments on at least three threads in which employees discussed removing Trump from the site
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @dellcam , @themadstone , @zacharylipton , @parismarx , @johnpaczkowski , @b_fung , @iancoldwater , @kathbarbadoro , @notdetails , and @techwontsaveus Tweets: Dell ...
A look at Sen. Josh Hawley's war against Big Tech, which could portend the GOP's future approach to Silicon Valley as he draws bipartisan support on some issues
Emily Stewart / Vox : Tweets: @voxdotcom , @sivavaid , @recode , @recode , @freedaaron , and @voxdotcom Tweets: @voxdotcom : Facebook's biggest problem in Washington might not be Elizabeth Warren: It...
Inside the growing split between Silicon Valley and the Democratic Party, once allies, as leading presidential candidates express extreme worries about Big Tech
With help from Cristiano Lima … Julie Bort / Business Insider : WeWork founder Adam Neumann joked about changing the United States Constitution so he could run for president Tweets: Teddy Schleifer / ...
Source: Twitter left up tweets threatening Rep. Ilhan Omar's life, which would typically be removed once reported, so law enforcement could investigate them
Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @kantrowitz , @kantrowitz , @dcbigjohn , @matt_kiser , and @carnage4life Tweets: Alex Kantrowitz / @kantrowitz : On Capitol Hill, people are scratching their...
Recap of Pichai's testimony before Congress, where he said Google had 100+ people working on a Chinese search engine but has no plans to launch it “right now”
does it? Washington Post : Google CEO Pichai says in Post interview the company is still figuring out China and hate speech … Ina Fried / Axios : Google's Pichai on antitrust: There's more internation...
A year after the Equifax breach became public, Congress has failed to advance any legislation and the Trump administration has halted a CFPB investigation
The Equifax data breach was supposed to change everything about cybersecurity regulation on Capitol Hill. One year later, it's not clear it changed much of anything. Tweets: @bobjherman Tweets: Bob H...
Sources: Trump is “obsessed” with Amazon, with his antipathy surfacing when discussing tax policy or antitrust cases; he is not concerned about Facebook
Capitol Hill wants Facebook's blood, but President Trump isn't interested. Instead, the tech behemoth Trump wants to go after is Amazon …