Sources: lobbyists for Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta back a campaign for a 10-year US state AI regulation ban, a move dividing the AI industry and the GOP
Call by Amazon, Google and Microsoft lobbyists for a ‘moratorium’ has split industry and the Republican party
Some conservative critics of Elon Musk allege censorship and claim they were stripped of their X verification badges after challenging his views on H-1B visas
The fight between Ketamine Boy and the MAGAts is definitely a time to root for injuries … David Ingram / NBC News : Elon Musk accused of censoring conservatives on X who disagree with him about immigr...
A draft House memo detailed failures by Twitter, YouTube, and other platforms to address extremism before January 6, much of which were not in the final report
especially Twitter—failed to heed their own employees' warnings about violent rhetoric on their platforms and bent their rules to avoid penalizing conservatives, particularly then-president Trump, out...
The US should grant more green cards to retain tech leaders; Turkish MIT and Caltech grad Erdal Arikan, whose work led to Huawei's 5G lead, had to leave the US
What is the single most significant step the United States can take to sustain the technological predominance it has enjoyed since World War II? Tweets: @dkaushik96 , @siddarthpaim , @dotben , @zachar...
Survey: 44% of Americans think tech giants should be regulated more, down from 56% in April 2021, while 1 in 5 explicitly want less regulation, up from 1 in 10
Well. Trump and Lindsey backed down. https://twitter.com/... @ceidotorg : According to @pewresearch the share of conservative Republicans who support greater government regulation of major tech compan...
Right-wing users are celebrating Elon Musk buying Twitter not for his “free speech” promises but because he could make the platform serve their populist agenda
Elon Musk has purchased Twitter. For a paltry sum of $44 billion … Gabrielle Bienasz / Insider : Cofounder Jack Dorsey was reportedly whispering in Elon Musk's ear that Twitter should be taken privat...
Ex-members of Facebook's integrity team speak of demoralization as management ignored their work; at least 10 members now work in a similar division at Twitter
because if you're underpaid it's that much harder to store up the financial power to speak. https://twitter.com/... David Sacks / @davidsacks : Did anyone else notice that the Facebook whistleblower b...
Michigan GOP lawmaker introduces a bill that requires fact checkers to register with the state using a $1M fidelity bond, and levies $1K/day fine for violations
Lansing — A Michigan lawmaker who's been at the center of efforts to question the 2020 election introduced a bill Tuesday that would require … Tweets: @ddale8 , @jtemple , @campuscodi , @mcmuckraker ,...
Q&A: Evelyn Douek, a lecturer and Ph.D. student at Harvard studying online speech regulation, on why a “proportional” approach to online speech is a good thing
Major platforms' policies aren't actually inspired by the First Amendment. This legal scholar says that's a good thing. Tweets: @gadgetlab , @mantzarlis , @wired , @jilliancyork , @risj_oxford , @wex...
Facebook and Google have extended their planned one-week bans on political ads, as Trump and GOP continue their claims of voter fraud
which they're now letting run wild during a critical moment for our democracy. https://twitter.com/... @rmac18 : One internal Facebook saying is, “Nothing at Facebook is someone else's problem.” The c...