Facebook Launches Its Biggest Purge of Spam Accounts Ever
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook shut down 559 pages and 251 accounts on Thursday that violated the company’s rules by spamming users with partisan news, the social network’s largest purge to date. The accounts, all based in the United States, circulated both far-left and far-right content. Each had…
Jeff Sessions Couldn’t Get State AGs to Back His Campaign Against Tech
Olivier Douliery/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions summoned a group of his state-level counterparts to visit DC to discuss tech regulations on Tuesday. And while Sessions tried to push the group of attorneys general to join him in attacking tech companies for supposed…
A Leaked White House Memo Reveals Trump’s Plan For Going After Google and Facebook
Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to meet with state attorneys general on Tuesday to reportedly discuss potential anti-trust actions against tech companies. While little has been publicly released about the meeting, a draft of a White House memo obtained…
Trump Falsely Claims Google Is “Rigged” Against Him
Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a pair of early morning tweets on Tuesday, President Donald Trump complained that Google News’ algorithm is “rigged” against him and threatened to address what he claims is an unfair bias that hurts conservatives. The tweets appeared to suggest that the president had…
FCC Chair Ajit Pai Was Cagey About Sinclair Merger Communications, Watchdog Report Reveals
The report reveals new communication between FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and Jared Kushner leading up to Sinclair’s merger proposal.Jacquelyn Martin/ AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. An inspector general’s report found “no evidence, nor even the suggestion, of impropriety, unscrupulous behavior, or favoritism,” the Federal Communications Commission announced Monday, by Chairman…
California Lawmakers Demand an Investigation Into Verizon’s Slowdown of Firefighters’ Data
Firefighters battle spot fires from the Mendocino Complex Fire.Mark McKenna/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Days after California firefighters accused Verizon of slowing down crucial data while they were battling a giant blaze, 13 members of Congress have called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the alleged throttling. In…