Summary
- 1. Trump approves TikTok deal with Oracle and Walmart 'in concept'
- 2. DoJ asks Congress to limit protections for social media companies
- 3. Judge blocks US ban on WeChat app downloads
- 4. Facebook takes down Chinese-run accounts that posted about US elections
- 5. TikTok removed more than 104 million videos in the first half of 2020
- 6. The Morning After: Next-gen consoles are real big
- 7. Trump's TikTok Deal Is Still an Unresolved Mess
- 8. Trump’s TikTok Farce Ignores the Lessons of the Red Scare
- 9. The Business of the Internet Is Stuck in Trump's Swamp
- 10. More Covid Vaccines in Phase III, New Risk Calculators, and More
- 11. QAnon Is Like a Game—a Most Dangerous Game
- 12. Facebook will reject political ads claiming an early victory in November
- 13. TikTok files for injunction against pending Trump app ban
- 14. Tesla sues Trump Administration to end tariffs on the ‘brain’ of its vehicles
- 15. Cambridge Analytica’s former boss gets 7-year ban on being a business director
- 16. The TikTok deal solves quite literally nothing
- 17. Chinese propaganda network on Facebook used AI-generated faces
- 18. Anduril among companies tapped to build the Air Force’s ‘internet of things’ for war
- 19. China says it won’t approve TikTok sale, calls it ‘extortion’
- 20. ByteDance says it will own a majority of TikTok. Oracle says ByteDance will own 0%. WTF is this deal?
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1. Trump approves TikTok deal with Oracle and Walmart 'in concept'
published : 09/20/2020 14:08The new company will also be required to have an IPO on a US stock exchange, and American ownership is expected to “grow over time.” The Commerce Department simultaneously created a window for the p… [+948 chars] More...
2. DoJ asks Congress to limit protections for social media companies
published : 09/23/2020 16:16Politicians have been poking at Section 230 for months. The DoJ doesn’t typically weigh in on legislation, but now, Barr is asking Congress to roll back critical aspects of Section 230. Not only is t… [+953 chars] More...
3. Judge blocks US ban on WeChat app downloads
published : 09/20/2020 15:15Beeler added that the government’s general national security concerns about China were “considerable,” but that evidence of specific issues with WeChat was “modest.” Like with TikTok, politicians hav… [+735 chars] More...
4. Facebook takes down Chinese-run accounts that posted about US elections
published : 09/22/2020 20:30One network originated in China, and was made up of more than 155 accounts that had amassed a following of 133,000 and group membership of 61,000. Though Facebook says the group “focused most of its … [+929 chars] More...
5. TikTok removed more than 104 million videos in the first half of 2020
published : 09/22/2020 14:50The transparency report also broke down the geographical origins of these removals. India came out on top, which partly explains why the government banned the app earlier this year. The US ranked sec… [+2135 chars] More...
6. The Morning After: Next-gen consoles are real big
published : 09/21/2020 11:30Tiktok stays for another week — read more about that below — but can we talk about how huge the PlayStation 5 looks? We’re talking bigger than the Xbox Series X, PS3 and the first Xbox. Sony has spel… [+2404 chars] More...
7. Trump's TikTok Deal Is Still an Unresolved Mess
published : 09/21/2020 22:40On Saturday, President Donald Trump declared that his months-long drama with TikTok had ended in success, calling an agreement made between the social media company, Oracle, and Walmart a great deal … [+3780 chars] More...
8. Trump’s TikTok Farce Ignores the Lessons of the Red Scare
published : 09/21/2020 19:08President Donald Trump would probably be surprised to learn that he is vindicating Marxs claim that when history repeats itself, the second time is a farce. The administrations odd war on TikTok echo… [+4021 chars] More...
9. The Business of the Internet Is Stuck in Trump's Swamp
published : 09/25/2020 13:00Hi, all. Plaintext is bracing for the next wave ... or, rather, the first wave getting worse. Gimme that flu shot! To the best of my knowledge, Donald Trump has never visited a server farm. If he is… [+2194 chars] More...
10. More Covid Vaccines in Phase III, New Risk Calculators, and More
published : 09/25/2020 18:22More vaccines enter Phase III trials, researchers continue to learn about the long-term impacts of Covid-19, and risk calculation becomes increasingly difficult as the country reopens. Heres your wee… [+3758 chars] More...
11. QAnon Is Like a Game—a Most Dangerous Game
published : 09/22/2020 10:00When QAnon emerged in 2017, the game designer Adrian Hon felt a shock of recognition. QAnon, as you very likely know, is the right-wing conspiracy theory that revolves around a figure named Q. This… [+4146 chars] More...
12. Facebook will reject political ads claiming an early victory in November
published : 09/23/2020 20:17Its an update to Facebooks ban on new political ads the week of the election Photo by Jeff Swensen / Getty Images Facebook will reject ads from Donald Trump and Joe Biden claiming victory before th… [+1905 chars] More...
13. TikTok files for injunction against pending Trump app ban
published : 09/23/2020 20:38TikToks fight with the Trump administration doesnt yet appear to be over, regardless of what the deal that was signed between its parent company ByteDance and Oracle says over the weekend. Earlier t… [+1889 chars] More...
14. Tesla sues Trump Administration to end tariffs on the ‘brain’ of its vehicles
published : 09/23/2020 20:11Tesla is suing the Trump Administration over tariffs on a computer chip and other parts it imports from China, joining an increasingly long list of similar lawsuits filed by hundreds of companies, in… [+2603 chars] More...
15. Cambridge Analytica’s former boss gets 7-year ban on being a business director
published : 09/25/2020 08:49The former CEO of Cambridge Analytica, the disgraced data company that worked for the 2016 Trump campaign and shut down in 2018 over a voter manipulation scandal involving masses of Facebook data — h… [+3556 chars] More...
16. The TikTok deal solves quite literally nothing
published : 09/20/2020 00:08Well… that was pointless. After debasing the idea of free commerce in the U.S in the name of a misplaced security concern, stringing along several multi-billion dollar companies that embarrassed the… [+3433 chars] More...
17. Chinese propaganda network on Facebook used AI-generated faces
published : 09/22/2020 20:27Facebook removed two networks of fake accounts spreading government propaganda on the platform Tuesday, one originating in China and one in the Philippines. In its latest report on this kind of coor… [+3678 chars] More...
18. Anduril among companies tapped to build the Air Force’s ‘internet of things’ for war
published : 09/24/2020 22:52Palmer Luckey’s young defense company has been selected by the Air Force for work on a cutting-edge, multibillion dollar nervous system for war. Luckey announced the news that Anduril was one of the … [+3379 chars] More...
19. China says it won’t approve TikTok sale, calls it ‘extortion’
published : 09/23/2020 03:54The September 20 deadline for a purported TikTok sale has already passed, but the parties involved have yet to settle terms on the deal. ByteDance and TikTok’s bidders Oracle and Walmart presented co… [+2573 chars] More...
20. ByteDance says it will own a majority of TikTok. Oracle says ByteDance will own 0%. WTF is this deal?
published : 09/21/2020 13:24You know a deal is signed and going to close when the parties keep fact checking each other and no one can agree on what the deal actually says. Weve been following the TikTok / Oracle deal for some… [+2083 chars] More...
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