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Facebook bans marketing firm running ‘troll farm’ for pro-Trump youth group (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 10/08/2020 - 13:07Facebook to temporarily halt all political ads in U.S. after polls close Nov. 3, broadening earlier restrictions (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 10/07/2020 - 16:52Beautiful, perk-filled and mostly empty: What the future holds for tech’s billion-dollar headquarters (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 10/02/2020 - 06:40How the media scrambled to cover Trump and the first lady’s positive coronavirus tests (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 10/02/2020 - 06:40TikTok was just the beginning: Trump administration is stepping up scrutiny of past Chinese tech investments (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 09/30/2020 - 13:54Opinion: How Facebook could help plunge our democracy into chaos on Nov. 4 (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 09/29/2020 - 16:45President Trump’s assault on Twitter is an attack on the First Amendment
President Donald Trump’s ongoing assault against Twitter may represent the most egregious violation of the First Amendment by a president since Richard M. Nixon went to war against this newspaper almost half a century ago. Not since the McCarthy era has our country experienced such an effort to neuter the press and evade the government accountability that comes only through meaningful reporting. Consider what could lie ahead.
Commerce Department restricts tech exports to China’s biggest semiconductor manufacturer in escalation of trade tensions (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 09/27/2020 - 10:08A novel proposal to help millions of kids struggling with online school
We must roll out a Digital Learning Ambassadors corps immediately, staffed by young adults in predominantly immigrant communities. Millions of young people, like my students at Rutgers University, are either completing remote coursework at home or graduated this past spring. They are looking for meaningful, paid work. As tech-savvy, native speakers of languages spoken by the K-12 students who struggled most in remote learning this spring, they are our best untapped resource for supporting better learning experiences this fall.