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Shadowbanning: Twitter’s Algorithm Disclosure Reveals Blacklisting Code
Twitter took its algorithm open source this weekend, allowing users to trawl through the company’s formerly hidden code. In the process, new information about how Twitter’s blacklisting of users and topics has come to light. Read More.
Connecticut plots online censorship board
A newly-introduced bill. Read More.
Revolving door: Big Tech staffed with hundreds of ex-DOJ employees amid antitrust battle
Big Tech is staffed with hundreds of former Department of Justice employees, some of whom have key insight into government antitrust investigative methods, according to a watchdog's "revolving door" analysis. Read More.
Conservatives sour on bipartisan TikTok ban, cite concerns about government overreach
Conservative backlash against the bipartisan RESTRICT Act is growing as some would-be supporters of the anti TikTok legislation signal concerns about the bill's scope, Politico reported Friday. Read More.
Contract shows how the FBI purchases massive amounts of online data
Something the FBI only recently admitted to. Read More.
ChatGPT banned in Italy over privacy concerns
Italy has become the first Western country to block advanced chatbot ChatGPT. Read More.
‘Patriot Act on Steroids:’ Conservatives Slam RESTRICT Act on Social Media
The outrage over the draconian RESTRICT Act, marketed to the public as a “TikTok ban,” is rapidly rising. Read More.
Politicians, journalists are locked out of Twitter for tweets about trans shooter targeting Nashville Christian school
Twitter alleges the tweets broke its rules. Read More.
Google asks judge to toss out DOJ advertising antitrust case
Google requested a judge dismiss the Department of Justice's advertising-related antitrust lawsuit, one of its first efforts to free itself from federal scrutiny of its advertising practices. Read More.
Substack writer Matt Taibbi says IRS visited his home while he was testifying in Congress: Cruz, Musk weigh in
Taibbi testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on March 9 Read More.
Canada distributed a blacklist of Freedom Convoy sympathizers
More autocratic revelations. Read More.
Confronted by FBI abuses, Congress ready to add civil liberty protections to key surveillance law
New guardrails likely to protect Americans under FISA Section 702, House Intelligence Committee members say. Read More.
Biden Administration demanded crackdown on “vaccine-skeptical” WhatsApp chats
Despite it being end-to-end encrypted. Read More.
Just say 'no' to Central Bank Digital Currency
In the 1980s, as the crack cocaine epidemic was pulverizing the country, First Lady Nancy Reagan launched her famous "just say no" campaign, intended to discourage experimental drug use among young Americans. Read More.
