Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) wrote to Google and Apple on Thursday, urging both companies to remove TikTok from their app stores, Axios reports.
Fetterman Gets Technology Assist in the Senate
“The 164-year-old Senate chamber was not designed for wires and screens. Senators aren’t even allowed to use their phones when they’re inside. But to help with freshman Senator John Fetterman’s stroke recovery, the chamber just got a digital upgrade,” Time reports.
“As Fetterman learns how to do his new job while struggling with lingering auditory processing issues resulting from the stroke, he’s relying on some extra tech. The new assistive technology installed in his workspaces requires some adjustment from colleagues in an institution known for its stagnancy. But in securing the devices that are helping him begin a new job during a very public recovery process, advocates say Fetterman is forging a path for people with disabilities and health challenges to make it in public office.”
Biden Team Weighs Fully Cutting Off Huawei
“The Biden administration is considering cutting off Huawei Technologies from all of its American suppliers, including Intel and Qualcomm, as the U.S. government intensifies a crackdown on the Chinese technology sector,” Bloomberg reports.
TikTok CEO Will Testify Before Congress
“TikTok’s chief executive has agreed to appear before a congressional committee in March, as House Republican lawmakers step up scrutiny of the Chinese-owned video-sharing app,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Shou Zi Chew will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on March 23, a committee spokesman said, in what would be the first appearance of a TikTok CEO before a congressional panel.”
TikTok Bans Face Obscure Hurdle
Wall Street Journal: “The measures, known as the Berman amendments, date to the last years of the Cold War. They took away the president’s authority to regulate or ban imports of ‘informational materials’ from adversarial nations such as Cuba, and shielded those who produced such works — and their U.S. distributors — from penalties for violating economic sanctions.”
“The dilemma for lawmakers now: how to write legislation to prevent China’s government from influencing content on TikTok or other Chinese social-media apps, and gathering data on users, without shutting down global exchanges of content — or inviting retaliation against U.S. platforms and media.”
Arizona Republicans Approve Deletion of Emails and Texts
“Republicans in Arizona’s Legislature have voted along party lines to approve new rules that will allow state lawmakers to destroy emails after 90 days and delete text messages as quickly as they arrive,” the AP reports.
Who Advertises on Trump’s Social Media Platform?
New York Times: “Ads from major brands are nonexistent on the site. Instead, the ads on Truth Social are for alternative medicine, diet pills, gun accessories and Trump-themed trinkets, according to an analysis of hundreds of ads on the social network by The New York Times.”
“The ads reflect the difficulty that several far-right platforms, including Rumble and Gab, have faced in courting large brands, preventing the sites from tapping into some of the world’s largest ad budgets. It could be particularly problematic for Truth Social. Although the site has gained influence among the far right, becoming a vibrant ecosystem brimming with activity, its business is in need of cash.”
U.S. Accuses Google of Abusing Monopoly in Digital Ads
“The Justice Department and a group of states sued Google on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally abusing a monopoly over the technology that powers online advertising,” the New York Times reports.
It’s the agency’s “first antitrust lawsuit against a tech giant under President Biden and an escalation in legal pressure on one of the world’s biggest internet companies.”
Josh Hawley Pushes for Nationwide Ban on TikTok
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said that he would introduce a bill to ban the short video app TikTok in the United States, Reuters reports.
Said Hawley: “TikTok is China’s backdoor into Americans’ lives. It threatens our children’s privacy as well as their mental health. Now I will introduce legislation to ban it nationwide.”
Nick Fuentes Returned to Twitter
Twitter has reinstated the account of white nationalist Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, Rolling Stone reports.
Google Seeks to End RNC Email Drama
“Google is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit from the Republican National Committee accusing the tech giant of bias in its handling of email, as it ends a pilot program that allowed senders of campaign emails to bypass users’ spam folders,” Axios reports.
No Bias Found in Google’s Email Filters
“The Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint from Republicans that Google’s Gmail app aided Democratic candidates by sending GOP fundraising emails to spam at a far higher rate than Democratic solicitations,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Tech Platforms Feared Reprisals from Republicans
“The Jan. 6 committee spent months gathering stunning new details on how social media companies failed to address the online extremism and calls for violence that preceded the Capitol riot,” the Washington Post reports.
“The evidence they collected was written up in a 122-page memo that was circulated among the committee… But in the end, committee leaders declined to delve into those topics in detail in their final report, reluctant to dig into the roots of domestic extremism taking hold in the Republican Party beyond former president Donald Trump and concerned about the risks of a public battle with powerful tech companies.”
“Congressional investigators found evidence that tech platforms — 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 of fear of reprisals.”
Twitter Was Warned of Violence Before January 6
A secret video shows Twitter managers shrugging off staff warnings of coming violence — one day before the attack on the Capitol, Rolling Stone reports.
“The exchange, captured in a video that was recorded for the benefit of Twitter employees, now sits unreleased in the archives of the Jan. 6 Committee, along with other unreleased evidence obtained from the social media company by congressional investigators.”
Face Recognition Will ID Women Breaking Iran’s Hijab Laws
Wired: “After Iranian lawmakers suggested last year that face recognition should be used to police hijab law, the head of an Iranian government agency that enforces morality law said in a September interview that the technology would be used ‘to identify inappropriate and unusual movements,’ including ‘failure to observe hijab laws.'”
“Individuals could be identified by checking faces against a national identity database to levy fines and make arrests.”
Parler Purges Most of Its Staff
The Verge: “Parlement Technologies, the parent company of ‘censorship-free’ social media platform Parler, has laid off a majority of its staff and most of its chief executives over the last few weeks. The sudden purge of staff has thrown the future of Parler, one of the first conservative alternatives to mainstream platforms, into question.”
Russian Trolls Had Little Influence on 2016 Election
A new study finds that “Russian influence operations on Twitter in the 2016 presidential election reached relatively few users, most of whom were highly partisan Republicans, and the Russian accounts had no measurable impact in changing minds or influencing voter behavior,” the Washington Post reports.
Michael Flynn Restored to Twitter
“Former national security adviser Michael Flynn had his Twitter account reinstated on Friday as the United States marked the two-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection,” Stars & Stripes reports.
“Twitter suspended the account of the retired Army lieutenant general two days after the violent assault on the capitol. Flynn had more than 1 million followers at the time and had used the platform to become a top spreader of false information about the 2020 election. Twitter cited its policy against ‘coordinated harmful activity’ for the suspension.”
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