Report: Trump’s 2016 campaign sought to deter Black Americans in battleground states from voting by targeting them with negative Clinton Facebook ads.
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Trump executive order on diversity training roils corporate America
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Fake Facebook pages made in China targeted U.S. presidential election
Facebook removed a small network of fake accounts and pages that originated in China and focused on influencing the presidential election in November.
Twitter’s get-out-the-vote campaign push will be in your face Tuesday
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It’s election crunch time for Facebook and Twitter whose platforms were used to amplify falsehoods, conspiracy theories and divisive messages in 2016.
Facebook says it’s cracking down on climate change misinformation. Scientists say it’s not doing enough.
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TikTok: What Oracle deal with ByteDance would mean for you if Trump administration approves it
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Trump vs. Twitter: New policy would crack down on president claiming premature victory in election
Twitter will more aggressively label or remove election tweets containing misleading or disputed information including premature claims of victory.
Stacy Brown-Philpot, TaskRabbit’s outgoing CEO, on being Black in Silicon Valley after George Floyd
Stacy Brown-Philpot, outgoing CEO of TaskRabbit and one of tech’s most prominent Black women leaders, talks George Floyd, Kamala Harris and racism.