YouTube is sharing more ‘authoritative’ election info with voters

Posted on 24/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

YouTube already has a few election protection measures in place, like removing videos that encourage election meddling and banning claims that could mislead voters. Today, YouTube announced that it’s paying special attention to mail-in voting content...

Twitter makes its ‘biggest push ever’ to encourage voter registration

Posted on 22/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

As part of National Voter Registration Day, Twitter is rolling out new tools to connect US users with voter registration resources. The platform says this is “its biggest push ever” to encourage people to register.Today, every person with a Twitter a...

Lyft is discounting rides to polling locations on election day

Posted on 15/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

During the 2018 midterms and this year’s primaries, Lyft offered free and discounted rides to help people get to the polls. It’s expanding on those efforts yet again for November’s general election. On election day, you can get 50 percent off one rid...

Joe Biden’s team brings official campaign signs to ‘Animal Crossing’

Posted on 01/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The pandemic has forced the Biden-Harris campaign team to get creative, from live-streamed events to socially distanced interviews. But we didn’t see this coming. Beginning today, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players can add official Biden-Harris ca...

YouTube will remove videos that encourage election meddling

Posted on 13/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

YouTube says it will take down videos that promote election interference, such as encouraging people to create long voting lines that make it harder for others to vote. It also says it will remove videos including information gleaned from hacks that...

Many of Georgia’s new voting machines aren’t working on primary day

Posted on 09/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

It's primary day in five states and while things seem to be going relatively smoothly in Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina and West Virginia, voters and election workers in Georgia are reporting problems with new voting machines. Workers at some p...

HBO’s ‘Kill Chain’ doc highlights the flaws in US election machines

Posted on 26/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

While COVID-19 might be putting just about everything else on hold, we're still marching towards a presidential election later this year. After the high-profile interference of 2016, election security and foreign meddling are still critical issues, b...

Facebook and Twitter take down accounts linked to Russian troll farm

Posted on 12/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Facebook and Twitter took down a network of accounts with links to the same Russian troll farm responsible for interfering in the 2016 presidential election. The Internet Research Agency (IRA), which has spent the last several years using social med...

Why do memes suddenly matter in politics?

Posted on 11/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Michael Bloomberg's failed bid to become Democratic Party nominee will go down in infamy. Not only because he bankrolled the whole thing with his own vast fortune, but also where he spent it. Bloomberg's team enlisted figures from Jerry Media, the ag...

What does the end of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign mean for big tech?

Posted on 05/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Amazon, Facebook, Google and the rest of the US tech giants can breath a little bit easier today. Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren has dropped out of the race to be the Democratic party's presidential nominee, leaving just Vermont senator Berni...

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