Xiaomi files court challenge against US ban

Posted on 30/01/2021 by Engadget

Xiaomi isn’t wasting time disputing the US’ decision to put it on a list of Chinese military-backed companies and ban American investments. Reuters reports the Chinese phone giant has filed a legal complaint against the US Defense and Treasury Depart...

Facebook’s oversight board’s first judgments overturn four moderation decisions

Posted on 28/01/2021 by Engadget

Facebook’s Oversight Board has today made judgments on its first five cases, which were selected for consideration on December 1st. This includes rulings on hate speech, as well as the right of users to post images of breasts without falling foul of...

US arrests far-right Twitter troll for 2016 election interference

Posted on 27/01/2021 by Engadget

In a case that could set a precedent for how the US handles election-related misinformation moving forward, the Justice Department announced the arrest of infamous far-right troll Douglass Mackey on Wednesday. Better known by his online handle of Ric...

Amazon removes militia-associated charity groups from Smile program

Posted on 25/01/2021 by Engadget

Amazon has removed five groups that appear to be associated with the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters, two militias the FBI is investigating for their alleged involvement in the January 6th US Capitol attack. Since 2013, the company has allowed char...

Democrats ask Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to rework their suggestion algorithms

Posted on 22/01/2021 by Engadget

A group of more than 30 democratic lawmakers led by Representatives Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) and Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) are calling on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to make substantive changes to their recommendation algorithms. In three separate letters...

The US will rejoin the Paris climate change agreement

Posted on 20/01/2021 by Engadget

With the third executive order of his new administration, President Joe Biden said the US will rejoin the Paris Agreement. Initially finalized in 2015, the climate change accord saw 143 countries, including the US, agree to limit global temperature i...

Telegram took down ‘hundreds’ of calls for violence from public US channels

Posted on 18/01/2021 by Engadget

With just two days before Wednesday’s presidential inauguration, Telegram said it has spent much of the last two weeks monitoring the situation in the US and subsequently taking enforcement action. In a post to his public channel spotted by The Verge...

Parler’s website is back up, but the service is still unavailable

Posted on 18/01/2021 by Engadget

One week after it lost access to Amazon’s hosting servers, Parler’s website is back online in limited form. Visit it today and you’ll find a message from CEO John Matze. “Hello world, is this thing on?” he says at the top of the page. “We will resolv...

Facebook and Google allegedly cut a deal that reduced ad competition

Posted on 17/01/2021 by Engadget

The antitrust cases against Facebook and Google might have some additional fuel. The New York Times says it has obtained documents from Texas’ antitrust lawsuit elaborating on a “sweetheart deal” (first mentioned by the Wall Street Journal) Google ga...

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