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The Earn It Act, described as an effort to address sexual exploitation, could threaten encryption practices, opponents say Senators Lindsey Graham, Richard Blumenthal and Dianne Feinstein, pictured, were among lawmakers who introduced the bill. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock A US Senate bill that critics say would enable widespread censorship and surveillance has taken a significant step towards […] More
Down the rabbit hole: how QAnon conspiracies thrive on Facebook Guardian investigation finds more than 3m aggregate followers and members support QAnon on Facebook, and their numbers are growing QAnon is a movement of people who interpret as a kind of gospel the online messages of the anonymous figure, ‘Q’. Illustration: Eric Pratt/The Guardian In […] More
How US K-pop fans became a political force to be reckoned with Expect more online raids of the kind that drowned out a racist BLM backlash and humiliated Donald Trump, experts say Empty seats at Donald Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after K-pop fans registered for tickets with no intention of attending. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty […] More
The venture capitalist with a Silicon Valley solution for minority-owned businesses Gene Marks A new kind of venture capital fund would use money from the US government to invest in companies that most need it A new type of venture capital fund would use government money to invest in minority and women-owned businesses. Photograph: Octavio […] More
National legislations across the European Union — with the exception of states that have implemented their own digital laws, such as Germany and France — are very difficult to enforce when it comes to online. This is because, in the absence of overarching legislation that would govern digital space, tech giants implement community standards that may sometimes contradict the […] More
Matilda, help! I have come across something called Elite/Alt TikTok. Have Elon Musk and Grimes renamed their baby? Ha, no. So, to understand Alt and Elite TikTok you first need to understand how TikTok started. In the beginning, the platform was essentially a bunch of genetically blessed teenagers lip-syncing to popular songs and repeating the […] More
Justice department says ‘recent actions’ by China towards its territory indicate landing station could expose US communications to spying The US justice department wants an undersea data cable to bypass Hong Kong for fear Beijing could harvest American data. Photograph: Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images The US government wants a high-capacity undersea data cable system […] More
Social media platforms started out humbly, existing simply as a way to connect with old friends, share photographs and inform your social network of changes in your life. However, as social media continues to grow, the effect and influence it has on the world at large are undeniably far more impactful than initially envisioned. Since […] More
