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Policy change involves what Facebook calls ‘branded content’, sponsored items posted by ordinary users who are typically paid by companies Facebook decided on Friday to allow a type of paid political message that had sidestepped many of the social network’s rules governing political ads, in a reversal that highlights difficulties tech companies and regulators have […] More
More than a dozen senators tell Amazon chief Jeff Bezos of their ‘serious concern’ about worker safety at the tech giant Democratic presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are among more than a dozen senators telling Amazon chief Jeff Bezos of their “serious concern” about worker safety at the tech giant. Related: ‘I’m not […] More
Company claims president’s interference harmed its chances of receiving military contract that was eventually awarded to Microsoft Amazon wants Donald Trump to submit to questioning over the tech company’s losing bid for a $10bn military contract. The Pentagon awarded the cloud computing project to Microsoft in October. Amazon later sued, arguing that Trump’s interference and […] More
In a break from Obama’s big-tech data-gathering era, Bernie Sanders’ team prizes trust and empowerment The Iowa caucuses this week were a tale of two political technologies. There was Shadow Inc’s disastrous app for tallying votes, funded by a team drawn from Obama-era politics and technology, which failed due to impossible timelines, a lack of […] More
Republicans may not have a corner on technology, but they definitely know their data and digital media Donald Trump was gloating again. “Now I understand the votes are fried in Iowa,” he told reporters at the White House on Friday. “Think of it, all the money that Democrats spent and the votes are fried. They […] More
We have fallen for the idea that apps and artificial intelligence can substitute judgement and hard work. They can’t Every four years, journalists from around the world are drawn to the Iowa caucuses like podcasters to a murder. The blatantly anti-democratic tradition appeals to certain journalistic biases: the steadfast belief of the political press that […] More
From Iowa to Florida, election day meltdowns of inadequately tested or monitored machinery are as American as apple pie The great Iowa caucus meltdown of 2020 may be triggering anguish, anger and, on the Republican side of the political fence, expressions of unalloyed glee; but for one Miami lawyer and voting rights activist it is […] More
Democrats in the state used a product called IowaReporterApp to report data for the first time instead of phoning in results The chaotic delay in declaring a winner in the Iowa caucuses is being blamed, in part, on a smartphone app introduced just weeks before the election to report results. Many are asking what went […] More
