Following roughly a decade of battling between private companies and U.S. government agencies, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai today issued a draft order to allow Ligado Networks to use a controversial slice of “L-band” wireless spectrum for 5G, a move that could hasten 5G’s national deployment over the next 18 months. The FCC’s decision comes despite objections […]
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Facebook: Nick Clegg says ‘no evidence’ of Russian interference in Brexit vote
There is “absolutely no evidence” Russia influenced the Brexit result using Facebook, the company’s vice-president, Sir Nick Clegg, has said. The former deputy PM told the BBC the company had carried out analyses of its data and found no “significant attempt” by outside forces to sway the vote. Instead, he argued that “the roots to […]
Election interference is ‘online harm’, MPs hear
Adverts using disinformation to influence elections is a “significant online harm” needing urgent action from the government, MPs have been told. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham spoke to a parliamentary committee looking at disinformation. She said that she was surprised that a recent government White Paper on online harms had failed to address the issue of […]
Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Can't Stop All Election Interference
Wrapping up Facebook’s worst year yet, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg admitted that he has no fix for the hate speech and election interference plaguing his company. In a celebratory New Year’s post on the platform last week, the social media giant said his personal goals of 2018 had been focused on “preventing election interference, stopping the […]
Facebook bans pages aimed at US election interference
Facebook says it has removed 32 accounts and pages believed to have been set up to influence the mid-term US elections in November. It said it was in the “very early” stages of the investigation and did not yet know who was behind the pages. It said the creators had gone to greater lengths to […]