Getty Images If you follow US tech, you’re probably getting a sense of deja vu. Senators are about to grill Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. It’s only three weeks since both chief executives testified. But since then the political landscape has wildly altered. It is Democrat voices now, not Republicans, that arguably pose […]
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Republicans led by Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday pilloried Facebook, Google and Twitter over allegations they censor conservative users and news sites online, threatening federal regulation in response to claims that Democrats long have described as a hoax. The tensions played out early at a Senate hearing where Cruz, the leader of the Judiciary Committee’s […]
Loot boxes have been the subject of controversy over the last few years, with games like Star Wars: Battlefront II coming under particularly heavy scrutiny for including gambling-like mechanics in competitive multiplayer. Countries in Europe, including Belgium, have already taken steps to combat loot boxes, and it appears the United States Federal Trade Commission will […]
During a Wednesday Senate hearing, Google’s chief privacy officer Keith Enright confirmed that the company has a project codenamed Dragonfly — reported to be a censored search engine that’s being prepared to launch in China — but didn’t say what the project covers. “I am not clear on the contours of what is in scope […]