How rural America is turning into a digital desert
A Q&A with Mark Muro, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and lead author of the 2017 report "Digitalization and the American Workforce."
December 2018
Senate Intelligence Committee Grilled Steve Bannon About Cambridge Analytica (Daily Beast, The)
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FCC Chairman Pai acknowledges Russians interfered in net neutrality debate
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said that roughly 500,000 comments submitted during the debate over the controversial repeal of Obama-era net neutrality rules were linked to Russian email addresses. The disclosure was made in a statement in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests submitted by The New York Times and BuzzFeed. In the statement, Chairman Pai refers to "the half-million comments submitted from Russian e-mail addresses."
To Reduce Privacy Risks, the Census Plans to Report Less Accurate Data (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 12/06/2018 - 06:22Facebook Emails Show Its Real Mission: Making Money and Crushing Competition (New York Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 12/06/2018 - 05:53Senior Huawei executive faces extradition to US after arrest in Canada (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 12/05/2018 - 19:40Media mega-mergers under threat with Democrats controlling the House
With Democrats taking control of the House when the new session starts Jan 3, lawmakers and media players are re-adjusting their strategies and preparing for a slew of new hearings and investigations. Democrats have already started to circle their wagons around Nexstar’s proposed purchase of Tribune Media, with House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee Ranking Member David Cicilline (D-RI) saying that the merger “would undoubtedly lead to mass layoffs in newsrooms at a time when our free and diverse press is already under assault.”