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Housing companies used Facebook’s ad system to discriminate against older people, according to new human rights charges (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 09/18/2019 - 10:10Facebook unveils charter for its ‘Supreme Court,’ where users can go to contest the company’s decisions (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 09/17/2019 - 16:52Analysis: Facebook and YouTube content pushing steroids raises more platform policing questions (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 09/16/2019 - 10:39Google and Facebook’s latest efforts to ‘save’ journalism are already getting eye rolls (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 09/15/2019 - 16:46Hong Kong unrest features prominently on most social media, but not on TikTok (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 09/15/2019 - 16:45Editorial: Stay out of AT&T’s — and CNN’s — business, Mr. President (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 09/15/2019 - 16:44US sanctions North Korean hackers accused in Sony attack, dozens of other incidents (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 09/13/2019 - 13:12House Antitrust Subcommittee Committee asks Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google to turn over trove of records in antitrust probe
The House Antitrust Subcommittee investigation into Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google entered a new phase Sept 13, after lawmakers called on each of the tech giants to turn over a trove of sensitive documents, including top executives’ private communications. The requests sent by Democratic and Republican Reps ask the companies to share detailed information about their internal operations, including financial data about their products and services, private discussions about potential merger targets and records related to “any prior investigation” they have faced on competition grounds.
Cities, not rural areas, are the real Internet deserts
The digital divide is not exclusively or even most significantly a rural problem. Three times as many households in urban areas remain unconnected as in rural areas. And regardless of geography, access isn’t the main reason these homes are without Internet service. The vast majority of US homes without broadband service could have it today, but they don’t want it.