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Facebook says it removed a flood of hate speech, terrorist propaganda and fake accounts from its site
Facebook said it had removed more than a billion fake accounts and taken action against millions of posts, photos and other forms of content that violated its prohibition against hate speech, terrorist propaganda and child exploitation, the latest sign that the social-networking giant faces an onslaught of online abuse as it builds tools to spot it.
As his aides pressure foreign regimes on press freedoms, President Trump focuses on punishing reporters
The Trump administration spoke out forcefully against efforts by China and Myanmar to punish news reporters and political dissidents. But at the White House, President Donald Trump was focused on another case — his efforts to discredit CNN correspondent Jim Acosta. Acosta and others like him are “bad for the country,” President Trump told a conservative news outlet.
Editorial -- One issue where there could be bipartisan action in Congress: Digital privacy (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 11/15/2018 - 06:23House Republicans elect Rep Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as party leader (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 11/14/2018 - 14:48Amazon is now at the center of a debate over public safety versus privacy
A New Hampshire judge’s attempt to compel Amazon to share recordings from an Echo device at the scene of an alleged double murder is putting a fine point on law enforcement’s growing demand for data from Internet of Things devices. Prosecutors are seeking two days of recordings from the smart speaker in a Farmington (NH) home where two women were found dead in Jan 2017.
Russia wants DNC’s election-hacking lawsuit thrown out
The Russian government is arguing that a federal court should dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Democratic National Committee alleging that Moscow’s military spies, the Trump campaign, and the WikiLeaks organization conspired to disrupt the 2016 campaign and tilt the election to Donald Trump. In a letter and statement to the State Department and a judge in the Southern District of New York, Russia’s Ministry of Justice argued that the United States’ Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act protects the Russian government from such lawsuits.
President Trump nominates administration official Neomi Rao as replacement for Kavanaugh's appeals court seat (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 11/13/2018 - 14:52
DOJ Requires Sinclair and 5 Other Broadcast TV Companies to Terminate and Refrain from Unlawful Sharing of Competitively Sensitive Information
The Department of Justice announced that it has reached a settlement with six broadcast television companies — Sinclair, Raycom Media, Tribune Media Company, Meredith Corporation, Griffin Communications, and Dreamcatcher Broadcasting — to resolve a DOJ lawsuit alleging that the companies engaged in unlawful agreements to share non-public competitively sensitive information with their broadcast television competitors. “The unlawful exchange of competitively sensitive information allowed these television broadcast companies to disrupt the normal competitive process of spot advertising in mark