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Federal government is using data from push notifications to track contacts (Washington Post)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Wed, 12/06/2023 - 16:01Rep Patrick McHenry (R-NC), who briefly served as acting House speaker, will not seek reelection (Washington Post)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 12/05/2023 - 15:53Clandestine online operations now require sign-off by senior officials (Washington Post)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 12/05/2023 - 12:17Ousted propaganda scholar Joan Donovan accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 12/04/2023 - 06:30News outlets turn to Reddit as Musk’s X descends into chaos (Washington Post)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Fri, 12/01/2023 - 13:12Opinion | What Sports Illustrated’s BotGate really means for journalism (Washington Post)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Fri, 12/01/2023 - 13:11LinkedIn has AI to enhance profiles. It made some sound robotic. (Washington Post)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Fri, 12/01/2023 - 13:09US stops helping Big Tech spot foreign meddling amid GOP legal threats
The US federal government has stopped warning some social networks about foreign disinformation campaigns on their platforms, reversing a years-long approach to preventing Russia and other actors from interfering in American politics less than a year before the US presidential elections. Meta no longer receives notifications of global influence campaigns from the Biden administration, halting a prolonged partnership between the federal government and the world’s largest social media company.