politics
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Elon Musk Is Using Wikipedia to Determine Which Media Outlets are ‘Government Funded’
Twitter CEO Elon Musk apparently trusts Wikipedia more than any expert or audited report and uses it to make crucial decisions about press freedom.
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Copy of a U.S. Federal Agency Disobeyed the White House and Purchased Banned NSO Group Spyware
In November of 2021, after years of ongoing scandals, the Biden administration formally blacklisted the NSO Group, a notorious spyware maker from Israel, shutting it off from American business and investment opportunities. But the New York Times now reports that not every part of the government was on the same page about that decision.
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7 Other Times the U.S. Stupidly Tried to Ban TikTok
U.S. government efforts to ban TikTok over national security grounds, once considered a pie-in-the-sky pipe dream, are looking more and more likely by the week, especially after Congress browbeat TikTok’s CEO for five hours last week. That said, we’ve been here before. Various players in the federal government have attempted to ban TikTok before, all…
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U.S. Rolls Out Strict Rules for Commercial Spyware Use, Amidst Rash of Hacks
The Biden administration passed an executive order Monday that seeks to implement strict new guidelines for what kind of commercial spyware can be used by U.S. government agencies.